[CupofDice]

Just wrote this on engadget :P in their how would you change the Diamond post.

I am a new owner of the Sprint ver of the Diamond.

1. Better battery life. I mean this thing will go down doing absolutely nothing over night, though it does last me a day.

2. Touch Flo 3D throughout WinMo. Similar to what Meizu did with the M8. Using WinMo's interface is annoying for all the obvious reasons.

3. 3.5mm Head Phone jack. Seriously, I didn't think having to carry around the USB whateveryoucallit would be that annoying, but it is. Plus I am constantly checking for it to make sure I haven't lost it. They provided two styluses, they should have provided two of those.

4. The screen size when it comes to typing. It is simply too small to type comfortability on compared to my ipod touch. I often have to use the stylus.


Things I don't have a problem with.

1. The screen size when it comes to watching shows. I would say that the Diamond's screen size is the minimum for acceptability, but it IS acceptable. Watching shows is easily done. Of course it would be sweeter at 3.2 inches.

2. Resistive touch screen. The only time I have to use the stylus is when I am typing. Of course my bad habit with the ipod touch (touching my fingernails to the screen) comes in handy here. Don't get me wrong, a capacitive would definitely be better, but the resistive wasn't as big a problem as I thought it would be.

All in all, I love my Diamond. It could be better, but so could every other touch screen phone out there. My main problem is the lack of apps. *cough* I mean lack of good apps. It seems to me that WinMo is dying. Just look at the development of smart, sexy apps for the iPhone, Android, and soon to be Palm pre. Of course we do have a great development community around xda, and ppcgeeks, people who are developing great apps like Barcorama (bar code scanner). But this is WinMo, there should be even MORE developing going on with original ideas, and sexy touch screen friendly interfaces. Hopefully with WinMo 7, it will be meant for touch screens (as in I will never need a stylus again to check a tiny option), and will be sexy, and work great just like the iPhone OS. In other words don't **** it up Microsoft. You did it with the Zune, you can damn well make a sexy interface for WinMo 7.