What a great example of the media's double standards. They give the Diamond 2/6 stars and heavily criticize the battery life for not lasting through heavy use over a weekend. Their review of the iPhone 3G, a 5/6 star device, mentions that you'll need to charge the device every other day even with moderate use. So why is one product slammed and one product just barely criticized? It's like everyone is terrified to criticize the iPhone. Ridiculous.
PC Pro Conclusion
Back when we reviewed the HTC Touch, we had one key message to say to HTC: drop Windows Mobile so far back into the background that people hardly need to use it. And it has.
But it's simultaneously crippled the Touch Diamond by either using code that isn't good enough, thus making the whole phone sluggish, or it hasn't chosen a fast enough processor. We suspect the former as the 528MHz Qualcomm unit powering the Diamond doesn't look like its struggling for horsepower.
And who knows, maybe in a few months' time its engineers will have done some clever tweaking and updating to make the interface work as it should. At which point, this could turn into a half-decent phone.
Until then, though, the Bad outweighs the Good by such a margin that if people told us they were thinking of buying the Touch Diamond we'd be forced to rip the credit card out of their hands for their own protection.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/20937...h-diamond.html