An extremely gifted developer has made the GSM 850MHz band on the HTC Touch Diamond available. This feature was implemented but left inactive at the design phase.
Originally the Diamond was only Tri Band but now this ROM Update means that those in America can use it. Absolutely brilliant.
Why on earth HTC decided to mess up the phone, I don’t know. They also previously messed up the video drivers on some of the phones, leaving it up to gifted fans / developers to sort out. Not on really when we pay a fortune for these phones.
Something else to report is that the new ROM improves the battery life too and increased the signal strength of the device, which has been a problem on all HTC devices. All of a sudden the Diamond really looks like a great choice of phone. More than the iPhone? We are not sure yet, the next 3 -6 months will show.