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The dragon in the HTC camp has awoken, ladies and gentlemen, and it’s time it shows what it’s capable of. Be it a dragon, or a lion, the HTC HD2, codenamed HTC Leo, is truly a spectacular device. It seems to have all modern mobile technologies in its pocket, bridging the gap between phones and tablets.

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HTC are pushing the boundaries of the impossible by fitting the 4.3-inch screen in a phone smaller than the Toshiba TG01, which was the first Snapdragon-based device ever to be released. HD2 is certainly a feat of engineering and something to really look up to.
HTC HD2 official images

Now that it has just hit the market, the HD2 is bound to make some serious waves in the high-end smartphones pool and we guess many of you would probably be checking it out this holiday season. And you would be right to do so. Let’s go over its impeccable specs sheet one more time:

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HTC HD2 at a glance:

• General: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 900/2100 MHz, HSDPA, HSUPA
• Form factor: Touchscreen bar phone
• Dimensions: 120.5 x 67 x 11 mm, 157 g
• Display: 4.3″ 65K-color TFT capacitive touchscreen, 800 x 480 pixels WVGA, multi-touch support
• Platform: Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon 1 GHz processor
• OS: Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional; HTC Sense user interface (formerly TouchFLO 3D)
• Memory: 512MB storage, 448MB RAM, microSD card slot, 2GB card included in the retail box
• Camera: 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with touch focus and dual-LED flash; VGA@30 video recording
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, standard microUSB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS, 3.5mm audio jack, FM radio
• Battery: 1,230 mAh Li-Ion; up to 6 h 20 min talk time, 490 h standby, 8 h video playback, 12 h music playback
• Misc: Built-in accelerometer and digital compass, proximity and ambient light sensors, carrying pouch in box, optional car kit
• Software: CoPilot navigation software (trial version), Wi-Fi router software, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter integration, HTC Footprints

The HTC HD2 most certainly feels great in hand – the quality of the used materials is nice and the slim bezel around the screen is almost as spectacular as the slim profile. For the fist five minutes you can’t help but simply sit there and just stare at the amazing screen.

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But with touch smartphones getting screens that large sooner or later ergonomics had to be sacrificed. We somehow thought that the original Touch HD had almost crossed the line, but the HD2 has definitely crossed over. Reaching your thumb to the opposite angle of the screen is quite a task and it’s not really comfortable to use the phone single-handedly. But we guess many of you would find the compromise with ergonomics quite worth it.
The HD2 is impressive

Join us on the next page where we’ll get into some unboxing action, and as part of this brief preview article we’ll get into the ins and outs of HTC HD2 design and construction.

TouchFLO 3D has been promoted to Sense

If you are fan of Windows Mobile devices, you’re certainly familiar with the HTC’s TouchFLO interface.

Well, HTC have decided to go to the next level and upgraded the old but still cool TouchFLO 3D with all heart-melting features found in the Sense UI pioneered on the HTC Hero. The result is a new Sense user interface resembling the tabbed TouchFLO with more sections and full of eye-candy animations. The only thing missing as compare to the Hero are the widgets, which you could freely move around the screen, but here you have tabs.

The new Sense Home screen offers a choice of full screen tabs, decked out with some impressive graphics. You can move through the tabs with a single finger sweep, or by scrolling the colorful tab thumbnails at the bottom of the screen until you hit the one you need. It’s the familiar list from the TouchFLO 3D UI but with a few new additions and includes the home screen (with a large clock and weather information and animations), favorite contacts, text messages, email, Internet, calendar, stock, photos and video, music, weather, twitter, footprints and settings.

HTC refreshed the Home tab by adding your home city weather info along with the same eye-candy animations as in Weather tab, so the weather can come live in your handset. The other new addition to the Home tab is the shortcuts. You can assign quick links to almost everything in your phone.

The two new tabs are Twitter and Footprints. They both hardly need any introduction as both twitter and the HTC Footprints service have been around for quite some time. Footprints are geo-tagged photos stored with additional information such as a note, a name, a phone number, or a website.

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HTC Sense

The huge capacitive screen on the HD2 is the first of its kind in a WinMo smartphone and HTC have put quite some effort into delivering a whole new touch experience.

All parts of the UI and the menus react immediately to your fingers without the need to apply any force to the screen. The transitions are fast and fluid and followed by nice animations. In fact, the capacitive screen, the Snapdragon CPU and the nice amount of RAM make this Windows Mobile 6.5 the fastest one around.

Another first for Windows Mobile are the multi-touch gestures. You can use the pinch gesture to zoom in the photos, web browser and Google Maps (so iPhonish). There is no lag while zooming and it’s completely equal to the iPhone’s zoom speed and smoothness. But that’s understandable with that 1GHz Snapdragon inside.

There is another new feature on the HD2 as well – it’s the pocket ring mode. Upon an incoming call, the phone automatically recognizes that you’re carrying it in your pocket or purse and sets its maximum ringing volume so you won’t miss the call. Neat indeed! It’s not ground breaking functionality, but it’s those little things (such as the HTC Touch Diamond magnetic active stylus) that really put the past HTC Innovation slogan in context.

Multimedia – HD playback is still a no-go

The image gallery is the standard HTC one and except the multi-touch support, there is nothing new.

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The HTC image gallery • Albums

The more interesting part is the video playback. As usual you will need to install third-party application to watch DivX/XviD videos.

Pretty much all videos under 720p played just fine without any dropped frames. The HTC HD2 has similar issues as Acer neoTouch and has even worse performance. While the neoTouch managed to play the 720p videos with 15-17 fps, the HD2 has an output of only 12-13 frames per second. Not that any of those is actually watchable but it gives you an idea. We guess the graphics subsystem of the Acer neoTouch has a few tricks under its sleeve and it’s not a matter of pure CPU clock comparison.

5 megapixel camera with VGA video

As far as the camera in concerned, the HD 2 packs 5 megapixel snapper with LED flash. The video recording goes up to VGA at 30fps and given the hardware inside we think it’s not enough. The Omnia HD captures HD videos with far less powerful CPU and less RAM. And just like every other HTC handset, there is no geo-tagging from the camera options. You will need to do this manually with Footprints.

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HTC HD2 camera samples

The image and video quality are good enough and we guess, they will satisfy most of the users.

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