You will find everything HTC Diamond accessories at the Touch Accessories store featuring a large selection of HTC accessories specifically for the HTC Touch Diamond. The new Diamond Touch accessories store features a wide selection of accessories over a wide array of categories such as HTC Batteries for your Diamond, HTC Cases for Touch Diamond, HTC GPS Navigation, Chargers and Cradles for all HTC Devices, and HTC Bluetooth products. The list goes on and on, but basically the primary purposes of Touch accessories are to add functionality, such as where you can use it and what you can use it with, make some features easier to use, and extend the use of the HTC Diamond.
Backup Batteries for the HTC Touch Diamond
Backup batteries are simple, you charge both them, and your Diamond before you leave on a long trip, and then when your Diamond’s battery starts dying with no means to charge it in sight, you hook up the backup battery and you are set for however the long the backup battery lasts, which is usually measured in hours.
Car Accessories for the HTC Touch Diamond
Car accessories include car chargers, Diamond holders, and FM Transmitters. Car chargers generally plug into your car’s power adapter port; sometimes car chargers and FM transmitters are combined into one device. FM transmitters broadcast the music from your Diamond to your FM radio, they either plug into the headphone jack or the dock connector, if they are combined with the car charger, and they usually plug into the dock connector. Diamond holders are stands that are somehow affixed to your car, usually with a suction cup, and they firmly grip your Diamond so you can use it, navigate the menus, use the maps, etc without having to worry about it sliding all over the place.
Chargers for the HTC Touch Diamond
Chargers, the name kind of says it all, they charge your Diamond’s battery. They come in one of two types, the first is they just have a USB port and plug into the wall and then you use the USB cable that came with your Diamond to connect your Diamond to the charger. The second is they have a dock connector hardwired into them and then you plug in the charger and connect your Diamond directly to it. Either way, it’s simple and performs the basic task of charging your Diamond.
Cables for the HTC Touch Diamond
Cables can do many things, mainly associated with how they connect your Diamond to another device or port. There are USB cables they would generally have a dock connector on one end and a USB termination on the other. Most of the other cables somehow connect your Diamond to either an audio or video device or a combination of the two. These can connect either via dock connector, or more likely, via the headphone jack.
Headphones for the HTC Touch Diamond
Headphones are the primary method for listening to music from your Diamond, and with an in-line microphone can also be used for phone calls. There are in-ear ear buds, on-ear headphones that just rest on your ear or around-ear headphones that form some sort of suction around your ear.
Cradles for the HTC Touch Diamond
Cradles can do many things, ranging from charging your Diamond and syncing it to your PC all the way to instantly connecting your Diamond to your entire home theater system. Your Diamond may have came with a cradle that can do most of that, but if you need an extra, say a spare for your office, or on the likely occasion your computer and home theater aren’t in the same room, you can buy an extra cradle.
Bluetooth Accessories for the HTC Touch Diamond
There will be many Bluetooth accessories that work with the Diamond thanks to its support of A2DP Bluetooth profile. You’ll be able to stream your music to numerous Bluetooth enabled stereo speaker systems as well as Bluetooth speaker systems used for conference calling or for use in your car. The latter is a great option if you aren’t a big fan of Bluetooth headsets but want hands-free functionality while you are driving.
HTC Touch Diamond Overview
The HTC Touch Diamond phone powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 plus HTC TouchFLO technology will be company’s most important product of 2008. The Touch Diamond’s amazing 2.8-inch VGA touch-screen that could be the biggest reason the Diamond phone will match the high standards set by the iPhone. If you end up buying the HTC Diamond, you are probably going want a case to protect your investment and one of the ways you can do that is with a Diamond case.
HTC Diamond is quad-band GSM with 7.2mbps HSDPA, WiFi. It has an integrated FM radio tuner, 4GB of onboard memory with the option to add more memory via the microSD expansion, and it runs on a speedy 528MHz CPU. It is very thin, measuring at 10.7mm. It’s reported to possibly have a slide out QWERTY (but we’ll have to wait and see), 3.2 megapixel camera, and rumored accelerometer to round out the feature list.
Be sure to visit Everything Dream and PHONE Magazine (http://live.phonemag.com) for live up to the minute coverage on May 6, 2008. There will be plenty of Touch Diamond love going around so be there or be square.