HTC diamond 2 or iPhone

I do work on Mac's and so I am biased, having everything synced across 2 laptops, a G5 desktop and my iPhone is invaluable.

All these new phones, BBerry Storm and HTC just seem to be copies of the iPhone, but whatever works for people. I'm not one to judge, I just know what works. :)

I disagree wholeheartedly. To imply that modern handsets are all copies of the apple phone is just churlish. Hardware and interfacing is an ever evolving market and if developers/providers do not embrace these new technologies there will be no evolution. I too work on an mac but this does not make me biased towards my mac. It is the best platform for what i use it for. If I was doing massive renders and writing foley scores I would most certainly use a pc as I could tailor it too my needs. Having built many many computers to run both Unix, Linux and Microsoft based systems I think it still comes down to what you need from a platform. A mouse is still a mouse whether it is attached to a pc or a mac.

Regarding battery life, once you actually start using the processing power of an HTC the battery life drops off rapidly. Much more rapidly than my iPhone. I had an HTC and the more WinMo frustrated me the more I wanted an iPhone. Now I've got one I realise I should have just got one first instead of wasting 3 months with the HTC.

show me a powerful smartphone and i'll show you a phone with shit battery life.

I think it depends what you use it for. If it's non work, texting, music, videos and fun stuff then choose the iphone. If it's work, long emails, word documents with a but of fun on the side then get the HTC Touch Pro.

I use the HTC and the battery will last a full day of heavy work use.

If it's work, long emails, word documents with a but of fun on the side then get the HTC Touch Pro.

blackberry bold ftw. avoids the issue of windows mobile sucking the big one, has an awesome keyboard, handles email beautifully.

Tim

Which would you suggest out of the HTC Diamond and the HTC Magic? I currently have a Tytn II that is overdue replacement.

I also need to be able to sync it with a PC and a Mac.

James, I'm typing this on my htc magic and I can thoroughly recommend it if you use Google services like gmail a lot, which I do. The syncing is absolutely seamless and the internal memory is treated simply like any usb storage and can be accessed by any old program.

Tim

Which would you suggest out of the HTC Diamond and the HTC Magic? I currently have a Tytn II that is overdue replacement.

I also need to be able to sync it with a PC and a Mac.

I would buy the Magic by a long way. the Magic shits on the Diamond from a great height as far as user interface goes. Windows Mobile is slow and not intuitive. Android is fast and clever. Although you've been using WinMo so you might be OK with it... most people are not!

What do you need to sync with on your PC and Mac? the Magic does most of its syncing over the air to web-based services (contacts, calendar, mail etc). i don't think the Vodafone version of the Magic can sync with Exchange, though (i might be wrong on this, some version do support Exchange).

both of those handsets will work with either a mac or a PC as far as using USB mass storage mode (getting files/music etc on and off it).