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You can even use the LEDs when shooting video too. HTC has also gone to town with its implementation of the Sense UI, revamping all its icons and menus to make them even bigger, shinier, and fancier to suit the enormous screen.
When raining as it was at the time , you get animated clouds and rainfall in the background while rain drops will cover the inside of your screen until a windscreen wiper appears and wipes it all away. In particular, the sliding icon bar along the bottom has never felt intuitive.
Then again, with the limitations of Windows Mobile, even in its current 6. Also, if you get tweaking, you can customise it to be a bit more streamlined and a bit less fluffy. Elsewhere, HTC has given its usual spit and polish to the music, picture, dialler, text, clock and other core phone apps. This means that for the most part you can use this phone quite effortlessly for everyday tasks. It really is quite a shock. Of course you get access to the growing number of applications on the Windows MarketPlace and we found preinstalled applications for Facebook and Twitter so you can get your social network up and running as soon as possible.
Perhaps the single most important thing about this phone on a software front is that HTC has nailed its onscreen keyboard. The simple fact of the matter is, if you want the ultimate feature-packed big phone that can do everything, and you can accept the interface limitations of Windows Mobile, then this is the one to get.
So, if you only want that next level of multimedia experience from your phone, over and above a basic handset, then the iPhone, many of the Android-based phones, or indeed a Blackberry, will still offer more manageable day-to-day usability.
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We downloaded a free copy of "Pride and Prejudice" and found the apps reading experience to be decent. The text was big enough to read in portrait mode, and you can swipe your finger across the screen to "turn the page. She also said that the bigger display definitely made a difference in making the HD2 feel more like a small book.
Extras aside, the HD2 is equipped with a 5-megapixel camera and dual LED flash, autofocus, and editing options. The camera delivered great photo quality but what impressed us the most was the sharpness of images. The lines were incredibly crisp without any trace softness or haziness. For the most part, we were happy with the colors, though they could have been just a tad brighter for indoor shots.
Recorded video looked better than on most camera phones with minimal blurriness, even during action shots. The one downfall of the HD2 is that it runs Windows Mobile 6. Clearly, this puts you in a predicament of deciding whether to just wait for WP7 or go with an older OS. Though we can't speak to WP7 just yet since we haven't seen final product , we'll say that the HTC Sense user experience definitely makes a difference as far as Windows Mobile 6.
It brings various elements to the home screen that make it more customizable and easier to use, and it brings enhancements to other aspects of the phone, which you can read more about in our full review of the unlocked HTC HD2. You get all the core apps, such as the Microsoft Office Suite and Exchange support, but you still have to deal with some of the notorious usability issues, such as clunky menus and poor task management. Plus, with Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile 6.
The phone's features include quad-band world roaming, a speakerphone, speed dial, smart dialing, voice commands, conference calling, and text and multimedia messaging. The HD2 does a nice job of integrating the communication features. On a contact page, you can see all your interactions with that person, whether it be a phone call or text message, as well as any updates they've posted to social networking sites.
From an e-mail, you can call the sender or recipient of the message with a single tap of the phone icon provided there is a number associated with that contact, and if there are multiple people in an e-mail thread, you can quickly make a conference call to all using a similar method.
About half of the time the phone could only connect to the carrier's EDGE network, which was frustrating, and there was one occasion where we couldn't get a data connection at all.
Once connected, however, we got pretty decent speeds. Though we prefer the Opera browser in general, Internet Explorer Mobile 6 has the advantage of offering Flash Lite support, and of course, the large display and multitouch capabilities certainly make Web browsing a pleasant experience on the smartphone. Of course, the screen also benefits the multimedia experience. MobiTV and YouTube clips took a minute or so to buffer but the quality wasn't the best, so we could only watch those in short increments.
Music playback sounded rich and balanced through our Bose On-Ear Headphones, though we wish the T-Mobile HD2 had the same enhanced music player found on the unlocked version instead of just the standard Windows Media player. All that said, the HD2 is most definitely a worthy travel companion, whether you need entertaining on a short commute or a long trip. The HTC HD2 is equipped with the same 1GHz Snapdragon processor as the unlocked version, but we found the T-Mobile model to be slightly more sluggish, perhaps because of the extra apps on the device.
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