HTC Touch Diamond gets extended battery, bigger butt

The Touch Diamond's controversial rear-end styling not bold enough for you? Well, that's an easy fix, mate -- just make it stick out a little bit more. HTC has now detailed an extended battery kit for the Touch Diamond which includes a 1340mAh pack (up from 900mAh out of the box) and a larger battery cover to help you contain all that go-juice. Looks like it's still on pre-order at this point, but once it pops, it'll run £40.95 (about $81).

[Via MoDaCo, thanks Ward]

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2008 4:33PM]

Bigger butt on a woman = Yes please

Bigger butt on Touch Diamond = wake me when they make a slimer one.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2008 4:53PM]

Slimer? http://www.daviesgeneralstore.com/ebay/Slimer.jpg
That wouldn't look too good..

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2008 6:02PM]

is it just me or does $81 for a PHONE battery sound kind of ridiculous?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2008 6:38PM]

You live in the US, it will probably end up as $30...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2008 7:06PM]

I don't care how much junk in 'da trunk the Diamond has...hawtness any way you cut it. I only wish the scroll wheel/dedicated button area would slide down to reveal a qwerty keypad (I hate those landscape keyboards like the Touch Pro).

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2008 8:49PM]

I love how people complain about battery life, when they have pretty much
a computer in their hands. I'm surprised the battery in my tilt lasts as long
as it does. Packing that much energy into such a small space is just asking for trouble, if the battery or charging circuit goes bonkers.

[this is boris Posted Jul 9th 2008 2:05AM]

idk about this phone...looks like something that would come with a ps3

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2008 4:19AM]

Have to say, after just under a month now with the Diamond, it really is a fantastic little phone. Having been an owner of previous HTC "chunky" devices (with keyboards, such as the Tilt), it's nice to have such a slim, light, device. The battery life hasn't been an issue so far (I have a charger and car mount in my car so I plug it in when I'm using it as my car's MP3 player/GPS) but, I'm sure I'd pick up this pack when its released for less convenient days. Great phone though. For me, this has the iPhone beat in nearly every way - my only grumbles are: the camera is still not amazing (but still better than the iPhone), the interface can sometimes be laggy if there's too much running and a bigger HD might have been nice, but on the whole, this phone overdelivered for me. In fact, three of my friends have bought one this week, although the tipping point for them was the Teeter game. Go figure.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2008 5:51PM]

This is the same battery as the CDMA version is getting by default.

I wonder what they are doing for the space behind the cover NOT the battery. It cant be empty. If the bat is the same size, why get a new cover? Maybe its just a little thicker.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 10th 2008 1:51PM]

This phone is way too ugly for me to ever want to be seen with.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 1st 2008 11:49AM]

what the!!! thats too expensive..
$81 for 1 battery and 1 cover..
in my country that is already can buy a new low end handphone..
is about Rp750,000..

but that is a chance for us..
last month i was bought this touch diamond and i so disepoint about the batt life.. is too short.
can use for 1 day.. even half day only..

the batt life is so poor..

i will wait for this bigger life batt.. i hope it will be release soon, in indonesia.