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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Overall a great versatile handset, December 16, 2008
I just got my new HTC Touch HD phone a few days ago. It has replaced my old SPV M700 (HTC) with Windows Mobile 5 handset. I considered the HTC Diamond but disregarded this due to the slow TouchFLO 3D at the time (has now been updated) however battery life (900 mAh) is still bad. I also considered the iPhone 3G and the Blackberry Storm. The iPhone is fabulous, but not for editing documents etc., plus the screen resolution of the HD is near double. The Storm has a "click" screen which I'm not sure about.
First thing you notice when you take the phone out of its box it how solid and well built it feels. Also striking is the lack of the usual array of "HTC" style buttons. This gives the phone a very minimalistic and elegant look. After starting it up you are greeted with the home screen of the flo menu. This now responds much faster, looks stunning and is a real asset. However the flo does not cover all the phone's functionality and it soon reveals the WM 6.1 prof. underneath. Then navigating the menus using your finger becomes very tricky. Even the fantastically high screen resolution (480x800) can't make up for this. The HD does come with a stylus (held in by a magnet) which you'll need for those occasions. The virtual keyboard is good and responsive but I find it takes some time to get use to. To sync the phone with my PC with Vista was very easy with active sync. It works very well with MS Office 2007 and Media player. I took it to the gym and found the HD works very well as an MP3 player. You can even adjust the volume with the button at the side of the phone without turning the phone back on. The sound quality is very, very good. Importing/converting vids and photos is a doddle with the media player. However I imported a video podcast and the software did not make use of the g-sensor to view landscape, why? Playback is smooth and seems good. Web browsing is a joy with the high resolution screen and Opera 9.5 preinstalled (this does make use of the g-sensor).
I contacted HTC customer service and found them very helpful. If you go to the HTC website you can download the latest fixes for the phone.
Good:
TouchFLO 3D now fast and very useful
Build quality
Battery life
Great preloaded programs e.g. MS mobile office
Very good MP3 player and video playback with fantastic sound quality
Very slim and portable
HTC customer service seems fine
Very good compatibility with MS Vista
Looks stunning
5 mega pix camera
Bad:
Windows Mobile rears its ugly head
Fiddly small buttons in MS windows mobile
G-sensor does not support many prog.
Only digital zoom and no flash
Overall a great versatile handset.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Almost Perfect Mobile Phone, April 23, 2009
I have been using HTC Touch HD for more two months now and I'm generally happy with it.
My previous phone is O2 Atom Life with Intel XScale® PXA 270 Processor at 624 MHz, it's really fast. I don't know why newer phones generally only have 528 MHz speed, you would expect newer phones to have faster specs. But anyway, the main weakness of O2 is that it hangs and freezes A LOT. Averagely, I have to reset the phone twice a day. The phone signal is also not the strongest.
I got Samsung Omnia i900 to replace O2 and immediately gave it to my husband after 3 days of use. He was using Nokia so didn't really feel the difference, but for me the speed and touch screen sensitivity of Omnia is way below O2. I love the big screen, color, and design, but just can't stand the less sensitive screen (although it has improved with the newly released official ROM).
Finally, I tried the HTC Touch HD, which has better speed and touch screen sensitivity, not the best, but acceptable. Undeniably, I think that currently, iphone has the best touch screen speed and sensitivity (I don't own one, but have played around with my friend's). However, I still decided to stick with Windows Mobile system as I use the Office application quite often and I like to be able to easily sync data with my computer. I also like the freedom to customize/tweak my phone according to my likes.
I use cooked ROM with the new contact list and dialer (Topaz/Rhodium based), which has better interface and features such as linking contacts to facebook friends. The Full QWERTY input is also better and easier to type.
My main usage of the phone is to make calls (of course), messaging, calendar, reading e-book, word and excel for inputting data, surfing the net when traveling. I don't really use the music player, movie, stock, and email function.
Here are my experiences so far:
- System is quite stable. It has never hang/freeze so far. It also doesn't lag. When I have too many programs opened or didn't soft reset for days, then sometimes there might be 3 seconds or so delay when changing from one program to another. But the problem is usually solved when I soft reset or close all those opened programs.
- Touchscreen sensitivity and speed is good. Although it does take a while for first time touch-phone user to get the hang of how much pressure to use, gestures, etc.
- Text input is also great. As I mentioned I love the new full qwerty keyboard. It's very easy to type and I make very little typing mistake.
- Quality of call and signal is good. It's very clear, no noise/disturbance.
- The display is beautiful. Very nice and crisp color. It's much better than Samsung Omnia's display. I compared them side by side and Omnia's display and color appeared to be more blurry type.
- Camera and video quality is just average, no flash. They are very plain. Not too many special features. You can take good quality picture/video under good lighting condition, but nothing too exciting.
- The speaker for music playing is just average. It's probably not as good as Sony Ericson's music-phone.
- Battery life is good. For average usage (making calls, texting) it can last around 3 days (this is with the cooked ROM) and I always turn off the data connection at night. I've read that with original ROM it could last up to 5 days (depending on usage of course).
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
not perfect but close, March 25, 2009
This phone hasn't been released in the U.S. but is very popular in Europe and Asia. It's very clean and the screen is the best I've seen in a device (much better than the iPhone). It is unlocked which means it can work with most, though not all, carriers and no contract. It also has windows mobile 6.1 as it's base so it can run thousands of applications which is much more diverse and deep than other phone platforms. The cons to be are a lack of a d-pad (for gaming) and the inability to make many tweaks (you actually can do many tweaks but need third party apps which are free but require finding and installing them) and they could have bumped up the processor speed (though it's still faster than the iPhone). The memory, especially RAM is awesome. Personally, I would also liked to have seen a CF or SD (or both) card slot (has a MicroSD slot). It's about the sam size and feel as an iPhone.
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