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hey guys it's Brandon Minnemann from pocketnow.com and this is a comparison video between the HTC Touch HD and HTC touch diamond2 a lot of people have been emailing us asking us to do this comparison because they're very similar devices and you may have trouble deciding on which one to go with now this is gonna be mainly a hardware comparison because the software is very similar except for the addition of the new version of touchflo 3d on the touch diamond2 and if you're looking for more information about that check out our touch diamond2 review at pocketnow.com now let's start with availability both of these devices are not sold in the US right now they are sold unlocked in europe but you can import them into the United States and use them on t-mobile or AT&T if you buy through a store like clove coat UK they'll ship anywhere in terms of price the Touch HD is still more expensive it comes out to about 650 to 680 dollars depending on the currency exchange rate at the time and the touch diamond2 is actually less expensive right now it's about five hundred and fifty dollars again depending on the currency exchange rate right now both devices have the same screen resolution so it's 800 down and 480 across and that's the highest resolution that Windows Mobile can support now the touch HD obviously has a much larger screen even bigger than the iPhone it's 3.8 inches across the diagonal whereas the touch diamond2 is a 3.2 inch screen diagonal this is actually in the favour for the touch diamond2 because the pixel density is higher that means within a square inch there will be more pixels meaning if you look at the same image from the same distance it'll actually appear a little crisper on the touch diamond2 let's talk about the in hand feel of both of these devices before we do that let's get a size comparison so that we can get an idea of how they compare in size the touch diamond2 is actually about one millimeter thicker than the touch HD and of course the touch HD is significantly wider let me try to line them up then the touch diamond2 which actually gives it an awkward in hand if you've ever held a touch HD you know that it's very very wide and you really feel in your pocket whereas with the touch diamond2 it's more of a narrow phone and it feels more like a phone rather than a PDA like the touch diamond2 feels like if we zoom into the top we see similar features although it's slightly different up here here we have the light sensor in the speaker with a front-facing video camera and over here we have a LED status light the status light on the on the HD is actually on the top of the standby button and then we have the light sensor and then the front-facing video camera going down here we have some hardware keys and I actually like the hardware keys on the diamond to much better because you can feel for them on the touch HD they are completely flat and they are kind of an extension of the resistive touch screen so you kind of have to look at them if you want to make sure you're ending the call or you're starting the car or you're going back home or pressing the ok button now over here the ok or the home button is actually replaced by the start menu button which i think is very convenient it really helps with one-handed usability especially with such a long screen so if you're walking down the street and you want to launch the Start menu on this device you have to reach your thumb all the way up here to do so but if you're using the touch diamond2 all you have to do is use your thumb and press the start start menu button there and it will open right up let's flip over to the bottom on the bottom we have the microphone here and here and then we have HTC's proprietary jack which will work with all mini USB hardware let's go over to this side and here we see the stylus and you can actually see the very fingerprint prone backing to the touch diamond2 there now the stylus on the touch HD is magnetic so if you take it out and you bring it closer it'll actually suck it all the way in that's not the case on the touch diamond2 unfortunately i don't know why HTC emitted this feature so it doesn't suck in as you can see that said both style.i plural for stylus will turn on the screen when you take out the stylus and the devices turned on and that is also the case on the touch diamond2 let's take a look at the other side here we have the volume up and down rocker z' and they're identical if you can see that flipping over to the back we have to mega-pick our five megapixel cameras on both devices they both take fantastic pictures something that's different here is that the speaker on the touch HD is on the back which is kind of detrimental because if you throw it on your bed and you're waiting for a phone call it may muffle the speaker a little bit whereas on the touch diamond2 it's actually pointing off to the side which is much better both devices do not have a flash on the camera but they do have autofocus again making four really great pictures if we take off the back of both of these devices we get to see the batteries and the batteries are 1,100 milliamp hours on the diamond2 and 1350 milliamp hours on the touch HD what's really interesting though is that the touch diamond2 actually has I'd say twenty to thirty percent better battery life even though it has a smaller battery then does the touch HD now also on the back you will find the reset hole for the touch HD and on the diamond too it's kind of hard to see because it's behind the stylus a little red dot there it is now also behind the battery cover on both of these devices is the microSD slot so you can see it over here on the diamond - and over here on the the touch HD now that's kind of annoying because you have to take off the battery cover to change your microSD slot so if you're swapping out a lot of music on both devices you'll have to stop and take off the battery cover and if we flip the devices over to the top we see the standby buttons are in a different location and we see that the touch HD has a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack although the diamond - does not I actually encourage you to read atom lanes post on why the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack is stupid he makes some really good points this may be a deal-breaker for some of you but I really don't think it's a big deal there's a you can use a converter jack to easily get 3.5 millimeter audio from the diamond - in terms of specifications both devices have almost identical specifications they both have a Qualcomm 528 megahertz CPU although with a slightly different model number that I don't think makes too much of a difference especially in the benchmark tests they both have 512 megabytes of rom and 288 megabytes of RAM they both have USB 2.0 of course they Bluetooth 2.0 Wi-Fi B&G assisted GPS a light sensor and accelerometer an FM radio pretty much the same spec for spec the only real difference is the battery the hardware are the the screen size and the placement of some things such as the status indicator and how the buttons are arranged down here so that's pretty much all for the differences in specifications so which of these devices is better well I think the answer is pretty clear-cut under most circumstances five reasons why the touch of diamond 2 is better than the touch HD number one the price is lower right now can't argue with that number two of the feel is better it feels more like a phone than it does a PDA because it's less wide than the massive touch HD also the battery life is better on the touch diamond2 also the touch diamond2 will get a free upgrade to windows mobile 6.5 later this year which the touch HD will not get and also finally number five the the addition of these hardware buttons really makes for an added level of one-handed usability in addition having the zoom slider here kind of keep your thumb down here if you're walking down the street in here zooming in on a map when you're trying to find a cafe or you want to quickly launch the Start menu by just tapping on a button like so now of course the screen on the Touch HD is bigger so if you are into watching a lot of movies on your device I think the point six inches will actually make a difference if you're watching a ton of movies but other than that I think it's really good compromise to have a slightly smaller screen and smaller phone on the diamond to the screen resolution is still the same so you get that crystal-clear picture I'm just not in such a large form factor so that's it for the comparison between the touch diamond2 and the touch HD for more comparisons and more on Windows Mobile follow us on twitter at twitter.com/worldsdumbest