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Hello, I'm a Kaiser owner and I'm thinking about going to the Diamond.
Can someone tell me how fast is the Diamond compared to the Kaiser ?
Can you play videos faster than the Kaiser do (with no lags) ?
Thanks !
dizzy33 said:
Hello, I'm a Kaiser owner and I'm thinking about going to the Diamond.
Can someone tell me how fast is the Diamond compared to the Kaiser ?
Can you play videos faster than the Kaiser do (with no lags) ?
Thanks !
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I am an ex Trinity user and Trinities were well known of beating the **** out of Kaisers, and many others. Compared to the Trinity, the Diamond does a slightly better job in rendering videos.
Ok, thanks ... So does this mean that the Diamond really includes the proper graphic drivers ?
I did search for informations about that but could not find any answer ...
I saw on a thread here that the Diamond is really slow using GPS softwares, you can see the roads drawing one by one when driving ...
So I don't understand how this device can be so fast in reading videos, and so slow in displaying GPS softwares maps ...
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Ok, thanks ... So does this mean that the Diamond really includes the proper graphic drivers ?
I did search for informations about that but could not find any answer ...
I saw on a thread here that the Diamond is really slow using GPS softwares, you can see the roads drawing one by one when driving ...
So I don't understand how this device can be so fast in reading videos, and so slow in displaying GPS softwares maps ...
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I never experienced that GPS issue. I believe it might have been something with a specific app or settings.
Diamond has different chip than Kaiser so it is not correct to say that Diamond includes the proper drivers. But YES, Diamond has optimized video drivers for its own graphic chip which is VGA and 3D capable.
Thank you very much for your answers !
I've moved from a Kaiser to a Diamond and say that using Coreplayer the videos are the same...albeit the Diamond is suposedly faster....but I never had any real issues with the Kaiser either
What I will warn you about is the battery drain....I find that with sporadic use the Diamond might last 3 days. I've not tried it yet, but I would think that the Diamond could not last a single 2 hr movie, with backlight over 70%. I do like the Diamond...but it has lots of funky flaws.....if I didn't know about this site and the experts here giving advice on tweaking and "new" ROMS that are faster I probably would have tossed it on the first day...
....then again, all HTC products (including the Kaiser) are not up to spec when they leave the box!!
Hope this helps
Thanks to you for your answer. In fact my Kaiser is the pocket pc which has the longer battery life other all I had before (Casio EM505F, Ipaq 1930, Axim X50V, Qtek9000, HTC Prophet ...). With the Kaiser, I don't feel the need to buy an extra battery.
I guess that the VGA display of the Diamond drains faster the battery ...
Enjoy the tilt display as well.....the "dear ol Diamond" has to sit flat on the aircraft dinner table or you need to put a bread roll underneath it to watch your movie at an acceptable angle
i switched as well, i managed to trade my kaiser for a diamond
reasons were better performance ( faster cpu en drivers) and thinner design
im loving it ( my diamond)
darkenergy said:
i switched as well, i managed to trade my kaiser for a diamond
reasons were better performance ( faster cpu en drivers) and thinner design
im loving it ( my diamond)
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I am lucky enough to own a MDA Vario III and MDA Vario IV Compact (a free upgrade). I'd say the Compact IV compliments the Vario III but doesn't represent an upgrade. Personally most of the time I'll stick with the Vario III for the hardware keyboard but the Compact IV is a nice weekend more phone like form factor. Personally (and this is a personal view) I'd stick with the Kaiser if I had to choose between the two.
Thanks a lot for your answers ! I think I'll keep my Kaiser and wait for a real better device (much more powerfull).
altough the diamond has better hardware and decent drivers there basically the same
the kaiser is basically the same expierence but more suited towards people who type alot using a keyboard
i personally like the diamond a lot more because its thinner and much much lighter
i dont care for manilla that much , i switched back to throttle launcher now
on the other way around, compared to the diamond the only thing that the kaiser has going for it is the tilt screen abbility if you can live without that go for the diamond or wait a few weeks till hTC bring out another 47 smartphones to replace the diamond/kaiser all together
I've just posted a review of ASUS P552W. It felt to me that I should do a post of how badly the Qualcomm 528MHz processor performs against the Marvell Tavor 624MHz CPU which is there in the ASUS P552W.
True, you can easily ignore the graphic aspects as SPB Benchmark is not optimized for the Diamond's GPU, but you cannot ignore the results which measure the processing power. Here are some screenshots that I used in the review
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I don't understand why people seem so proud when they think their phones suck. This is not the first thread I've seen about it, and it won't be the last, I'm sure.
So, your Diamond sucks? Then sell it and go to another forum about your beloved soap phone.
And by the way, the benchmarks you posted have nothing to do with the processor. File system speed <> processor speed.
i hate to see people flame devices.. well all the facts were cleared out for a long time ago and to constant bring it forward is too much.. well developers works with what they have and not with what they don't so if an application works better on a asus than a diamond it doesn't mean the following appp can't be tweaked to run as great as in the asus.. well i have a touch pro and i guess the specs are about similar to diamond and i agree with Smaniac.. the benchmark do not have anything to do with the processor...
I'm not saying that I hate my Diamond. It is my primary phone and I love it. BTW, processor is involved in a lot of things if you observed the table correctly. Hardware wise, there is not much difference between the two devices. Both come with 256MB ROM and use 128MB RAM with the P552W being just 100MHz ahead.
May be it is how one company codes the drivers properly and one company does not
And no where did I say that I hate the Diamond. I said how badly Qualcomm processors compare to Marvell processors
I agree with you guys.
Entering the site and all I see is: "diamond problems", "problems", "slow","bad preformance" etc....
Personally the Diamond is the best phone out there (HD to big even though ill get one heheh)
Dont forget this device is fairly new not even a year old.
But I also have to admit, that with the specs it has it should preform much better.
Greets.
well we all or many have seen the possibilities of overclocking older htc devices so if someone figgures out of it guess the possibilities are huge.. a friend of mine have an old htc touch gsm version.. i managed to overclock it from 200 mhz to a little above 300 mhz.. well yeah it might drain once battery alot but if you underclock it will make your battery last very veeery long.. we underclocked it to 100 mhz and got around 30 minutes to 1 hour more battery.. well that was a long time ago.. i hope there are similar possibilities for the htc devices which are hot right now sooner or later.. hopefully soon lol..
Interesting review. Very good apart from some of the spelling!
I agree with some of the others - it looks like the Diamond's main trouble is the file system. does anyone know why the file system is so slow?
As for the graphics benchmark, the Diamond is VGA so it's doing at least 4 times more work, right?
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I agree with some of the others - it looks like the Diamond's main trouble is the file system. does anyone know why the file system is so slow?
As for the graphics benchmark, the Diamond is VGA so it's doing at least 4 times more work, right?
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Second: I think you are right!
First: Maybe because of your second assumption? Don't you think that all other things are afflicted if more power is needed for the graphics?
If these assumptions are correct the comparison of this review is absolutely meaningless! And this applies to most (if not all) comparisons I've read here in the last time!
In addition: The used benchmark software:
- is 3 years old
- doesn't officially support WM 6.0 or 6.1
- is not optimised for VGA
Well, cut the poster some slack. His opinion is based on the benchmark. And when looking at that I can imagine someone is surprised about the huge difference. How the difference feels on the device is something else. But he has a point imho.
Sure with all the complaining here I can also understand why people act a bit hostile to posts like this.
But let's just face it, the Diamond is not really fast. When I compare the speed of, for example, tomtom on my Diamond and the tomtom speed on my yeeeeaaaars older Qtek s100 it's quite a difference.
From the Touch to Polaris and now the Diamond I have always been a bit dissapointed by the speeds. But I wouldnt want to trade my Diamond in for a s100 for sure! And I don't think my Diamond sucks at all. But the speed is.. well.. only bareable.
And now we see benchmarks against the Asus phone, and the feeling of slow speeds on the Diamond does seem to reflect in that as well. VGA or not, the Diamond is just slow. And I don't think it will be that much faster anytime soon.
The Asus is a phone I'm really looking into and want to give a test run soon. And perhaps it could replace my Diamond and perhaps it cannot. Who knows.
I don't feel the least offended or attacked by the OP. And he doesn't say the Diamond sucks at all. He was just amazed by the difference in speed in the benchmark. And so am I
OK guys...I will tell you something... diamond is good PPC but should be so much faster with marvell processor in many ways like GPS navigation, watching videos (not only in purchase must coreplayer with QTV) etc,...so why you just confess it...we are all victims of HTCs finnancial policy and sadly I have to say not only HTCs...
Davey101 said:
Interesting review. Very good apart from some of the spelling!
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What spelling?
kdskamal said:
I've just posted a review of ASUS P552W. It felt to me that I should do a post of how badly the Qualcomm 528MHz processor performs against the Marvell Tavor 624MHz CPU which is there in the ASUS P552W.
True, you can easily ignore the graphic aspects as SPB Benchmark is not optimized for the Diamond's GPU, but you cannot ignore the results which measure the processing power. Here are some screenshots that I used in the review
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I cannot believe the Diamond performed so badly in the benchmark test
Read the full review of ASUS P552W
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the only things being compared here are file system and graphics processing. If you mean processor as CPU,then this has nothing to do with CPU.
Hello
I was thinking that even if the CPU was great, if the file system is slow the Diamond CPU will be waiting for data... and thus be slow.
So even if the benchmark seems to show File System benchmark (I'm not a benchmark specialist) I guess it must have somehow some impacts on the global speed of the Diamond.
I guess that even if we use a Marvell/QualComm/Coca-Cola CPU inside a smartphone if other hardware inside the device are bull****, then everything will be slow. This is exactly the same that in a full size computer. The device component quality should be homogeneous.
Maybe the flash component used for the memory in the Diamond are piece of crap, this could explain some strange behavior on the phone (like the enormous time needed to delete files in the Opera cache for instance) which does not require a lot of CPU obviously ans should be fast.
One last thing: Merry Diamond Christmas
So the benchmarks are poo, device still works ok for me so they mean nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Is it the best phone in the world??? Proably not but for the money and what I need it for, its just dandy.
As it is my 7the I just can say they get better all the time
The Diamond is my 7th windows device and when I bought it I was not ready with my Trinity P3600, just cause the 9100 of my daughter bricket was the reason why I bought it, but I must say that I never had the feeling of wanting my P3600 back, the only thing I miss is a integrated keyboard, my own fault cause I couldn't wait for the pro, but as far as performance its THE best phone I owned untill now, ofcourse there are a few things which I think could be better and I believe if HTC continue the way they do then they maid grow bigger then Nokia in the future, and ofcourse after that HTC is the biggest there will come some other phone whit more possebillitys.
I just realise that I can't compare my phone to a Nikon D3Xi and therefore the camera is just a piece of ballast which I never use , but with my camera I can't phone and if I could it doesn't fit in my pocket .
I remeber my anger with the first windows phone I had the Orange 100 (can't even remember the realtype) but what I do remember the problems one by one are being solved and not in the last place here at this forum where I find a lot of dedicated and friendley people, complains about HTC? When I bought my Diamond I had some troubles with the network I didn't now that you must use best performance in stead of best battery, I contacted HTC and the wanted to pickup the phone next day, in the mean time found the problem and phoned them and send a fax that there was no need for the pickup nex day 2 times a courier at my doorbel to pickup the phone after that they have phoned me for about 7 times or it still was working, I don't believe it could be better.
Of course there are comming new phones and I don't want to say that I will keep my Diamond for ever cause I now when the next phone shows up I will get that irrisistable feeling of wnating that phone and yess Apple has discovered that smartphones pressent a big marked with lots of customers which are not like most people here who want the last bit of performance but in stead a stablephone which does what its made for and nothing more, in the mean time I am happy whit my phone and if I see the reactions around me I am not the only one.
W'll see what next year will bring I am stock for next year with my Diamond cause for the first time in my life I bought it for 18 months and just except some minor reasons I don't have the feeling yet to give this phone to my daughter ( and believe me she is looking desperate for an other phone for me )
My 2 cents
Happy newyear
Willem
Well, for some reason my biggest issue with HTC phones nowadays is that they all seem to be slower than what I remember from my Qtek s100 (mda compact). Which is especially noticable with tomtom. Tomtom was super smooth on the s100 as far as I can remember.
Then the Touch came after a while, and that was a huge step backwards in speed. I was hoping the Polaris would regain the speed. But that was a bit of a dissapointment as well. Things looked up with the Diamond, but that one still lacks in the speed department. When looking at the specs it should be a really fast phone. But it just doesn't feel fast at all.
Sure, it's VGA has far better (and more demanding) WM 6.1 and software which obviously slows it down as well.
Maybe it's just some nostalgic feeling from the s100 (and that one had some major issues for sure). But speedwise things just don't feel as fast as it should be. Or at least how they -could- be when looking at the specs! (is a big difference).
That being said, I'm very happy with my Diamond. Even when it doesn't feel al that fast (used most of the ROMS here on xda, and speed is much better than it was originally) it's still one of the most complete phones so far. And I wouldn't want to trade it back for any other phone I've owned so far for sure!
But! This Asus phone looks really promising. If it's that much faster (e.g. speedy feeling is the same as benchmark difference) I'd be happy to trade in VGA and take the Asus. Especially when apps like TomTom finally work smooth again. And not only TomTom, but also video playback and all kinds of other apps.
But it's all very personal. If you go from a HTC Touch to a Diamond you would probably think "wtf, slow?! This thing is lightning fast!!!".
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Well, for some reason my biggest issue with HTC phones nowadays is that they all seem to be slower than what I remember from my Qtek s100 (mda compact). Which is especially noticable with tomtom. Tomtom was super smooth on the s100 as far as I can remember.
Then the Touch came after a while, and that was a huge step backwards in speed. I was hoping the Polaris would regain the speed. But that was a bit of a dissapointment as well. Things looked up with the Diamond, but that one still lacks in the speed department. When looking at the specs it should be a really fast phone. But it just doesn't feel fast at all.
Sure, it's VGA has far better (and more demanding) WM 6.1 and software which obviously slows it down as well.
Maybe it's just some nostalgic feeling from the s100 (and that one had some major issues for sure). But speedwise things just don't feel as fast as it should be. Or at least how they -could- be when looking at the specs! (is a big difference).
That being said, I'm very happy with my Diamond. Even when it doesn't feel al that fast (used most of the ROMS here on xda, and speed is much better than it was originally) it's still one of the most complete phones so far. And I wouldn't want to trade it back for any other phone I've owned so far for sure!
But! This Asus phone looks really promising. If it's that much faster (e.g. speedy feeling is the same as benchmark difference) I'd be happy to trade in VGA and take the Asus. Especially when apps like TomTom finally work smooth again. And not only TomTom, but also video playback and all kinds of other apps.
But it's all very personal. If you go from a HTC Touch to a Diamond you would probably think "wtf, slow?! This thing is lightning fast!!!".
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I came from P3600 and speed wasn't a major problem with it but I am shore of 1 thing the Tomtom which I have at my Diamond is by far THE fastest I ever owned and I came from a fixed Pioneer nav system where I never thought that a such small app could compet whit it and still I have with my Pioneer a fix at the moment that I connect my engine but TomTom at my phone isn't much slower it takes at max 30sec to get afix which is the time I need to fasten my seatbelt and start driving, even a long distance trip is calculated in reasonable time this was much different at my P3600 which never could make a calculation for example from my home to Madrid cause of nor enough memory for the Diamond no problem at all, the only problem which Tomtom gives me lateley is that it locksup for some reason which I didn't discover yet, its not because the trip is long which tomtom calculates it can be on any kind of trip.
I agree that the Touch 3d software was the firstone which I gave a kick and can't say I miss it.
Willem
the device "feels" slow because theres no 2d acceleration drivers. If it had that,this device would feel like lightning. the cpu is good,the gpu is good,the rest of the hardware is amazing. theres 3d drivers now,but the last missing piece is 2d drivers that use the gpu.
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I was thinking that even if the CPU was great, if the file system is slow the Diamond CPU will be waiting for data...
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no,since data is usually put in RAM and then executed from there,not directly from file.
Diamond...
I love my Diamond, faults an' all... just like my wife!
Hey,
Firstly, I would like to thank all the developers for making efforts to develop a decent rom for the Xperia. I have tried every single one of them.
Unfortunately I couldn't fall in love with any of them.
Somehow I sense that it must me me that is doing something if other older HTC devices seem to be running way faster on customized roms than the experia with so much hardware potential.
Anyone has the same feeling?
Kind Regards
no.
EDIT: For the sake of order: I've used an HTC Trinity before, which was MUCH slower - even with ultra light roms and maximum free RAM. I compared with the TyTn II, which has just awful landscape-switching speed and was overall slower. Compared with the Touch Pro, I don't see any big differences - and if, with slight advantages for the X1.
So, no, I don't think the X1 is slow or not smooth enough. It just depends on what you're running. TouchFlo3D just slows the system down significantly - even on the (original) HTC devices (like Diamond, Touch Pro or Touch HD).
this is the same comments coming everytime there is a new device.
Look at in.ex polaris...ok device, a bit slow. Now it have optimized 2d and 3d drivers, its damn fast compared to what it used to be...but that didnt happen with a snap of our fingers..
we are just in the beginning of working on x1
So please, be as unimpressed as you want.
have a nice day
cheers
Well, one should not forget, that the x1 has 25% more pixels than Diamond or Touch Pro and even 400% more pixels than Tytn II & Co ...
A good buddy of mine has the new Diamond 2 and I have to say the phone looks real nice but the proformance to my option is slower than the Diamond 1,Didn´t like the touchflo at all and with the same navi TomTom and map as on the Diamond 2 and the Diamond 1 ,My Diamond 1 with TomTom ran a whole lot smoother ,the 5mp camera ,good and fine but still as slow as the 3,2mp camera in the Diamond 1,the way it looks to me that the Diamond 2 is just a rebuilt Sony Xperia,Come on HTC ,i think ya could have done better with the Diamond 2,at least a better processor ,longer lasting battery,could have added the WM6.5, to make it a lil more interesting,Diamond 2 NO THANK YOU ,wait to see if a Diamond 3 comes out
The diamond2 will have wm 6.5 when it's released.
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A good buddy of mine has the new Diamond 2 and I have to say the phone looks real nice but the proformance to my option is slower than the Diamond 1,Didn´t like the touchflo at all and with the same navi TomTom and map as on the Diamond 2 and the Diamond 1 ,My Diamond 1 with TomTom ran a whole lot smoother ,the 5mp camera ,good and fine but still as slow as the 3,2mp camera in the Diamond 1,the way it looks to me that the Diamond 2 is just a rebuilt Sony Xperia,Come on HTC ,i think ya could have done better with the Diamond 2,at least a better processor ,longer lasting battery,could have added the WM6.5, to make it a lil more interesting,Diamond 2 NO THANK YOU ,wait to see if a Diamond 3 comes out
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The TD2 is way faster than the TD1, has much more memory and TouchFlo is very very sensitive. And the long screen is superb, when I looked at the TD1 after a few weeks I say such a small screen...
Really, it's better in every ways! (although the black looks and the diamond back of the TD1 are nice too...)
How is the battery compared to Diamond 1?
Diamond2 is by far a marked improvement on the diamond1 with out a doubt..........BUT has anyone else noticed the lag and lack of smoothness on tomtom!!!
The touch of Diamond2 is much better than the Diamond 1:
It seems almost a kind of screen capacitive like the iPhone!
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.....BUT has anyone else noticed the lag and lack of smoothness on tomtom!!!
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No. Seems very good - running ver 7.9 - although I do not have too much to compare it to. I use an old TomTom one, which seem pretty similar.
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Diamond2 is by far a marked improvement on the diamond1 with out a doubt..........BUT has anyone else noticed the lag and lack of smoothness on tomtom!!!
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I was really disapointed with TomTom7 on the TD2. The POI icons are too small to see, and the screen refresh is very jerky. I used to run the same version of TomTom on my TYTN2, and it looked and ran much better
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The diamond2 will have wm 6.5 when it's released.
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The Diamond 2 is already out and it has Mobile 6.1 pro on it for your info,HEHE
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How is the battery compared to Diamond 1?
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Well that my friend is my workin buddy and we compare the 2 phones against each other the battery dosen´t last any longer than the Diamond 1
D2 is so much better than D1.
i used to have a Touch Pro, and i can say that the only advantage except the keyboard with touch pro was the battery. nothing else
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Well that my friend is my workin buddy and we compare the 2 phones against each other the battery dosen´t last any longer than the Diamond 1
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Thanks. How often do you have to charge it during heavy use?
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A good buddy of mine has the new Diamond 2 and I have to say the phone looks real nice but the proformance to my option is slower than the Diamond 1,Didn´t like the touchflo at all and with the same navi TomTom and map as on the Diamond 2 and the Diamond 1 ,My Diamond 1 with TomTom ran a whole lot smoother ,the 5mp camera ,good and fine but still as slow as the 3,2mp camera in the Diamond 1,the way it looks to me that the Diamond 2 is just a rebuilt Sony Xperia,Come on HTC ,i think ya could have done better with the Diamond 2,at least a better processor ,longer lasting battery,could have added the WM6.5, to make it a lil more interesting,Diamond 2 NO THANK YOU ,wait to see if a Diamond 3 comes out
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I have had both. In fact, I have had two diamonds, touch pro, s740, etc. etc.
The Diamond 2 is way way faster then the Diamond. In fact its faster then the touch pro. The touch pro was always considered faster then the diamond due to the extra memory.
The TD2 is just super snappy. Pretty good condering all the extra pixels its pushing.
The battery is 1100 Mha comaperd to the diamond's 900 Mha. It shows.
Touchflow is much deeper integrated. Makes it better for touch using. Personally I like the stylus better, but I had an iphone for 2 months. Its a great phone, but not for me.
TD2 is nothing like the experia. Believe me.
As you haven't got a TD2, I would take your opinion with a grain of salt
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Well that my friend is my workin buddy and we compare the 2 phones against each other the battery dosen´t last any longer than the Diamond 1
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Really??!!! That's funny....
I have both TD1 and a TD2 and I can tell you that the battery life on the TD2 is a BIG improvement.
Regarding speed..... you only need to look at the benchmarks to see which is the faster and we haven't even started cooking ROMs yet. The TD2 wins on every count.
I don't even know why I'm replying on this thread to tell you the truth, because as the saying goes "One man's meat is another man's poison" and it's useless trying to argue, but the truth is... the TD2 is faster and has a better battery life than the TD1. Fact.
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The Diamond 2 is already out and it has Mobile 6.1 pro on it for your info,HEHE
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Yeah, but WM 6.5 isn't out on general release yet.
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A good buddy of mine has the new Diamond 2 and I have to say the phone looks real nice but the proformance to my option is slower than the Diamond 1,Didn´t like the touchflo at all and with the same navi TomTom and map as on the Diamond 2 and the Diamond 1 ,My Diamond 1 with TomTom ran a whole lot smoother ,the 5mp camera ,good and fine but still as slow as the 3,2mp camera in the Diamond 1,the way it looks to me that the Diamond 2 is just a rebuilt Sony Xperia,Come on HTC ,i think ya could have done better with the Diamond 2,at least a better processor ,longer lasting battery,could have added the WM6.5, to make it a lil more interesting,Diamond 2 NO THANK YOU ,wait to see if a Diamond 3 comes out
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Guess your D1 got some hardware replacement or something...
Just have WM6.5 on my diamond with alot of tweakin on it hope to have my first rom out soon still testin
I moved from TD1 to TD2 a couple of weeks ago. Without a doubt the TD2 is significant better than TD1. In my scale of 10, the TD1 would be 6 whereas TD2 would be a 8 - a third better! Don't ask me how I got to these numbers; just pure happiness factor I guess!
TomTom on D2
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I was really disapointed with TomTom7 on the TD2. The POI icons are too small to see, and the screen refresh is very jerky. I used to run the same version of TomTom on my TYTN2, and it looked and ran much better
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Try the WVGA version of TomTom. This improves some of the icons but not all. The keyboard to input addresses is still small but the WVGA version is a bit better to see and use.
Regards
Aussie
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I moved from TD1 to TD2 a couple of weeks ago. Without a doubt the TD2 is significant better than TD1. In my scale of 10, the TD1 would be 6 whereas TD2 would be a 8 - a third better! Don't ask me how I got to these numbers; just pure happiness factor I guess!
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I came up with similar numbers as I upgraded as well. I think was at a 5.5 and bumped to around an 8.75.
I've just got hold of a Touch Diamond after using an elfin (Touch Enhanced) for a year or two.
I started with some of the great looking roms here on the site and was looking forward to using Touchflo etc and getting the most out of the faster processor.
So far I've concluded that it's worse than the Elfin. On most roms everything seems, well, sluggish. Even the faster ones are not very fast.
Then there's memory. Only the Benko roms (trying Prime right now) seem to leave any room for applications.
Finally, it seems to keep charge if I don't use it but as soon as I do anything the battery level drops pretty quickly.
I love the touchflo 3d interface and the higher definition screen but I feel like it's a downgrade otherwise.
Are there any Diamond-lovers out there who can help me make the best of it and have it working well for them or should I get it on eBay quick and go back to trusty elfin?
Thanks for any comments.