HTC HD2 T8585 Unlocked Smartphone with 5 MP Camera, Windows Mobile 6.5, Wi-Fi, GPS – International Version with Warranty
April 24, 2010 by Guest Author
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- This unlocked cell phone is compatible with GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile. Not all carrier features may be supported. It will not work with CDMA carriers like Verizon Wireless, Alltel and Sprint.
- Quad-Band Unlocked GSM cell phone compatible with 850/900/1800/1900 GSM and 900/2100 3G frequencies plus GPRS/EDGE capabilities
- 1GHz Snapdragon¿ processor; ROM: 512 MB / RAM: 448 MB memory; 5 MP color camera with auto focus and dual LED flashlight; ; microSD¿ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
- 3.5 mm stereo audio jack; FM Radio; Bluetooth® 2.1 with Enhanced Data Rate and AD2P; Wi-Fi Router; nternet Sharing through USB or Bluetooth; Internal GPS antenna; Digital Compass; G-Sensor; Proximity sensor; Ambient light sensor;
- Up to 6 hours of talk time, up to 490 hours of standby time
Product Description
HTC HD2 delivers an experience your senses have been waiting for. The unprecedented 4.3-inch pixel-packed display is stunning. The world‘s first capacitive touch technology on a Windows phone along with 1 GHz processing … More >>
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I have had my HD2 less than a week.
I have just emailed HTC to tell them that I will be returning it if I do not get answers. It is that simple. The important question is Windows Mobile 7 upgradable?
It leaves me with a bad feeling…
What HTC is doing is completely UNETHICAL !!
It’s like New HD2 vs Old HD2 !
WTF and for THE SAME PRICE!
I TOLD YOU WE WERE BETA TESTERS !!
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve read on the internet an comment from an owner of this Pocket PC and she seems to be very disappointed in this miracle.
Here is the link – [...]/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
Because I cannot post comments on the other amazon.com, I just wanted to spit it out somewhere, so I guess American amazon will work.
Here is the answer:
You seem to be somehow frustrated by this mobile phone. You don’t like almost ANY of it’s features, thus it is a very functional and ergonomic device. I was laughing my a** at the part where you said about Word, Excel… Go buy yourself a netbook. Come on people, netbooks are netbooks, notebooks are other thing, PCs and Macs – another thing. This is a Smartphone/Communicator/Pocket PC, not a desktop or whatever! When you will understand that a device like this is meant to simplify your life and help you ON THE GO with most of your tasks, while on the move, or when you don’t really have access to a real desktop computer? It is not supposed to make for you reports, graphs or cook a cake for God’s sake, it is just a freaking cool pocket PC with a very (very) good hardware base and an very (very) appealing and beautiful interface. Peace.
Rating: 5 / 5
I’ve been waiting for this phone a long time. I looked at everything in the market and the main reason to wait for this was the snapdragon processor (1 GHz) combined with the amazing screen resolution (480×800) and the operating system.
I’m a longtime user of smart phones and you can say that I’m a heavy user. I typically have multiple email accounts, use GPS for occasional driving or just for walking tours during travel, WiFi regularly during international roaming and Skype on 3G/Wifi for calls. Plus watching some videos, listening to live internet radios and pod-casts as well as use it as a media player.
All the websites provide the specs, so I’ll get into the plusses and minuses of the phone and my experience with them.
Plusses:
+ great capacitive touch screen. Very responsive. 480×800 resolution for crystal clear colors and videos
+ Included Transformer movies (1&2) do a great job showing off the screen and the processor power. It’s just HD video without any lags or hazy-ness. Very impressive
+ comes with 16GB with only movies on it so you have ample of room for other media.
+ plays live audio and video flawlessly over 3G
+ HTC Sense is amazing and does a great job of hiding those Microsoft screens which you rarely get to. All the apps like email, messaging etc look much better with Sense.
+ Comes with a great animated weather screen
+ very slim though a little on the heavy side
+ 5.0mp Camera comes with flash which is good for close up photos.
+ charges thru PC USP port as well and has an option to be connected as a hard-drive, which is much better and faster compared to the Media Sync feature
+ good battery life, lasts up a day and a half with regular 3g usage and video watching
+ can be used as a WiFi Router/Access Point.
+ comes with FM when you plus the head set as an antenna
+ Swype app (included) as a replacement for keyboard rocks.. much faster to type with that.
Minuses:
- Huge screen is a plus but then you can’t keep it in your Jeans pocket as it might put strain on the screen or device
- even though camera is a 5.0 MP, some pictures do tend to be grainy due to low light
- Skype hs removed its support for WinMo 6.5 but the older version of apps can be found on the internet
- Doesn’t come with the “Wifi Router” app which basically turns your phone into a Wifi Access Point.. So you can have many people connect to your phone thru wifi and the phone provides the internet thru 3G.
- Microsoft says that it won’t provide Windows Mobile 7 on this device which could be a bummer since you might see new Windows Mobile 7 devices in next few months. I’m sure you can go to XDA developer website and get yourself a WM7 rom.
Other Notes:
o This phone will only get 3G on the TMobile and you won’t be use it with AT&T or any other network, for that matter, in Europe as TMO uses 1700 as one of the band which is not used any where else. Although the Aussie version of this phone will work on AT&T
o The above is true only for 3G while GPRS and EDGE are quad band which will work everywhere in the world.
I’ve been using this for few days now and am very impressed with it. Haven’t found any deal breaker issue so far, but will keep you guys updated.
*** After few weeks
- Lot of issues with getting flash player to work seemlessly with the browsers. I ended up installing flash player, plash player 10, flash lite 3.1, windows .NET compact framework to make it work and then installed the latest Opera browse, opera mini browser, Skyfire browser only to find that Flash now works in Skyfire.
- Many people have stopped supporting windows 6.5 and are prepping for Windows Mobile 7 so difficult to get it working on this device. (e.g. Adobe flash player and Skype)
- Different browser have different zoom in / zoom out settings which is frustrating.
– The Opera browser which comes installed has the pinch in and pinch out (expand) to zoom in /out.
– Opera 10 (new download) has click zoom in and out.
– Skyfire has its own icon where you can click on + and -
– IE also has click (tap the screen) and then a slider on the right side to zoo in and out.
I’d like all the browsers to support pinch in and out or atleast a common method.
- Very less applications on 6.5 marketplace, for example kids learning apps are not available easily (at all?). This is due to lack of marketplace when this launched to they are scattered everywhere. The problem might be addressed with the launch of Windows Mobile 7 marketplace.
Rating: 4 / 5
I bought the HD2, unlocked etc., a few month’s ago from [...] to evaluate it as the platform for a mobile application development project. I noticed it had Russian literature in the package when I received it. Phone works fine and has English language interface. So it has been awhile and I was looking into ROM updates. WHen I punched in the serial number HT9C4NW03488 on [...] support site, it tells me it only updateable to ‘ROM Upgrade for HTC HD2(RUS)’.
The HTC factory support says this unit will be Russian language if I run this ROM update. They will provide factory repair, but no ROM update support. They say to contact seller for correct ROM update. The seller, [...], says 30 days is up, no support from them. Upon further questioning, they say to contact Brainstorm (1 626 330 0636) for support. Brainstorm is not responding to technical support questions.
I am not averse to ‘kitchen ROM’ updates and have kept Dell Axim units going as far as WM6.1 using unofficial ROM releases but not being able to officially update a brand new $700 phone is troublesome to think about. I would just suggest any purchasers of this ‘international’ version look into the update issue if they share my concern.
Rating: 5 / 5
OK! I bought this phone considering two main reasons:
1.- I wanted a Widows mobile phone
2.- I wanted a gigantic screen to surf the web, watch videos and pictures, etc.
This phone runs Windows Mobile 6.5 with HTC Sense which is an excellent HTC Shell, brilliant, executive, serious, innovative, useful, customizable and extremely user friendly. First request has been fulfilled.
This is the greatest screen you’ll find… There’s just 1 device that comes closer (Toshiba TG01) and it is 0.2 inches smaller (Toshiba 4.1″ / HD2 4.3″) So my second reason is clearly covered. Indeed it is bigger than what I thought and I am obviously happy about it.
Extras: A LOT!!! The design is perfect, but device’s pictures describes it better than my words, it is so elegant and I like it very much.
Camera resolution is fine (not the best) but it does its job. Still pictures are very nice and video recording quality is also very good. I am very impressed about taking still pictures on dark environments beacuse it gets a highly brilliant and beautiful pictures. Its two led flash allows you to photograph almost anything on black dark environments (as long as it is closer enought to light it)
The capacitive screen prevents unwanted touches from any other thing that is not your finger (or skin) and it has a proximity sensor so you won’t click buttons with your face when talking on the phone. This proximity sensor turns off the screen when you place the phone on your ear and turns it back on when removed.
Battery life is amazing considering 1GHz processor and extra giant screen, I get more than 24hrs of power listening to music, placing and receiving calls, sending and receiving SMS, MMS, surfing the web through WiFi, GPRS, EDGE or 3G (any available) and “playing” with GPS, google maps, Garmin, etc.
It comes with an extremely addictive game (Teeter) that uses the built-in accelerometer to move a ball while you move the phone, the objective is to insert the ball in a green hole preventing the gray ones.
It has a built-in connection with Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Windows Live, so your contacts are always up-to-date with status, tweets, profile pictures and even birthdays! (it stores birthdays on the calendar and alerts you on the go)
Microsoft has a very useful software “MyPhone” (not exclusive for this device but 4 all Windows Mobile phones) which allows you to sync contacts, calendar, pictures, text messages, music, documents, storage card contents and even location. This lets you change your device and by simply synchronizing with a couple of clicks, your new device will be exactly as the old one, and you don’t even need a computer ’cause it stores the content on your Windows Live account. (I’ve heard about a lot of BB users who loses their contacts when updating the BB messenger) So this deserves a big “Hurrah” for Microsoft. I found it soooo useful and important.
The stock manager allows you to keep track of your stocks, always up-to-date, it can even show graphics for 1 day behavior, 5 days, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 and 2 years.
Storage card is placed below the back cover and it is not below the battery, so you can change it while phone is still on. It supports up to 32 GB microSD HC.
Applications included are very useful, I saw a review that talks about the simple calculator and this is wrong… it is not so simple, it has a simple calculator when holding the phone in a vertical position and you can get a scientific calculator if you turn your phone and hold it horizontal.
The MP3 trimmer allows you to cut an MP3 file in a determinated position and save and extract of it to use it as a ringtone.
Office Mobile includes OneNote where you can write using the keyboard or handwritting. (I also read a review that says that this phone won’t let you handwrite to create a message), this is also wrong… you can turn on this function on the keyboard options while you are writting your message.
WorldCard Mobile (found on tools) is an OCR recognition engine that lets you take a picture of a bussiness card and it recongnizes names, email, website, address, phones, etc and save it to a new contact so you don’t have to write it manually.
Remote Desktop Mobile lets you connect to any PC, the digital compass can be combined with google maps to get directions or orientate on unknown places and this HD2 can be configured as a WiFi router to use your mobile internet connection everywhere (GPRS, EDGE or 3G) so your laptop will be always online no matter where you are, it can connect to a network or bluetooth printer to print your documents on the go including Acrobat PDF documents. The Opera browser and even IE are flash compatible and you can navigate almost as if you are in front of your desktop PC.
The performance for this device is impressive with its 1GHz processor and as if this is not enought out there are millions of software apps that can be installed and customize your phone covering all your needs.
So, I can see no reasons why not to buy this monster. I hope that my review helps you decide what you want.
Rating: 5 / 5