Diamond Release Speculation Thread

[abovelegit]

i called up sprint stores around my area, two of them said they expect them in a few weeks, another said not sure but we will supply them, the wrest said not sure

[uuummmk]

Here is a great video of the Telus version of the diamond. This should give everyone a great idea on the sprint version since as far as we know they are identical besides some minor touchflow tweaks and the back color....

http://www.thetouchblog.com/

[cool8man]

Originally Posted by uuummmk

Here is a great video of the Telus version of the diamond. This should give everyone a great idea on the sprint version since as far as we know they are identical besides some minor touchflow tweaks and the back color....

http://www.thetouchblog.com/

Wow the Telus version seems noticebly faster than any other ROM version I have ever seen of this phone (and I've watched a ton of videos and hacks of this phone on Youtube). When he clicks on photos there is zero lag in loading up the first photo (still too much lag in scrolling the photos though), when he turns the phone the accelerometer has zero lag and immediately reorients the photo (every other demo I've seen of the Diamond lags and is somewhat unresponsive), when he clicks on Opera it opens up immediately with zero loading time. The accelerometer performance in Opera was disappointing, but the page was still loading as he was trying to change orientation.

Regarding the hardware I think the screen looks amazing and the curves on the front look nice, but the phone overall looks a bit bland without the diamond back. The thickness is perfectly acceptable for a phone of this type, but it's thickness is no longer impressive when put up against iPhone 3G. With a smaller screen and larger battery this should have much better battery life than iPhone, but who knows.

[TreyBeno]

The missing diamond facets from the back doesnt look too bad. i think we're just use to seeing it at this point. I guess they wasnted to give is a more streamlined look and the rounded corners arent that bad either. Its all minor details bcuz its the performance and what it can do that matters most. All in all its still ridiculously sexy if a phone can even be that

[imneveral0ne]

i'm just glad that its not thicker than papa smurfs head :-p

[iamjasonc]

lol, seriously...is that how they measure things in Canada? How big things are in comparison to Papa Smurf's head?? lol

kidding

[bwhite4801]

Originally Posted by imneveral0ne

i'm just glad that its not thicker than papa smurfs head :-p

LOL That was awesome. +

[bhawke01]

just looked at my managers playbook and it says that the diamond launches on 8/28!

[imneveral0ne]

Originally Posted by bhawke01

just looked at my managers playbook and it says that the diamond launches on 8/28!

wow, thanx for passing off the info

[bhawke01]

just thought i would shed some light i would take a screen shot and show everone if i didn't value my job.