HTC Touch Launch Video

HTC Touch

Let your fingers guide you with the HTC Touch™, the world's first touch phone that gives you a whole new touch panel experience. The HTC Touch™ with TouchFLO™ revolutionizes the way you use the touch screen by allowing finger scrolling and panning. It also features the Touch Cube which is a unique user interface that makes quick dialing and navigation a breeze.

Optimized for entertainment, the HTC Touch™ lets you enjoy your favorite music and movie clips on the go. It comes with a 1 GB microSD™ memory card for storing your media files.

With Windows Mobile® 6 Professional integrated with the HTC Touch™, you get instant access to your Outlook email and the complete Microsoft® Office Mobile suite. Also surf the web with Internet Explorer®, send and receive emails, chat on Messenger, and send photos to your own web space through Windows Live™.Stylish, smart and versatile, the HTC Touch™ opens up a world of media, communication, and social interaction.

Highlights

• TouchFLO™
• Large 2.8" touch screen display
• Tri-band GSM with GPRS/EDGE
• 2 megapixel camera
• Internet browsing and Push E-mail
• Multimedia capabilities
• Bluetooth® 2.0 and Wi-Fi®
• Available in Synergy Sage, Radiant Burgundy, Pure White in addition to Soft Black

More information could be found here.

HTC Touch Diamond Launch Video

More cool and stunning pictures could be found here.

HTC Touch Diamond

Re-defining the perception of advanced mobile phones… the HTC Touch Diamond™ signals a giant leap forward in combining hi-tech prowess with intuitive usability and exhilarating design.

Featuring a sharp 2.8-inch touch screen housed within a stunning formation of brushed metal and flawless faceted edges, the HTC Touch Diamond is as beautiful to behold as it is to use.

With HTC’s vibrant touch-responsive user interface, TouchFLO™ 3D, and ultra-fast HSDPA internet connectivity… the HTC Touch Diamond offers a rich online experience to rival a notebook computer, allowing you to interact with Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia as freely as you would with a broadband connection.

Your contacts, favourite music, videos and photos are no longer an uninspired line of text. With TouchFLO 3D, album artwork, video stills and snapshots of your friends’ and family’s faces are brought to life for you to interact, play and launch at your fingertips.

A 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera will help you capture the perfect moment in style and with a massive 4GB of internal storage you can keep all the files you need. The integrated ultra-sensitive GPS will help you find your destination as quickly and efficiently as a dedicated satellite navigation unit.

Style and substance in a phone are no longer mutually exclusive. The HTC Touch Diamond has arrived.

Highlights

• 2.8-inch touch screen, with four times the pixels of most phones.
• Vibrant TouchFLO 3D user interface, responding perfectly to your finger gestures when scrolling through contacts, browsing the web, and launching media… all vividly displayed as photos and artwork powered by the 3D graphics processor.
• HTC Weather - providing a constant view of weather at home and abroad.
• Surf and download at broadband speed with HSDPA internet connectivity.
• 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera for quality stills and video.
• 4GB of internal storage to preserve more photos, music, files and exchanged data than ever before.
• Integrated GPS for use with maps software for a full turn-by-turn satellite navigation experience.

Detailed information about HTC Touch Diamond could be found here.

HTC TouchFLO 3D Philosophy & Details

This video explains the philosophy behind HTC's new user interface, TouchFLO 3D, which could be found in HTC Touch Diamond.

Innovations of the Touch Diamond

John Wang, Chief Marketing Officer for HTC, explains the innovations of the HTC Touch Diamond. The four innovations are:

Innovation #1:
Approach sensitivity auto focus

Innovation #2:
Accelerometer function lets you to mute the Touch Diamond while ringing

Innovation #3:
Sliding out the stylus during conversation will pop up the Note screen and attach the details of the calling contact

Innovation #4:
Sliding out the stylus while the phone is off will turn on the Touch Diamond

Turn-to-mute Bug

HTC devices with accelerometer such as Touch Diamond, Touch Pro and Touch HD has a cool function which is turn to mute. When a call comes in, simply flip the device face down and it will silent the call. This is another great innovation from HTC which was first introduced in the Touch Diamond.

On my Touch HD, it sometimes doesnt seem to work. By checking the registry, I found out that it has been disabled. It could probably due to certain softwares I installed which accidentally disables it. I then reenable the function and the problem occured again later.
After experimenting, I suspect it might not be due to the softwares I installed. Instead, it could be due to the ringing settings that I set.

Below are the scenarios I experimented:

1. Profile: Vibrate
   Turn to mute worked well
2. Profile: Normal, Ring Type: Ring
   Turn to mute worked well
3. Profile: Normal, Ring Type: Vibrate then Ring
   Turn to mute worked well
4. Profile: Normal, Ring Type: Vibrate and Ring
   Turn to mute was automatically set to disabled when a call comes in. Turn to mute function does not work for all future incoming calls.
   

I wonder whether it is my device only or is it a bug of the ROM. Well, at least this solved the mystery I had for weeks (or even months!). I think that the vibrate and ring mode is flawed as it does not have rythmic vibration pulses instead it behaves like the traditional windows mobile non-stop vibrating behaviour.

White Diamond

HTC UNVEILS ‘TOUCH DIAMOND’ IN WHITE

HONG KONG — November 27, 2008 — Born from a unique heritage of innovation and a deep desire to blend design with simplicity, HTC Corporation (TAIEX: 2498; “HTC”) , a global leader in mobile phone innovation and design, today unveiled the new HTC Touch Diamond™ in white. HTC is also extremely pleased to announce that SiS International Limited is the exclusive Hong Kong distributor and 3 Hong Kong, the mobile arm of Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong is HTC's exclusive mobile partner for the new phone in Hong Kong.

Following its success on the launch of HTC Touch Diamond™, HTC introduced a new color to the original stylish black HTC Touch Diamond™. The white colour that HTC Touch Diamond™ features is especially chosen for its festive Christmas flavour.

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.

“HTC Touch Diamond™ has been gaining a great success since its official launch, today we hope the new HTC Touch Diamond™ in white could bring along new styles to the original Touch Diamond™ lovers as well as a perfect Christmas gifts for everyone,” said Terry Chung, Country Manager of HTC, Hong Kong and Macau.

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