The HTC Touch HD2 was announced in October 2009 and released just a month later in November.
For the hefty price tag of £500 (or five new wheels for your car) the HD2 is undoubtedly the best Windows Mobile in existence and will drive you anywhere you want to go. For fans of big screens who dislike using a stylus to get Windows Mobile to work, the HD2 offers just what is required. It’s huge capacitive variety screen responds to gentle touch and allows you to flip easily through your emails.
The handset is fairly heavy and quite chunky, at 157g and measuring 120.5 x 67 x 11 mm it will more than fill a small pocket, but it doesn’t look oversize due to the ergonomically designed bevel which surrounds the screen on the front.
On the technical level, the HTC HD2 functions on 2G and 3G networks, on GSM 850/900/188/1900 on 2G and HSDPA 900/2100 on 3G. The display is a 480 x 800 pixel, 4.3 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen, capable of displaying 65K colours. It features Sense UI, a Multi touch input method (you pinch the screen with two fingers), and Acceleromoter sensor for auto rotate when switching between landscape vs portrait viewing, a proximity sensor for auto turn off and pick to mute.
It will alert you to incoming calls and messages by means of vibration, downloadable polyphonic, MP3, WAV and WMA ringtones. A 3.5mm audio jack and speakerphone enable hands free and the use of your own speakers when enjoying music.
The internal 448 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM allow practically unlimited entries and fields in the phone book, Photocall and call records. MicroSD allows memory expansion where required.
Data handling is by means of Class 12 EDGE and GPRS (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 48 kbps. 3G via HSDPA is at 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA at 2Mps. The phone sports WLAN Wi Fi 802.11 b/g and Wi Fi Router, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, MicroUSB but has no infrared port.
The 5 megapixel camera will take photos of 2592 x 1944 pixels and has autofocus, duel LED flash and the current must have Geo tagging and Facebook and Twitter Integration, as well as YouTube client. VGA video is possible at 30fps. There is no secondary camera.
Under the covers the phone is about as high tech as you can get, the Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1GHz processor is controlled by the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional operating system. For communication, the handset supports threaded view SMS, MMS, Email, and Instant messaging. The browser is WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML.
‘I got lost’ is now no longer an excuse the phone has GPS with A GPS support, and Navi Panel as well as a digital compass.
In terms of entertainment the HTC HD2 comes with games, includes MIDP 2.0 Java, and has MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ and MP4/WMV/H.264/H.263 players.
For work it has Pocket Office, for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and PDF Viewer. It also has HTC Peep and HTC Footprints, Voice memo and for those who don’t mind being second guessed as they type texts, T9 input.
The standard Li Ion 1230mAh battery allows a standby time of up to 490 h (2G) and 390 h (3G). Talk time is up to 6 h 20 min (2G) and 5 h 40 min (3G). Music playback time is up to 12 hours.
It’s expensive, but it is undoubtedly the best Windows Mobile Phone on the market.
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