Comments on: Farewell you crazy Diamond

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:12:49 +0000

I bought a diamond on the first day it was out after my previous phone (T-Mobile Compact III) died a death shortly beforehand. I also tried to love it, but it is just irritating in a million little ways, from the Touch-Flo pointlessness through to the utter irritation of trying to dismiss an alarm which takes far more presses in fiddly places than strictly necessary if you miss the small window of opportunity whilst the pop-up appears at the bottom of the screen.

In the past I had a soft-spot for the Nokia Communicator, and used a 9100, 9210, and 9300. The E90 had already been around a long time when I was in the market though, and if Nokia were to announce a new Communicator tomorrow I’d jump at it like a shot. Failing that, I’ll wait for the next iteration of the iPhone and give that a go…

By: sihaz

sihaz — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:56:24 +0000

i love my diamond – i agree tf3d isn’t great but the phone is stonking. i have the t-mob variant that even has a flat back so no jumping around the desk for mine (this message sent from my advent 4211 hackintosh through my diamond via bluetooth – great phone!!!)

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:40:25 +0000

Touch Flo is annoying but can be turned off. I reverted back to using SPB pocket plus for the same reasons as you (those gestures are super annoying) and it just functions like any other windows mobile 6.1 phone.

An annoyance that can’t be switched off it that stupid faceted diamond back. I use mine as a calculator frequently and the facets cause it to move around while i’m pressing keys. They didn’t bother to make the peaks all at one level, so it would stay put.

Overall, its a style over function phone.

The iphone works fabulously but doesn’t have Flash support making its web browser useless.

I’m looking forward to checking out the Palm Pre.