subject: Htc Hd2 Assessment - Windows Phone With Large Capacitive Touchscreen [print this page] The HTC HD2 is a quad-band GSM / GPRS/ EDGE and HSDPA mobile phone as the member HTC Touch family introduced in October 2009. Its dimensions are 120.5 millimeters in height and 67 mm in width and 162 grams in heaviness.
This is basically the very first smartphone to use a huge 4.3" backlit TFT LCD capacitive touch screen display with a resolution of 480x800p and can display about 65.000 colors WVGA. It is loaded with the HTC Sense which is an incredible graphical user interface from HTC. The smartphone is integrated with the 5 MP camera with autofocus CMOS sensor and double LED flash. The camera allows consumers to capture photos up to image resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels as well as to capture video clips of VGA (800x480p image resolutions) at 30 frames per second.
HTC HD2 is included with Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional operating system. Additionally, it can also be unofficially loaded with Android 2.2 (Froyo) and v.2.3 (Gingerbread), Ubuntu and MeeGo OS. Furthermore, there are many modified versions of Windows Mobile are available for this mobile phone. It's an choice for owners which are not satisfied with the standard features of this smartphone so they can customize the phone to make it more usable and effective as their requires. The handset features a speedy 1 GHz Scorpion processor with Adreno 200 GPU and Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon chipset with 448 Megabytes of RAM.
For multi-media features, it possesses a Stereo FM radio with RDS, an audio player can handle MP3, WAV, eAAC formats along with a video player that works with WMV, MP4, H.263, and H.264 formats. To store multimedia files, the HTC HD2 comes with an built-in flash ROM of 512 MB which may be extended with the external storage microSDHC card approximately 32 GB.
This touch screen phone also has multi-touch input method which is efficiently executed, accelerometer sensor for user interface auto-rotate, proximity sensor for auto turn-off, voice call, predictive text input, Voice memo, Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer), Digital compass feature, and YouTube client. Relating to connectivity, it is included with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, Assisted-GPS, microUSB, 3.5 millimeters audio jack and Wi-Fi.
HTC HD2 is provided with a standard battery Lithium-ion 1230 mAh which provides a stand-by period of about 490 hours (2G mode) or about 390 hours (3G) and talk time as high as Six hours (2G) and up to 5 hours and forty minutes (3G). Furthermore, the battery provides as many as twelve hours of songs playback on a single charge.
It is strongly recommended for HTC HD2 owners to add a certified upgrade and to add BsB tweaks to have a greater performance and capability of this mobile phone. The excellence of this smartphone are considered the massive 4.3-inch capacitive display (nevertheless, big size is not match for everyone), amazing web browsing sensation because of multi-touch capability and responsive performance due to the superior processor. Additionally, this phone doesn't feature front-facing camera for video call and it possesses an awful quality of speaker phone.
