HTC Touch Diamond
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| Manufacturer | High Tech Computer Corporation |
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| Slogan | Elegance and innovation |
| Series | HTC Touch family |
| Availability by country | May 2008 |
| Predecessor | HTC Touch |
| Successor | HTC Touch Diamond2 |
| Related | HTC Touch Pro |
| Dimensions | 102 × 51 × 11.5 mm (4 × 2 × 0.45 in) |
| Weight | 110 g (3.9 oz) |
| Operating system | Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional |
| CPU | 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7201A |
| Memory | 256 MB internal flash 192 MB RAM 4 GB internal storage |
| Battery | Rechargeable 900-mAh Li-ion battery (up to 396 hrs standby, 5.5 hrs talk time) |
| Data inputs | Touchscreen |
| Display | 2.8-in. LCD touchscreen 480×640 px 65k-color VGA TFT |
| Rear camera | 3.2-megapixel CMOS color VGA CMOS color secondary |
| Connectivity | Quadband (after July 2008 ROM update) WCDMA/UMTS, GSM / GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, HSUPA, Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11 b/g, A-GPS, USB |
| Hearing aid compatibility | M4 |
The HTC Touch Diamond, also known as the HTC P3700 or its codename the HTC Diamond, is a Windows Mobile 6.1-powered Pocket PC designed and manufactured by HTC. It is the first device to feature TouchFLO 3D - a new version of the TouchFLO interface, unique to the Touch family. The HTC Touch Diamond was first available in Hong Kong in late May 2008. It was available across all major European carriers in June 2008, and later in the year in other parts of the world. The American Touch Diamond was launched on September 14, 2008 on the Sprint network, and April 10, 2009 on the Verizon Wireless network. The European release date was slightly delayed by a last-minute ROM update. The carrier bound names for this phone include T-Mobile MDA Compact IV,O2 XDA Diamond and O2 XDA Ignito. It is the official successor of the HTC Touch. The successor to the Touch Diamond - the HTC Touch Diamond2 - was announced in February 2009 for Q2 2009 release outside the US and Q4 release estimated for North America.
HTC opted for resistive technology for the touchscreen. The reason cited by Horace Luke, HTC's Chief Innovation Officer, was that the resistive touch screen is better for Asian character recognition. However, the buttons beneath the screen, as well as being pressable buttons, have capacitive touch sensitivity. This feature is used by the camera application to auto-focus the camera as a finger approaches to press the button that will take a picture.
Luke also noted that this is the thinnest device that HTC has designed to date.
Some people find that the Touch Diamond's battery life is too short. Consequently, batteries offering double the capacity of the included battery are being sold by third parties and HTC itself sells an extended battery with 50% extra capacity.
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