HTC Touch HD2 review

Marvellous phone - seems a hell of a lot better than the competition.

I was just thinking maybe a change of logo would pull in the fruit loving audience of the alternative - maybe a half eaten banana or pear would move the apple bunch.
:)

By nicomo on 27 Nov 2009

Andriod 2

Now if they could put Android 2 in this package.That would be nigh on perfect.In fact make it a 7" screen of 1280x800 add in open office 3 apps and you would have convergence with netbooks :-)

By Jaberwocky on 28 Nov 2009

AMAZING Phone

I have had this phone for a week now and it is amazing. I cannot stop playing with it. I have worked with iPhone before and the UI is very similar if not even better. This phone seem to be a lot smarter than iPhone.

BTW, it is very pocketable, I put it in my jeans, jacket and formal trousers and cannot feel it since it is very thin.

So far very very happy and thank you PC Pro for the review.

By einstein84 on 28 Nov 2009

AMAZING Phone indeed

It is simply the best smartphone available. The feature list is so long that it needs quite a long learning curve. WM 6.5 perhaps isn't the best looking mobile OS by far but it is feature rich and more importantly, for me, incredibly customisable.

By vikarmo on 28 Nov 2009

not too big at all

I am happy with my HD2, but wish it was a little bigger. I far prefer the wider standard VGA layout of my hx4700 than widescreen.
Compared to the typical home or office phone, it is not at all too big or heavy.
Yes it is big compared to the tiny things that you cannot read the screen of. But I want to be able to actually USE the web browser, calendar, contacts, satnav, mobile office, pdf viewer and much more. I could not do that on a baby phone, could I?
It fits happily into my pocket, though I do have a tendency to switch it on as I pull it out to answer a call.
Sadly, i don't actually like the capacitive screen. I find it much harder to use than the resistive hx4700. I even miss the stylus.

By fellwalker2000 on 3 Dec 2009

BIG??

How can you slate the HD2 for size?

It is only 5mm wider & longer than an iphone, but actually 1.3mm thinner too.

In return you get a screen that is 2cm diagonally larger than on the iphone & packing 2.5 times more pixels!!

Yes the HD2 is showing some bugs but HTC are actively working on releasing fixes AND these are not show stoppers as I have found ways around all of them & have a reliable HD2!!

Despite the bugs, colleagues of mine are switching away from their iphones because the HD2 is so impressive.

By apemonkeyman on 22 Jan 2010

But reviews seldom tell the whole story

Bear with me HD2 readers:

I've just been reading the 'A' list HTC desire review... It complained that though Flash lite was available it could not play BBBC news... Well use Skyfire - built in version of flash play anything... So my HD2 is more than happy with any video content despite the review.

This is where rush reviews let us down.

After some four months of living with my HD2 these are the bits that make it sing:

Skyfire browser

HD2 Tweaks - tweaks all of the settings

BSB Tweaks - Tweaks more settings - release the power lol

Sprite - backs up and has a remote data destroy lock down if phone lost

SlideIt: A keyboard to put iPhone in the shade... very fast predictive text entry... accurate and smooth.

OK these are not in the reviews... they are not in the phone unless you get them (most of the above are free).

But they turn the phone into another animal... one which was not reviewed.

Win Mob is prob. dying... The HD2 is a seriously good phone and apart from the odd app. not available
an HD2 rigged with this stuff is a seriously good phone... I would not swap this for an iPhone...

By Kevin000 on 3 Jul 2010

Correction

Slidelt in the comments above should read SlideIT

By Kevin000 on 3 Jul 2010

No Upgrade Availalbe

As has been noted, this would be a world-beating phone if it were not let down by MS Phone. Never mind, Windows Phone 7 will fix that? Apparently not. I have been informed by HTC that “HTC and Microsoft do not have plans to offer Windows Phone 7 upgrades to any existing HTC phones”. This is pathetic, and well short of the support offered for both Android and iPhone. If ever there was a sign the Microsoft do not understand the PDS market, this is it. I for one, will definitely not be in the Windows Phone camp, which is shame.

By GrahamE on 30 Nov 2010