"It's been less than a year since the original HTC Touch Diamond impressed us all with its diminutive size, usability and impressive features list, all of which put it firmly in iPhone bothering territory"
And yet let's be honest - it didn't bother the iPhone all that much in the end, did it? Neither, I suspect, will this.
It's about time that people who should know better, like Reg journalists, stopped trying to slap the "iphone botherer/iphone killer" label onto everything with a touchscreen. History is catching up, and the evidence is mounting against the idea that any of the competition to date has even been in the same room as the iPhone, let alone bothering it even remotely. The current iPhone 3G is about to hang up its crown and pass the mantle to a new iPhone (subject to Apple's next announcement in June) thoroughly unbothered by this or any of the other "contenders" that have supposedly stormed onto the scene since this time last year.
I'm not knocing the Diamond 2, if you're not interested in the iPhone or need feature x or y of Windows Mobile then I'm sure its a great choice as was its predeccesor, but if it *is* the iPhone you're interested in then any HTC phone is only going to dissapoint, so please stop peddling them as alternatives.
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"It's been less than a year since the original HTC Touch Diamond impressed us all with its diminutive size, usability and impressive features list, all of which put it firmly in iPhone bothering territory"
And yet let's be honest - it didn't bother the iPhone all that much in the end, did it? Neither, I suspect, will this.
It's about time that people who should know better, like Reg journalists, stopped trying to slap the "iphone botherer/iphone killer" label onto everything with a touchscreen. History is catching up, and the evidence is mounting against the idea that any of the competition to date has even been in the same room as the iPhone, let alone bothering it even remotely. The current iPhone 3G is about to hang up its crown and pass the mantle to a new iPhone (subject to Apple's next announcement in June) thoroughly unbothered by this or any of the other "contenders" that have supposedly stormed onto the scene since this time last year.
I'm not knocing the Diamond 2, if you're not interested in the iPhone or need feature x or y of Windows Mobile then I'm sure its a great choice as was its predeccesor, but if it *is* the iPhone you're interested in then any HTC phone is only going to dissapoint, so please stop peddling them as alternatives.