HTC has Diamonds on the Inside
HTC’s has a new Diamond in it’s series of Touch-Flo phones.
Allow me for a moment to skip over the bells and whistles HTC managed, every so skillfully, to pack into this diamond (GPS, Wifi, Kababajillion-bytes of memory, HSDPA to name a few) and instead focus on the crux of the post iPhone phone timeline: Touching
If you’ve ever used any of the previous Touch-and_not_so-Flo series of phones from HTC (Touch Dual, Touch Cruise, MDA Touch, etc...) you quickly realize that while the interface it’s self is not to shabby (I’m actually a fan of the cube) the responsiveness and feel of interacting with the phone through touching could be described in a lot of ways, non having flo .
I’ve always been an advocate of the importance of instant feedback when it comes touch based interfaces, it’s the instinctive thing we expect, after all we don’t touch something in real life in hopes that the reaction is maybe experienced this century, if at all .
What has been so great about the iPhone is it’s responsiveness. Till this day , it leaves me at awe. In the true apple sense , it just works.
Back to our diamond, while HTC has been making great stride to improve CPU speeds on it’s phones, more importantly (i think) HTC have been working ever harder on it’s graphic acceleration capabilities , which is a key factor in responsiveness of touch based interfaces.
While we will be getting our stock unlocked HTC diamond phones pretty soon for a full-hands on review. Youtubing i found the following video:
Ok ok… it’s no iPhone yet, in-fact you can argue responsiveness is still slightly sluggish relative to Apple’s wizkid, however you have to admit there’s a vast improvement in the user experience offered by HTC’s Diamond over it’s predecessors.
Now entertain the following :
HTC Goodies + iPhone grade responsiveness + All the great WM software already out there = Dare i say, iPhone Killer
While i’m no where close to calling HTC diamond an iPhone killer, i really do think if HTC keeps moving in the direction it is, Apple might soon run out of the exclusive sweet mojo that’s been powering it’s iPhone and might actually need to start opening up it’s platform and innovating in ways other than it’s interface to be able to truly compete in this super competitive industry , especially against the big boys that have been around for quite some time and are not bounded to a single carrier as their distribution platform.
Tags: Diamond, HTC, iphone killer, Touch Flo