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Hello partyppl.
Quick specs are
quote modaco post:
"Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Qualcomm 7201A processor @ 528MHz
512MB ROM / 256MB RAM (+32MB on processor)
WVGA
115mm x 62.8mm x 12mm
'In stores for Santa'
GPS / HSDPA etc. etc.
5 Megapixel camera (no flash)"
Enjoy the pictures.
what about the hardware and os ? will it be compatible with wm7 ?
it looks awsome anyway
that what i think it is?
dream?
*wrong post
That's a nice looking phone. HTC sure has many new and interesting models coming
I love this phone
looks GREAT to me
Finaly, Htc made their own big touch-screen, sure beats iPhone and Xperia (3.5 and 3.0):333
Tech and Os specs would be great !
Taken off of Engadget
I am using Hermes (AT&T). Was very tempted to get Kaiser. And I've been saving money for Touch Pro.... I really hope they will make Touch HD Pro with a slide-out keyboard and normal audio jack (not a mini-USB).
P.S. iPhone sucks!
looks good, kind of like the omnia. and actually, the iphone doesn't suck.
nemets said:
I am using Hermes (AT&T). Was very tempted to get Kaiser. And I've been saving money for Touch Pro.... I really hope they will make Touch HD Pro with a slide-out keyboard and normal audio jack (not a mini-USB).
P.S. iPhone sucks!
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i don't think that it has an keyboard, its too small
If they ever release a CDMA version i'm getting one. If it has a capacitive touchscreen, i'll be in heaven.
I so want that, I posted earlier and now when I`ve seen specs etc. it looks promising.
I might upgrade my Kaiser to that when time comes
As nice as the phone looks to be, I can't help but say I'm disappointed in HTC. I feel they are oversaturating the market with products and not allowing any one phone to have some sort of longevitiy. This phone makes the Diamond the new Touch Cruise and the Touch Cruise the new Touch. Over time people will realize that if you wait a few months something much better is going to come out from HTC, so you may as well wait for it.
This is really shocking to see so soon after the Diamond, which really hasn't even had a chance to peak in the market if you ask me. Any potential sale they were going to have with the Diamond is probably gone now. HTC needs to consolidate their offerings to put out better spec'd equipment and to give people their money's worth.
But still, nice phone.
Here is what I posted on the other thread with some pictures I am using from the original post over at the other forum...
Here are some more pictures....taken from here:
http://www.modaco.com/content/pocket-pc-professional-news/272214/introducing-the-htc-touch-hd/
halorin said:
As nice as the phone looks to be, I can't help but say I'm disappointed in HTC. I feel they are oversaturating the market with products and not allowing any one phone to have some sort of longevitiy. This phone makes the Diamond the new Touch Cruise and the Touch Cruise the new Touch. Over time people will realize that if you wait a few months something much better is going to come out from HTC, so you may as well wait for it.
This is really shocking to see so soon after the Diamond, which really hasn't even had a chance to peak in the market if you ask me. Any potential sale they were going to have with the Diamond is probably gone now. HTC needs to consolidate their offerings to put out better spec'd equipment and to give people their money's worth.
But still, nice phone.
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I kinda feel the same way. I was just getting ready to upgrade my Sprint Touch for the soon to be released Touch Diamond, but then I see this which is just about perfect for my needs.
I'll probably still get the Touch Diamond for now and plan to upgrade next in 2009 to a WM7 device, well unless this gets a capacitive touchscreen then it'll have to be mine.
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I kinda feel the same way. I was just getting ready to upgrade my Sprint Touch for the soon to be released Touch Diamond, but then I see this which is just about perfect for my needs.
I'll probably still get the Touch Diamond for now and plan to upgrade next in 2009 to a WM7 device, well unless this gets a capacitive touchscreen then it'll have to be mine.
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Notice how the baby does not have a joystick?
How are you going to Scroll Zoom without that Capacitive JoyPad?
Not to start the Rumour Mill or anything but..... Maybe you should be a nice boy so Santa takes good care of you
Just let me dream a bit here.
agree, cannot imagine how to use windows mobile without d-pad? is it a fault?
Really a nice model!
Only problem I see, there is no keyboard... but still is a good candidate
Screen is 3.?" right?
Hi All,
So excited about getting the Touch HD, but one thing is kinda bothering me,
since we are all waiting to see the new wm7 and because making such a pricey purchase for a phone, i would expect that wm7 will work on the HD (hopefuly)
Now, what good is wm7 on such a fantastic device if we can't utilize Multi Touch and the like?!
Can anybody confirm via experiment that it can do multi touch?
(and i am not talking about the navi-area like diamond/pro)
Thanks guys,
Fadi
VERY good question, but there is one glaring problem with it:
Since WM6.1 doesn't support multi-touch, there really isn't a way to experiment to see if the HD does in fact support it.
Now, I do remember reading somewhere that the Diamond does support multi-touch a few months ago. I don't know if that was accurate or not, but I did read it. I am not sure if that's the "navi-area" you speak of, but that's what I read.
I am not sure anyone can really answer your question besides HTC themselves and you are going to be hard pressed to get an answer out of them. I sent them a question prior to the HD's release asking if it had a light sensor and they basically told me they don't know- but usually the secondary video camera acts as one. LOL.
If I had to bet, I would say it lacked multi-touch. I am not sure how great multi-touch is, you can use two fingers in opposite directions to zoom in on a picture of you can simply double tap on it twice... lol. I don't own an iPhone so maybe there is more to it than just that and I am pretty sure of that, but I don't think there is a "whole" lot more to it.
Now I am going to get some iPhone "not a fanboy" coming in and telling me that multi-touch scrambles eggs and grills steak.
For goodness sake, why is everybody so obsessed with multi-touch?
I mean, it's a nice feature but with a limited use in fact, and I completely fail to see how lack of it may be a show stopper!
To say that there is no point in buying a device without it is just crazy.
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VERY good question, but there is one glaring problem with it:
Now I am going to get some iPhone "not a fanboy" coming in and telling me that multi-touch scrambles eggs and grills steak.
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Well, it marinades the steak, and THEN grills it to perfection actually, this is an APPLE iPhone you know
Well, I have an iPhone, I don't think I am a fanboy, hell, who cares......but nah, multi touch is a nice to have, bit it is no big deal.
Kev
Thanks guys for the reply.
I understand your point, actually looking at what wm7 has in store for the
multi-touch technology, it just bothers me to not have it in this nice device.
how much will i use multi-touch... or how useful it is? no idea
I simply like to know that the HD can make use of all what wm7 has to offer.. well..hoping that they release it sometime in this century lol
Thnx
Is there anything close to a firm release date for WM7 yet?
I read 2nd half of 2009 on a site on Google, does anyone know any different?
HTC seam to be chucking out the new models at quite some rate lately with the Diamond, Pro and HD all within a few months of each other. Hopefully they will release new WM7 roms for all these phones and not expect us all to fork out for another £500 device just to upgrade!
Fadik said:
Thanks guys for the reply.
I understand your point, actually looking at what wm7 has in store for the
multi-touch technology, it just bothers me to not have it in this nice device.
how much will i use multi-touch... or how useful it is? no idea
I simply like to know that the HD can make use of all what wm7 has to offer.. well..hoping that they release it sometime in this century lol
Thnx
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Well, it's like whether you need a QWERTY keyboard or not.
If you're asking yourself if you NEED it, then you don't need it.
I think the reason behind the question is what happens in if WM7 is designed with the expectation that multi touch is present.
If that was the case, then some commonly used functions might become very tedious to use without multitouch since you might be forced to go through menu options etc.
e.g. In photo app. If Zoom relied on pinch, the only alternative without it might mean having to go from full screen to normal screen then picking menu button then selecting zoom.
Perhaps we should have these devices launched as WM7 Capable (Not to be confused with WM7 Ultimate Ready)
Zuber
Zuber said:
I think the reason behind the question is what happens in if WM7 is designed with the expectation that multi touch is present.
If that was the case, then some commonly used functions might become very tedious to use without multitouch since you might be forced to go through menu options etc.
e.g. In photo app. If Zoom relied on pinch, the only alternative without it might mean having to go from full screen to normal screen then picking menu button then selecting zoom.
Perhaps we should have these devices launched as WM7 Capable (Not to be confused with WM7 Ultimate Ready)
Zuber
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Well, hopefully MS people will have more foresight than that.
For example, the beloved iPhone zooms with pinching and with double tapping
Don't quote me on this but I THINK I remember reading that 6.5 should be released in Q1 of 2009 and that 7 should be released in 2010.
I am pretty sure about the 2010 release but sort of iffy on the Q1 of 2009 release.
Multi-touch is cool, first thing I did on the Macbook display at the Apple store was try it out on the trackpad- and it was at that point I found it to be useless. I am sure WM7 will implement it but I will bet my shoes that they will support other input methods for specific tasks, such as double tapping.
It would be cool to have, but to put it into perspective, I would love for Apple to boost their camera to 5 megapixels and have them ditch multi-touch or would have HTC add flash to the HD rather than multi-touch. The flash example is a much better example since it's not a deal breaker whereas the weak camera in the iPhone is.
Anyways.
Ya man, it's crazy what some people say- one guy made the lack of TV-out to be almost as bad as nuclear winter. I mean seriously, how many times a week do you use TV-out? I live on campus at a major university, which anyone will tell you has more televisions and iPhones per square yard than any other place in the world, and I have never seen anyone use their TV-out. Hell, I don't think anyone even owns the cable or even knows they could output TV. But man, this guy waged war with me that the lack of TV-out made the HD absolutely and utterly useless. I learned my lesson so now whenever I say anything even REMOTELY negative about the iPhone, I have my flame retardant suit on.
"Meh.. multi-touch is cool I guess."
"Multi-touch is the greatest invention of ALL time you n00b!! I will pawN you with my multi-touch light saber!!!! What are you going to do? Double tap your light saber!!!!?? HA! HA! PAWNED!!!!!"
lolz
Don't quote me on this but I THINK I remember reading that 6.5 should be released in Q1 of 2009 and that 7 should be released in 2010.
I am pretty sure about the 2010 release but sort of iffy on the Q1 of 2009 release.
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I've heard of "first half of 2009" for 6.5, which sounds ok.
And "end of 2009" for WM7, but we all know that that's NOT going to happen, and if it does, i don't see a device with WM7 before 2010, so there's lots of time...
Insaneboy said:
I've heard of "first half of 2009" for 6.5, which sounds ok.
And "end of 2009" for WM7, but we all know that that's NOT going to happen, and if it does, i don't see a device with WM7 before 2010, so there's lots of time...
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I've just bought a HD (and I like it very much, thank you) on an 18 month Orange contract. I expect my next phone to be an android or WM7 phone. My money is on Android.
HTC offer the best smartphone hardware, which is only currently available with WM. The iPhone offers the best implimented user centric interface, and android offers open source, fast efficient modern interface, and the prospect of the most versatile customisation. I expect over the next 18 month for WM to improve the accessibility of its interface, iPhone to improve its hardware and support for business level functions. Android will become available on a number of different devices (I don't count the current prototype as a serious mass market phone) and if the market takes a shine to it the potential for development and customisabiity is enormous - coupled with the fact that the interface is fast and modern, as a platform it has the potential to to develop at a rate that will put the others to shame.
For my next purchase in 18 months, my money is on android. It wouldn't be the first time I was wrong if it didn't work out that way though.
trentend said:
I've just bought a HD (and I like it very much, thank you) on an 18 month Orange contract. I expect my next phone to be an android or WM7 phone. My money is on Android.
HTC offer the best smartphone hardware, which is only currently available with WM. The iPhone offers the best implimented user centric interface, and android offers open source, fast efficient modern interface, and the prospect of the most versatile customisation. I expect over the next 18 month for WM to improve the accessibility of its interface, iPhone to improve its hardware and support for business level functions. Android will become available on a number of different devices (I don't count the current prototype as a serious mass market phone) and if the market takes a shine to it the potential for development and customisabiity is enormous - coupled with the fact that the interface is fast and modern, as a platform it has the potential to to develop at a rate that will put the others to shame.
For my next purchase in 18 months, my money is on android. It wouldn't be the first time I was wrong if it didn't work out that way though.
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Yes, Android has the potential to be as customisable as winmo and as pretty as iPhone OS.
And all the news lately are this manufacturer is going to make an Android phone and that manufacturer is going to make an Android phone... seems Symbian is going to have a very tough time next couple of years...
nu_D said:
Don't quote me on this but I THINK I remember reading that 6.5 should be released in Q1 of 2009 and that 7 should be released in 2010.
I am pretty sure about the 2010 release but sort of iffy on the Q1 of 2009 release.
Multi-touch is cool, first thing I did on the Macbook display at the Apple store was try it out on the trackpad- and it was at that point I found it to be useless. I am sure WM7 will implement it but I will bet my shoes that they will support other input methods for specific tasks, such as double tapping.
It would be cool to have, but to put it into perspective, I would love for Apple to boost their camera to 5 megapixels and have them ditch multi-touch or would have HTC add flash to the HD rather than multi-touch. The flash example is a much better example since it's not a deal breaker whereas the weak camera in the iPhone is.
Anyways.
Ya man, it's crazy what some people say- one guy made the lack of TV-out to be almost as bad as nuclear winter. I mean seriously, how many times a week do you use TV-out? I live on campus at a major university, which anyone will tell you has more televisions and iPhones per square yard than any other place in the world, and I have never seen anyone use their TV-out. Hell, I don't think anyone even owns the cable or even knows they could output TV. But man, this guy waged war with me that the lack of TV-out made the HD absolutely and utterly useless. I learned my lesson so now whenever I say anything even REMOTELY negative about the iPhone, I have my flame retardant suit on.
"Meh.. multi-touch is cool I guess."
"Multi-touch is the greatest invention of ALL time you n00b!! I will pawN you with my multi-touch light saber!!!! What are you going to do? Double tap your light saber!!!!?? HA! HA! PAWNED!!!!!"
lolz
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Agree with you mate.
Everyone should define his/her own requirements first before saying if a device is useless. A person who does lots of group presentation using power point and the like on the move might find TV-out indispensable. A person who need to use a device on prolonged basis wihout availability of power will find replaceable battery indispensable. Everyone's requirement is unique and the requirements must first be considered before jumping into the bandwagon to get the latest phone.
Also, just because a person "declares" a device "useless" does not make it useless. It just mean that it does not meet his requirements but may 100% meet my requirements.
Hey,
i heard that multitouch is an apple patent and therefor not available on other phones. is that true?
if so then i'm pretty sure nearly every newer phone is capable of multitouch and there may be just a little "tweak" to unlock it.
any information on this? is somebody working on this?
DarsVaeda said:
Hey,
i heard that multitouch is an apple patent and therefor not available on other phones. is that true?
if so then i'm pretty sure nearly every newer phone is capable of multitouch and there may be just a little "tweak" to unlock it.
any information on this? is somebody working on this?
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Research on capacitive vs resistive touch screen technology.
sorry?
do you mean one of the technologies do not support multitouch
or do you mean one of those technologies is patented by apple?
DarsVaeda said:
sorry?
do you mean one of the technologies do not support multitouch
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Yes, and it's not ours...
is it absolutely impossible in resistitive touch screens have multi touch?!
Saw this on engadget yesterday - on the G1 though
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/...ality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/
I was an early adopter of the first generation touch HD and was instantly underwhelmed by this "flagship" phone, mainly due to its poor video capabilities and lack of TV out.
So, we on earth have yet again taken a step back?, no tv out, granted the video capabilites are up to scratch but to not offer TV out at this stage is for want of a better word and insult.
The main contenders the iphone and omnia 2 and omnia HD both offer good tv out but HTC have again decided to offer us a cut down "flagship" phone. For me this is the last straw.
Where I cannot move to IPhone as I hate itunes with a passion that should only be reserved for a child killer it is starting to look like this is the only option as the samsungs have there own little problems.
I have 7 months left on my contract and may even keep the HD until someone comes out with a decent snap drap / arm cpu that has HD out on winmo.
HD2, suck my pole..!
It's true that no TV Out is sad, but in which case should it be usefull?
I always have my computer when i want to watch thing on "big" screen...
stoolzo said:
I was an early adopter of the first generation touch HD and was instantly underwhelmed by this "flagship" phone, mainly due to its poor video capabilities and lack of TV out.
So, we on earth have yet again taken a step back?, no tv out, granted the video capabilites are up to scratch but to not offer TV out at this stage is for want of a better word and insult.
The main contenders the iphone and omnia 2 and omnia HD both offer good tv out but HTC have again decided to offer us a cut down "flagship" phone. For me this is the last straw.
Where I cannot move to IPhone as I hate itunes with a passion that should only be reserved for a child killer it is starting to look like this is the only option as the samsungs have there own little problems.
I have 7 months left on my contract and may even keep the HD until someone comes out with a decent snap drap / arm cpu that has HD out on winmo.
HD2, suck my pole..!
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Never needed a TV out on my phone and don't think I ever will. Guess its time to say bye bye! Main reason I stay with HTC is for the overwhelming support on this forum. Good look on finding that with the Omnia.
Wait til the Tegra phones start coming out, then it's more likely to happen.
I think the usefulness of TV out speaks for itself which is why it is already on the main contender flagship phones and on other HTC devices. Watching movies with freinds, showing photo slidehows with family, business presentations etc, the uses are endless.
I don't understand all the emotion surrounding these phones, if you like it you buy if you don't, buy it not. I was disappointed in the TP2 specs, so I did not buy it. Someone wiser than me once said: Don't leave angry, just leave. It's better that way though, right?
One thing i don't understand... You'r Coming to this Forum to say that you Wont buy a hd2? It's like I go to a ford seller to say that I won't buy a ford... So what?
This comes from the frustration I have witht he HD v1 and HTC's dealing with drivers and video performance (still unaddressed). like me a lot of people were hoping this was going to be the phone the HD1 wasnt, disapointment, not anger really.
12aon said:
I don't understand all the emotion surrounding these phones, if you like it you buy if you don't, buy it not. I was disappointed in the TP2 specs, so I did not buy it. Someone wiser than me once said: Don't leave angry, just leave. It's better that way though, right?
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haha, well said. +1
12aon said:
I don't understand all the emotion surrounding these phones, if you like it you buy if you don't, buy it not. I was disappointed in the TP2 specs, so I did not buy it. Someone wiser than me once said: Don't leave angry, just leave. It's better that way though, right?
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+1 here as well.
I'm not quite sure what all the fuss is about. Yes, the mobile phone market is now about having as many features as possible on 1 device, but how many people make use of all the features? The more features they can cram into one device the more compromises they make over the quality of them all. There's two lists of requirements, 'must haves' and 'nice to haves', video call, TV-out better camera are all part of the nice to have list. HTC has always been a business oriented company focusing on the needs of the business and they have never set out to be the best of the best. It's was only when Samsung and Apple arrived on the scene that everyone demanded HTC to be more consumer focused. HTC are making slow progress to addressing this issue and they'll slowly get there. Look at Blackberries, they're still going strong and most of their phones have half the features we're expecting these days.
So, if you don't like the HD2, don't complain, you either like it or hate it! Move on!
TOUCH HD vs. OMNIA II vs. HD 2
Hello
I'm coming from an ETEN X500 over a N95 for two years and I want to go back to touchscreen now. I know the usage of the HD from a friend of mine, the Iphone and I have played around for 3 Hours last Thursday with the OMNIA II i8000.
The result is, that the OMNIA has TV Out but you can not use this thing in everydays life. Its awfull slow, the UI is horrible and the touchscreen is bad.
The AMOLED is great, ok. But at the end I think Samsung needs about 2 generations of phones to reach the Touch HD. And if the HD 2 is only half as good as the reviews say its much better than the Samsung devices.
The lag of TV-Out is sad anyway.
Bye
stoolzo said:
I was an early adopter of the first generation touch HD and was instantly underwhelmed by this "flagship" phone, mainly due to its poor video capabilities and lack of TV out.
So, we on earth have yet again taken a step back?, no tv out, granted the video capabilites are up to scratch but to not offer TV out at this stage is for want of a better word and insult.
The main contenders the iphone and omnia 2 and omnia HD both offer good tv out but HTC have again decided to offer us a cut down "flagship" phone. For me this is the last straw.
Where I cannot move to IPhone as I hate itunes with a passion that should only be reserved for a child killer it is starting to look like this is the only option as the samsungs have there own little problems.
I have 7 months left on my contract and may even keep the HD until someone comes out with a decent snap drap / arm cpu that has HD out on winmo.
HD2, suck my pole..!
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your posting is just to personal. I saw numerous complaints about lack video out, but I'm sure just a small amount of users like you will be disappointed, but is this a real deal breaker? It doesn't bother me a tiny bit at all. I was disappointed only by the lack of front camera, but I wouldn't make a thread trying to tell everyone HD2 sucks because it doesn't have one for me. How many phones are that perfect so far? HD2 is pretty much the most perfect phone to me and I'm sure to many others that didn't even bother about your complaint here.
12aon said:
I don't understand all the emotion surrounding these phones, if you like it you buy if you don't, buy it not. I was disappointed in the TP2 specs, so I did not buy it. Someone wiser than me once said: Don't leave angry, just leave. It's better that way though, right?
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You are one Cool dude
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haha, well said. +1
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Signed!
Another +1
lol, what a load of lovely "emotional" reactions, if you agree with 12aon's post, in that you actually understand what he was saying then some of you should be asking youselves why you bothered to post and did not just ignore my comments...
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shu8i said:
One thing i don't understand... You'r Coming to this Forum to say that you Wont buy a hd2? It's like I go to a ford seller to say that I won't buy a ford... So what?
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lol damn right, +10
Im not buying the HD2 because i dont like the boot screen!
nicelad_uk said:
Never needed a TV out on my phone and don't think I ever will. Guess its time to say bye bye! Main reason I stay with HTC is for the overwhelming support on this forum. Good look on finding that with the Omnia.
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I don't see the need for TV out either...with a 360 and upnp I can stream from any of my laptops etc, and frankly if I'm brining media elsewhere I'm not going to cross my fingers that whereever I go is going to have the right connector (vga vs hdmi vs component vs svideo vs rca etc).
It's too bad that this is such an important thing to you- my real concerns are lack of a d-pad, but even that won't stop me from picking one of these up like free booze at an AA convention.
clearly you all have much more money than I do, when I buy a new gadget, (now lets not pretend it is anything else as if you just wanted a phone you would still have your 10 year old nokia), I want to get my moneys worth. For me to shell out another effective £500+ on a phone it has to be a decent upgrade.. what are we really getting here?, big screen, so what?, same res as hd1, compass, give me a break, speed - granted you get speed but with the right ROM the HD1 is more than adequate to do most things, albeit with a bit of reenocding.
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clearly you all have much more money than I do, when I buy a new gadget, (now lets not pretend it is anything else as if you just wanted a phone you would still have your 10 year old nokia), I want to get my moneys worth. For me to shell out another effective £500+ on a phone it has to be a decent upgrade.. what are we really getting here?, big screen, so what?, same res as hd1, compass, give me a break, speed - granted you get speed but with the right ROM the HD1 is more than adequate to do most things, albeit with a bit of reenocding.
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I am no HD Owner but from my raph point of perspective this is a pretty decent upgrade and I feel after all this time squeezing the most out of my raph that this phone out of the box doesn't need any squeezing. When I will cook a ROM for this phone I'm going to make sure that everthing that works now is stays that way and loose the extra's.
If you have a chance to test it or check it out, I would recommend doing so you might be a little more suprised then you suspect. That being said there are still a couple of decent devices in HTC's line up, and if you are HTC HD you might just have to hold on to your HD for a bit, as its probably to young for you to throw it aside ,
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Just had to post a IMO post real quick.
I had the hd2 for about a month.
Great hardware htc. Horrible OS microsoft.
I have been a loyal winmobile person for years, until i got this phone and saw how much winmobile hampered the hd2s potential. I got so fed up I sold my hd2 and got a Nexus one. I could not happier, its awesome!
If you have been hesitant to jump on the Android band wagon, don't be! its like having the hd2 hardware (minus the grande screen) + iphone gui + multiprocessing + open development all in one.
Android and the nexus one are not perfect i know, but at least they are vested in improving and it is already leaps and bounds better than the winmobile on HD2. Plus the more of you good mod'rs and developers make the switch to Android the better their Market place is going to be.
Making the switch is like coming out of the dark ages.
I'll get off my soap box now, I just had to post this, because I wish someone had told me this before i dropped 700 bones on an hd2.
see you on the Nexus One threads.
Aaron79 said:
see you on the Nexus One threads.
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Nope, you won't.
And what exactly is the point of telling us this?
freyberry said:
And what exactly is the point of telling us this?
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I just had to post this, because I wish someone had told me this before i dropped 700 bones on an hd2.
Aaron79 said:
Just had to post a IMO post real quick.
I had the hd2 for about a month.
Great hardware htc. Horrible OS microsoft.
I have been a loyal winmobile person for years, until i got this phone and saw how much winmobile hampered the hd2s potential. I got so fed up I sold my hd2 and got a Nexus one. I could not happier, its awesome!
If you have been hesitant to jump on the Android band wagon, don't be! its like having the hd2 hardware (minus the grande screen) + iphone gui + multiprocessing + open development all in one.
Android and the nexus one are not perfect i know, but at least they are vested in improving and it is already leaps and bounds better than the winmobile on HD2. Plus the more of you good mod'rs and developers make the switch to Android the better their Market place is going to be.
Making the switch is like coming out of the dark ages.
I'll get off my soap box now, I just had to post this, because I wish someone had told me this before i dropped 700 bones on an hd2.
see you on the Nexus One threads.
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Nice.
Dont worry (with us) and be happy !
meh
i have come the other way. had a Hero - great phone, tiny screen. had a few issues with the 3 of them i had so swapped to a nexus one.
Nexus one - OK, but not really "all that". its android without sense, and the AMOLED screen is truly horrible when using it outside. way way worse than a good LCD.
Now i have the HD2 and im loving it
Aaron79 said:
I just had to post this, because I wish someone had told me this before i dropped 700 bones on an hd2.
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Ridiculous. It's nobody's fault when you're unable to inform yourself. And it's nobody's fault when YOU don't like the HD2.
Why should we have told you not to buy it? We are perfectly satisfied with the device. I've tried Android and discovered nothing that would make me want it over Windows Mobile. We can't speak for you. And we really don't care about whether YOU like the device or not. There's absolutely no point in telling us, it's only spam in the forum.
But yeah, say hello to Android from me too. You won't see me in the Nexus forum, however.
freyberry said:
And what exactly is the point of telling us this?
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To get commission from his employer, Monsieur Le Trolle-Master.
say hello to Android from me too. I'm staying a little longer if you don't mind
dudes tranquilo.
I said IMO that means its not right or wrong just my point of view.
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To get commission from his employer, Monsieur Le Trolle-Master.
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Ahahahahaha!! That was the best comment ever!!
Aaron79 said:
dudes tranquilo.
I said IMO that means its not right or wrong just my point of view.
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And I asked what's the point in spamming the forum with this?
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To get commission from his employer, Monsieur Le Trolle-Master.
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Nice one! Haha
Aaron79 said:
dudes tranquilo.
I said IMO that means its not right or wrong just my point of view.
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aha you're a dude post-moderne?
ok not to get into a fight...but hd2 is mt first WinMo phone...and to be truthful, the gorgeous and sleek hd2 device when coupled with WinMo and SPB shell and other doodads which i purchased, it's almost a better experience than the symbian os...and i am talking fom the viewpoint of phone functionality and entertainment/internet surfing device...sure i had to shell out the dough for a lot of apps to get it to the level where i like it...but now that i have it...nothing beats its...
btw, i think am one of the few who hated Sense from the first look...so here's my apps which make it better than anything else...
1. SPB mobile shell - in terms of customization and ease of use, it makes the UI experience a game which even a blind man can enjoy...
2. Iconsoft PhoneEx dialer - amazing!! beats even the kepboard phones like the blackberry and all...
3. CorePlayer - havent looked back once i got this...
Other apps - Resco explorer, photo manager, spb backup, gonews touch, im+, pcoket shield, galarm, pocket radio, ceTwit, facebook app, pocket informant, resco audio recorder, freda...all these and a few other odds and ends make the WinMo exp amazing!!
am pretty happy with what i got now..
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2. PhoEx dialer - amazing!! beats even the kepboard phones like the blackberry and all...
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Iconsoft PhoneEx? Yeah, that's a truly amazing application!
Aaron79 said:
Just had to post a IMO post real quick.
I had the hd2 for about a month.
Great hardware htc. Horrible OS microsoft.
I have been a loyal winmobile person for years, until i got this phone and saw how much winmobile hampered the hd2s potential. I got so fed up I sold my hd2 and got a Nexus one. I could not happier, its awesome!
If you have been hesitant to jump on the Android band wagon, don't be! its like having the hd2 hardware (minus the grande screen) + iphone gui + multiprocessing + open development all in one.
Android and the nexus one are not perfect i know, but at least they are vested in improving and it is already leaps and bounds better than the winmobile on HD2. Plus the more of you good mod'rs and developers make the switch to Android the better their Market place is going to be.
Making the switch is like coming out of the dark ages.
I'll get off my soap box now, I just had to post this, because I wish someone had told me this before i dropped 700 bones on an hd2.
see you on the Nexus One threads.
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good for you....i'll be sticking with my lovely HD2 thank you.
***double post by mistake***
Dont let the door hit you on the way out!
Aaron79 said:
Just had to post a IMO post real quick.
I had the hd2 for about a month.
Great hardware htc. Horrible OS microsoft.
I have been a loyal winmobile person for years, until i got this phone and saw how much winmobile hampered the hd2s potential. I got so fed up I sold my hd2 and got a Nexus one. I could not happier, its awesome!
If you have been hesitant to jump on the Android band wagon, don't be! its like having the hd2 hardware (minus the grande screen) + iphone gui + multiprocessing + open development all in one.
Android and the nexus one are not perfect i know, but at least they are vested in improving and it is already leaps and bounds better than the winmobile on HD2. Plus the more of you good mod'rs and developers make the switch to Android the better their Market place is going to be.
Making the switch is like coming out of the dark ages.
I'll get off my soap box now, I just had to post this, because I wish someone had told me this before i dropped 700 bones on an hd2.
see you on the Nexus One threads.
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'Its awesome' 'leaps and bounds better' and 'coming out of the darkness' don't mean a thing, maybe you could be a bit more specific and provide more details, in what way you feel the Nexus is better, the Android system seems a bit crude to me.
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'Its awesome' 'leaps and bounds better' and 'coming out of the darkness' don't mean a thing, maybe you could be a bit more specific and provide more details, in what way you feel the Nexus is better, the Android system seems a bit crude to me.
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Why encourage him? He's like someone with AIDS who insists on sleeping with everyone he meets so he can spread it around
Probably not the right forum, but I thought I'd break the news to you guys:
It seems like that the rumored Sprint HTC Supersonic is gonna be called, "HTC Evo" and it will be released on Sprint in Summer of 2010.
How do I know this? Engadget's coverage is sponsored by Sprint, and even though it's not officially released, they already have a banner that popped up as an advertisement and linked to a Coming Soon Sprint page.
Just thought I'd share the news !
That phone looks very hot. If I didn't already have an HD2, I might have switched to Sprint!
Was just reading that and droling over engadget pictures and videos of this monster aka possiblity the best phone ever!
Would love to put the HTC desire keyboard on there and play with this baby!
Has anyone got any info on availability (GSM / Europe)?
The Supersonic/Evo caught my eye a few weeks ago, but I'm not sold on Android just yet. Most of what I hear is a pretty and fun OS, but not really for getting down and dirty for business. I dono, maybe I'm misreading.
dondian said:
Would love to put the HTC desire keyboard on there and play with this baby!
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It'll have ezinput like all the other HTC phones? Or does the Desire do something differently?
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/htc-evo-4g-is-sprints-android-powered-knight-in-superphone-armo/
@mazzarin: If you look at those pics on engadget, it has the same keyboard as HD2..
I for one, hate that keyboard since it has this arrows on the bottom, and when in landscape they're on the right.. So typing in landscape means keyboard is not "centered" (if you know what i mean, i'm sure HD2 users do).
So optimal solution would be that desire HTC_ime, since it's also 800x480
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=624416
Again, anyone has availability info (GSM / Europe)?
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Again, anyone has availability info (GSM / Europe)?
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I do hope this come to Europe cause probably this is going to be my next phone. So long WinMo phones!!! M$ just digged their own grave with the WP7...
not sure about u but its going to be my next phone no more winmo
Cool beans. I will keep my HD2 and hope one day we get WM7 running on it. But come summer, I am getting this baby which will most likely become my primary phone.
Its like my prayers were just answered.
can we port the android software from HTC Evo to the HTC HD2
The Qualcomm 8650 chip does support GSM as well as CDMA, so is say there's a possibility for a GSM version.
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The Supersonic/Evo caught my eye a few weeks ago, but I'm not sold on Android just yet. Most of what I hear is a pretty and fun OS, but not really for getting down and dirty for business. I dono, maybe I'm misreading.
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You should try Android... it works for business just fine. I can't ever see going back to Winblows
I've got a Sprint Hero, and use it as my primary phone. Work, play, addictions. It's great at just about everything. (Android, the Hero is kindof lacking cajones)
I'm using an HTC HD2 on AT&T's network. I absolutely love the phone. Coming from a long line of qwerty keyboard packing HTC phones, getting used to typing on the screen has taken a few weeks. I have also been playing with a nexus one. I truly believe that Android will kill off Windows Mobile. This is a shame because the HD2 running WM6.5 is an extraordinary device. This device comes a little too late. HTC should have built something like this two years ago instead of that touch pro with the little teeny screen. I digress.
It will be a miracle if MS can pull off WM7. They are already so far behind Apple and Android. Even if WM7 is great, Android will be so far ahead by then in term of apps and numbers. Even of MS gives the operating system away for free, it may be a tough sell.
This is sad but the writing's on the wall. Heck, there isn't even a Kindle app for WM. It seems developers have already pronounced WM DOA before the announcement of WM7.
I'd love to use a GSM version of the Supersonic. CDMA is such a lousy network. The battery has to be much larger to last even a day. With Wimax going, the thing will be lucky to last half a day per full charge.
*Wonders if this device will have the multi-touch functions and screen rotation animations...*
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*Wonders if this device will have the multi-touch functions and screen rotation animations...*
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...AND.... Surf the web while listening to music... (multi-tasking capabilities)....