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IPhone3G and HTC Touch Diamond

Since there are many articles about iPhone and discussions which one

is better the iPhone or HTC Diamond I have decided to check how good

iPhone actually is. They all say that Mac OS X is much faster than the WinMo but I never believed them and now I know why I haven’t believed them.

Contacts and Dialer

Firstly what I checked is the speed of opening contacts and phone

dialer, and I can tell you that WinMo (6.5) is actually faster here.

Both are pretty good, but iPhone is opening those 2 things little bit

slower than hTC does, so WinMo wins here.

Email

Next what I checked is the email speed, both are synchronizing Inbox

pretty fast, both devices are opening emails pretty fast and they are equal there but scrolling through them is better on the iPhone. Also setting up email account is faster and easier on iPhone than on the HTC Diamond. On the other hand reading emails is better on hTC Diamond (although scrolling is better in iPhone) because Diamond has much better resolution so reading emails is much more "natural" than on the iPhone and you won’t "kill" your eyes reading them.

Reading documents

Next thing I have tested is reading PDF's, although you can’t read your

PDF's from storage (unless you jailbreak it) reading PDF's is much

faster on the iPhone also scrolling through them is working

flawlessly. But we have here again resolution problem so you oftenly

need to zoom in to see the text. Since WinMo users have office preinstalled on their phones and also since 2010 version we have kinetic scrolling reading any office document is much better than on the iPhone

Wi-Fi

I have tested phones with 2 positions, one in my house to see will they both connect normally to my house network and they both did. In second testing I wanted to connect to my friend’s network. With Diamond no problem I can use his Wi-Fi without any problems but iPhone haven’t even managed to find that network, I have even try to manually connect to that network but no lock, so Diamond is much better with Wi-Fi recipient!

Camera

Taking pictures in the middle of the day seems to be better on iPhone, although pic is smaller colors seems to be better on iPhone’s pic. Taking in-house screens seems to be better on Diamond less noise and better resolution. They are both equally at night, both useless although iPhone pic seems little (really little) bit better

Screen

Not only that iPhone has catastrophic resolution compared to any other WinMo device but also screen quality seems much better on hTC, although iPhone has little bit more bright screen, screen looks so “washed” (black becomes grey…) on that setting. Also viewing anything from a different angle on iPhone’s screen is useless (like viewing film on a turbo cheap LCD from a different angle), while you can normally see anything on Diamond screen without loss in pic quality.

Browser

Well opening Internet Browser and web pages is definitely faster on the

iPhone (about 20-30% faster) but viewing them is better on the HTC Diamond

again because of the resolution, it is much, much easier and painless

reading it on a Diamond. Rotating to landscape is faster on the

iPhone but speed of reverting it back to portrait is same on both

devices.

Keyboard

In portrait speed of typing is almost same on both devices (iPhone is faster for about 5%) in landscape iPhone's big screen gives opportunity to type much faster than on a Diamond, although on iPhone I really miss coma and dot button, also there are no arrows so sometimes when you need to edit one letter you need to delete whole word correct it, big disadvantage. Also if you prefer type on classic phone keypad (abc) there is no option for that on an iPhone.

Battery

Haven’t tested this hardly, but from what I could see with general usage iPhone’s battery is around 30% better

Overall I still prefer my Diamond since it has much more tweaking options and iPhone still lacks some important things (e.g. you can't change a thing in camera, you can’t see your next appointment on the home screen/lock screen-can be fixed by jail breaking it, but then performance becomes worse) and soon iPhone becomes boring while I can tweak my Diamond forever and I just can't be bored with it :)