Comments on: HTC Diamond loses angled back, renamed Victor

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:05:12 +0000

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.

By: bob

bob — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:12:40 +0000

will canadians get to choose the old or the new back?

By: bob

bob — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:11:47 +0000

hey, does that mean telus will give canadians a choice for the diamond or the new “victor edition/

By: Huey

Huey — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:55:03 +0000

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.

By: Brandon wilson

Brandon wilson — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:17:03 +0000

Wow it has a sexy back lmfao looks good imho

By: Blitzkrieg

Blitzkrieg — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:01:47 +0000

@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.

By: Yes, The Diamond

Yes, The Diamond — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:00:04 +0000

@ Hyperlink – you can skin the device any way you want. You don’t have to use TouchFlo3D.

By: wm

wm — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:34:20 +0000

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.

By: Jeff B.

Jeff B. — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:30:18 +0000

If it’s cheaper and is EXACTLY the same as the Touch Diamond…then sure, why not?

By: palacio freire

palacio freire — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:21:50 +0000

Love it!

By: davos

davos — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:19:15 +0000

Lets get a flash a sd slot and open this sucker up like android!!1

By: Blitzkrieg

Blitzkrieg — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:36:50 +0000

@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

By: Hyperlink

Hyperlink — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:26:28 +0000

If someone figures out how to remove TouchFlo from this bad boy then this is my next phone.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:13:47 +0000

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.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:12:32 +0000

Unlike some, I appreciate good design, this looks just hideous, makes you wonder whether they had to make cuts and let their designer go…

By: Edgar

Edgar — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:07:19 +0000

@ 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)

By: Edgar

Edgar — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:58:40 +0000

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?

By: Andy Simpson

Andy Simpson — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:48:49 +0000

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!?

By: murph

murph — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:47:05 +0000

…waiting for the Victor Pro w/keyboard

By: champ22

champ22 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:05:02 +0000

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?).

By: KDM™

KDM™ — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:01:38 +0000

Does it still have WM? Yes? Who cares.

By: mean eddie g

mean eddie g — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:36:15 +0000

Does the new back change any of the overall dimensions? Could it take the extended battery I heard rumored about?

By: Brandon Taylor

Brandon Taylor — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:35:18 +0000

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.

By: Stephen C.

Stephen C. — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:24:02 +0000

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!

By: Albert

Albert — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:54:56 +0000

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.