Design and Looks
The 4.3 inch display is taken up by the entire front leaving edges out for the 5 buttons at the bottom. The screen is a WVGA resolution and is the first in Windows mobile to use a capacitive touch screen. The improved sensitivity on the phone makes a difference on the windows mobile interface too making it feel more responsive and fast.
HTC HD2 comes along with TouchFLO interface and the company has improved with the sense UI pioneered on the HTC hero. The interface is full of eye candy and is a treat to the visual eye.
HTC HD2 is also for the first time equipped with a muti touch feature on the windows phone.
The phone comes along with a brushed metal finish. On the left hand side , there is volume up/down key . The phone design comes along with nice curved back and helps to get a good grip which makes it comfortable in the palm too.
The phone is also the first phone to come equipped with a microUSB port.
The phone sports a good music player that makes sensible use of the album art and features the apple like cover flow animation. It comes with a landscape view and will allow the scroll of albums. The equalizer presets available on the phone are only invoked when the headset is plugged in.
The phone sports a average video player which is the windows media player. For playing 3gp and divX/Xvid one would require third party players.The camera on the HTC HD2 has a 5 megapixel auto focus producing photos with a resolution of 2592x1944 pixels. The camera can also be used in landscape mode.
There is no dedicated key on the phone for invoking the camera, the autofocus on the camera and is automatic and refocuses whenever the device is moved. It comes along with a dual LED flash but does not make a difference in low-light conditions.
The video recording feature comes at 30fps with VGA recording. The white balance , resolution , brightness and color effects can be adjusted.
The handset sports a lot of applications such as RSS Reader, MP3 Trimmer, HTC Peep, Facebook, Bing, Wi-Fi Router, World Card Mobile, Jetcet Print, a YouTube application and a Streaming Media manager.
The phone features a built in GPS receiver. It also supports the Assisted GPS technology. HTC HD2 comes along with a trial version of CoPilot Live 8 and Google Maps.
Overall the phone stands out to be a winner, with a solid design, inventive software and high performance. The guys in HTC will surely give a good healthy competition for the phones from other brands in the same segment.
Features
- Huge 4.3 inch screen
- MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ Player
- MP4/WMV/H.264/H.263 Player
- Facebook and Twitter integration
- Youtube client
- Voice memo
- GPS
- T9
