Today HTC has unveiled its new Windows Phone Touch Diamond2, featuring the TouchFLO 3D user interface. According to the company, the TouchFLO 3D has been more deeply integrated into a customized version of Windows Mobile 6.1 to deliver more consistency throughout Windows Mobile applications and menus. As part of this improved Windows Mobile integration the touch focus areas have been enlarged to be more finger-touch friendly.


The Touch Diamond2 incorporates a larger 3.2-inch high-resolution wide-screen VGA display for a greater viewing area in a design just 13.7mm thick. The phone also includes a 5 megapixel camera, microSD card slot, light sensor and a new touch sensitive zoom bar for faster zooming of Web pages, emails, text messages, photos or documents. Compare to first generation of the Touch Diamond, HTC claimed to have improved up to 55% of the battery life.

HTC is introducing a new people-centric communication approach, providing a single contact view that displays the individual conversation history of contacts regardless of whether voice, text or email were used. This can be viewed from the contact card or the in-call screen during a phone conversation, ensuring the latest communication contact-by-contact is always at hand. A new feature called HTC Push Internet technology is also developed to enable fast access of favorite websites by pre-loading the website to the phone.

The HTC Touch Diamond2 will be available to customers across major European and Asian markets in early Q2 2009 with broader global availability coming later in the year. According to previous leaked roadmap, the Touch Diamond2 is known as HTC Topaz and will be available in US and also in CDMA version.

HTC Touch Diamond2 specifications:

* Processor: Qualcomm MSM7200A, 528 MHz
* Operating System: Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
* Memory: 512 MB ROM / 288 MB RAM
* Dimensions: 107.85 x 53.1 x 13.7 mm
* Weight: 117.5 grams (4.15 ounces) with battery
* Display: 3.2-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 480 X 800 WVGA resolution
* Network HSDPA/WCDMA:
o Europe/Asia: 900/2100 MHz
o Up to 2 Mbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds
* Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:
o Europe/Asia: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
* Device Control TouchFLO 3D
* Zoom bar
* Internal GPS antenna
* Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for wireless stereo headsets
* Wi-Fi
* HTC ExtUSB (11-pin mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one)
* Camera Main camera: 5.0 megapixel color camera with auto focus
* Second camera: VGA CMOS color camera
* Audio supported formats AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, QCP, MP3, WMA, WAV, MIDI, M4A
* Video supported formats WMV, ASF, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, M4V, AVI
* Battery Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery
* Capacity: 1100 mAh
* Talk time:
* Up to 300 minutes for WCDMA
* Up to 340 minutes for GSM
* Standby time:
* Up to 500 hours for WCDMA
* Up to 360 hours for GSM
* Video call time: Up to 150 minutes
* Expansion Slot: microSD memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
* Special Features FM Radio, G-Sensor

Labels: HTC

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