well. i think most of my friends know that the new Iphone 3G is my dream phone. it released last friday and i wanna own it so much. yet recently i found another phone that could beat the Iphone 3G-- HTC Diamond.
Iphone 3G vs. HTC Diamond
Iphone 3G specification:
Size and weight
- Height : 4.5 inches (115.5 mm)
- Width : 2.4 inches (62.1 mm)
- Depth : 0.48 inch (12.3 mm)
- Weight: 4.7 ounces (133 grams)
Capacity
8GB or 16GB flash drive
Cellular and wireless
- UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
- GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
- Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
- Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
Display
- 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
- 480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi
- Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously
Audio
- Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
- Audio formats supported: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
Camera and photos
- 2.0 megapixels
- Photo geotagging
- iPhone and third-party application integration
Power and battery
- Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery
- Charging via USB to computer system or power adapter
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- Talk time : Up to 5 hours on 3G
- Up to 10 hours on 2G
- Standby time: Up to 300 hours
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- Internet use : Up to 5 hours on 3G
- Up to 6 hours on Wi-Fi
- Video playback: Up to 7 hours
- Audio playback: Up to 24 hours
HTC Diamond specification:
| Processor | Qualcomm® MSM7201A™ 528 MHz |
| Operating System | Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional |
| Memory | ROM: 256 MB
RAM: 192 MB DDR SDRAM
Internal storage: 4 GB |
| Dimensions | 102 mm (L) X 51 mm (W) X 11.35 mm (T) |
| Weight | 110 g (with battery) |
| Display | 2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with VGA resolution |
| Network | HSDPA/WCDMA: Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: (Band frequency and data speed are operator dependent.) |
| Device Control | TouchFLO™ 3D
Touch-sensitive navigation control |
| GPS | GPS and A-GPS ready |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth® 2.0 with EDR
Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g
HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one) |
| Camera | Main camera: 3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus
Second camera: VGA CMOS color camera |
| Audio | Built-in microphone, speaker and FM radio with RDS
Ring tone supported formats: MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WAV, and AMR-NB 40 polyphonic and Standard MIDI format 0 and 1 (SMF)/SP MIDI
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| Battery | Rechargeable Lithium-ion or Lithium-ion polymer battery
Capacity: 900 mAh
Talk time:
Standby time: Video call time: Up to 145 minutes for WCDMA
(The above are subject to network and phone usage.) |
| AC Adapter | Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60 Hz
DC output: 5V and 1A |
The new Iphone 3G has a slim, sleek and stylish design, the 3.5" touchscreen and OSX operating system are much easier to use. The larger capacity (8GB or 16GB) allows you to store more than 1500 songs and Apple claimed that Iphone 3G is 36% faster than Nokia N95.
However, the Iphone 3G is still using the 2-megapixels camera. No front camera no mms no video recording, inability to edit Microsoft Office documents and the Safari doesn't support flash. It does has bluetooth but can't send files over.
Meanwhile, HTC Diamond looks more fantastic compared to other Windows Mobile phone. It's slimmer and smaller than Iphone 3G and easy to fit into pocket. It has 2.8" touch screen with four times the pixels of most phones ( 640x480), a 3.2-megapixels camera with auto-focus. With the 4GB internal storage, you'll have plenty of space to preserve photos, music and files. The HTC Diamond is using opera mobile for web browsing and lets you open new tabs without needing open new windows and lets you see the entire page.
Frankly, I think HTC Diamond is much better than Iphone 3G. But still I'll choose iphone as my 1st choice because the cost is much cheaper than HTC diamond. An iphone is cost just RM650 but a HTC diamond cost RM2799 and that is enough for me to buy a new desktop PC, 4 psp, 180 meals in McD or 13995 fish balls. Nevertheless, why iphone is not coming to Malaysia?.........
