HTC Touch Diamond - finally a worthy iPhone contender?

[CoffeeShark]

HTC has announced the Touch Diamond phone - and after a year of iPhone ripoffs, wannabes, and also-rans, it looks like Windows Mobile finally has a decent contender (although, I would guess, at a much higher price than the iPhone).

Though light on internal storage at 4gb, it does boast a 3.2mp camera, integrated GPS, high speed internet browsing, and a killer 640x480 2.8" screen. Plus a 3D-graphic processor, something most of the previous iPhone competitors lacked.

With a single zune-like button and a few touch-sensitive buttons, plus the touchscreen, you can choose how to use it. It also has some sort of gyro control like the iPhone, to orient the screen however you're holding it.

This has to be a $500+ phone, and if so, won't dent the iPhone popularity, especially if the iPhone drops to $199 with subsidies from AT&T. But at least there's finally something out there that competes with it. Kind of. Maybe.

//clicky on the big picture for the link

[DSR]

In before Craig.

[Teck]

hmm...

Dunno if it will iPwn iDevices...

[Unbroken]

Look like a pretty nice phone. can't find a price anywhere, but it's too much for me to afford, rofl

[BuddhistSoldier]

Wow competition!!! GPS and 3.2MP cam FTW!

[DominiKing]

definitely FTW! it'll take a while though for it to get real popular, it looks mega expensive though so that'll also hold it back. I'd rather get this than an iPhone but if I can get one for 200 bucks then....sorry M$. when's it come out though? I can't seem to find it

[CoffeeShark]

exactly. There aren't legions of rabid fans to adopt the HTC phone at any price, so it would have to competitively priced with the iPhone, which, at least at first, there's no way it will be.

[joe]

I've kept an eye on this, and like the overall looks/feel of it, HTC has been making major strides in the past few years...the biggest problem though is the Windows Mobile platform, which while some people like (I won't say love), for a lot of people it's a turn off.

Between this and the Nokia S60 devices (N96, N82, N95), there's a lot out there in the non-iphone department, I just wish they weren't so incredibly expensive (and yes, I know it's basically a computer in my pocket, but still, I'm a cheap bastage).

[CoffeeShark]

Well, HTC is pushing that they've so reworked the interface, that it's barely WinMo. Plus it's 6.1.

[Wallpaper]

/drool

So... shiny...