HTC Touch Diamond

After 6 Months

HTC Touch Diamond - buggy, locks up, processor not fast enough. Cannot enter password from reboot without waiting a minute or two for it to settle down otherwise you will attempt to re-enter on at least 2 occasions. Counter intuitive to everything a mobile phone should be; forget making and receiving calls, forget entering numbers for credit card payment or choosing options during a call, forget pressing physical button to end a call and expect it to work, don't expect to maintain a call for more than a few minutes without the call being terminating for no reason, expect it to terminate a call if you remove the usb cable during a call. Use its core functions and watch your battery drain faster than water from a sink. Even more disappointingly don't expect decent support from either orange and htc themselves, they are not interested.

Never again

I can't believe I'm locked into an 18 month contract with this piece of crap. It crashes ad nauseum, it's slow, takes ages to start up and the camera seizes up. Really this is the worst phone I've ever had. Only another 12 months left on the contract and counting.........

I have to agree that the touch diamond is a very dissapointing phone. I found it really difficult to use as a simple phone. Even just answering calls proved nearly impossible at times, as the answer button just wouldn't respond. Other times the answer button would activate as i pulled the phone out of my pocket, unable to screen any calls. Web browsing was however really great, especially using the sylus. Typing on the toych screen was a bit of a chore, as it is with my ipod touch. I have gone back to using my old blackberry for now, at least untill my contract is up at the end of 2009. Whilst it does not have wifi or 3g, it is great as a phone, and I can type emails really fast on the nice qwerty key pad. Shame the web browsing element is rubbish.