Just how good will the HTC Touch Diamond (Diamond), HTC Touch Pro (Raphael) and HTC Touch Dual Pro (Titanium) prove to be?
By Will Park on Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 at 4:16 PM PST In Devices, HTC, Hottest Hardware, Photos, Rumors, Windows Mobile
Damn good, that’s how good.
HTC is really pulling out all the stops with their upcoming upgraded handsets. HTC’s still unannounced Diamond, Raphael, and Titanium handsets are going to hit the scene to much fanfare and we’re hoping to see at least one of these devices on May 6th.
Packed full of features and oozing sexiness, the new HTC Touch devices are poised to give the smartphone market some serious competition.
So, just how good will the handsets be? Let’s find out.
[Update]
Check out the new pics of the HTC Touch Diamond after the break!

HTC Touch Pro
Otherwise known as the HTC Raphael, the HTC Touch Pro will apparently take HTC’s sliding QWERTY keyboard form-factor to new levels. The 2.8-inch glossy VGA touchscreen display is the main aesthetic draw on the HTC Touch Pro, but that doesn’t mean the goodies end there. Here’s the feature-set:
- Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
- 256MB ROM / 128MB RAM
- Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) MSM 7201A @ 528MHz
- 7.2MB HSDPA / HSUPA (rev A EVDO for CDMA versions)
- 2.8″ VGA (480×640) touchscreen display
- QWERTY keyboard
- TV out
- Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
- WiFi
- Orientation sensor
- FM Radio
- eGPS
- 3.1MP Camera with flash
- Front-facing camera
- microSDHC card slot
- 900mAh battery
- Enhanced TouchFlo
To top it all off, the HTC Touch Diamond is expected to hit the scene with eGPS – a technology introduced by UK’s CSR in February. While GPS is good and all, the low-power receivers on handsets can take a long time to lock onto a GPS satellite. So, aGPS was introduced to shorten satellite lock-on times by supplementing the GPS positional data with network positional data. Now, the newest network assisted GPS technology to hit the market is eGPS and the HTC Touch Diamond will be making good use of the faster, lower-power, and more accurate GPS positioning technology. eGPS allows the device to get a GPS-fix in under 4 seconds, even while indoors, with an accuracy of 10 meters. Power drain is equivalent to less than 1 second of voice calls and the tech even works while the device is powered down.
HTC Touch Diamond
Known internally by its codename “Diamond,” will apparently be the thinner successor to the HTC Touch. And, with dimensions of 99×51x10.7mm, it shaves a handful of millimeters off its predecessor’s girth (102×60.96×15.24mm). But, it doesn’t stop there. The HTC Touch Diamond sports the same specs as its bigger brother, the Raphael, like the beautifully large (2.8 inches) and glossy VGA touchscreen display and eGPS. But, it forgoes QWERTY keyboard and TV-out in favor of 4GB of internal storage – allowing the Windows Mobile Professional smartphone to hold its own as a media-centric device.
- Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
- 256MB ROM / 128MB RAM
- Qualcomm MSM 7201A @ 528MHz
- 7.2MB HSDPA / HSUPA (rev A EVDO for CDMA versions)
- 2.8″ VGA (480×640) touchscreen display
- Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
- WiFi
- Orientation sensor
- FM Radio
- eGPS
- 3.1MP Camera with flash
- Front-facing camera
- microSDHC card slot
- 900mAh battery
- Enhanced TouchFlo
And, here are the newest pics of the HTC Touch Diamond! Enjoy.
HTC Touch Dual Pro
There’s also word that HTC is brewing up a successor to its HTC Touch Dual – known as the HTC Titanium (HTC Touch Dual Pro). The specs are the same as the HTC Touch Pro (Diamond) but the QWERTY keyboard is replaced with a more phone-number friendly keypad.
- Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
- 256MB ROM / 128MB RAM
- Qualcomm MSM 7201A @ 528MHz
- 7.2MB HSDPA / HSUPA (rev A EVDO for CDMA versions)
- 2.8″ VGA (480×640) touchscreen display
- 12- or 20-key keypad
- TV out
- Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
- WiFi
- Orientation sensor
- FM Radio
- eGPS
- 3.1MP Camera with flash
- Front-facing camera
- microSDHC card slot
- 900mAh battery
- Enhanced TouchFlo
We can’t wait to get our hands on the new pair of HTC Touch devices. If the spec-sheets are on-point, and the touchscreens prove to be not too “squishy,” we can expect to see a seriously tempting offering from HTC. Have you started searching the couch and under the car seat for loose change yet? These puppies aren’t going to be cheap!
I see a new HTC Touch in my future…
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900mAh battery in all of them, huh? Well, I remember how long the battery used to last on my Tilt and it had a 1350mAh battery. No, thanks.
maybe the hard ware in these models named above needs alot less juice from the battery and there fore 900mAh is enuf
The battery capacity on these babies worries me too. With the VGA display sucking down juice faster than the QVGA display on the Tilt, HTC has to have seriously made some advances in power efficiency or will be uprating the battery before launch.
Let’s hope a larger battery doesn’t mean a thicker device.
Maybe, but with a roughly 30% weaker batter and a 30% more powerful processor it’s hard to believe that we’ll get even an acceptable performance out of these devices.
I still look forward to these devices. HTC had to know what they were doing when they issued that size of a battery for these devices. They know what the capabilities are for them therefore they know whats best for them. I’ll leave it up to HTC to decide what goes into these bad boys! I’m still getting the Touch Pro (Rapheal)reguardless of opinions. I’m sure if the battery life proves to be to little, they will release a newer one for longer proformance that I would not hesitate to buy!
I’ll be picking one up myself!
I just noticed that it said in lack of haveing the qwerty and the tv-out, the diamond has 4gb internal memory. So do you now how much the Touch pro will have? Hope you can tell me!
These devices surely can fight against iPhone.
I have the Diamond on Pre Order @ Play.com, £429, cheapest I have found it. I have an Orbit 2 but luv the Diamond looks and interface!!
Even so the 900mAh and lack of Micro SD slot is seriously worrying me!
I can’t decide wether to cancel the order or not! and wait for a proper review!
Decisions Decisions!
I’m not sure about the third device, but the Diamond and Pro look like killer phones.
http://www.HTCTouchDiamond.com
http://www.HTCTouchPro.net
One of the best phones ever, can’t wait for this phone to be released. Please check out http://www.AllTouchDiamond.com for more info.
There is also a site http://www.htc-touch-pro.nl especially for the HTC Touc Pro!
Check it out!
Is it confirmed there will be a rev A that allows for CDMA?
Rechargeable Lithium-ion or Lithium-ion polymer battery
Capacity: 1340 mAh
Seems battery for the touch pro will be better.. very promising.
can any one tell me when these damn phones come out!!! im like a lil kid waitin on a new toy but i dont kno when it is scheduled to be released!!!
Anyone know what’s the differences between the Touch pro and touch diamond? I can’t seem to find that information on http://www.AllTouchPro.com
Thanks for your time.
Ive been reading that the touch pro is suppose to 512md of rom /288mb of ram not 256MB ROM / 128MB RAM as this article says check out http://www.htc.com/www/default.aspx