Newbie questions : differences between Diamond and Raphael please?

[milleracer41]

Hi,

I had an HTC Hermes/T-Mobile Vario II for a few years and was quite happy with it as a handset.

Then came upgrade time from T-Mobile and I decided to go for a non Windows Mobile based handset. I went for an LG Renoir which is "ok" and has a fantastic 8.0mp camera on it but I have now realised I miss my WM based phone.

I'm looking at getting rid of the Renoir + buying either an HTC Diamond/MDA Compact IV or an HTC Raphael/MDA Vario IV.

Can someone outline the differences between these two handsets please?. I know the Diamond has no expandable memory in the form of SD cards and no slide out QWERTY keyboard but aside from that is there any other difference between it and the Raphael?. Is the Touch Flo interface the same on both handsets?.

In short, aside from the SD card and keyboard, are they essentially the same phones?.

Many thanks for any advice.

[ohyeahar]

Probably best to look at the specs sheets for hardware differences...

http://www.htc.com/www/product/touchdiamond/specification.html
http://www.htc.com/www/product/touchpro/specification.html

Don't think there's any other difference in tf3d interface other than the Action Menu (when you slide out the keyboard in tf3d)

Personal opinion: I'm a Diamond user and I can't help but wish that we also got the the extra 96 MB of RAM that TouchPro users enjoy. Glad that Diamond2 users don't have to worry about that versus TouchPro2.

[milleracer41]

Hi,

Thanks for the info. I've now taken delivery of a Touch Pro and have started playing around with it. My old Vario II was running WM 6 so I'm reasonably familiar with that but I haven't really got much of a clue where to start as far as modding the handset goes. Would like to flash it to the latest ROM for a start I think and go from there.

So thank you for the info and I will now toddle off to the Raphael section of the forums and take it from there!!. :D