RumourMill: STOP PRESS – HTC Touch Diamond wasn’t made by HTC – STOP PRESS

A news piece over at msmobiles.com has it that HTC did not design their best selling mobile phone to date, the HTC Touch Diamond.

Instead a third party namely One & Co was responsible for the handsets look, with proof of this claim lying in the depths of their website in a case study to be seen here.

From recent firsthand dealings with HTC there hasn’t been any reference to them at all, or even an accreditation in the overall process.

The news website has it that Horace Luke from HTC was down as responsible for the design of HTC Diamond and was perhaps mis-accredited as such. Where from our knowledge, Horace came across from Microsoft where he was on the team for designing the Windows Mobile platform.

We’re assuming the outer casing and design behind the Diamond was chiefly left to One & Co after looking at their website, whereas everything else was still down to HTC.

Still, it’s an interesting turn of events and is an eye opener to us.

We’ll just have to see how this plays out and how HTC could spin this.

Stay tuned for more, in the mean time see more on the story by visiting here

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  • If they outsourced the design of the handset is it really a big deal? At least it looks good which is more than you can say for most HTC phones!
  • this is fairly standard procedure for far eastern companies to use western design agency's to make products that appeal to the western markets.
  • nacho
    Phone looks gorgeous, who cares who designed it?
    Is Sony Ericsson saying that their new X1 is actually HTC?
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