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HTC Touch Diamond 2 Mobile Phone Review – A Business Focussed Handset That Also Entertains

The HTC Touch Diamond 2 is an upgraded version of the HTS Touch Diamond. Weighing in at 117 grams, it measures 108mm x 53mm x 14mm, and includes a large WVGA LCD screen measuring 81mm which displays 65,000 colours at a maximum resolution of 450 x 800 pixels. The screen is as large as physically possible in the body of the phone, with an ultra-sharp widescreen display, allowing the user to enjoy websites, photos and videos.

The phone is compact, sturdy, and yet sophisticated in appearance.

The Touch Diamond 2 uses Wi-Fi technology where hotspots are available, and its on-board Internet browser to access the Internet. USB and Bluetooth make printing and connectivity to other devices such as laptops or personal computers easy.

The integrated camera has a 5-Megapixel capacity with autofocus, video recording and a video player which supports MPEG4, ASF, AVI and 3GP formats. Separate, preinstalled albums are provided for photos and video. There is also a second VGA CMOS camera for 3G video calls.

With its support for polyphonic and mp3 ringtones, this little mobile phone is sure to please. It is a quad phone – designed to work on the GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900, HSDPA 900 and HSDPA 2100 networks. It is therefore useful for the person who frequently travels abroad, however the actual coverage will depend ultimately on the network provider selected when purchasing the handset.

Message services that come standard are SMS and MMS. Instant messaging allows chatting through the phone without the need for a personal computer.

The office assistant services are reasonably standard compared to similar mobile phones – the Touch Diamond 2 includes a phone book, calendar, alarm clock, and a document viewer which supports standard formats, including PDF, MSWord, MSExcel and MSPowerpoint. The zoom facility allows close-up views of internet pages and documents viewed and the voice to text feature is regarded by happy users as a particularly good one.

The Touch Diamond 2 shows a communication history ‘tree’ associated with the individual contacts in the phone – very useful if you are inclined to forget when you last spoke to someone and what you talked about at the time.

The Touch Diamond 2 has capable music playing facilities – supporting many formats of audio data, including WAV, MIDI, WMA, QCP, MP3, AMP, AAC, AAC+ and eAAC+.

Pre-installed games are part of the package, and more games can be downloaded straight from the internet for use on the handset.

What we didn’t like:

The Windows-based user interface has a tendency to freeze, and is slow in response when it is used.

What we did like:

This is a good looking little phone which is a useful office assistant. It can store messages, contacts, photos and videos, and open documents in different formats for reading during commuting hours. It has 512MB read-only memory and 288MB RAM which can be increased by the use of a microSD memory card. From fully charged – the battery life will allow 5.5 hours of talk time and 360 hours stand by.

The sharp display makes watching videos and choosing photos for storage a pleasure. It is also much easier to surf the internet using a widescreen formatted view.

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Google Voice Silenced by Apple on iPhone

Updated: Apple shuts the door on all Google Voice applications, including third-party applications that support search engine giant Google’s VOIP and telephony product, which is rolling out to more users. Google Voice duplicates some features in the iPhone, but analysts believe Apple’s chilliness also stems from its relationship with AT&T. Carriers dislike Google Voice because of the free SMS and cheap international calls it provides.

In a sign that Apple will not always play nice with Google, Apple has banned the Google Voice application, as well as third-party Google Voice applications, from its iPhone App Store, ostensibly because Google Voice features compete with those in the iPhone.

Reached by phone July 18, Apple spokesperson Jennifer Bowcock declined to comment, but a Google spokesperson confirmed the ban of Google Voice in a statement to eWEEK July 27:

Apple did not approve the Google Voice application we submitted six weeks ago to the Apple App Store. We will continue to work to bring our services to iPhone users—for example, by taking advantage of advances in mobile browsers.

The move was first reported by TechCrunch and there is additional coverage on TechMeme.

Earlier in the day on July 27, iPhone application developer Sean Kovacs said his popular application GV Mobile, which lets users make calls and send SMS (Short Message Service) messages from a Google Voice number to any other number in a contact list, was also removed from the App Store.

Kovacs wrote in his blog: “Richard Chipman from Apple just called—he told me they’re removing GV Mobile from the App Store due to it duplicating features that the iPhone comes with (Dialer, SMS, etc). He didn’t actually specify which features, although I assume the whole app in general.”

VoiceCentral, which does the same thing GV Mobile does, was also banned from the App Store, but not until reporters asked Google about Google Voice did anyone learn that Google’s application had been give the cold shoulder as well.

While Apple is maintaining its silence on the subject, TechCrunch speculates that Apple’s treatment of Google Voice applications comes courtesy of sole iPhone carrier AT&T. Update: Daring Fireball’s John Gruber confirmed this through a source.

Phone companies are leery of Google Voice, which does an end run around their services by providing free SMS and cheap international calling services.

Enderle Group analyst Rob Enderle acknowledged that Apple and AT&T would indeed have reason to shunt Google Voice to the side. Enderle told eWEEK:

With Google Voice, the competitive issue would exist with both Apple and AT&T because it reverses the strategy Apple has with iTunes and Safari on the PC (use them to pull customers to Apple products from Windows) to apply to the new Android phone platform and, since it is VOIP [voice over IP], it potentially cuts AT&T’s revenue stream as well.

More broadly, Enderle noted that programmers are having a hard time figuring out what applications will or won’t be accepted in the App Store, adding that Apple is showing a trend toward blocking or crippling applications that appear to be competing.

Enderle pointed to streaming music application Slacker, which is crippled on the iPhone and can’t be used on an airplane. However, Slacker works on a BlackBerry during flight just fine.

“Out here [in Silicon Valley], the metaphor used to describe Apple’s app approval process is ‘Russian Roulette,’” Enderle quipped.

The combination of a cryptic process and this anticompetitive behavior has some developers turning to write programs for Research In Motion’s BlackBerry operating system, Google’s Android OS and Palm’s Palm WebOS, Enderle said.

The banning of Google Voice and associated applications isn’t the first time Google has had to kowtow to Apple. Google introduced Google Latitude for the iPhone July 23, but must now rewrite it to be a Web application.

“After we developed a Latitude application for the iPhone, Apple requested we release Latitude as a Web application in order to avoid confusion with Maps on the iPhone, which uses Google to serve maps tiles,” Google Mobile Team Product Manager Mat Balez wrote in a blog post.

Apple’s chilliness toward Google’s Web services is interesting given Google’s supposed closeness with Apple. Analysts have long seen Google and Apple as linked arm and arm against enemy Microsoft, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt commands a seat on Apple’s board.

The question is how long Apple and Google will remain close as they continue along their competitive path regarding Web services for mobile phones.

Nokia to Unveil Android-Powered Phone

Finnish cell phone maker Nokia is developing a mobile phone that runs on Google’s Android software platform, The Guardian reports. The new touchscreen handset will be unveiled at the Nokia World conference in September, industry insiders said.

The company, which currently makes roughly four out of every ten mobile phones sold, is trying to revive its fortunes in the fast-growing smartphone market, where it is losing out to the likes of Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Storm. The smartphone segment is the only part of the mobile phone market that is growing, as cash-strapped consumers either hold on to existing phones or ‘trade up” to more advanced gadgets like the iPhone. Analysts at HSBC reckon Nokia had 47% of the global smartphone market in 2007, falling to 35% last summer and 31% at the end of the year.