Exterior
Beautiful. This was the first word that popped into my mind about Diamond2. A minimalistic shape and design, straight lines, high-quality materials and almost perfect assembly quality are all characteristic of HTC’s new handset. The size (107.85 x 53.1 x 13.7 mm) is I think ideal for such a handset, it provides comfortable use. We can be content with the weight as well, as although the gadget is almost 120 grams, this somehow “matches” the assembly quality. There is a metallic part around the display, the front panel buttons are also made of metal, or at least they look like metal, while the back side has a shockingly high quality lacquer coating. There are no gaps on the case, but there is a minor, uncomfortable thing: my beard usually got stuck above the front panel buttons when making calls, and this has been rather annoying when taking the phone away, as it usually pulled a couple of threads, which really hurts. Seriously, I’ve never seen such a thing before. (HTC Razor... - Bog)
There is a discrete HTC logo in the top left corner on the front, on its right we can see the phone speaker, made of a metal grating, surrounded by two status LEDs. The secondary camera for video calls is in the top right corner, this has VGA resolution. Below these we can see the TFT touchscreen with a diagonal of 3.2” and a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, and it’s not sunk, so we’ll have no problem tapping its corners. Image quality is great, it can be easily read in sunlight as well, but its sensitivity is still not as good as the iPhone’s as we have to really press the display, not just touch it lightly. There is an interesting new feature under the display: the zoom bar. When we pull our finger on it we can zoom in or out (based on the stroke direction), of course only in those menus where Windows supports it. The buttons are on the bottom of the display, I’ve already mentioned them before, so I’d rather not talk any more about them, as they aren’t my favorite ones.
The back is made of plastic, the whole panel can be taken off. On the top there is a metallic triangle, which has the 5 megapixel autofocus camera inside, its frame is a Diamond legacy. The plastic part has a lacquer coating, so it’s shiny, but fortunately we won’t be seeing fingerprints all around it. I’d say it’s black, but as it reflects light it looks more like a “smoked mirror”, it’s really cool.
On the top there’s the power button, while on the left there are the volume controls, both of these are a thin, metallic stripe. The volume controls are just a bit sunk, so it’s pretty hard to feel where they are in fact, it took me a day to get used to their position. The handsfree speaker is in the top right corner, this is also just a thin line. On the bottom there is the miniUSB-compatible HTC ExtUSB connector, which is used for the data cable, the charger and the headset as well, there is no 3.5 mm jack output at all. We have asked one of the HTC guys in Barcelona why don’t they switch to the microUSB + standard jack combo. He told us that unfortunately they also know that ExtUSB quite lame, but they have spent a lot on designing it and creating the accessories, so it remains for this generation of handsets, but hopefully it will be banished from the next one. We can hardly wait.
The metal-plastic combo stylus is in the bottom left corner, unfortunately it’s not magnetic, but the handset still sees when its plugged in, since as soon as we pull it out, the handset wakes up. The plastic part is quite flexible, I’ve sometimes thought that I will break it, but fortunately I didn’t.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
