Cellular South Welcomes HTC Touch Diamond in Time for the Holidays

RIDGELAND, Miss.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cellular South, a leader in wireless solutions and innovation, today announced the availability of the HTC Touch Diamond, a stylish and innovative advanced 3G smart phone that combines high-tech prowess with intuitive usability and exhilarating design.

Voted the European Smartphone of the Year for 2008-2009, the HTC Touch Diamond is available in all Cellular South retail locations and online at www.cellularsouth.com. Cellular South is offering the device for $199.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate. The discounted price requires a two-year voice contract and a one-year data agreement.

The power-packed PDA device features a sharp 2.8-inch touch screen with four times the resolution of most phones, 3G high-speed broadband data capability on Cellular South’s nationwide network of networks, a TouchFlo touch-screen interface designed to be used with just one finger and the Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional platform for enterprise-class communications and integration needs.

“Cellular South’s reputation for helping our customers get more out of their wireless devices is certainly strengthened with the addition of the HTC Touch Diamond,” said Jim Richmond, director of corporate communications for the wireless carrier. “This device promises to make browsing the mobile web and using web-enabled applications just as practical and easy as making a phone call.”

The phone also features:

• 4 GB of internal storage
• 192 MB of RAM
• An integrated GPS receiver for use with map software and full turn-by-turn satellite navigation
• 3.2 megapixel digital camera with auto-focus
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• 802.11g wi-fi wireless connectivity
• A combined USB and audio jack
• A VGA-resolution video camera for video conferencing applications
• An integrated FM radio receiver
• A built-in microphone and speaker
• A rechargeable lithium-ion battery

The HTC Touch Diamond sports a distinctive look with a solid brushed metal, matte finish frame and aims to improve the mobile web browsing experience by using a customized Opera Mobile 9.5 browser that enables users to zoom and pan across web pages with one finger as well as view pages optimized to fit the display.

Cellular South customers also will be able to take advantage of a new Windows mobile web homepage designed exclusively for the HTC Touch Diamond with touch screen-activated tiles that offer one-button access to sports, news, weather, entertainment and travel, games, e-mail and social networking sites and other valuable content.

“The HTC Diamond is just the right size,” Richmond said. “It’s small enough to operate with one hand and one touch, but big enough for customers to enjoy vibrant and crisp images and text on its large display.”

Richmond said the device also should appeal to enterprise users who want the productivity offered by the integration of Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional with mobile versions of Microsoft Office’s productivity suite of Internet Explorer, Windows Media player and Mobile Outlook, which can link to Microsoft Exchange servers for e-mail, calendars, contact information, to-do lists and more.

“This device is the perfect marriage of features and applications that appeal to the working professional who enjoys their leisure time,” Richmond said, noting that users can interact with Google, YouTube and Wikipedia as freely as with a notebook computer on a broadband connection.

In addition to receiving top honors as Europe’s best smart phone, the HTC Touch Diamond has garnered praise from MSMobiles.com, which said the device is better than the iPhone in several areas, including higher resolution display, smaller size, higher resolution camera and tilt sensor technology.

About Cellular South

Cellular South is a privately-owned diversified mobile communications company passionately committed to helping customers get the most out of their wireless devices and services. The company accomplishes this goal by providing the most reliable and advanced 3G nationwide wireless voice and data network, offering industry-leading unlimited flat rate plans, and through its online and in-store Discover Centers, which give customers easy, simple and convenient tools, tips, advice and information to get the most out of their mobile phone. For more information, visit www.cellularsouth.com.