Here is our roundup of the HTC Touch Diamond, your one stop webpage that links you to the official press release, pictures and videos of the device in use - Enjoy!

Links:

• HTC Touch Diamond Official Press Release and Pictures
• HTC Touch Diamond Videos

If you're intrigued to see the official press conference videos of the HTC Touch Diamond then check them out below!

For those of yuo who missed it, here is a link to the official press release.

Launch Video:

Product Tour:

TouchFLO 3D -- Weather:

TouchFLO 3D -- Photos and Videos:

TouchFLO 3D -- People:

TouchFLO 3D -- Music:

TouchFLO 3D Overview:

Using TouchFLO 3D:

HTC Touch Diamond & TouchFLO 3D:

Enjoy!! 

HTC's official announcement about the release of the HTC Touch Diamond from June 2008 has been followed up by the official printed press release, read it below and check out the official pictures at the bottom of this article!

Press Release: 

Debut brings breakthroughs in size, style connectivity and overall user experience, leaves compromise at the door.

LONDON — May 6, 2008 — Born from a unique heritage of innovation and a deep desire to blend design with simplicity, HTC Corp., a global leader in mobile phone innovation and design, today unveiled its new flagship phone, the HTC Touch Diamondä. Delivering unmistakable style and meticulous craftsmanship the HTC Touch Diamond is defined by its compact size, game-changing Internet and its new captivating 3D touch interface called TouchFLOä 3D.  The result is an uncompromising mobile phone that sets a new benchmark for phone sophistication and shapes consumer expectations for how a phone can be used.

“Today we mark a new era in mobile phone evolution, an era where beauty and size integrate with uncompromising innovation at broadband speeds,” said Peter Chou, president and CEO, HTC Corp. “The HTC Touch Diamond will make browsing the Web and using Web-enabled applications just as practical and easy to use as making calls.”

A New Dimension To Touch

HTC has taken a great leap forward in touch screen innovation with the introduction of its new 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D.  TouchFLO 3D provides animated access to people, messaging, email, photos, music, weather and more.  In addition, HTC is introducing a new innovative touch-sensitive control for interacting with Touch Diamond.

Making The Mobile Internet Fun

With the introduction of the Touch Diamond, HTC delivers an entirely new mobile Internet experience that utilizes broadband-like speeds with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA wireless connectivity.  Committed to improving Web browsing, HTC provides a new customized mobile Web browser that enables easy viewing and effortless navigation of Websites in the way they were designed.  As part of this browsing experience users can zoom and pan Websites with one-hand and automatically view optimized content that has been specially created to fit the display. Turning the device sideways automatically rotates the web page view from a portrait to landscape view.

In addition to Web browsing, the Touch Diamond includes a customized new, HTC-developed, YouTube application for watching a variety of user generated video content as well as utilizing Google Maps for mobile for mapping and traffic data.

Unmatched Style and Size

The Touch Diamond is crafted with precision to fit comfortably in a user’s hand without compromising on features or functionality.  Blending contrasting design elements of metal and unique geometric facets, the Touch Diamond complements a user’s personal style.

Bursting with Innovation

The Touch Diamond delivers an unrivalled combination of features and functionality that set a new standard for integrating mobile phone innovation into a small package. The 2.8 inch display provides near-print quality viewing that enables beautiful Web browsing and viewing of photographs. The built-in camera includes an optical auto-focus lens that ensures the photos you take will be clear and consistent. Advanced wireless and auto sensor screen pivoting are just a few of the features that make the Touch Diamond experience a stand out.

Availability

The HTC Touch Diamond™ will be available to customers across all major European carriers in June.  It will be available later this quarter in Asia and the Middle East.  The North American and Latin American versions of the Touch Diamond will be available in the second half of 2008.

 “Our long-standing relationship with HTC meant they shared their phone concept and worked with us from the earliest stage.  This early collaboration is important to us because at Orange, we know that the right multimedia experience is about more than just the phone,” said Olaf Swantee, EVP of Orange’s global mobile operations.  “Our approach is to select and test the best phones and integrate our applications, combining them with access to the Orange World portal, the best tariffs, integrated billing, a user-friendly interface and excellent customer support. With the Touch Diamond from Orange we have created a unique phone which has taken advantage of our latest service innovation to build upon the consistently rich experience customers expect from Orange.”

HTC Touch Diamond Key Specifications

• Size: 102 x 51 x 11.33mm
• Weight: 110 g
• Connectivity: WCDMA / HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA
• Operating system: Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
• Display: 2.8-inch VGA touch screen
• Camera: 3.2MP, with video calling
• Internal memory: 4 GB Internal Storage, 256 MB flash, 192 MB RAM
• Bluetooth: 2.0 with EDR
• Wireless: WiFi 802.11b/g
• GPS: GPS/AGPS
• Interface: HTC ExtUSB (mini-USB and audio jack in one; USB 2.0 High-Speed)
• Battery: 900 mAh
• Talk time: GSM: up to 4 hours
• Standby time: GSM: up to 300 hours/100 hours with push email
• Chipset: Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528MHz

HTC Touch Diamond - Plan

HTC Touch Diamond - Angle

HTC Touch Diamond - Back

HTC Touch Diamond - In Hand

Its official and what we've all been waiting for! HTC have today in a London press conference announced their latest devices, the HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Raphael! Amongst the wealth of features HTC are also launching their latest version of the TouchFLO software named TouchFLO 3D! Expect a 3D touchscreen user interface which enhances the already popular TouchFLO premise and provides a vast improvement in usability! Expect more detail to be added to this article as we get it, HTC are planning on releasing media to the press later in the day!

Latest details:

• HSDPA 7.2 and HSUPA
• New web browser for one-handed use/Opera 9 integrated in the ROM
• VGA screen
  
• Accelerometer to rotate screen automatically
• YouTube application integrated into the device
• To be launched by all partner operators, demo device running on Orange (operator specific customised software to be present)
• HTC Navi brings a touchpad-type interface to the Touch Diamond
  
• Europe and Asia get it in June, the rest of the world get it later in the year
• 3.1 megapixel camera
• Proprietary headphone jack
• New keyboard/keypad that works in both portrait AND landscape screen orientation!
• 4GB internal memory
  

Orange Specific Software:

• First release in UK, then to other markets
• Four items of Orange exclusive software:
• Orange Photo - Auto-upload photos to web
• Orange Music - 1 million tracks available, library optimised for mobile
• Downloads - Ringtones and 3D games
• Mobile TV - Up to 61 channels in certain markets and up to 3000 videos to download on demand

 Ps. More than 3 million original HTC Touch's sold!

The rumour mill has been turning but now it would appear tha to suppliment the leaked images we have what no-one can doubt is a pretty awesome list of specifications for the soon to be announced HTC Touch Diamond!

• Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
• Quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (while it's not yet clear if it might be triband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and singleband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA)
• Bluetooth 2.0
• WiFi b/g
• eGPS
• FM radio
• 2.8" VGA (640x480 pixel) touchscreen
• Qualcomm 528 MHz MSM7201A CPU
• 4 GB internal flash
• MicroSD expansion slot
• 3.2 megapixel autofocus primary camera, VGA camera for video calls
• Accelerometer to rotate screen automatically
  

Although these are all leaked specifications etc. we're keeping our fingers crossed that they turn out to be true!

HTC Touch Diamond

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If you're a Windows Mobile user and you've still not found that killer UI add-on for your favourite Pocket PC then perhaps the latest offering named iSwish might suit you? it bears more than a striking resemblance to that offered up by the iPhone and developers Flick Software Research should also be releasing iZoom, a pinch zooming application shortly too, interesting eh?

Watch a video of iSwish in action on YouTube here.  

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Palm's Treo 500 is to be released on O2 in the UK where it was once exclusive to Vodafone. Excpect it to be released for free when bought with certain tariffs. Hardly the most exciting news in the world but a good move for choice I guess?

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We all know that touch-based user interfaces are all the rage at the moment so not to be left behind, GSmart have released their option aptly named Smart Touch. You can watch a video fo Smart Touch in action on YouTube here.

User will be able to add their "16 most frequently used apps as shortcuts on standby screen, with the shortcuts list displaying at the bottom of the screen, users are able to find the shortcuts they want to activate by swiping across the screen and launch the program simply by tapping on the icon!"

Sounds familiar?

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