Following
O2 Germany's
earlier announcement to launch it's version of
HTC's Touch Diamond
later this summer as the
O2 Xda diamond, the German carrier held two press events
this week where the Xda diamond was first time publicly shown. While I had the
chance the get my hands on an earlier version already, for me it was the first
time also to see the final look and feel of O2's latest Xda Windows Mobile
smartphone.
Like the HTC Touch Diamond, also the Xda diamond will run on Windows Mobile 6.1
supporting triband GSM/GPRS/EDE (no 850 MHz support), dualband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA
(featuring 900/2100 MHZ) with a HSDPA downstream of up to 3.6 Mbps and a HSUPA
upstream of up to 2.0 Mbps.
Furthermore, the Xda diamond sports Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi b/g, a FM radio, a
G-sensor, 192 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM and 4 GB internal memory. So far, that's pretty
much the same HTC's Touch Diamond is. The biggest, and most likely only
different is the battery cover where O2 Germany isn't using HTC's diamond shaped
battery cover but it's own flat soft-touch design:













The O2 Xda diamond is expected to be available from late June. With a 24
month contract, it will be available for 99 Euro. Without a contract it should
be available for something around 549 Euro.
Cheers ~ Arne