HTC Touch Diamond CDMA

i loaded mine with android 2.1 on dual boot and now i will never part with this phone

It would have been the perfect phone for me if the form remained that of the Touch. All these new nice features with the form of the Touch, it'll almost be a Palm Pre. Too bad they had to change the form factor so drastically. New is not always best. Really too bad.

Been using this handset for a year now.  Pretty much has every feature you could ask for in a handset, except for a lack of a physical keyboard (but having that would have probably taken away from the compact form factor).  The stock Sprint ROM is usable, but could use some improvement.  Unlocked the handset and loaded custom ROMs and settings, now this is way more usable.  The newer HTC interfaces (Manila and Sense) are much nicer and featured than the shipped Sprint Manila variant.  Reg tweaks included on these ROMs have gotten my battery life to at least 24 hours of light/medium use (major up from 10 hours on the stock ROM).I don't listen to music on my phone so the fixed 4GB storage is just used for pictures, videos and random downloads, so for me it's more than enough.  But still, a micro SD slot would be nice.The 3MP camera actually takes pretty good pictures...as long as there's plenty of light (is a simple LED flash really that hard/expensive to add?).  One of the keys for me for better pictures was to change the shoot option from "touch and press" to "full press".  I had a hard time steadying the camera while lightly touching the button to focus and then having to fully depress to shoot (maybe because the camera reacts so slow).  Full press allows me to steady the camera while it handles the focusing and shooting.Windows Mobile is a love/hate thing.  Love how tweakable it is.  Stability can be...questionable at times.  But for the most part, it runs fine on this hardware (just gotta reboot it every now and then).All in all tho, great handset.  I might upgrade if/when Sprint gets the Diamond2 but with these custom ROMs it almost seems redundant.  The Hero looks nice but the screen resolution is a step back from the Diamond.  The Touch Pro 2 is just huge in comparison, I guess I'm just used to and really like the compactness of this handset.