Well the HTC Touch Diamond 2 has arrived safely this morning from our good friends at Click here to read the entire review

Cheers guys glad you are enjoying the thread still

No more to report today as the SD card has definitely gone adrift and Mobi will not send a new one out until tomorrow at the earliest, so it will be Monday / Tuesday before i can carry on testing

As to the questions, ref the old one about Touch FLO 3D, I can confirm the 'Today' clock shows 3 appointments in large clock mode, and 5 when scrolled up to minimal mode. I checked last night for you.

Comparing the X1 and the D2 is difficult. The reason I saw this is that I'm using a cooked ROM (Itje's) on the X1 which gives the Touch FLO 3D goodness to the machine. That though you may say gives them an even greater similarity.

So if we do want to compare on that basis, then speed wise there is very little difference as the two both have similar memory / CPU specifications. The X1 scores in having more buttons that can be configured and of course has the panel system. In operation the D2 has a slightly faster screen refresh (or so it feels) and also benefits in finger operation by having a more touch oriented screen - in that the screen is more responsive and does not have the rim that the X1 has. The X1 though of course has the hardware keyboard. The D2 is also slightly louder volume wise and for me has a better radio by one blob. The D2 feels about half the weigh though when in the hand, but to counter that the X1 is significantly smaller.

The Notes application is straight WM6.1 in that both written and keyboard typing is supported. And as we have the new launcher in place can be launched quite painlessly.

The SIP (Soft interface panels) provided include:

• Full QWERTY
• Keyboard
• Phone pad
• Transcriber
• Letter recogniser
• Block recogniser

and from the test just done all work in Excel.

Any more questions guys?

How long does it take to take a photo?

RegHardware reckons 7 secs (total time taken to load camera app and capture a photo). Seems horrendously slow !!

Dave

Just had a quick 'time' it took about 6 seconds here but that included me positioning for the photo, letting the auto-focus do it's job and then take and save the picture. Just compared it to the X1 and that did it in about 4.5 seconds and that has a dedicated hardware button for the camera.

Moby 'say' that the mSD card is being posted tonight so fingers are crossed!

Not a problem I'll see what I can do once the card arrives as at that point I'll be commencing the testing again. A lot of that may be covered in our full review which one of my fellow team members is about to start on though.

Right, looked to do those screen shots tonight but as I'm running as vanilla as possible it looks like there is no standard applet in there anywhere to rotate the screen at all!

So do you want portrait screen captures?

Are there any applications that are not zoomable using the zoom bar?

I would hope that word and excel are zoomable. Can you confirm?

Thanks

Dave

I thought opera auto rotates to landscape. Did so in the first diamond version.I would love to hear your comments on the default visibility of some common sites. are the headings readable without zooming in?
Thanks.

Hmm strangely I've found that a lot of the applications do not use the zoom bar, the album uses it, and excel and word do (rarely use then myself). But I just verified that those two do use it.

Any others you want me to check out?

Hmm ahh embarrassing this ... I never even thought to check if Opera auto-rotates and of course it does. (fx: blush).

The screen shots you wanted are attached, some zoomed, others not. Hopefully these should answer the question on readability. Myself viewed without zooming I find it almost impossible to read the text but that could be my aging eyes