Just looked at the new HTC Touch Diamond which has just been officially released. My first impression is that the device is a very pretty piece of hardware. The design is sleek and the interface seems to be a good implementation of something resembling the iPhone in many ways (including motion invoked portrait/landscape display change).

Comparison with iPhone is inevitable both because of the motion detection and the user interface itself, but these things are becoming the way of the future and are probably going to be included in future mobile devices, so enough with the iPhone praise.

The specs (on the HTC site) are alright, although pretty standard for a smartphone nowadays. My P1i has pretty much the same abilities (minus the design and screen implementation), although the W960 would be a much better comparison to the Touch Diamond. It has plenty of internal memory (256 MB ROM, 192 MB DDR SDRAM) and 4 GB of internal storage space. The screen is a TFT LCD flat VGA touch sensitive screen. It covers a broad range of connection speeds (HSDPA, WCDMA, GSM, GPRS, EDGE), and sports GPS/aGPS support. The camera is 3.2 Mpixels with auto focus. Connectivity wise it’s got WiFi, BT 2.0 (EDR), HTC ExtUSB (11-pin USB and jack all-in-one). It’s got Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional as the OS of choice.

Crave C|NET has a nice gallery of the HTC Touch Diamond, so check it out.

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No really! Just look at this thing. It’s like the ultimate pocket sized internet tablet device and it’s got the muscle to go with the good looks (except for the VGA camera):

• integrated GPS receiver
• Wi-Fi connection
• up to 45 hours of music playback and memory to store up to 7,500 songs
• 10GB memory card
• large (4.13″), sharp (800×480 resolution) wide screen
• powered by maemo Linux based OS2008
• Mozilla based browser with Ajax and Adobe flash 9
• Bluetooth
• VGA camera (why?!? VGA) for video chat

This is a very good looking upgrade from the previous N800 (qwerty keyboard to start with). Read in more detail in the press release on Nokia.com .

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This is a very smart marketing campaign, this time by Nokia, which takes a very interesting and unique approach. Nokia smart phones are getting to be so advanced that laptop computers are beginning to lose their nerve and starting rebellion all over the world, sometimes with serious consequences for their owners. Check this out on jealouscomputers.com !

Disgruntled laptops are turning against their owners. Beware laptop owners! Tame your laptop beasts on time or suffer.

I especially liked this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOhmYp7bbiI

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