We've become big admirers of the Windows Adaptable operating arrangement during 2008. Gone are the canicule back Windows Adaptable was apathetic and bug-ridden. Microsoft accept zapped the bugs and we anticipate that it's a smoother and added able-bodied OS than Symbian these days. It's starting to affection in added and added of the best recent bearing of touchscreen phones, and it's actuality in the HTC Touch HD. In actuality the Touch HD runs the actual best recent incarnation: Windows Adaptable 6.1 Professional.
The Touch HD is an upgraded adaptation of the HTC Touch Diamond. It's a actual sleek-looking minimalist slab of atramentous plastic, that looks actual futuristic. It isn't a baby phone, but its abbreviate minimalist architecture makes it arise not too big. The aboriginal affair that strikes you about the Touch HD is the admeasurement of the screen. It's very, actual big! In fact, at a ginormous 3.8 inches across, it's apparently the added acceptable awning anytime apparent on a adaptable (the iPhone 3G has a 3.5 inch screen.) Unlike best touchscreen phones, there are no advance buttons on the buzz at all - aloof a row of touch-sensitive buttons beneath the capital screen. This makes it very, actual glassy and adult in appearance.
The awning isn't aloof physically big, it additionally has an ultra-high resolution: 480 x 800 pixels. Alone one added buzz can bout this resolution - the Sony Ericsson Xperia. To put it into context, the Touch HD has 2.5 times as abounding pixels as the iPhone 3G! It's this ultra-high resolution that gives the HD its name. Now, as we've commented abounding times afore at Adaptable Phones UK, back it comes to touchscreen phones, big is better! The huge amplitude of awning absolute acreage agency that you can see added options, added basic buttons, added airheaded on awning at once, and the accomplished arrangement becomes abundant easier to use. The amateur aggregate of Windows Adaptable 6.1 Pro additional the TouchFLO 3D user interface additional the HD awning makes the Touch HD one of the best touchscreen phones that we've reviewed. It's a joy to use. HTC are additionally quick to point out that the HD awning makes the buzz abundant for watching videos too. The congenital accelerometer lets you calmly about-face amid account and widescreen mural modes, aloof by axis the phone.
The Touch HD is able with abounding appearance and applications that accomplish best use of the big screen. But the weakest of these is apparently the camera. At 5 megapixels, it's an advance on the 3.2 megapixel camera of the HTC Touch Diamond, but it isn't the best camera around. With the autofocus we acquisition that the after-effects are adequate, and absolutely acceptable abundant for demography book affection snaps in acceptable lighting. In poor lighting though, the camera suffers from a abridgement of a flash. The video recording affection is on a par, with after-effects that are able but not exceptional. A accessory camera is accessible for authoritative video calls at up to VGA resolution.
A affection that works rather added acceptable is the web browsing adequacy of the phone. With a best of WiFi or HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, you can be affirmed the fastest adaptable broadband affiliation speeds currently possible. Flip the affectation into mural approach and you accept a abounding 800 pixel amplitude accessible for announcement web pages. This makes it achievable to affectation abounding web pages in abounding resolution, after the charge to consistently zoom in and out. The web browser is fast to affectation pages, and all-embracing this is possibly the best accomplishing of the adaptable web that we've anytime seen. Top marks to HTC!
Another acceptable affection is the GPS accomplishing that uses Google Maps. This is addition case area bigger is better. The ample awning artlessly lets you see added of the map at any time, so you can get a clearer account of area you are and area you charge to go. The touchscreen aeronautics works acutely able-bodied with this application, absolution you annal and zoom aloof by borer or sliding your finger.
The audio capabilities of the Touch HD are brilliant. Able with a music amateur and an FM radio, and with a 3.5mm headphone jack, the audio accreditation of the accessory are impeccable. The music amateur is able of arena all the capital agenda formats - MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ and WMA - and because it uses Windows Mobile, it's accessible as pie to synch the accessory with Windows Media Amateur on a PC.
A accessory this able needs lots of memory, and HTC haven't let us down. The buzz has affluence of RAM accessible and can handle microSD cards up to a whopping 32 GB! The array activity abstracts quoted by HTC are absorbing - up to 8 hours talktime and 680 hours standby. But in the absolute apple we don't anticipate that you'll get annihilation like these. We haven't activated the array activity scientifically, so we're afraid to stick our close on the block here, but our activity is that best users will charge to recharge every brace of days. Besides, with such a affection arranged phone, you'll apparently appetite to use it to its abounding abeyant all day long!
This is a ablaze all-round device, and we can't amount this at annihilation beneath than a abounding 5 stars. While the camera may not bout the best recent and greatest, this is absolutely the alone anemic point of the phone. Admittedly it's ample and heavy, but you can't accept a ample awning unless you accept a ample buzz to put it on! We adulation the big screen, we adulation the user interface, we adulation the GPS and the internet. Whether you use your buzz for emailing, award your way around, blockage the banal bazaar or weather, or artlessly authoritative old ancient buzz calls, you'll acquisition aggregate you charge actuality in one actual acute device.
- 5 megapixel camera with autofocus
- Video recording & video calling (VGA resolution) with secondary camera
- Display: TFT, 480 x 800 pixels (3.8 inches)
- GPS receiver
- Music player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA formats)
- FM radio with RDS
- Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS, Email
- Ringtones: 40 voice polyphonic ringtones / MP3 ringtones
- Wallpaper
- Java
- Internet: GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA (7.2 Mbps)
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate, mini-USB 2.0, Wi-Fi, 3.5 mm audio jack
- Memory: 288 MB RAM plus microSD memory card (up to 32 GB)
- Vibration alert
- Quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) plus HSDPA/WCDMA (900/2100 MHz)
- Size: 115 x 63 x 12 mm
- Weight: 147g
- Talktime: 420 - 480 minutes
- Battery standby: 440 - 680 hours
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