Diamond....Call Quality, Volume, Signal + Battery Life

[malloy0]

Hello,

I am seriously looking to go from my Fuze to a Diamond and was wondering the experience of the folks in this forum with the Diamond.

While using my Fuze for about 6 months, I recently tried a LG Incite, mostly because I could get a free phone update and my wife and daughters have the LG Shine / Vu and know LG makes good phones.

I got the Incite and what I learned, in spite of the Incite not being as good an overall phone as the Fuze, the Incite is a little thinner, which I like, it also does have a better signal, in my Raleigh, NC area anyway, the Incite call volume quality was better, and the battery drain was slightly better, but only a little.

While this is true, the Fuze with WM6.5 is quite the smartphone and love the various flashing options it offers. With this , I was looking for a phone with similar overall quality and ROM Chef support as the Fuze, with the same physical size as the Incite with WM6.5 ROM support, so hence my interest in the Diamond.

So with this, and hopefully w/o making any avid HTC and Diamond supporters mad, hope to get y'all thoughts on the Diamond:

- Call Quality
- Volume
- Signal
- Battery Life
- Other?

Now I know that some of the reports you may share will depend on your area, your radio, your ROM, and other, but just the same, if you can, share anyway.

Thanks in advance to all and truly and appreciate all of the great work, chef efforts and overall helpfulness from the members of XDA.

m0

[robinbb]

?? This is a ROM Development forum!

[malloy0]

robinbb
Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 134
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

?? This is a ROM Development forum!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yes, sorry, I figured that this would likely be the best location to get feedback given the ROMs and Radios effect all of the questions I asked.

So, seemed to be the best location for this Q on the Diamond?

If not the right forum, I can scrub and re-post in a more appropriate location, just seems like this is the most likely spot.

[padvou]

Hello,

I am seriously looking to go from my Fuze to a Diamond and was wondering the experience of the folks in this forum with the Diamond.

While using my Fuze for about 6 months, I recently tried a LG Incite, mostly because I could get a free phone update and my wife and daughters have the LG Shine / Vu and know LG makes good phones.

I got the Incite and what I learned, in spite of the Incite not being as good an overall phone as the Fuze, the Incite is a little thinner, which I like, it also does have a better signal, in my Raleigh, NC area anyway, the Incite call volume quality was better, and the battery drain was slightly better, but only a little.

While this is true, the Fuze with WM6.5 is quite the smartphone and love the various flashing options it offers. With this , I was looking for a phone with similar overall quality and ROM Chef support as the Fuze, with the same physical size as the Incite with WM6.5 ROM support, so hence my interest in the Diamond.

So with this, and hopefully w/o making any avid HTC and Diamond supporters mad, hope to get y'all thoughts on the Diamond:

- Call Quality
- Volume
- Signal
- Battery Life
- Other?

Now I know that some of the reports you may share will depend on your area, your radio, your ROM, and other, but just the same, if you can, share anyway.

Thanks in advance to all and truly and appreciate all of the great work, chef efforts and overall helpfulness from the members of XDA.

m0

Call quality and volume are OK as far as I 'm concerned.
Signal is relevant to Carrier, location, ROM version and Radio version. But it's overall OK, too.
Battery life is rather short, but compared to how thin the device is and the fact that it's an all-in-one pda with gps, etc I wouldn't complain. You can also buy an extended 1340 or 1800 mAh battery for more battery life.
In general, it's an honest device, which does it all, and has, like all windows mobile based devs, a very large community behind it who contributes tech- know-how, applications, you name it. I wouldn't exchange mine, maybe only for a newer model?!:cool: