14 DAY TRIAL // Apart from being able to buy an HTC Touch Diamond via Telus, Canadian mobile users will soon have the chance to do the same via Rogers Wireless, the largest mobile operator from the North American country.
There's nothing official yet regarding the release of Touch Diamond through Rogers, but according to a leaked image, appeared at WMExperts, the Canadian carrier should start offering the handset pretty soon.
While the Telus Touch Diamond is a CDMA one, Rogers' is obviously a GSM one, since the carrier does not have a CDMA network. Also, the Diamond that will soon hit Rogers' stores has the same back case that the European and Asian edition of the handset comes with, which might make it more attractive than the Telus version.
Feature-wise, the Touch Diamond is among the best Pocket PCs that you can currently find on the market. The handset brings the following: a 2.8 inch TFT touchscreen display with handwriting recognition and a large 480 x 640 pixel resolution, a TouchFLO 3D interface that "covers" Windows Mobile 6.1, accelerometer, internal GPS, document reader and editor, Wi-Fi and full HTML browser, GSM and HSDPA connectivity (for data transfer speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps), a 3.15 Megapixel camera with auto focus, Music and Video payers, stereo FM radio with RDS, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and 4GB of internal memory.
If you want to read a detailed review of HTC Touch Diamond, you can do it at this address (the unit reviewed is exactly the same as the one Rogers will release).
For the moment, Rogers has only three HTC devices in its product line-up, all of them being not quite new: HTC TyTN, HTC S621 and HTC Touch. Given that the most expensive of them, the TyTN, is offered for 199 CAD with a three-year contract agreement, Canadian mobile users should expect the new Touch Diamond to be sold for more. Hopefully not a lot more.