HTC Touch Diamond the most innovative Windows Pocket PC mobile from HTC looks very glossy and glittering like a diamond. This powerful and beautiful phone challenges the iPhone in its style and performance. This Pocket PC mobile is loaded with Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system from the world's most renowned PC operating System manufacturer Microsoft. Hence consider it the other way you can see it as a competition between Microsoft and Apple. HTC Touch Diamond really looks awesome and it will surely attract you on the first sight itself. If you take a look at the rear view of this mobile, you can see some crystal like structure, which depicts that it is a diamond.

The User Interface looks very pleasant and pleasing it is done with the help of HTC Touch FLO 3D. The dimensions of this diamond are 102 x 51 x 11.5 mm but weighs only 110 grams which is relatively low when compared with other Pocket PC mobiles. The dazzling Touch Diamond is available only in shining black colour though it looks metallic blue in certain angle of light source.

It has a large 2.8 inches wide VGA display touch screen, which is capable of displaying 65 thousand colours at a maximum resolution of 480 x 640 pixels. Really impressive it would be much better if it have supported more colours, but there is nothing serious to worry about because VGA displays are always much better than TFT display mobiles which support much more colours. The Touch FLO 3D offers smooth finger swipe navigation using the touch sensitive navigation controls, the handwriting recognition feature of this mobile allows you to write whatever you wish without using the onscreen QWERTY keyboard. This Pocket PC has Accelerometer sensor which automatically detects the rotation of the mobile and changes the orientation of the mobile horizontal or vertical accordingly.

This phone is powered by Qualcomm MSM7201 A 528 Mhz processor which utilizes 256 MB ROM and 192 MB DDR SDRAM for its processing. Not only that it also has a separate Video graphic card which uses dedicated 64 MB RAM, only very few mobiles have dedicated graphics card and memory. So, you can expect smooth and highly responsive graphical interface. It is operated by Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional the latest mobile operating system from Microsoft. This phone has a large internal memory of 4 GB. Unfortunately you cannot use external memory card with HTC Touch Diamond but 4 GB should be enough for most of our needs. It has a very powerful 3.15 MP camera which can capture images at a maximum resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels with autofocus, video and other wonderful features.

This advanced Pocket PC can work in both second and third generation networks. This mobile is available in two versions one is for US customers and the other for rest of the world. It would have been much better if it provides all the frequencies in a single mobile, hence if you are not a frequent traveller then you needn't worry about these details.

HTC Touch Diamond offers various connectivity options like class 10 GPRS, class 10 EDGE, HSDPA in 3G. So, you can achieve a maximum speed of 7.2 Mbps depending on the connectivity used. It also offers lot of options to share data among compatible devices using Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g for connectivity in Wireless LAN, or you can use Bluetooth or mini USB.

Apart from these it offers all the standard functions of mobile some of them are GPS receiver, Pocket Office, MP3 player, FM radio and much more.

Balachander Ganesan is an expert author of Telecommunication industry. Who writes on Mobile Phones, Smart phones, and PDA.