HTC and Reliance Communications have announced their alliance to roll out HTC Touch Diamond mobile phone aka P3051 in the CDMA market across India.

Speaking on the launch, S.P. Shukla, President, Reliance Communications, mentioned, “The exclusive HTC Touch Diamond - CDMA (P3051) is a state-of-the-art gizmo reiterating our pledge to offer RCOM’s loyal customers cutting-edge products on our vast CDMA network. By offering the HTC Touch Diamond, we further restate our commitment to innovation.”Powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, the HTC Touch Diamond comes with a 4 GB internal memory, a 2.8-inch touchscreen display, an integrated 3.2 megapixel camera with an optical auto-focus lens and outstanding web browsing capability. The CDMA phone allows users to access Outlook Mobile, Office Mobile, Windows Live and various other third-party applications.The other feature of the stylish P3051 phone is TouchFLO 3D interface that has the ability to respond accurately to finger gestures when scrolling through contacts or browsing the web or launching media.

The HTC Touch Diamond in India is priced at Rs. 39,900/-.

HTC has launched its latest quad-band PDA phone HTC P4350 in the Indian market. At 17mm thick, it features a semi-automatic sliding QWERTY keypad.

The P4350 features Windows Mobile 6.0 Direct push-email technology, internet browsing, and synchronization with Microsoft Outlook calendar, contacts, pocket MSN, and is powered by a 200MHz processor. It also provides the ability to work on Microsoft Office suite. Weighing 168 grams, the slim and compact device has a 2.8-inch colour display with a touch-screen and a landscape view screen for checking emails, surfing the internet, and watching videos. It also comes with a 5-way navigation control and packs 128MB ROM and 64MB RAM. For connectivity, the device supports GSM/GPRS and EDGE, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. Check its complete specifications here.

The HTC P4350 will be available at all authorized resellers at a market operating price of Rs. 21,900.

Throughout most of the 1990s, Diamond Multimedia was one of the major players in the graphics card world. Their well made cards with solid performance resulted in some of the most well known brand names of the time including the Speedstar, Stealth, and Viper. After merging with S3 Incorporated in 1999, the resounding failure of their joint contribution: the Diamond Viper II Z200 based on S3's Savage 2000, eventually led to the combined Diamond/S3 company backing away from third-party graphics cards.In 2003, however, Best Data stepped in and purchased the rights to the brand name and assets from SONICblue Incorporated, including the Stealth and Viper brand names. Focusing on ATI's Radeons as their GPU of choice, the original line-up seemed to be focused mostly on the lower-end, more mainstream cards, including the Stealth S80 we took a look at in early 2003. The good news is, with some more time and resources under their belt, Diamond has completely revitalized the Viper name in both body and spirit. Once again, with high-end products at the core, Diamond is a force to be reckoned with in the market.
An odd thing about the cards we received is in regard to their associated bundles. Now, as you will see on the next page, the packaging and even the cards themselves are nearly identical. The driver CD and manual are also the same, which should be expected as the drivers are universal and there's only so many ways you can show someone how to install a PCI-Express card into their system.
What becomes odd, then, is the included cables and adapters. With the 1GB overclocked Viper, we found a collection of component and S-VIDEO out cables, as well as a power splitter for providing 6-pin power to the card. Two adapters, one for VGA and the other for HDMI complete the collection. On the other hand, with the 512MB version, there's a component video cable and the same adapters, but a CrossFire bridge replaced the S-Video cable and there's no power cable. We seriously doubt there is much cost saving in either direction, and there's nothing wrong, per se, with either bundle. We just like a little consistency now and then, and feel both cards should come with all of the pieces we found in the separate sets. The 1GB card especially should also include a CrossFire bridge at the very least.

Opera has announced the availability of Opera Mobile 9.5 on the new HTC Touch Diamond.The customized HTC-specific version introduces a new intuitive user interface (UI) and includes features that elevate the Internet experience on a phone. Page viewing and panning allows users to scan and navigate pages quickly while Opera Zoom enables users to dive into the page and get closer to the content they want. Turning the device sideways automatically rotates the Web page view from a portrait to landscape view.Other features in Opera Mobile 9.5 include tabbed browsing, improved text wrap, landscape mode, call phone number directly from Web page, history and bookmarks and copy text.

"Opera Mobile 9.5 on the HTC Touch Diamond will bring to customers the most powerful Web browser yet on a mobile phone," said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "Opera is on the road to give mobile Web browsing a complete facelift and an elevated user experience. This is just the beginning."

"2008 will come to be known as the year the mobile Internet became usable and the HTC Touch Diamond will be one of the main devices driving this change," said Peter Chou, president and CEO, HTC Corp. "We have worked very closely with Opera to deliver a feature set and browsing experience that is optimized for mobile, but viewed like it would on a PC."

HTC has unveiled yet another addition to their Touch range of Windows Mobile handsets and are calling it the Touch Diamond. Apart from making it look elegant HTC has, of course incorporated their TouchFLO technology into the Diamond as well, but with one slight adjustment – The Diamond’s TouchFLO interface comes with a 3D effect.
"Today we mark a new era in mobile phone evolution, an era where beauty and size integrate with uncompromising innovation at broadband speeds," said Peter Chou, president and CEO, HTC Corp. "The HTC Touch Diamond will make browsing the Web and using Web-enabled applications just as practical and easy to use as making calls."The new TouchFLO 3D provides animated access to messaging, email, photos, music, weather and other features. In addition, HTC is introducing a new innovative touch-sensitive control for interacting with Touch Diamond. The Diamond also incorporates HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA wireless connectivity and has a new customized mobile Web browser with features for zooming and panning sites with one-hand and automatically view optimized content that has been specially created to fit the display. Turning the device sideways automatically rotates the web page view from a portrait to landscape view. The Diamond also has a YouTube application and Google Maps.
It has a 2.8 inch VGA touch screen display, a 3.2 megapixel camera with an optical auto-focus lens and advanced wireless and auto sensor screen pivoting. It runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, comes with 4 GB of internal storage with 256 MB flash and 192 MB RAM and runs on a Qualcomm MSM 7201A , 528MHz chipset. Other features include Bluetooth with EDR, minUSB, integrated GPS and Wi-Fi.

The HTC Touch Diamond will be available later this quarter in Asia and the Middle East but there seems to be no price tag on it yet. Stay Tuned.

While the average PC enthusiast may gawk endlessly over pages of reviews of high-end power-hungry graphics cards, jaw-slackened by the frame rates and 3DMark score that he or she might find there, at the end of the month it is the low to mid-range card that is purchased most often than not. Price typically comes into consideration, but it's not the only concern. Availability, compatibility, and other issues factor in to a buyers decision as well. Sometimes it simply boils down to the fact that the average Joe clearing stages in Peggle or watching the latest videos on YouTube simply doesn't need all of that horsepower.

AMD's Radeon HD 3650 is one of the few cards out there that can satisfy mainstream user needs yet still cost less that a hundred dollars. Based on the RV635, and off-shoot of the RV670, the HD 3650 is architecturely similar to the more powerful HD 3850 and HD 3870 models, but with a narrower memory interface and far fewer stream processors. It too is built on a 55nm process, requiring less power than previous AMD/ATI cards and, as a result, radiating less heat.With sales predictions for this card being high, and production costs low, it's almost a no-brainer than many of ATI's partners would look into adding an HD 3650 to their line-up. Diamond Multimedia has, with the release of the Viper Radeon HD 3650 1GB, added not just one but two different variants. The first stuck with default specifications including clock speed and memory buffer, but at launch we hinted that there would be many models to choose from. Today we take a look at their second issue, which raises the total amount of memory to 1GB, but in doing so, uses lower cost, slower GDDR2 chips. In the pages ahead, we'll aim to find out if additional on-board memory really impacts performance more so than a smaller footprint of faster GDDR3 memory.