So I've been fooling around with The HTC Diamond and here's what I think so far. It's a very handsome looking smartphone with some impressive software (WM6.1). It fits nicely in your hand unless you're a giant and it's nice and solid. Looks great with a suit. The UI is not to bad but the phone is kind of sluggish and the TouchFLO is sticky at times. Performance is much quicker once you shut off the TouchFLO with a hard reset. Then again, that's the very reason to get the phone. I think if and/or when they come out with an update it will perform very well. It has both IE and Opera installed so you get the benefit of full HTML web browsing. Most of the times I find that the Nokia Tablet is faster. Bluetooth pairing was as easy as pie and took me all of 3-5 mins. Sadly as some of you know, there is no SDHC slot but it has 4GB of internal storage. Another thing is that it is a fingerprint magnet. I find myself wiping it all the time. HTC OCD I call it. A very annoying thing is that the screen shuts off after you answer a call and if you get another call you have to power the screen up again. There is a minor hack that will remedy this though. It's 2 CD installation discs are for Windows XP which is pretty lame considering XP is on its way out unfortunately. I found it really easy to sync with my Windows Vista laptop using a Bluetooth connection so getting my Outlook Contacts and Calendar was a breeze. Windows Mobile Device Center let me drag my media into the storage. I've noticed that the back of the phone heats up quite a bit while charging but it cools off quickly after its fully charge which it seems to know. While fooling around with it the average battery life for me is about three hours of constant use. YouTube seems to load up fast and works well for me. The speakers are not the greatest and the headphones are ok. The screen is beautiful and movies look great. On a whole, I think it's a cool little phone that can be great once all the bugs are fixed updated and tweaked a bit.
Reaver.....

I wouldn't call WM6.1 impressive

My bad, let me rephrase that. WM6.1 is better then the WM5 smartphone I had.
Reaver.....

Well, if WM6.1 is NOT impressive then I don't know what is.

I agree with Reever, WM 6.1 is a great upgrade. Also Opera 9.5 browser tops IE and Safari any day. There's a full review of the Diamond at the following address if anyone is interested. I found it to be quite comprehensive...
http://mypocketpcmobile.com/FullRevi...7/Default.aspx

WM 6.1 is just plain old WM, TouchFLO 3D is from HTC.

WinMobile is the single, huge, and sufficient reason not to buy this phone.

Just about anything outside of the Windows family of software is more impressive than WM6.1.

Sliced bread. Peanut Butter. House trained dogs. Pluggable Flex-fuel Hybrid cars. Pizza delivery. Dark chocolate. The list goes on.

I disagree.. I used the 770 for a while, and have found winmobile 6.1 to be wayyyy more user friendly and a lot easier to find apps for. Maemo is just too cumbersome to work with for most people.

I've since sold my nokia internet tablet, and use my HTC mogul phone (with full querty keyboard and wifi) all the time now. I use the skyfire and netfront browsers most of the time, GPS enabled google maps, and also have tomtom navigation software installed on the phone too.

there are literally thousands of free wm apps out there, and I've loaded my phone up with everything I could possible need on it. I also run a customized ROM built by people in the htc community that adds some features and runs faster than the sprint released ROM.

My phone hasn't crashed or frozen in months. something that was almost a daily occurrence with the nokia IT.

I love installing apps on this thing. no repositories, no dicking around with command line apps, just click on a .cab file and it installs.

The IT is a nice device, but requires a lot more patience and a time to get familiar with the workings of the OS in order to maximize its use. In the end, its still more limited than my HTC phone. I just can't understand why people seem to think maemo is better, other than their hate for M$.

Yep, 770 can do that to you.