HTC touch HD

The HTC Touch HD gives you the best touch phone experience to date. Whether playing music or videos, downloading e-mails or navigating from A to B, the HTC Touch HD is the ultimate in
Windows Mobile PDA Phones.
A stunning 3.8" WVGA display and an ultrafast HSDPA connection to the Internet give a
Web-browsing experience which is fast, with less need for scrolling.

A 5-megapixel camera enables you to take high-resolution and high-quality images and video which can be replayed all from the handheld. What’s more, images are crisp and bright, with rich, deep colours.

A powerful business tool, the HTC Touch HD can handle all of your business applications. Powered by Windows Mobile 6.1, the HTC Touch HD allows you to load any custom or third-party software packages, if the built-in, contact and calendar applications do not offer the flexibility and functionality which you require.

Got a Word document which needs editing or a presentation you need to practise? Not a problem. The HTC Touch HD has Windows Mobile Office installed as standard, making you more productive when away from a desktop PC.

Features of HTC Touch HD.

• 3.8-inch wide, WVGA (480 X 800 pixel) for a rich viewing experience
• Vibrant TouchFLOTM 3D user for complete finger navigation of the main features including contacts, calendar, music and video.
• Surf the web and download pages at broadband speed with HSDPA internet connectivity
• GPS on board with Google maps offers street level navigation
• 5 megapixel camera for quality stills and video
• 3.5 mm audio jack makes the HTC HD compatible with the majority of audio equipment available
• Bluetooth and WiFi for complete wireless connectivity to other devices and the internet or networks.

What's in the box of HTC Touch HD.

• HTC Touch HD
• 8GB microSDHC card AC Adapter
• USB Cable
• Stereo earphones with mic
• Pouch Case
• Battery (1350mAh)
• Additional Stylus
• Screen Protector
• Getting Started CD
• User Manual CD

This device screams minimalistic from all angles so don’t expect lots of hardware buttons. On the top we have a 3.5mm headphone socket, not recessed at all and fits all headphones with a 3.5mm jack, nice one HTC about time too. To the left of that we have a simple on/off button and a tiny green led which flashes when you have a missed call etc

The bottom has the mini USB charging port, this is not the normal HTC mini USB charging port as on this occasion all it supports is charging and connectivity to a PC etc, no audio headsets or TV Out functionality. Next to this is the small circular opening for the microphone.

The left hand edge of the phone has one long button however this is a rocker type button for the volume up and down controls. The right edge is totally free of anything but at the lowest point is the access for the stylus, this is similar to the HTC Diamond as it is magnetically drawn into position with a satisfying click when your done. Again when you remove the stylus the device is intelligent enough to know that you need the screen to come on, and come on it doesTechnical Specification of HTC Touch HD

The front of the phone has an ear piece speaker grille at the top centre, to the right of that is the front facing video call camera, under that is a fantastic 3.8″ 800 x 480 screen finished at the bottom with four touch sensitive symbols, I say symbols as they are not physical buttons but when selected give a haptic feedback buzz so you know you have activated them. The symbols are call, home, back and end. Strange omission is illumination of the buttons, you cannot see them in the dark and there is no back lighting at all.

The rear plate of the device is a two tone black with a raised brushed chrome effect camera lense housing which proudly announces a 5.0 mega pixel auto focus camera.
Under the cover we have the battery compartment, SIM Card slot and MicroSD card slot. The soft reset button is the small red button

home screen.

Lovely home screen with flip over clock, call history and up to three appointments shown, the dock is at the bottom of the screen with all the tabs for easy access via touch or pressing down on one of them and dragging left or right.

People and Messages

The People tab is where you can add quick dial numbers with pictures, click on a photo and you can easily access options to call, email,SMS, MMS etc. The messaging tab lets you flick through your recent text messages or create new ones.

mail & internet

The mail tab is very similar to the messaging tab but purely concentrates on email, here you have access to your email inboxes, I have three shown but they have no titles so you have to guess which one is which until you get to know their order, you can create new messages from here and also click individual messages which opens up the standard Windows Mobile Outlook screens. As this is a Windows Mobile device the email integration is top draw with support for full HTML email and if you have an Exchange account, push email, contacts and agenda all work flawlessly. This is where Windows Mobile excels.

The Internet tab has quick access to the pre-installed Opera 9.5 Browser, YouTube application and favourite bookmarks. The browser works well and renders pages as fast as the iPhones’s Safari browser but I found the interface mainly due to the resistive screen to be harder to use, maybe practice will change my perspective. When your used to pinching and expanding two figures to zoom in and out having to pull up a toolbar and a slider to do the same does not seem as natural to me. The browser although being a newer version than the one seen on the HTC Diamond or the Touch Pro still has no support for Flash.

Google Maps, no street view as yet but again the screen shows this application in the best possible light, full satellite imagery in glorious 800 x 480 resolution looks simply stunning, GPS seemed to work fine for me without any of the lag problems others are reporting. I also loaded up TomTom and a free map and tested the GPS and all seemed perfectly fine to me, no different from the stand alone version I have and it kept up without any noticeable lag

Settings and Programs.

The settings tab gives you easy access to various system settings as well as a new option which allows you to change the order and display options of the tabs themselves, a nice addition.Programs is a simple but highly effective launch grid where you can add shortcuts to your most used programs, simply click on a free space and it opens a list of installed programs, select the one you want and it appears on the grid, reminds me of an iPhone home screen and is very usable

Other additional software over and above the Windows Mobile core worth mentioning is the YouTube application, this like the iPhone gives you access to flash based YouTube videos as the browser cannot handle them. You can search for videos easily as well as look at featured or most watched, a menu allows you to select them based on various different viewing options. Once selected the screen flips to landscape and the video is streamed, works very well over WiFi or HSDPA

Sound Quality
Being able to use a 3.5mm set of headphones is a major plus as we no longer have to use stock headphones or buy adaptors and it also gives you the option to try out the device’s sound quality with a good pair, I have a set of Bose in ear headphones and the sound playback through the device was very clear and had a lovely strong bass to it, volume was not the highest even at maximum for me but that is my preference as I love my music loud and always have to up the gain in iTunes before synching to my iPhone so I can get some extra volume. All in all very nice sound quality.
technical specifications:

• Operating System - Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
• Processor - Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528 MHz
• Memory – RAM - 288 MB,ROM - 512 MB
• Display - 3.8-inch (480x800WVGA) TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen
• Operating Frequency - HSDPA/WCDMA - Europe/Asia: 900/2100 MHz. Up to 2 Mbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds.
• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• Connectivity –Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
• Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for wireless stereo headsets
• HTC ExtUSB
• 3.5 mm audio jack
• GPS – GPS and A-GPS ready
• Expansion – microSD™ memory card (SDHC capable)
• FM Radio
• Touch sensitive front panel buttons
• Camera - 5 megapixel colour camera with auto focus. Front facing VGA CMOS color camera.
• Battery - Rechargeable Lithium-ion or. Lithium-ion polymer battery with a capacity of 1350 mAh
• Dimensions - 115 mm x 62.8 mm x 12 mm
• Weight - 146g
• Warranty 2 Years