Hidden Innovations - HTC Diamond

Not quite sure whot you mean by "non-fans" or "putting it down", but my point still stands that the "innovation" that HTC istouching applies only limited to the WM market. Accelerometers can be found on other smartphones(select S60 devices and iPhone/Touch), The integration of telephony and the accelerometer has been present in s60 devices for quite some time. Don't get me wrong, I think it's gteat that HTC is "moving the platform forward, but I wouldn't exactly call it being innovative (especially in the grand scheme of the whole smartphone market).

You know a company has the potential for a really good device when non-fans are so quick to go out of the way put it down :)

First or not, still innovative and still very nice to have. I've been noticing a lot of really nice little things about this device that you wouldn't think are much. Like having the speaker on the top of the device as apposed to the front or back so that the ringer volume won't get muffled if you put it down (will unless you want to sit it on it's top) or if you have it in a verticle pouch type case.

In regards to shaking the device to cancel a profile, it's running WinMo so I give it about 2 weeks before someone releases a program to do just that and more, actually I'm looking forward to seeing what developers come up with to take advantage of some of the new features not common on other Windows Mobile Devices.

For me this is looking to be my next phone, I love the size of the device, the 192 Megs of Ram, VGA display ect ect. not to mention I can't live without Push Email every since it's been included in Windows Mobile and I've been using it.

The only negatives I see, they should have used a capacitive screen instead of just going capacitive with the buttons. It's still Windows Mobile 6.1 under the interface. I wish Windows Mobile 7 was out now instead of having to wait until early next year but something to look forward too I guess because it will make the device so much better. And it only has 4 Gigs of Internal Storage, they should have gone with at least 8 Gigs to start. I'm sure it won't be long before they release an 8 Gig, 16 Gig ect but kind of sucks for the early 4 Gig adopters.

The Nokia software allows various profiles to be defined as to how the phone reacts when flipped over. Not only is it not a "unique" innovation, but most likely behind the curve compared to the s60 implementation. Heh! The software even allows you to ignore the active profile by shaking the device.

Like I have said so many times before, they are definitely headed in the right direction.

These WM device makers just need to stick to these researchable and ongoing usage innovations for the purposes of an upgrade path and get with the program on the standard technologies that have been out for some time now. E.g. As JN mentioned there is no reason for the current optics in these device to be so crappy when good optics have been around for so long and are small enough to use in the Diamond. In addition, if you are going to make the device not expandable for storage memory, why on earth start with 4GB that is totally crapple move. If the battery life on this device winds up stinking as well, there is just no excuse for this.

Flipping the phone does not ignore the call, it just mutes the ringing. What phone out there currently does that? I'd say that is a legitimate innovation.

Hey Mr. Wang, both the accelerometer and the ability to ignore a call is not unique to HTC - the N95 has been able to do that for quite some time. The oohs and aaahs were probably tele-prompted.

The stylus-pull out sounds like a cool feature, but hopefully one that can be disabled if the user doesn't want that particular functionality.

Oh, btw....the camera still blows. :( When are WM devices going to get some good optics? From what I understand, better camera quality will eventually come, but the focus right now is more on the user experience.

Cool.