HTC Touch Diamond Smartphone Officially Announced [Sleek, Sexy & Coming Soon]

HTC has at last taken the wraps of its much anticipated new flagship handset, the Touch Diamond smartphone, which, apart sporting deliciously sleek, glossy aesthetics, comes with HTC’s revised touchscreen TouchFlo 3D animated interface and which, according to Peter Chou, president and CEO of HTC, serves to ‘mark a new era in mobile phone evolution, an era where beauty and size integrate with uncompromising innovation at broadband speeds’.

Due to become available in Europe next month (June o8), HTC’s Touch Diamond Smartphone boasts a plethora of features that undoubtedly serve to kick Apple’s much (over) hyped handset squarely into touch – not least being HSUPA wireless connectivity paired with HSDPA offering a truly broadband comparable browsing experience with internet connection speeds of up to a 7.2 Mbps experienced courtesy of HTC’s customised web browser sporting pan and zoom, automatic landscape/portrait screen orientation and customised YouTube and Google Map applications.

Agreed, pan and zoom and smart screen orientation are nothing new (a certain other handset boasts such features) but paired with high-speed internet access we don’t doubt that browsing the net on HTC’s Touch Diamond is sure to prove a somewhat liberating experience for those used to lumbering through full web pages on a certain other handset (well at least until it’s 3G incarnation).

Below you’ll find HTC’s press release concerning their Touch Diamond but, firstly, for those that prefer to cut straight to the chase so to speak, here’s at ‘at a glance’ list of the Touch Diamond’s key specifications:

• Size: 102 x 51 x 11.33mm
• Weight: 110 g
• Connectivity: WCDMA / HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA
• Operating system: Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
• Display: 2.8-inch VGA touch screen
• Camera: 3.2MP, with video calling
• Internal memory: 4 GB Internal Storage, 256 MB flash, 192 MB RAM,
• Bluetooth: 2.0 with EDR
• Wireless: WiFi 802.11b/g
• GPS: GPS/AGPS
• Interface: HTC ExtUSB (mini-USB and audio jack in one; USB 2.0 High-Speed)
• Battery: 900 mAh
• Talk time: GSM: up to 4 hours
• Standby time: GSM: up to 300 hours/100 hours with push email
• Chipset: Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528MHz

HTC Touch Diamond Official Press Release

Born from a unique heritage of innovation and a deep desire to blend design with simplicity, HTC Corp., a global leader in mobile phone innovation and design, today unveiled its new flagship phone, the HTC Touch Diamond. Delivering unmistakable style and meticulous craftsmanship the HTC Touch Diamond is defined by its compact size, game-changing Internet and its new captivating 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D. The result is an uncompromising mobile phone that sets a new benchmark for phone sophistication and shapes consumer expectations for how a phone can be used.

“Today we mark a new era in mobile phone evolution, an era where beauty and size integrate with uncompromising innovation at broadband speeds,” said Peter Chou, president and CEO, HTC Corp. “The HTC Touch Diamond will make browsing the Web and using Web-enabled applications just as practical and easy to use as making calls.”

A New Dimension To Touch

HTC has taken a great leap forward in touch screen innovation with the introduction of its new 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D. TouchFLO 3D provides animated access to people, messaging, email, photos, music, weather and more. In addition, HTC is introducing a new innovative touch-sensitive control for interacting with Touch Diamond.

Making The Mobile Internet Fun

With the introduction of the Touch Diamond, HTC delivers an entirely new mobile Internet experience that utilizes broadband-like speeds with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA wireless connectivity. Committed to improving Web browsing, HTC provides a new customized mobile Web browser that enables easy viewing and effortless navigation of Websites in the way they were designed. As part of this browsing experience users can zoom and pan Websites with one-hand and automatically view optimized content that has been specially created to fit the display. Turning the device sideways automatically rotates the web page view from a portrait to landscape view.

In addition to Web browsing, the Touch Diamond includes a customized new, HTC-developed, YouTube application for watching a variety of user generated video content as well as utilizing Google Maps for mobile for mapping and traffic data.

Unmatched Style and Size

The Touch Diamond is crafted with precision to fit comfortably in a user’s hand without compromising on features or functionality. Blending contrasting design elements of metal and unique geometric facets, the Touch Diamond complements a user’s personal style.

Bursting with Innovation

The Touch Diamond delivers an unrivalled combination of features and functionality that set a new standard for integrating mobile phone innovation into a small package. The 2.8 inch display provides near-print quality viewing that enables beautiful Web browsing and viewing of photographs. The built-in camera includes an optical auto-focus lens that ensures the photos you take will be clear and consistent. Advanced wireless and auto sensor screen pivoting are just a few of the features that make the Touch Diamond experience a stand out.

Availability

The HTC Touch Diamond will be available to customers across all major European carriers in June. It will be available later this quarter in Asia and the Middle East. The North American and Latin American versions of the Touch Diamond will be available in the second half of 2008.

UPDATE: Prefer a white HTC Touch Diamond? See: New White HTC Touch Diamond Set for Release [HTC Takes Apple’s Lead].

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