| Introducing the HTC Touch HD2 Any new smartphone | | | | is by no means a lightweight phone. Well chosen |
| that is revealed tends to immediately draw natural | | | | materials make the phone feel great and expensive. |
| comparisons to Apples iPhone, quite often unfairly so. | | | | With it's metalic back and rubberised finish. There are |
| However with the release of the Touch HD2 the | | | | only four physical buttons on the front of the device |
| comparisons are justifiable due to its sleek looks and | | | | comprising of call pick up, call end, home and the web |
| excellent performance. | | | | and back button. On the back of the Touch HD2 is the |
| The Touch HD2 has an extra large 4.3 inch, 800 x 400 | | | | 5 mega pixel camera. This is backed up by an led |
| resolution multi touch capacitive screen. This screen | | | | flash, auto focus, video capture and playback and two |
| dominates the bulk of the front of the handset. It is one | | | | times zoom. One glaring downside to the HTC Touch |
| of the first phones to include HTC Sense software, | | | | HD2 is its obvious lack of in built memory. With just |
| which operates on top of the phones Windows Mobile | | | | 512MB of ROM and 448MB of RAM, I can see most |
| 6.5 operating system. This gives the user a much | | | | users taking advantage of the microSD card slot to |
| easier interface to operate the phone with than the | | | | bulk that memory up to a maximum of 32GB, on par |
| traditional Windows version. The home screen will | | | | with the iPhone. Other features include FM Radio, a 3.5 |
| default to the weather when not in use, and using the | | | | mm stereo audio jack and Standard Micro-USB (5-pin |
| on board gps gives you a screen that matches your | | | | micro-USB 2.0). Running from a rechargeable |
| weather conditions outside. This HTC Sense also | | | | Lithium-ion battery which provides talktime of upto 320 |
| includes a tab to access Twitter enabling you to enter | | | | minutes and 390 hours standby time. Network speeds |
| a tweet, send direct messages and update your | | | | of up to 7.2 Mbps download speed and up to 2 Mbps |
| status. | | | | upload speed. |
| The HD2's web browsing is impressive and very much | | | | In conclusion, the HTC Touch HD2 has a vivid, large |
| like using a desk top, which will appeal to many | | | | touch screen with extremely quick response thanks to |
| potential customers. Zooming in and out simply requires | | | | the Snapdragon processor. Despite obviously lacking |
| a double tap on the screen. The HD2 is much slimmer | | | | with its built in memory, its sleek design and impressive |
| than the iPhone, measuring in at just 11mm thick, 67mm | | | | user interface thanks to the Sense software does |
| wide and 121mm high. However, it weighs 157gram, so | | | | make it a worthy contender to the iPhones crown. |