HTC Diamond – is the iPhone killer July 28, 2008
Posted by Chris Wright in Technology.Tags: GPS, HTC, iPhone, Orange, smart phone
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So the HTC Diamond arrived today, as promised by Helen @ Orange, promptly at 8.45am!
Total cost to an existing Orange user £0.00 – that’s zero pounds and zero pence! A tad less than the £499.00 that Apple apologist Stephen Fry trumpeted in his Guardian column on Saturday. Here are a few more features that Stephen mysteriously chose to ignore…
Screen – 2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with VGA resolution
Wireless connectivity – two minutes to set up (wireless is switched off by default)
Browser – customised version of Opera – handles Facebook with aplomb
Camera – 3.2 megapixels
Music, Photos – 4Gb storage
Integrated GPS maps
First impressions? I’d say the HTC is better equipped than the iPhone, is better looking and if Orange can control the supply and demand, will raise the bar in the smart phone market – and thanks to Stephen Fry, the muggers will all be lookng for iPhones!
