| HTC has been improving itself everytime they bring | | | | one-touch contacts, easy flipping from email to call and, |
| out a new high end smartphones, but its HTC HD2 it | | | | should the need arise, setting up a conference call. |
| really manages to impress us mobile phone fans. While | | | | Whether it matches your expectations of a |
| everyone has their personal preferences and little fads, | | | | “holistic” experience as described by HTC, it is |
| it would take an Orc-like perspective on the world not | | | | undoubtedly impressive and user-friendly, with a logical |
| to be impressed by the display that fronts its | | | | layout and many one-touch operations to watch, |
| feature-rich core. | | | | browse and flip through your stuff. |
| Thirteen years of working with Microsoft has certainly | | | | The HD2 weighs in at 157g - heavy even for a |
| paid off. Essentially, the HD2 is a big screen in your | | | | top-of-the-range PDA/ smartphone - but somehow, |
| pocket: 4.3 inches (diagonal) of high-resolution touch | | | | because it is so thin, the weight of the HD2 enhances |
| cinema, yet housed in an amazingly skinny shell. It is the | | | | its attraction: it lets you know its there and gives you |
| world’s first capacitive touch technology to run | | | | something to press against. You feel like you have |
| under Windows: Windows Mobile 6.5 to be precise. | | | | actually go something, rather than a being a flimspy |
| Just to be clear, capacitive is the name for a | | | | lightweight phone that feels cheap. |
| technology made famous on Apple’s iPhone. It | | | | The sheer clarity and definition of the display HTC HD2 |
| relies on the electrical properties of the human body to | | | | is really amazing and for those of us no longer able to |
| detect when and where on the display you are | | | | spot a gnat on a fencepost half a mile away, it makes |
| touching. This means you can be as delicate as you | | | | Web page and document viewing not only feasible, but |
| like, but it generally doesn’t work effectively or at all | | | | pleasurable. The navigation on this mobile phone |
| with a stylus or wearing gloves. | | | | handset is slick, straightforward and easy to control; |
| Also for the first time in Windows, HTC has allied the | | | | viewing is crisp and rich, whether or not it actually |
| touchscreen with its HTC Sense concept: customising | | | | conforms to high definition in the strictest sense. |
| the HD2 with favourite apps on the home screen, | | | | |