Curse and benediction of many PDA Phones the operating system Windows Mobile is frequent. While it represents the Nonplusultra for many Business users, it is not only optical for the interested Mainstream customer, who wants to make somewhat more with its mobile phone, but also because of control philosophy by pin input often a Graus.
That need exists here and remains sale potential on the distance, the Taiwanese PDA Phone recognized and sets specialist HTC exactly already early with its internal control surface Touch Flo 3D at this point. The recent copy of this row is that 479 euros expensive UMTS model Touch Diamond 2.
The beginner makes some already optical and works more obligingly/pleasingly than its successful predecessor Touch Diamond. The attractively stylish, only 14 millimeters flat and 118 gram easy PDA Phone to view with its 3.2 tariff pulls large Touchscreen on itself, which re-clamps of a fine metal frame becomes.
The dissolution of the Widescreen announcement amounts to size-referred stately 480 x 800 pixels and is so almost suited for the rendition of pictures, videos or also web pages. In addition it fits that the display a bright and in addition colorstrong representation offers.
Seven hard keys take over the instructions
Additionally to the Touchscreen the Touch Diamond can show 2 also seven hard keys, which receive instructions of the user. Beside/out tracers on the face, which in the enterprise the display barrier activates and deactivates, and which both volume keys at the housing side are four further pushers below the display.
These take over the task of “selecting”, “presenting”, “back” and “main menu”. As particularly practical extra emerges besides the so-called “zoom shot bar” underneath the screen: Here for instance web pages, documents, messages, photos or also google map contents with one leave themselves finger-wipe increase and also again to make smaller.
In the everyday life this function offers a genuine increase in value particularly with the web surfing, just like the integrated position sensor. This provides with different functioning for automatic switching from the vertical to the horizontal display representation - depending on how one holds the Smartphone.
User friendly control surface
The TouchFlo-3D-user interface made large progress compared with earlier HTC models. It is embedded deep into the operating system Windows Mobile 6,1 of the Touch Diamond 2 and offers to the user one intuitively by fingers surface which can be served.
Heart is a run border at the lower edge of screen, which holds ready maximally eleven entries and individually be configured can. So one can call often used features such as contacts, calendars, messages and the browser as well as Multimedia functions and current weather or stock exchange information fast and comfortably.
In practice the test equipment showed up with the Scrolling by the border at first now and then bitchy. If one has however only once the trick out to wipe the finger not over the symbols to lead but resting upon the scrolling without further problems, how also the operation succeeds generally - even over the virtual keyboard one can transact inputs by fingers.
Equipment on Top level
Particularly successfully and extremely practically new personal communication history presents itself. Here the user sees all telephone calls and messages, which were transacted to or of a person on a view. Also the contact opinion is out and indicates likewise on a view all communication possibilities.
The main menu can be called in each situation over the key already mentioned, offers large as well as prettily stylish of icon and can with up to 24 entries be likewise individually configured.
The PDA Phone beginners may enjoy thus about the attractive optics. Inveterate Windows mobile fans, that wish themselves the normal Microsoft optics, become likewise happy: Who would like, can give also the traditional Windows mobile look to the Touch Diamond 2 and serve the Smartphone with the pin provided.
The equipment package of the youngest HTC branch reminds very strongly of the Touch hp. So also the Touch Diamond 2 can offer all conceivable Connectivity features: Beside GPRS, EDGE and HSDPA with up to 7,2 Mbit/s for the data down load it controls the brisk Upload HSUPA (to 2 Mbit/s). In addition associate the short-distance radio Bluetooth, WLAN (b/g) and a GPS receiver.
Photo, music, Office and Internet
The Touch Diamond 2 with a 5-Megapixel-Lens catches photos including autofocus, which offers a good image quality depending upon illuminating the motive. To white likewise please the Musicplayer, even if the Stereo Headset provided, which dock to the mini USB socket, could sound better.
Owing to the platform the HTC controls naturally handling Office documents, and the browser comes with Push Internet: News of favored Internet sites is loaded in the background on the PDA Phone, in order to shorten waiting periods.
For a quick computing speed in the everyday life an agony COMM processor is to provide of the type MSM7200A with 528 MHz. However the Touch Diamond approved itself 2 nevertheless now and then some intending seconds when calling different functions. The disk free space seizes altogether good 344 MT and can over the memory plumb bob in the MicroSD format substantially be increased.
The measuring laboratory certified a GSM Talk time to the Touch Diamond 2 of approximately six hours, while in the UMTS net after less than three hours conclusion is. The typical perseverance is scarcely below seven hours. The transmission and receiving characteristics, both in the UMTS and in the GSM enterprise, are only average while the acoustic abilities of the HTC earn themselves “well”.