<![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> How is that at all iPhone-esque? It looks nothing like it in my opinion. Everything with a screen is NOT a clone of the iPhone! We could go ahead and say the iPhone was a palm-pilot clone because it's flat and has a touch-sensitive screen.

With the debut of touchscreens on almost every electronic device, I'm not at all sure how we're not past the infantile "iPhone clone" phase.

dekigo92

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> @shinchan: Kidd is obviously American, they don't get sarcasm or irony....

podgedog

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> asrb

podgedog

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> IE6? WHAT THE F*$*#@

dagamer34

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> @Kidd: that's what my excessive use of sarcasm was trying to get at, iphone wasn't the first in anything.

@notatoad: agreed

shinchan

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> god damn gizmodo. every post does not need an apple reference. this is no more "iphone-esque" than something white is "iPod colored"

notatoad

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> Wait is that guy in the picture the guy who's ass I want to whoop? 'Cause he actually looks frail enough for me to beat him down.

vertigo

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> No, I phone wasn't the first. all of HTC's Pocket PC's were out before this, but just with a carp UI until the "touch' came out. Which may have been before iphone.

Kidd

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> @frogpelt: everything bearing a touchscreen is "iPhone-esque" here, I mean, the iPhone was the first phone to have a touchscreen wasn't it?...

shinchan

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> How is this "iPhone-esque" ?

Just because it's a phone with nice screen size and touch capability does not make it "iPhone-esque".

That's akin to saying that Lebron James is "Jordan-esque" because they both shoot the basketball.

It's not like Apple is the only who ever thought of those things.

This phone looks original and it looks sweet...

and I happen to own an iPhone (as if you care).

frogpelt

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> Haha, advertising speak is so hilarious

Elaine Chow

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> This looks great but if they included VGA-out capability , it would really be closer to the Nirvana Phone and challenge the iPhone.

[nirvanaphone.com]

chrisfl

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> 640x480 resolution with a smaller diagonal than the iPhone? Holy crap, thats a dense screen.

Totorototoro

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> iPhone-esque? Seems the only thing they have in common is a good design and a touch screen, qualities, which the iphones doesn't own.

Goooman

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> @bookmark: LOL
Yup, that statement just about sums up the demographic perfectly.

TKWarrior

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> I know that you can't help but compare stuff like this to the iPhone, and the iPhone is very very cool, but you know this thing had to be in development for a looong time. I realize a lot of the features are similar to the iPhone, but you know that when someone figures out a good way to do something with an interface everything starts to emulate it. All the different cell phones, computers, media/mp3 players, they are all so similar, but someone has to make it first and lately that someone has been Apple.

maven2k

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> I wonder if they'll come out with a QWERTY version, that might be pretty sweet (Sony XPERIA X1 competitor), but not iPhone killer. I'll wait to see a phone that actually kills the iPhone before declaring that (hint: HTC Battlebot).

trendspotter

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> don't compare my life to your POS phone. YOU DON'T KNOW ME!

OtterKing

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> Beautiful expensive phone with a beautiful interface.
But, running Windows Mobile 6.1.
Talk about polishing a turd!

timaeus

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> Windows Mobile 6.1 a "simplified user experience with fun usability???"

FAIL.

LagunaSol

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> did htc compare this to the iphone? or is the author just bunching fanboys' panties?

its so sad to see people take bait day in day out.

i think its like a game of starcraft - they just click and the wars begin HAHA!!!

maybe i will testdrive one once it becomes available.

keysereble

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> @robotleawesome: Why? I think that now is the time. What sort of attention will their product get after iPhone 2.0?

apeguero

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> "Microsoft promises IE 6 coming soon" - Somehow, I don't think anyone will mind waiting for that feature.

P.J.

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> @metalhaze: Did you see how the specification page wasn't in English--Gotta love the QA.

Joseph

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> @Joseph:

I wouldnt say that if I were you. It looks promising to me like the Sony Xperia.

jhoeforth

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> Whoa! Here's a video. Damn, it looks so goooodd.....


+ Watch video



jhoeforth

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> @robotleawesome: Actually, their hope is probably to deter some people from switching. If people know they have another option, they might not be so hasty to go pick up an IP2.

Joseph

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> Bad move releasing this a month before the iPhone announcement.

robotleawesome

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> I was expecting someone to have written this comment already, but I guess I was wrong. So here goes:

"It makes me smile, but it enables me to get things done that need to be done. With one finger."
Oh yeah? I got yer finger right here, pal!

Flambino

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> @nachobel: Windows Mobile is the best!

Joseph

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> Windows Mobile? WHY SIR, WHY.

nachobel

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> A holistic experience? Just like my life? And Apple's marketing is bad. Wheeew.

Although, my life is a series of jagged facets, some darker than others, depending on what angle you look at it, so maybe they're right.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> OK I,m a sucker for slim phones

fastmike

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> FTA: "It makes me smile, but it enables me to get things done that need to be done. With one finger."

You know what else needs a single finger? iPhan boyz.
Take your little insecure selves and go "jailbreak" your stupid phone. God, get over it.

mkrygeri

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> GPS?

hofodude

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> Will this come to AT&T or what US carrier?

mykalt45

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> EDIT: I WANT NOOOOO PART OF THIS PHONE!

metalhaze

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> @bookmark: That is why you need to Jailbreak your iPhone so you are cooler than all your friends that have a normal run of the mill boring iPhone.

And on the topic of this phone. I would just like to say that I went to their website. And if their phone is anything like their poorly designed, slow, and heavily Flash-based website, then I want to part of their phone and it's shitty UI

metalhaze

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> That diamond look on the back reminds me of the Nokia Prism too much. Nice specs though, it is a real shame.

HTC introduces the ugly stick, revisited.

TedB.

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> I will not announce iPhone competitors in the weeks before the iPhone 2

I will not announce iPhone competitors in the weeks before the iPhone 2

I will not announce iPhone competitors in the weeks before the iPhone 2

I will not announce iPhone competitors in the weeks before the iPhone 2

OMG! Ponies!

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> I bet tey are so frustrated that they are making a nice looking ui but cant do anything about the crap its built on top of, and thats what the htc's always come down to in the end, you come out of a nice looking front end into the horrible winmob, also unresponsive touch screens.

speakerwizard

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> i am already bored of my iphone.. everyone around me has it now :(

bookmark

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> The HTC Touch Diamond was launched? Who knew?

bms

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> any list of specs or what it does?

OG512

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> pictures? Specs?

dallasmay2

]]> <![CDATA[HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque]]> Dear Mr. HTC Diamond phone thingy,
Do you have a nice little slide-out QWERTY keyboard?


Mr. Helga from Sweden

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