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HTC Touch Diamond2

By Joseph Hanlon on 10 July 2009

If you're prepared to manage the memory and train yourself to use the keyboard, then there are few WiMo phones sexier than the Diamond2.

Editor's rating:7.5 User rating:7.8

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  Owen gave a review on 14/07/2009 20:50

  • Good: Good website
  • Bad: Idiots submitting reviews about a phone they haven't seen

  So now we have people commenting and reviewing a phone that they have never had in their hands. Pathetic me thinks.
  
  This is not a review of the iPhone... so why bother even bringing it up.

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  a_t gave a review on 12/07/2009 16:26

  just curious, can someone tell me does this phone come with a stylus?

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  s gave a review on 12/07/2009 12:04

  • Good: great onscreen keyboard

  this review comes from using the diamond2 for a week now and doing a sh!tload of research before that.
  
  i have no issues with the diamond2 keyboard, in fact i am now quite fast on it. the keyboard was a main factor in a phone for me.
  
  its fast and responsive and can also be used in landscape mode for sms/email and internet. it even displays and current key you are pressing above (like iphone) which the touch hd does not do. its actually the closest keyboard ive seen to the iphone's. you want a bad keyboard, try out the lg arena...
  
  i also love this phone as its skinnier than the touch hd and iphone which is important to me.
  
  also for you techies you can turn off touchflo if you want to get back to the simple winmo today screen - yet the htc keyboard is still fully available.

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  Daredevil gave a review on 12/07/2009 08:28

  • Good: Highly recommended to buy

  I think this is an excellent phone. I've tried Palm and a few of my friends use iphone, but I think this is way better. I feel that people at CNET are biased towards the iphone. They gave a rating of 7 for the diamond and a 7.5 for the diamond 2, even though there are significant improvements. I don't have any issue with the keyboard. The iphone doesn't support as many application as windows and can only view word documents. They call it the i"phone", but the "phone" reception is a bit of a problem. Should I continue?

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  Ziggy gave a review on 12/07/2009 06:00

  holden said: Better than iPhone.
  
  How true. Almost any PDA phone is better than an iPhone, with its locked-in applications, all the missing features that phones like the Touch HD have as standard and much more.
  
  I wouldn't have an iPhone for free - can't change the battery, so you can't have a spare in the pocket on trips. Can't even do cut and paste, although I think the new version finally has included it - but it took Apple this long to include such an important function.
  
  And where is that turn-by turn GPS navigator? Has the iPhone got that yet? I use TomTom Navigator 7 on my Touch HD and it's like the top of the line standalone TomTom GPS. How good is that?
  
  I just don't like the way Apple acts like Big Brother towards its users and application makers. Give me a Windows-based smartphone any day, there are a zillion apps, most of them free or almost free.

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  Ziggy gave a review on 12/07/2009 05:54

  I have a HTC Touch HD which is absolutely fantastic. The Diamond 2 seems to now be a smaller scale version of the Touch HD, with the same phenomenal screen resolution and the hot-swappable memory cards.
  
  By the way, I don't find the lack of keyboard an issue - in fact I didn't buy the Touch Pro because it had a keyboard and made the phone bulky. I use the block recogniser for input, being an old Palm Pilot Graffiti user from way back.
  
  I can input text quicker than anybody hunting and pecking on a slide-out or screen keyboard, so that is why I bought the Touch HD.
  
  The only thing that the Diamond 2 is lacking is the standard headphone socket. I use this on my Touch HD to feed audio to a PA system, so that's good for me. Apart from this one issue, the Diamond 2 looks like the best alternative if you don't want the full-blown Touch HD.

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  Kelsie gave 10/10 on 11/07/2009 16:21

  • Good: Nice responsive screen

  I found it to be quite a good phone. The call quality was good, and they've really improved (un-crapped) the design from the first Diamond.

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  holden gave 10/10 on 11/07/2009 16:19

  Better than iPhone

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  yoyoyoy gave a review on 10/05/2009 14:54

  • Good: lovin it cause its touch
  • Bad: no qwerty keypad

  when is the htc fuze touch comin to telstra

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  alamfour gave a review on 10/05/2009 11:21

  • Good: Larger screen and greater performance
  • Bad: no dpad

  HTC have donw their magic and produced a device worthy of being a consumer smartphone. The easy to use Touchflo 3D 2 interface hides the ugliness of Windows Mobile while maintaing the highlevel of functionality and expandability we have come to expect from a Windows Mobile device. Performace is awesome according to the reviews comming out from europe where the device has now launched.
  
  The camera, finally, is worthy of being used but alas still no flash.
  
  Should be great

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