HTC Touch HD2 Review: Tragedy
Let's get it this way: in terms of hardware, HD2 Touch is the best phone in the world.He ostentatiously huge and incredibly thin, is intelligent and totally pornographic business.But the material as it deserves better than that.UPDATE
From the beginning, the HD2 is a tragic being built from the best imaginable pieces and loaded with an operating system altogether disappointing.HTC has done everything possible to hide the shame of the HD2, but not enough.
Meeting HD2: Hardware
HTC has a funny way of hardware design, where they settle on a core set of components then pumped almost every iteration of the basic specifications that can.(See also: HTC like Taco Bell) is a rare opportunity, then we have something like the Touch HD2 monitor the equally impressive, never Americanized Touch HD.
From top to bottom, corner to corner, and is a long-term HD2 Travel is a perfect example of glass, plastic and aluminum.The ratio widescreen bezel: the HD2 is simply a piece of glass of 4.3 inches, its multi-touch screen 800x480 surrounded by only a few millimeters ink black trim and a row of small buttons subtle pressure successfully.Hindside minimalist equipment, broken only by a slightly protruding HD2 target for the camera of 5 megapixels and a little bit the battery door aluminum grain, elegantly tapered, stressing that this is how thin thinner than the iPhone,which is very good for a phone that I have to remind him that he should not put a shelf.
It has the same powers deformation space as a model, but that looks like a beautiful picture phone, but when we finally see in person is twice as high as you thought it would and is too thin for extensive proportions.Almost not fair to other phones.And they give to issues of body image.
Behind this screen is a huge spectacular 1GHz Snapdragon with using 448MB of RAM specification would have posted a table top unless the shame that ten years ago and 512 MB ROM, with the help of microSD storageextensible.The battery standby facility smartphone is high here, a GPS proximity sensor, face an internal compass for Bluetooth 2.1.There is a 3.5 mm headphone, and the cargo arrives by Micro USB through a battery of 1230 mAh properly (it will get through the work day, part of the course at the moment).Unless absolutely necessary to have a hardware keyboard, nothing, nothing, the HD2 lets you want.
To live with the HD2
One of the advantages of Windows Mobile has not changed much in recent years is that it is easy to compare new old equipment, and be clear about the HD2: It is incredibly fast.Applications open and almost immediately, without hesitation and Wi-Fi, web pages on Opera Mobile as you navigate on a laptop, no cell phone.(And hell, if you put your face close enough to this ridiculous display is easy to forget that you're not.) This almost magical experience spread across HD2: answer and end calls without delaywaiting, the camera - a decent life number 5 megapixels with a blinding flash and VGA video capabilities at a pace so fast that you can point your lens, and pressing the Start button, no matter how many applications you havework in the background, always returning successful Clean and agile the HTC home screen ostentatious.Speaking of that!
This is one of the first Windows Mobile HTC phones make sense, combining fragments of Android revised interface and knead with years of TouchFLO 3D development.In practice, this means that using the HD2 is like any other HTC phone with Windows from the last three years, a cursor with tabs at the bottom of the screen that moves from the panel of theHome screen on the display panel mode, where HTC has condensed much information as you look at your phone.It is faster and more complete than you've seen before, with color, a Twitter client and browser bookmarks visual, but is essentially the same scoreboard HTC, gussied only a little.And since such a thing, you know, a suit can work, work.
Falling Out Of Lust With HD2
HTC software ethos has always been to conceal the wrong parts of Windows Mobile.And have a lot!But with the HD2, which have adopted this philosophy all the way to its logical conclusion: They tried to replace the user interface of Windows Mobile altogether.The HD2 is HTC: Edition reductio ad absurdum.
And make no mistake, this whole thing is extremely useful sense, is a rare opportunity to stay out of HTC is safe, gentle, gray and black arms, and the Windows 3.1-esque hell that was, andremains somehow a feature of Windows Mobile.With the way HTC has done a kind of meta-operating system that uses Windows Mobile 6.5 as a stagehand in the wings, which shows his face when absolutely necessary.HTC has added to the browser, same multitouch, maps and photo applications, it works pretty well for what will almost certainly qualify after the fact to hack.
In fact, one could describe the experience of total meaning than that.It is good, considering what it is.Is this a great qualification.As pretty as the replacement of HTC applications are not the same as having good basic applications first.Want to add music to the fantasy of HTC Media Player NewYou have to find the old Windows Media Player Mobile, add a folder and change again.You want new applications?Nid greatest need Windows Mobile Marketplace, where most applications you download will look and behave differently from the ecosystem spoiled by HTC.Click Start, and will be received with Windows Mess unsorted "in the Start menu.Need to edit a configuration that HTC are not considered important enough to put in your own control panel?Good luck.And God forbid that you do not feel, and want to stick vanilla 6.5, basically, can not: she is not ready for free use of pen and screen HD2 comes with no support oralmost abandoned the old feathers.Like the good work HTC has done here is a mixed experience.Remember the old Windows XP Shell bbLean striking and replacements as Litestep?"No?"There are good reasons for this, "is patches and masks, and can not totally replace a system of user interface operation.
Whenever you see the absurdity that HTC is going to deny this phone is running on Windows have replaced the timing and even text messaging applications, for the love of God, that you ask the same question: Why Why bother?
This is an issue for consumers, as HTC.HTC, why spend so much time and effort into despair and only marginally effective concealment of an operating system when they know that can not be totally replaced?I understand they have a legacy Windows Mobile, but now the legacy begins to appear toxic, like the HTC insistence on distancing own topic in the form of passive-aggressive displays disguise operations.And for people who want to buy this thing, why not wait a little?We have seen how fantastic this hardware combination is not, then why wait until someone in charge of software that HTC did not feel like they have to hide as a sort of dark secret?Sony is about to outspec the HD2 Android Xperia X10 anyway, and HTC would be foolish not to be working on something very similar now.
If you have any Windows Mobile unwavering loyalty to a personal work or forced, life can not do better than the HD2, ships sometimes in early 2010, but not think it will be cheap.If not, then wait for it.Believe me, for such material, the reward will be useful.
UPDATE: Some people say that I was too dismissive of the phone, simply because of its software, and have a point: the HD2 is unreservedly the best Windows Mobile phone on the market right now.And be a Windows Mobile phone is not bad at all, browsers have Flash support Exchange is perfect, and multitasking is perfect.In addition, the reservoir effect is a work of impressive software, particularly in terms of social networks and means of reproduction.But the question remains: Even after the convincing appearance of a modern phone, Windows Mobile is far behind its competitors in terms of developing new applications, running fast development and user experience in general, and the time to put your handson this phone, and equally important, the time your contract is mid-term review of Windows Mobile 6.5, the meaning or sense it feels like a dinosaur track.Hence the "expectation" of a similar phone with better software, or Windows Mobile 7.However, if you're a fan of Windows Mobile, or has knowledge of their different characteristics and always ready to take the dive, it's thinnest Windows Mobile smartphone in the world, without exception.
Let's get it this way: in terms of hardware, HD2 Touch is the best phone in the world.He ostentatiously huge and incredibly thin, is intelligent and totally pornographic business.But the material as it deserves better than that.UPDATE
From the beginning, the HD2 is a tragic being built from the best imaginable pieces and loaded with an operating system altogether disappointing.HTC has done everything possible to hide the shame of the HD2, but not enough.
Meeting HD2: Hardware
HTC has a funny way of hardware design, where they settle on a core set of components then pumped almost every iteration of the basic specifications that can.(See also: HTC like Taco Bell) is a rare opportunity, then we have something like the Touch HD2 monitor the equally impressive, never Americanized Touch HD.
From top to bottom, corner to corner, and is a long-term HD2 Travel is a perfect example of glass, plastic and aluminum.The ratio widescreen bezel: the HD2 is simply a piece of glass of 4.3 inches, its multi-touch screen 800x480 surrounded by only a few millimeters ink black trim and a row of small buttons subtle pressure successfully.Hindside minimalist equipment, broken only by a slightly protruding HD2 target for the camera of 5 megapixels and a little bit the battery door aluminum grain, elegantly tapered, stressing that this is how thin thinner than the iPhone,which is very good for a phone that I have to remind him that he should not put a shelf.
It has the same powers deformation space as a model, but that looks like a beautiful picture phone, but when we finally see in person is twice as high as you thought it would and is too thin for extensive proportions.Almost not fair to other phones.And they give to issues of body image.
Behind this screen is a huge spectacular 1GHz Snapdragon with using 448MB of RAM specification would have posted a table top unless the shame that ten years ago and 512 MB ROM, with the help of microSD storageextensible.The battery standby facility smartphone is high here, a GPS proximity sensor, face an internal compass for Bluetooth 2.1.There is a 3.5 mm headphone, and the cargo arrives by Micro USB through a battery of 1230 mAh properly (it will get through the work day, part of the course at the moment).Unless absolutely necessary to have a hardware keyboard, nothing, nothing, the HD2 lets you want.
To live with the HD2
One of the advantages of Windows Mobile has not changed much in recent years is that it is easy to compare new old equipment, and be clear about the HD2: It is incredibly fast.Applications open and almost immediately, without hesitation and Wi-Fi, web pages on Opera Mobile as you navigate on a laptop, no cell phone.(And hell, if you put your face close enough to this ridiculous display is easy to forget that you're not.) This almost magical experience spread across HD2: answer and end calls without delaywaiting, the camera - a decent life number 5 megapixels with a blinding flash and VGA video capabilities at a pace so fast that you can point your lens, and pressing the Start button, no matter how many applications you havework in the background, always returning successful Clean and agile the HTC home screen ostentatious.Speaking of that!
This is one of the first Windows Mobile HTC phones make sense, combining fragments of Android revised interface and knead with years of TouchFLO 3D development.In practice, this means that using the HD2 is like any other HTC phone with Windows from the last three years, a cursor with tabs at the bottom of the screen that moves from the panel of theHome screen on the display panel mode, where HTC has condensed much information as you look at your phone.It is faster and more complete than you've seen before, with color, a Twitter client and browser bookmarks visual, but is essentially the same scoreboard HTC, gussied only a little.And since such a thing, you know, a suit can work, work.
Falling Out Of Lust With HD2
HTC software ethos has always been to conceal the wrong parts of Windows Mobile.And have a lot!But with the HD2, which have adopted this philosophy all the way to its logical conclusion: They tried to replace the user interface of Windows Mobile altogether.The HD2 is HTC: Edition reductio ad absurdum.
And make no mistake, this whole thing is extremely useful sense, is a rare opportunity to stay out of HTC is safe, gentle, gray and black arms, and the Windows 3.1-esque hell that was, andremains somehow a feature of Windows Mobile.With the way HTC has done a kind of meta-operating system that uses Windows Mobile 6.5 as a stagehand in the wings, which shows his face when absolutely necessary.HTC has added to the browser, same multitouch, maps and photo applications, it works pretty well for what will almost certainly qualify after the fact to hack.
In fact, one could describe the experience of total meaning than that.It is good, considering what it is.Is this a great qualification.As pretty as the replacement of HTC applications are not the same as having good basic applications first.Want to add music to the fantasy of HTC Media Player NewYou have to find the old Windows Media Player Mobile, add a folder and change again.You want new applications?Nid greatest need Windows Mobile Marketplace, where most applications you download will look and behave differently from the ecosystem spoiled by HTC.Click Start, and will be received with Windows Mess unsorted "in the Start menu.Need to edit a configuration that HTC are not considered important enough to put in your own control panel?Good luck.And God forbid that you do not feel, and want to stick vanilla 6.5, basically, can not: she is not ready for free use of pen and screen HD2 comes with no support oralmost abandoned the old feathers.Like the good work HTC has done here is a mixed experience.Remember the old Windows XP Shell bbLean striking and replacements as Litestep?"No?"There are good reasons for this, "is patches and masks, and can not totally replace a system of user interface operation.
Whenever you see the absurdity that HTC is going to deny this phone is running on Windows have replaced the timing and even text messaging applications, for the love of God, that you ask the same question: Why Why bother?
This is an issue for consumers, as HTC.HTC, why spend so much time and effort into despair and only marginally effective concealment of an operating system when they know that can not be totally replaced?I understand they have a legacy Windows Mobile, but now the legacy begins to appear toxic, like the HTC insistence on distancing own topic in the form of passive-aggressive displays disguise operations.And for people who want to buy this thing, why not wait a little?We have seen how fantastic this hardware combination is not, then why wait until someone in charge of software that HTC did not feel like they have to hide as a sort of dark secret?Sony is about to outspec the HD2 Android Xperia X10 anyway, and HTC would be foolish not to be working on something very similar now.
If you have any Windows Mobile unwavering loyalty to a personal work or forced, life can not do better than the HD2, ships sometimes in early 2010, but not think it will be cheap.If not, then wait for it.Believe me, for such material, the reward will be useful.
UPDATE: Some people say that I was too dismissive of the phone, simply because of its software, and have a point: the HD2 is unreservedly the best Windows Mobile phone on the market right now.And be a Windows Mobile phone is not bad at all, browsers have Flash support Exchange is perfect, and multitasking is perfect.In addition, the reservoir effect is a work of impressive software, particularly in terms of social networks and means of reproduction.But the question remains: Even after the convincing appearance of a modern phone, Windows Mobile is far behind its competitors in terms of developing new applications, running fast development and user experience in general, and the time to put your handson this phone, and equally important, the time your contract is mid-term review of Windows Mobile 6.5, the meaning or sense it feels like a dinosaur track.Hence the "expectation" of a similar phone with better software, or Windows Mobile 7.However, if you're a fan of Windows Mobile, or has knowledge of their different characteristics and always ready to take the dive, it's thinnest Windows Mobile smartphone in the world, without exception.
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