Comments on: This Diamond is not forever

By: f0nefan

f0nefan — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:16:57 +0000

for sure it is the best phone ever made the only thing is lake of memory

HTC Diamond Vs. Apple iPhone – the ultimate specs comparison

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1368238

detail spec
http://sntradersonline.com/phone_details.php?product_id=snp857

By: jaganath

jaganath — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:42:21 +0000

@Surur,

I agree with some of your point but the number of applications available within the TouchFlo environment are very small. The browser, photo, contacts and music. The Touch Diamond is a pretty expensive option if one wants to use only these handful of applications. There are many cheaper and better integrated phones than what is provided by touch flo.

I dont want to get into a iPhone vs WM argument herem but I cant help. I have used WM phones for half a decade before switching to iPhone and IMHO, the iPhone trounces WM phone in terms of usability. I will be surprised if someone chooses the Diamond over the iPhone 3G. Also it is high time we stop saying that WM offers many “extra stuff” over iPhone. With the App store about to open in a few weeks time, there wont be a dearth of third party applications. I am sure there will be lot of useful third party applications than the task managers, today plugins, application closers and shell enhancement applications we get for Windows Mobile.

The interest for iPhone 3rd party apps is unprecedented when compared to what we have seen for any mobile phone. Look at the number of iPhone optimized websites out there. And show me one Windows Mobile optimized web site.

By: Surur

Surur — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:38:41 +0000

“But the whole reason why people use Windows Mobile is because of its powerful PIM capabilities and wide variety of third party application availability. Unfortunately, all these applications will still be using the classic Windows Mobile interface which is generations behind that of current favorites like the iPhone or the upcoming Android. This is where the user will be spending most of the time (rather than the weather applet or the today screen).”
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Surely where the user spends most of their time depends on the user? The user may spends most of their time in Opera Mobile? Or maybe playing music and videos? Has it occurred to you that this phone may not be going after the traditional Windows Mobile market?

When this phone goes head to head with the iPhone 3G, it would be rather stupid to say that for most elements they are the same,except that the extra stuff WM has doesn’t look as nice. If some-one is choosing between this phone and the iPhone they probably already do not care about the extra stuff WM brings to the table.

In summary, this is not a business phone, and the people who this is aimed at may live most of the time pretty well in Touchflo 3D.