H. Thanks, but I wasn't pushing for any further congrats, just merely that the old coffers are locked down for a while.

Brendy.

I had a SPV M500 for about 4 or 5 years, so I was used to the windows mobile format, I think it was version 3. Thought long and hard about this new phone, it was the HTC or the 3G iphone (shudder). All my contacts and diary are kept on Outlook so easy syncing with that was highest priority. GPS was next as I was thinking of getting Caddyaid.

Pros of the Touch Diamond
Incredible screen - the pics look great on it and works really well in sunlight, even with the screen protector on.

It does look damn good, if a somewhat slippery little sucker due to the gloss look. You do spend alot of time trying to keep fingerprints off it, but only due to vanity.

Touchflo 3D is an improvement over the old touch flo (wife has an earlier version), but like the iphone does get some getting used to the movements and gestures required.

Don't need to use the stylus anywhere near as much as with Windows Mobile 3.

The GPS and Google maps works well together. But no mearsuring device as per desktop Google. Damn could have used it for the golf straight out of the box!

Cons.
Because of the touchflo UI it does seem a little slower than using wm3 straight off the top, but it's not a great problem if you store the stuff in the 4gb internal storge and keep as much away from the main storage area.

A larger screen size would be nice, but hey ho.

When making a phone call to the bank for example, the screen goes blank almost as soon as you connect. This is a problem when you have to press button 1 for ...., button 2 for.... Anyway the way round this is to tap the top power button and it instantly turns the screen back on, with out cutting you off.

No SD card slot. Not really a problem as it has 4gb of storage, and when you connect to a computer the phone asks you if you wish open it in activ sync or as a drive. Which can then be used for transfering files.

Excel has no landscape support, but the screen is just to small for real business use with spreadsheets and would suggest a UMPC as a minimum screen size for such things.

If you really want a slide out qwerty keyboard, wait for the touch pro, which I think has just hit the market as a stand alone. Orange haven't got it yet, well not as of last week. But of course it'll be alot thicker and heavier.

No IR. Personally I prefer it as it's more secure than bluetooth.

Overall.

A little slow, but not insurmountable, but everything else outweighs that. It's not an iphone and therefore you're not jumping on the whole Apple iphone bandwagon, and it's far classier looking, smaller (good and bad thing).
Just bear in mind that when the phone is in the supplied pouch, and in your pocket, it can be a little difficult to hear. It's not that it's not loud, but with so much blocking the speaker, it is some what muffled.

Getting used to the UI is interesting after the standard WM3 format but it's just a case of getting used to it.

Sorry to have waffled. Hope it was useful.