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.
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 With its massive, high resolution screen and the polished HTC Sense interface running, the HTC HD2 is clearly gunning for top billing in the smartphone world. It represents the best that HTC can accomplish, and HTC makes the best smartphones on the market right now (to check out reviews of our favorites, click here), with one possible exception. Outside and in, the phone is packed with innovative features and great performance, including some things we've never seen before, like Wi-Fi network sharing and the blazing, battery hogging Snapdragon 1GHz processor. If you're thinking of importing this phone, beware its limitations, like the lack of U.S. 3G support and onboard Instant Messaging apps. Plus, while HTC's TouchFLO 3D hides Windows Mobile as much as any phone can, we still prefer the HTC Sense concept on Android devices like the HTC Hero and Droid Eris, where you get far more customization options and active homescreen widgets. That large screen simply dominates the HD2 experience, and it's great for watching videos and daily use if you spend a lot of time staring at your mobile. Windows Mobile doesn't quite seem ready to handle the capacitive touch technology, and some links in the Web browser or Twitter app were unresponsive as we tapped away, but for the most part using the HD2 was lots of fun, and it was even better for keeping tabs and getting work done. If the phone fits your network, your budget and your hands, pick one up, it's a definite pleaser. Release: November 2009. Price: $800.
Pros: Huge, capacitive touch display. Innovative features, like Wi-Fi network sharing and deep GPS integration. Fantastic interface, especially for Windows Mobile.
Cons: Windows Mobile isn't ready for capacitive touch, gave us trouble in Web browser and other apps. Lacks IM clients on board. Carry a spare battery.
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Full HTC HD2 Review:
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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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