HTC Touch Diamond released in the Philippines

Yesterday, HTC officially launched their newest line of smart phones named HTC Touch Diamond. I totally missed the media launch yesterday noon at the Renaissance Hotel (I have a record of 80% probability to miss an event if it’s earlier than 1pm) but was able to check out the unit last week.

Aside from the press release that HTC will be putting up and office in the country, the new HTC Touch Diamond is the Taiwanese company’s attempt to crack into the iPhone market.

htc touch diamond

Qualcomm® MSM7201A™ 528 MHz
Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
256 MB ROM, 192 MB DDR SDRAM
4 GB internal storage
2.8-inch
TouchFLO 3D
HSDPA
GPS and A-GPS ready
Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
3.2 megapixel camera + 2nd front-facing VGA camera
FM radio with RDS

It’s small and thin — only 11.35 mm thin — and very light too (110g). Manila Bulletin Tech Editor Art Samaniego showed me his HTC Diamond unit about 2 weeks ago and he says he liked it. The behavior of the UI is very iPhone-like too.

I was supposed to review this one instead of the HTC Touch Dual several weeks ago but the newspaper guys got first dibs.

The only caveat is really just the price — a whooping Php42,000.

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pinoyapostolic replied on Jul 4th, 2008 at 7:37 am (1)

Good for my image but bad for my pocket… tsk tsk tsk…

Celphones with Windows Mobile on them seems to be always priced way too high.
jhay replied on Jul 4th, 2008 at 8:26 am (2)

Way too priced indeed! No wonder it’s called a diamond.
Yoe replied on Jul 4th, 2008 at 9:42 am (3)

Not shocked about the price…HTC = overpriced phones
noemi replied on Jul 4th, 2008 at 3:46 pm (4)

I was at the launch yesterday. Not my kind of thing.
yuga replied on Jul 4th, 2008 at 8:44 pm (5)

@Noems, don’t like touch screen phones?

@Yoe & Jhay - some phones are made from diamonds.
World of Elegance replied on Jul 5th, 2008 at 1:07 am (6)

The N95 started out like that too last year
yuga replied on Jul 5th, 2008 at 1:29 am (7)

I think the Nokia N95 was going for Php35,000 in GreenHills when it first came out.
catgurl replied on Jul 24th, 2008 at 10:47 pm (8)

Retail price in Singapore is SGD1100, about PHP35K+. If I get a unit from Singapore, will there be problems using it here?
Farhan replied on Aug 21st, 2008 at 7:44 pm (9)

I don’t see you having any problems using it in the Philippines. I have one bought in Dubai and it works quite well with a Globe SIM.
edmond replied on Dec 1st, 2008 at 11:41 pm (10)

im trying to buy the other version of the htc diamon. which is called the htc diamond sprint. would i able to use it here in the philippines? thanks
elmo replied on Dec 5th, 2008 at 10:27 am (11)

im using it now and find it not so good, windows mobile os is just to slow.
jem replied on Apr 11th, 2009 at 3:03 pm (12)

my boyfriend’s phone.. it’s fantastic.:)