[Exil3d]

Ok, its been 24 hours with the Diamond and I took it for a good test drive to the mall yesterday. Here are my 24 hour thoughts.Btw.. yesterdays trip to the mall, I charged it 100% and I used it at the food court for almost 5 hours non stop web, email, app usage. SO not bad at all! I bet the auto dimmer halps control battery drainage.


Overall I am very satisfied with it.

Pros:
Beautiful bright VGA screen. The resolution really makes the difference. No limit to the angle unlike my Touch.

Very responsive Toflo3d and hides winmo pretty good. I like the colors Sprint gave it.

Small and easy on the pockets.

Camera is the best I have encountered on a Sprint Phone. Autofocus is great!

Screen brightness sensor is very good. Keeps the battery charged.

Sound quality on the earpiece is SUPER. Better than the Touch.

Headphones are really loud and impressively crisp! Even on youtube videos!

G-sensors do a good job on turning to portrait and landscape.

Opera on it is actually pretty good. I can actually read the text when its zoomed out! Due to the resolution of the VGA screen.

The center button is actually a capacitive button. Very nice! And the glow is very cool

Side volume control is actually buttons and not a slider. I like it since my Touch had a sticky slidder button.

Gps works flawlessly. I get locks within 15 seconds.

Picture mail works flawlessly.



CONS:
I dont like the feeling of the derection pad. Left and right are ok but pushing up and down is weirnd and not solid feeling. Specially UP.

Center button only has one color LED. White. I wish there was a green and blue and yellow and red. Like the Touch.

The thickness of the device is a bit thick. I was expecting it to be thinner or equally thin to the Touch.

Loud speaker SUCKS royally. No high frequancy range. So the sound comes out a bit muffled.

Burgandy back cover is girly. I like it black better. And it does not have the rubber paing the Touch did. So its a bit slippery.

Running alot of app and not closing them will lead to a sluggish Touchflo3d.

The auto focus is a bit slow and loud. But acceptable since the picture come out GREAT!

Touch keyboard has a delay. T9.

The device get a bit hot after alot of usage.

If not carefull and you leave alot of aaps opened in the background. G sensors react slow to Opera landscape and portrait switching.





I am sure I can think of more on pros and cons but this is what I have experience in the 24 hours of usage. I must say I like it alot and consider this to be a giant upgrade compared to my Touch.But the main factors that convince me of a good buy is the vGA screen and Auto focus camera and I really like the screen brightness sensor. But honestly.... since its a bit thinker than my Touch, then I dont see why I would not go for the PRO. I really need the Keyboard so I will not be keeping this. Unless I fall in love with it more for the next 28 days!