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HTC beats Nokia: HTC releases as the first one a touch-screen phone with tilt sensor - HTC Touch Diamond ! May 06, 2008 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. Nokia plans to release a Symbian S60 touch phone with tilt sensor but there are some issues and this phone is being delayed, and it is HTC, not Nokia, that releases as the first such phone! ... and this phone will be available to all operators and also to all customers without operator branding. The name of this phone is "HTC Diamond" (but it will be sold through operators under different names too) and the most important new feature of this phone is tilt sensor, meaning that you can play games like this (this game will be included in the phone but developers will be able to develop their own games that take advantage of tilt sensor): 
... where you can move balls by tilting the phone in various directions! Apart from that you can do many other useful functions like rejecting incoming phone call, rotating Internet browser, etc. with use of this function - it is not just a gimmick useful in games. It is a new revolutionary feature first seen in a phone powered by Windows Mobile (note: previously we postulated to Microsoft to include tilt sensor API in Windows Mobile)! Apart from revolutionary tilt sensor, HTC Touch Diamond brings something wholly new to HTC manufacturing: stylish design! And this design is meant not just in hardware but also in software. Work on HTC Touch Diamond started at HTC in November 2006 - exactly then when Horace Luke : 
... has left Microsoft and joined HTC (in other words: when HTC poached him from Microsoft). Everything that we wrote about Horace Luke appeared to be spot-on! But first things first, so let's take a look at a box in which HTC Touch Diamond will be sold (note: it looks like pyramid! ... or a diamond): 
The HTC Touch Diamond phone is very small and generally makes very solid impression: 
Other highlights about HTC Touch Diamond (not rumors anymore, hard facts learned by us in first-person contacts and touching):
In meantime we would like to express big thanks to Eric Lin (HTC USA), Jason Gordon (HTC USA), Jessika Goldstein (Nelson Bostock USA), John Szymanski (Nelson Bostock UK) and Gemma Pears (Nelson Bostock UK) - for organisational support that made it possible to bring you this coverage!  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 16 Comments ]
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