HTC Touch Diamond Phone comes to Indian Shores

HTC along with India’s leading telecom network Bharti Airtel, plans to bring the EDGE-only version of the HTC Touch Diamond mobile handset to India in mid-June. The phone was officially launched on May 6, 2008 in London.

The HTC Touch Diamond phone features:

Windows 6.1 Professional software

Finger-touch interface enabled by HTC TouchFLO technology

2.8 inch VGA display (640 x 480 pixels)

3.2 Megapixel camera with auto-focus and video recording

4GB of internal memory

Media player

Easy access to YouTube

FM radio with RDS

Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR

GPS and A-GPS navigation, Google Maps

Opera browser

E-mail

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And has 102 x 51 x 115 millimeters as dimensions and 110 grams of weight.

“We are proud to launch the HTC Touch Diamond for our valued customers in India. The Touch Diamond, HTC’s new flagship product, packs diverse functionalities into an attractive form factor with consummate ease. It is indeed a phenomenal innovation from HTC and we are extremely positive about its response in India,” said Mr. Ajay Sharma, Country Manager, HTC (India).

The phone will cost around 27,500 INR (about $645 or 410 Euros) and will be available at all of HTC’s authorized distributors via Airtel.

Now comes the sad news – the ‘smartphone’ will only support GSM connection in India, unlike other countries where the phone has both GSM and 3G connectivity. The reason for this is – “since India has not yet started to implement 3G services” only the EDGE version can be made available in the country!