The HTC HD2 gives ultra-slim a new meaning, and boasts multi-touch gestures and the HTC Sense user interface first seen on the Android-based Hero. The phone also incorporates Wi-Fi router capabilities.
HTC today unveiled the HTC HD2, the first Windows phone with HTC Sense, a user interface first seen on the Android-based HTC Hero. With its massive 4.3-inch capacitive touch display, the HTC HD2 marks a radical change in HTC's Windows phone lineup (check out its full specifications here.
The HTC HD2 uses the first capacitive touch display on a Windows phone to make viewing, zooming and resizing websites, Microsoft Office files, PDF documents and pictures easier with just a pinch of your fingers. The large display also aims to enable faster, more efficient and accurate typing using the onscreen keyboard. Utilizing Qualcomm's new 1 GHz Snapdragon mobile processor, the HTC HD2 offers enhanced performance that improves the speed of applications, videos, games and more.
The HTC HD2 aims to help you stay close to the important friends and colleagues in your life with HTC's people-centric communication approach that provides a single contact view that displays individual communication snapshots of your conversations with the people in your life regardless of whether a call, text, Facebook status update or e-mail were used. While in the midst of e-mail exchange with someone you can transition to a call by pressing the call button. HTC has also included a new Windows-based version of its Twitter application, HTC Peep. Pictures taken with the 5-megapixel camera can also be quickly shared via Facebook or Twitter.
With the HTC Sense experience, the HTC HD2 includes a variety of enhancements that expand and improve the overall phone experience. The HTC HD2 includes a variety of sensors including proximity sensor that is used to prevent false screen touches when the phone is picked up to answer or make a call. A light sensor automatically adjusts the brightness of the display. Leveraging its 3G broadband connectivity, the HTC HD2 also offers personal Wi-Fi anywhere for your computer or other devices (think Wi-Fi router).
As a new Windows Phone, the HTC HD2 showcases the powerful messaging, browsing and productivity capabilities delivered by Windows Mobile 6.5. Offering a top-notch e-mail experience complete with the ability to synchronize with Microsoft Exchange, users have the ability to check and manage multiple e-mail accounts. Microsoft's new My Phone service enables users to automatically back up and synch photos, music, contacts and text messages for free from the HTC HD2 to the Web. The HTC HD2 can also be further enhanced by downloading applications from the new Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
The HTC HD2 will be available in late October 2009 with selected carriers across Europe, before rolling out to other regions in the coming months. There's no specific word on U.S. availability. A price tag has also yet to be announced.
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