May 11
In watching a video of Horace Luke from HTC talk about the Touch Diamond, he revealed three interesting things bits:
1. By utilizing the phone's accelerometer, if you flip over the phone when a call comes in, the ringer will mute. Imagine having your device out on a table while at a meeting, and you see a call come in. This is an elegant way to silence the ringer.
2. The stylus is held in place with a magnet. When you remove the stylus while in a call, the phone will automatically launch the notes application.
3. The Diamond was designed to be a haptic-feedback phone, meaning that the user would feel a vibration with every touch. The reason they pulled the idea, according to Horace Luke, was because "it just sucked."
1. By utilizing the phone's accelerometer, if you flip over the phone when a call comes in, the ringer will mute. Imagine having your device out on a table while at a meeting, and you see a call come in. This is an elegant way to silence the ringer.
2. The stylus is held in place with a magnet. When you remove the stylus while in a call, the phone will automatically launch the notes application.
3. The Diamond was designed to be a haptic-feedback phone, meaning that the user would feel a vibration with every touch. The reason they pulled the idea, according to Horace Luke, was because "it just sucked."