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   Chris Davies
   Moderator

   It’s fair to say that the last time we saw excitement to this degree about a Windows Phone it centered on the HTC Touch HD, and so it seems only right that it’s the company’s successor to that handset, the HTC HD2, that is prompting such interest in 2009. Announced last month after copious rumors, what makes the HD2 special is its 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen, HTC Sense UI and 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. It’s taken a while, but the HTC HD2 has finally dropped onto the SlashGear test bench, so check out our first impressions and an unboxing video after the cut.

   Updated with first-boot video demo after the cut

   

   
   HTC HD2 video unboxing & first-impressions

   Posted 2 weeks ago #
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   JudgeTreve
   Member

   Is it true that the very nice looking weather animation is only working (on the home screen) with the default background? On my HTC TOUCH PRO 2 (WWE)with WM 6.5 the animation is only working on the default background.

   Will the weather itself update frequently (like on the HERO) on the homescreen under the clock? Again, on my TOUCH PRO 2, it usually takes three hours before the weather (under the clock) is updated. That’s not nice when you move around a lot. The weather and the place are then not right.

   Posted 2 weeks ago #
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   renosj
   Member

   Hi, I would like to ask you – put in review some detail camera quality test. It means camera samples in full resolution+super fine quality setting – landscape, macro etc. And compare result quality for example with Diamond 2, which is said to be the best WM camera device. I think, this test will interest a lot of users. Thanks in advance!

   Posted 2 weeks ago #
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   BeeQAL
   Member

   Great first impressions. Looking forward to the full review.

   Great work as usual guys :)

   Posted 2 weeks ago #
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   Alec Spyrou
   Member

   I have heard that there are no hardware drivers for the graphics chip on this device !

   That is very disapppointing news for a device that is seen by many as a mobile Plasma TV/media player. Many of us want to rip content for playing on this device.

   I understand the lack of hardware driver was also the case on the HD. Can you check with HTC regarding why this is the case. I know they will say performance is good (they would wouldn’t they !)

   Going to the expense of installing a graphics chip and not providing graphics drivers is a strange thing to do.

   Can you ask HTC whats the point ??
   Maybe I am missing something?

   Posted 2 weeks ago #
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   Liaw Kim Poh
   Member

   I am not sure if it is still the same for Manila 2.5, but for Manila 2.1 Sense with weather you can change the windowswallpaper_default.png manually to keep the weather with new wallpaper

   Posted 2 weeks ago #
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   BobM1
   Member

   As I use mobile for a lot of email, I should like to see some comparison of HD2 with Touch Pro 2 in terms of screen, speed and ease of typing. Currently using TyTn II, question is which one to upgrade to, hmmm.

   Posted 2 weeks ago #
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   EternalMovement
   Member

   Hi for the review could you please check out the following things please :)

   How is the call quality for phone calls? Most of the previews on the net barely mention this!

   Some pictures taken at night to see how the dual led does and post them up for us to see :)

   Is the sound quality up to scratch when listening to music through headphones?

   Thanks.

   Posted 2 weeks ago #
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   devbod
   Member

   Could you check how Remote Desktop works using a capacitive screen. Curious to see how usable it is without a pointer to resort to. For some (like me) its a ‘must have’ app so an easy zoom to scale things up to finger friendly size would be handy.

   Posted 2 weeks ago #
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    Darren Williams
    Member

    Please, please, could you report on how well this phone actually functions as a phone! Such as the signal reception strength (compared to say the other phones in the office) and call quality etc.

    Many Thanks!

    Posted 2 weeks ago #
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    Daniel
    Member

    How long is it before you’re gonna do a full review of the phone? cant wait :D

    Posted 2 weeks ago #
12. 

    mylifeinfiction
    Member

    I WANT THIS PHONE!

    I HOPE IT GETS ON T MOBILE!!!

    Posted 2 weeks ago #

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