The Windows Mobile 6.1-powered touchscreen phone HTC Touch Diamond is now available on the CDMA network of Verizon Wireless, with the company angling to capture the attention of its many business users.

You can now get it for $299.99, after a $70 mail-in rebate and with a new two-year contract.



HTC Touch Diamond

According to a report by eWeek.com,

Through Verizon Wireless, users can surf the built-in Opera browser at HSDPA speeds and reply to emails in the Windows Mobile 6.1 Profession platform, which integrates with Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office applications. The Touch Diamond is, after all, geared toward "busy professionals."

Visual Voice Mail—for an additional $2.99 a month—lets users scroll past messages instead of listening through them, and additional features include Mobile IM, a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera and a microsSD slot for adding 16 GB of memory to the 4 GB of internal storage.

An additional $9.99 monthly charge will give the subscriber access to Verizon Wireless' VZ Navigator "for audible turn-by-turn directions".