We’ve got some hands-on shots and impressions with the newly announced HTC Touch Diamond that we’ll be sharing with you shortly, but here are some official press shots to whet your appetite. Tell it to us one more time, HTC. VGA? You really do love us.
Here we are in London at the Soho Hotel with HTC, and we are among the first to see their new Diamond handset. While we thought we may see three new products in three different form factors, HTC Prez and CEO Peter Chou led-off the event by mentioning that they would be launching just “one” product today. He peppered his intro by talking about the Touch, so we were prepared to see an update on that product utilizing their TouchFLO tech.
The device has some pretty nice interface tech that they’re calling TouchFLO 3D, with elements similar to Apple’s CoverFlow swipe tech. They emphasized web accessibility and zoom-in navigation with “just one hand” and not too many fingers, a clear swipe at the iPhone.
As expected, the Diamond is loaded with prettiness and specs, including (coming as we get them, so refresh for more, including pics!):
Quad-band HSDPA 7.2
We know HTC’s got a big announcement coming this Tuesday, and while we can’t say for sure it’s going to the Touch Diamond, if today’s leaked images and specs are at all accurate we think they might have something big on their hands. Check it out:
2.8-inch VGA display WinMo 6.1 Pro WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 eGPS, FM tuner Quad-band HSDPA 7.2 4GB internal flash, microSD slot 528MHz CPU 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus 10.7mm (0.47-inches) thick Supposedly also features an orientation sensor / accelerometer
Whether it’s got a QWERTY keyboard could still be up for grabs, especially since that configuration might belong to the CDMA-based Raphael. Still, the it makes sense HTC wouldn’t want the XPERIA X1 they made for Sony Ericsson to be their best engineered device on the market for long. We’ll be watching this one closely.
[Thanks, Kevin]