16 Sep 08 HTC Touch HD, the real iPhone killer
While the Touch Viva turned out to be the low-end stalwart of the three new smartphones announced by HTC, the HTC Touch HD is a farcry from it and in fact has everything needed to pulverize the iPhone 3G (if it hasn’t succumbed already to the recent touchscreen onslaught). And we thought the Touch Diamond was the ultimate cell phone! Anyway, this handsome multimedia monster supports quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz network frequencies along with HSDPA and has a 3.8-inch VGA (yay!) touchscreen, a surefire combination aimed to provide the best mobile internet and multimedia experience. There’s also Bluetooth 2.0, GPS, WiFi, and a microSD slot to expand the 512MB onboard memory, all good to go on Windows Mobile 6.1 with the TouchFLO 3D interface. We know we don’t have to worry about its multimedia capabilities, but as a bonus, HTC has included a 3.5 headphone jack, something which is yet to become a real standard on cell phones. The Taiwanese manufacturer has also endowed the Touch HD with a 5-megapixel camera, a great improvement over the 2 and 3.2 megapixel lens stuck on the previous devices. There’s no word on its pricing, but the HTC Touch HD will hit major European markets in the fourth quarter of 2008. HTC
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HTC HD is more better than the iphone 3G. here we can enjoy with all the option tat’s not present in Iphone. i fed up using the iphone with limited options.Now i am fully enjoying the thing from HTC HD.and the display is awesome.Big Touch screen that creates a experience of watching video’s on high quality LCD TV.The response time of applications from HD is imporved a lot compare to other htc smart mobiles….
I’m using iPhone for a year.
Had many Windows Mobile phones in the past (Touch Pro 1, Touch Pro 2, Samsung Omnia 1, and more).
Recently I had a chance to play with the HD 2 for an entire evening.
Bottom line – iPhone beats every windows mobile phone except for this one.
Why you ask?
Because the HD2 has better camera, better screen display, and also has a capacitive screen.
You can read more about my experience with it in here:
http://mobilespoon.blogspot.com/2009/12/one-night-stand-with-htc-hd2.html
But… (and there is a but):
The only problem is that below the nice fancy UI there is still the old Windows Mobile stuff so if you are not used to it or not willing to get a little bit “dirty” with hacks and tweaks – stick with the iPhone.
Other than that – HD2 is one of the finest phones I’ve ever tried.