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HTC presents Touch Diamond handset
Tim Green May 6 2008, 1:06pm
HTC has unveiled its Touch Diamond handset, with a new touchscreen interface called TouchFLO 3D.
It’s not the Android device that some observers thought it might be. That looks set to arrive later this year. Instead, the Touch Diamond builds on HTC’s touchscreen foundations with a circular navigation wheel that provides animated access to people, messaging, email, photos, music, weather and more.
It also features a new customised mobile web browser with one-handed zoom and pan that optimises content to fit the display. Turning the device sideways automatically rotates the web page view from a portrait to landscape view. Comparisons with the iPhone will be inevitable.
Elsewhere Touch Diamond offers HSDPA connectivity, bespoke YouTube and Google Maps applications and the ability to flip through photos.
The phone layers HTC’s software over a Windows Mobile operating system.
The HTC Touch Diamond will be available across all major European carriers in June, and later this quarter in Asia and the Middle East. The North American and Latin American versions will be available in the second half of 2008. Orange has already announced the availability of the HTC Touch Diamond in its Signature devices range.
Other specs include 2.8-inch VGA touch screen, 3.2MP camera, 4 GB internal storage, Bluetooth and WiFi.
