New official HTC Touch Diamond ROM unlocks 850MHz band
In a move that can only be described as rather odd, it seems that the original ROM that HTC released with the initial shipment of Touch Diamond handsets disabled the phone’s support for the 850MHz band. Strange, right? It’s not all bad news, however. The company has just released a ROM update for its North American customers, unlocking the full potential of the 850MHz EDGE band for AT&T customers. Sure, this won’t bring you anything close to US 3G speeds, but with the absence of a full hardware refresh this is the next best thing. It makes the Diamond marginally more usable on our shores, and show that HTC is committed to ongoing improvement for their diminutive new touchscreen phone. We’re not sure how this is possible when an HTC employee specifically responded to our rant about the Touch Diamond not being a quad-band device, but we guess this will do for now…
Tags: 850 mhz, EDGE, HTC, touch diamond
well im born and raised in illinois and most of my euro friends say the same thing they cant stand americans because how stupid they are, i agree OOOO look an iphone lets all get it because it looks cool lets act like mindless sheep and get soemthing, that we probably wont use to its full potential. im the kind of person who actually uses his phone to what it can do, im no business man but i have a tilt and i still wish it could do more that it can do. just like now OOOO look the HTC diamond how pretty me want, please….sometimes i wish i was never born in the land of the ignorant and the home of the lame
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Obviously you weren’t raised correctly in Illinois. And no, I’m not going to make a stereotype and say ALL people from Illinois must be jackoffs because of you. I too know several people in and from Euro and have never heard any such comments about Americans.
Lastly, if you hate America sooo bad, LEAVE! You will be doing your home state and homeland justice!
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Hi all,
No doubt HTC Diamond is a great performer and its relatively fasted compared to its predecessors despite running WM6.1
But for that many features a 900mh battery is just a ridiculous move.
I used this phone for 15 days flat…
My average is around 30 Calls a day…which is nominal for a sales guy
Very Limited Edge usage may be around 15 to 45 mins
No gaming
No Camera
No Music
But still…The battery beeps at around 3 in the evening!
Going out and living with a charges is pathetic!
Just dont buy this! If u really love it, buy it with the expanded battery available at an extra cost!
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BTW….i’ve sold it to a dumber and bought a E71!!
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Hi,
I would like to buy this phone, but I`ve heard so much about bugs and sluggish on it… While reading this page, most of what I red seem to be fixed in the new version ! How can I be sure to buy the new version (of ROM) on the net ? Or maybe it is just important to update from a site you gave the link below, whatever the version of Diamond P3700 you bought?
Thank you for answering.
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Couldn’t agree more. It seems whenever you read anything on the international scene these days, the US government and its support of the American phone companies, the industry in the USA is viewed as archaic and out of touch with the rest of the world. Most all of the US carriers are viewed as predatory and virtual thieves when it comes to offering their customers anything from phones, to accessories, and of course decent service, which is among the worst in the world considering that the USA is considered to be a world leader - the operative word being ‘considered’. The reasons are simple. The US phone companies use every opportunity to manipulate the rules by having many politicians and bureaucrats in their pockets, so to speak, which ensures that they will dominate the market and gouge their customers for every nickel and dime they can steal. Some will disagree, and are probably ‘plants’ for the phone companies. All one has to do is study the actions of the phone manufacturers. They always introduce their best products in other markets outside of the US because they the phone carriers in other parts of the world don’t strip the features out of the phones and try to sell them back to the customers at ridiculous premium prices. And they don’t demand that the phone manufacturers ‘modify’ the phones so that the carriers can use every means to gouge the customers further. Greed is the only way to describe it, and it is easy to see where it has taken the US in the world market - straight to the bottom. The phone carriers are just one example of the result. Shame!
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I totally agree with steve. I used to carry Verizon, and its not hard to spot how the carriers charge their customers top dollar for something like phones. When the LG Chocolate came out for examle, it retailed for $349.99, at his time, my cousin was over here from the UK and saw the ad. She said, “$350 for the chocolate? Voda’s giving them away for free cause they’ve been out for soo long.” Don’t think I’m picking on verizon here but they’re notorious for their crippleware on their phones (bluetooth object push). I think the american people have had a lampshade put over their eyes by not just the carriers , but the FCC because they have to “approve” the device. In my eyes, if the device is good enough in 120 other countries, should’t it be good enough for the US. It is nothing but greed. Althogh i work in wireless, I sympathize with the consumer because I pay bills just like all of you. The only thing good about corporations is that it’s easier to return stuff.
I applaud best buy/carphone warehouse for bringing over unlocked phones like the N95 because it pulls back the curtain the FCC and carriers have in front of us, the American consumer.
A customer of mine from Belgium made a very good point the other day. He said “For a country built on the ideals of freedom, it’s ironic that you have so mny restrictions (Locked Phones, older handsets,
CAMERAS 1.3-2mp vs 5-8.1mp)
We can all make a change. Instead of biting at each other, we should be biting at the government. We pay our taxes, it’s our right. When enough people stand up, there will be a change. I’m hoping that change comes soon (cause the N96 looks awesome haha).
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