Power on and you are greeted with familiar setup pages from HTC, helping you to swiftly hook-up to a Wi-Fi network and taking you on to register on your social networks (if you want to), so you are instantly jacked-in to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. One slight disadvantage, like the iPhone, is that you get a hard edge across your ear when actually using it for phone calls. It all feels and looks like the premium product that it is. The neat metal backplate removes to give you access to the battery, microSD and SIM slots. The phone itself is edged in a rubberised finish which neatly caps the top and bottom, as well as running around the edges making it feel secure in the hand. Around the back is the 5-megapixel camera, with a dual LED flash, sitting next to the outlet for the built-in speaker, which is rather good. On the bottom you'll find the Micro-USB and 3.5mm connections. As we saw on the HTC Touch2, the Home button takes you to the front of HTC's Sense interface, whilst the Windows key takes you to the front page of Windows Mobile 6.5 and the new honeycomb interface (which can also be accessed through the "Start" option in the top left-hand corner on all pages except in "full screen" viewing modes).Īround the body of the handset you have a volume control on the left-hand side, but that's the only other hard button on offer. Running across the bottom of the screen you get the usual suspects in terms of control buttons: calling, Home, Windows and back. It is perfectly suited to an inside jacket pocket, however, which is where we suspect HTC see this phone heading: a corporate world of finely tailored suits. We've been carting it around in the hip pocket of our jeans, but with such a large glorious screen, you can't really put anything else in the same pocket for risk of scratching. It measures 120.5 x 67mm but it is only 11mm thick, so despite the large footprint, it is still pocketable. Unlike the TG01, however, HTC have designed this handset well, with neat industrial-looking lines. With a massive 4.3-inch 480 x 800 pixel resolution display, it steals the crown from Toshiba's poorly-received TG01. A large part of the HTC Hero's success was down to HTC's Sense UI, which now finds its way onto the HD2, although visually it is close to previous TouchFLO layer that HTC have used. HTC have a history of customising interfaces from previous iterations of Windows Mobile to more recent Android devices.
On the day that Microsoft "officially" unleashed Windows Mobile 6.5 on the world, HTC pulled the covers off the HD2, their flagship Windows Phone and one that leaves other Windows Mobile devices in its wake.
(Pocket-lint) - HTC knows how to steal the show.
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