We may be a few hours late in breaking this news, but HTC has finally unveiled the HTC Touch Diamond. Unfortunately we did not get an invite to HTC Press event in London, but that just gives us the opportunity to get the best of all the various press releases and put them all here.
The first thing that sets the Touch Diamond appart is it's size: 102 mm (L) X 51 mm (W) X 11.5 mm (T) and weighs in at 110 g, making it smaller overall than last years Touch. It features 256 MB of ROM, 192 MB DDR SDRAM RAM, and Internal storage of 4 GB. Connectivity includes Bluetooth® 2.0 with EDR, GPS and A-GPS ready, Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g, HTC ExtUSB™ (I've personally been waiting for USB 2.0 since I got my first Imate JAM).
HTC is expecting the Touch Diamond to get up to 330 minutes of talk time for GSM and 270 minutes for WCDMA. It also sports a 3.2 megapixel camera with a mechanical autofocus. No longer will we have to suffer through a camera phone with infinite focus that seems to never forcus on anything.
If you've already watched the video above, than you're probably drooling over the visual effects the TouchFLO 3D interface adds to the new Diamond. HTC has enhanced their TouchFLO interface to better cover up the major usability flaws that WM6.1 has. From the looks of it, most DIamond users will be able to access contact, mail, calendars, internet, media, pictures and even YouTube (HTC has partnered with YouTube to create their own app similar to the one of the iPhone), without even having to press the start button on the top.
We'll be writing a whole article on TouchFLO 3D pressty soon, so you might want to check back for a lot more details on that.
Overall, we're pretty satisfied with what HTC has presented today. My main hope was to see more of Manilla, now the new TouchFLO 3D. We were hoping they would take this time to show off some other devices they have planned for the year, but I guess like the launch of the Touch, we'll see a few more handsets pop up in a few months bosting many of these same features, but with slightly different hardware.
