HTC Diamond loses angled back, renamed Victor
Yeah, the HTC Touch Diamond is a fine phone, but if you’ve ever handled one you’ll notice that the angled back is a bit of a polarizing force. It looks sharp, but causes some problems when you attempt lay the device firmly on a flat surface. Ever the masters of 1000 variations on a similar theme, HTC looks poised to release another version of the Touch Diamond that sports a flat back to replace the angled edges on the current version. Codenamed the HTC Victor, this new handset looks to be functionally identical to the Touch Diamond, save for a new casing on the rear of the phone. It is certainly not the most aesthetically pleasing thing we’ve ever seen, but as far as function goes, we’re happy to see carriers provided with a set of choices. What do you think? Love it or hate it? Couldn’t care less?
Unless it has a memory card slot, this phone is as pointless to me as the Diamond. To only offer 4GB in these days at that price is ridiculous.
As long as the phone is offered is GSM-flavor for AT&T, I’m happy. I could care less about what the back of the phone looks like…just get me that phone!
I can’t believe that HTC didn’t design the Diamond to have 3 or 4 ‘facets’ come out to the same depth to act as feet for the device. Seems obvious to me.
Does the new back change any of the overall dimensions? Could it take the extended battery I heard rumored about?
Does it still have WM? Yes? Who cares.
zz…zzzzz..zzzzzzz…..where my touch pro at man! …..ps. i grow to like ….love the back design ..i believe it added a lil splash of pa-zass (is that even a word?).
…waiting for the Victor Pro w/keyboard
This has been released in the UK as the T-Mobile Compact IV. Specs seem to be slightly different, weight is down to 98g and it gains about 1mm in width and depth. ROM is less as well, but presumably thats because of the T-Mobile software running on it that replaces the Touch-Flo interface!?
Hey!! Are you sure that this phone is the GSM version? Because I think that this one is exactly the -soon to release- CDMA version announced on the TELUS site.
Could it be that HTC is looking for the market to clearly differetiate between both versions?
@ murph
Mmmm! I think that it’s going to be like this:
GSM models- Diamond and Touch Pro (w/keyboard)
We know that yet!, but I think that theirs correspondence is
CDMA models- Victor and Raphael (w/keyboard)
Unlike some, I appreciate good design, this looks just hideous, makes you wonder whether they had to make cuts and let their designer go…
We have a HTC Diamond – I must say before redesigning the back, they could have tried to fit a microSD slot somewhere and maybe do some tweaking and cleaning up in TouchFLO3D.
I like the back and have not seen it to be a problem. Although it’s more “plasticy” than in the promo photos.
If someone figures out how to remove TouchFlo from this bad boy then this is my next phone.
@Edgar: You realize this same phone is going to be offered by a LOT of different carriers, right? The Victor is already being sold as the MDA Compact IV in Europe, and now as itself through HTC. Chances are it (or the Diamond) will be sold in CDMA and GSM flavors in a lot of other places, as well
Lets get a flash a sd slot and open this sucker up like android!!1
Love it!
If it’s cheaper and is EXACTLY the same as the Touch Diamond…then sure, why not?
What no one will tell you is the Diamond blows. Horrible buttons, poor performance, bad battery life, bad ui. Treo or Smartphone should be your only winmo choices.
@ Hyperlink – you can skin the device any way you want. You don’t have to use TouchFlo3D.
@wm: You’re right, no one will tell me that. Because pretty much everything I’ve read, both from review sites, blogs, and personal experiences posted on forums, says exactly the opposite.
Wow it has a sexy back lmfao looks good imho
You guys should also take into consideration that the P3700 (original Diamond) has 192MB of DDR RAM where as the P3702 (Victor) only has 128MB of DDR RAM. It’s said that the extra 64MB of RAM in the P3700 is dedicated to the graphics accelerator in the Qualcomm chip.
hey, does that mean telus will give canadians a choice for the diamond or the new “victor edition/
will canadians get to choose the old or the new back?
I suppose it’d be too much to ask for the screen to have 262,000 colors like the smaller flip phones have. Yes, I want all that glorious color on my new state of the art phone.