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hey guys it's Brianna Minnemann from pocketnow.com and we're really excited to bring you the unboxing of the HTC touch diamond2 this is gonna be a very hot device this year not only in the Windows Mobile world but in the entire smartphone world this is the successor to the HTC touch diamond2 best-selling windows mobile device of all time so we're really really excited to finally get the chance to unbox this so let's do it I'm expecting a really fantastic unboxing experience HTC really goes out of their way to make that so lots of bubble wrap here it's much smaller box than the the Touch Dimond and the touch pro let's see here touch down into a very small box just has a picture of the device on the front see what else it has around the box not much just some specifications on the back so we know this has at 528 megahertz processor we know it has a 3.2 inch WVGA screen which is as high as Windows Mobile will allow you to go anyway so let's get to the actual unboxing well I'm actually surprised the unboxing experience is kind of boring it's it's actually a cardboard box inside of here alright so we'll take a look at the device in a second let's see what we have in the box we have a battery which is of size 1,100 milliamp hours and HTC claims to have made big strides in battery life on the touch diamond2 so although this is a small battery it apparently has really good battery life let's see what else we have syncing cable using HTC's proprietary jack which will actually work with off your mini USB stuff then we have some headphones which is good extra stylus it looks like this is the magnetic variety just like the Touch HD and the touch pro then we have the charger of course and the rest of that and it actually looks like there is a little compartment up here that contains more material let's see what we have in here so we have a nice screen protector so that's good we have some warranty information accessories I don't see any case which is pretty unfortunate manual Quick Start Guide which is in C not in color just comes surprising and some CDs all right so let's take a look at the device Wow it's it's much smaller than it appears in the pictures and the pictures it actually looks quite large but it's quite a petite device look how it fits in the hand it's got a 3.2 inch screen really high resolution it's quite thin they took away the diamond faceting on the back and now it's just a completely smooth surface which is quite interesting and of course it feels very high quality it's an HTC device mm interesting so let's compare two other devices I think the closest comparison would actually be to the touch HD because they both have very high resolution screens they're both candy bar like devices and the diamond 2 is much less narrow it's a tad thicker and not as tall so definitely a more pocketable device one of the big problems with the touch HD is it's so wide it's got a huge 3.8 inch screen but it feels quite big in the pocket and let's take a look at how it compares to the iPhone which has a larger screen the iPhone has a 3.5 inch screen and the touch HD of course or the touch diamond2 of course is 3.2 inches let's see how it looks to the last generation HTC Touch pro and the 2.8 inch screen is gone I don't think HTC is going to do any more devices with that small of a screen and of course it's much thinner than the Touch pro2 so that's it for the unboxing of the HTC touch diamond2 first impressions so that quality is fantastic it's a lot smaller in hand that it actually looks in pictures now this is actually the European version it will work in the United States but you can only get edge data you can't get 3G and you can use it with t-mobile or AT&T anything that has a SIM card really if you want to touch diamond2 of your own be sure to check out clove code UK although they're based in the UK they ship worldwide follow us on Twitter for the latest on the touch diamond2 twitter.com slash pocket now tweets we'll be back with more very soon that's it for now