Photos: HTC Touch Diamond2 and Diamond
Announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this month, the HTC Touch Diamond2 (read our first impressions here) is the company's update to the Touch Diamond PDA-phone. We got our hands on an early unit and put it side-by-side with the original to see how they size up.
The increased screen size of the updated model is mainly due to the added length of the display. Their widths are identical but the WVGA (800 x 480) resolution of the Diamond2 (up from the Diamond's VGA screen) means it's longer and thus able to show more information in one screen.
Notice the flat back of the Diamond2? Looks like the prism design wasn't popular enough to make a comeback.
The Diamond2 is quite a bit thicker than the original. One thing that didn't change is that you get only a single mini-USB port for charging, syncing and connecting a wired headset.
Another comparison shot to show the slight difference in thickness.
The original Diamond came with 4GB of built-in storage but no expansion slot. The Diamond2, on the other hand, won't come with any internal storage but it can accept microSD cards so you can boost the memory up to 16GB.
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its worth 634 U.S doller.
No 3.5mm jack ? nor an adapter included ? This is no option for me !
Hi Sichuanbob, if you want to read more about what I think of the Diamond2 compared with the Diamond, have a look at my first impressions in the link below. http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/handhelds/0,39001703,44567111p,00.htm
When Asus has had an 800 MHz phone for a while and Toshiba has come out with a 1000 MHz phone then why are new higher end pda phones still being made at 528 MHz? For the price can't HTC keep up with the Jone's?
Is that the extent of your comparison? -"this one's longer, this ones more narrow", "this one is thicker, this one is thiner"...I'm sorry, is this the CNet for Primary Schoolers website?
This looks uglier than the original diamond. I thought the original Diamond looked better than this. At least the original looks special.
HTC Mobile Phone is very good modal.It's Big screen is also Amazing.
I realized HTC does not like to put flash module on their phones. This is out for me.
It can only be better than the original because that was a waste of money HTC did manage to get it better with upgrades and time but I want my phone to work straight out the box - one things for sure I will not be buying it
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