Isaiah's Tech

I've been in love with this phone ever since i saw the spec sheet and pictures on gsmarena.com a few months ago. I've read the 9 page review on gsmarena.com of this phone about 3 times and I think this phone is amazing. It packs a 5 megapixel camera, Wi-fi, 3G, touch-screen, accelerometer and 8 gb of storage. What's there not to love, besides the fact that it is running on Windows Mobile. Another disadvantage for the average person might be that it is a bit bigger and a bit heavy, but my phone is the Nokia N81, and the weight and size of the HTC Touch HD wouldn't bother me. Especially since this phone is packed with a 3.8 inch screen and even has a radio (for those that listen to the radio, i'm not a huge fan.) Another possible disadvantage could be the lack of a TV out port, but seriously, no biggy, for me at least. This phone completely rapes the iPhone's specs, in every way possible, besides the price. But, here in Canada if you're going to get an iPhone with a contract, in the end, the iPhone will end up costing more than an unlocked HTC Touch HD. Unfortunately, it's being released everywhere except for North America, but that shouldn't be a problem for me to get either, since i got my phone from the Philippines. As i said, the price is still a huge factor, it's going for about 930 - 950 US dollars.

The HTC Touch HD's interface is much improved from the HTC Touch Diamond. An amazing feature the Touch HD has is that you can actually turn your phone face down and it will mute your call. This is the first time i have actually heard of something like this for a phone, although it may have been done before. If you turn the phone face down while it is ringing, it will mute your ringer. This works by using the built-in accelerometer, the feature that flips the screen as you turn your device sideways (many devices have this, see iPhone, the new iPod Nano, even cameras.) As i said earlier, the HTC Touch HD's interface has improved and, of course, it used a similar design to Apple's 'cover flow' in their 'Music' tab. All that said, the HTC Touch HD uses Opera to browse the internet, and has a stylus, but who uses those things anymore? The weather tab looks amazing, and has a great looking design and a 5-day forecast. The e-mail tab has a nice look to it (see posted link later).  If there are too many tabs for you to handle, (I did leave out several tabs) you can, of course, customize which ones appear on your screen and also the order they are shown in. 

The contacts tab is very well-designed and this is usually the case in Windows Mobile so we'll move along.

Testing the most important feature, the ability to make calls and the clarity!!! Looking at gsmarena.com's tests of the phone it actually came out as an 'Excellent' on their speakerphone test. The HTC Touch HD beat out the LG KS20, iPhone 3G, Samsung INNOV8, HTC Touch Pro and the HTC Touch Diamond in this category.

As i mentioned earlier, the music tab features a look similiar to the popular 'cover flow.' There is an equalizer that you can set to your own needs or you can use several presets. The image gallery also looks amazing but, is unfortunately lacking the iPhone's 2-touch zooming functionality. There is the full QWERTY, the QW-ER-TY and the traditional 9 number keypads.

The sound quality of the HTC Touch HD is definitely a step compared to it's older models, the HTC Touch Diamond and the HTC Touch Pro, but is still somewhat lacking. The gsmarena crew also noticed that the video playback might have actually been worse than the HTC Touch Diamond but they figured that because of the overwhelming 3.8 inch screen, this could have been predicted ahead of time.

They put the 5 megapixel camera to test, and in most cases it was actually better then the Samsung i900 Omnia's 5 megapixel shooter. They also put it side-by-side with one of the best 5 megapixel phones out right now, the Nokia N82. Of course, the HTC Touch HD's camera is a step-up from their previous devices.

Did i mention the pre-installed game on the HTC Touch HD? It sounds really fun, it is called the Teeter. It puts the accelerometer to good use. You must navigate silver balls avoiding various holes in a maze-like course and when your balls hit the walls (Ouch!) the phone even gives you a small vibration.

This was basically my short summary of the gsmarena.com's 9-page review. I love this phone and if i had the money i would get this without even thinking. A 5-megapixel camera, Wi-fi, 3G, accelerometer, 8 GB of memory, 3.8 inch touch-screen, gorgeous design / interface and don't forget the game, Teeter. The HTC Touch HD definitely has more than enough reasons for anyone to get this phone. If i see anyone with this phone here in Canada, i would probably faint.

I just had to confess my undying love for this phone, sorry for my rambling and lack of organization.

Thanks mostly to gsmarena.com for keeping me up to date on all the mobile devices, and here's a link to last week's 9 page review on the HTC Touch HD, i hope this was a good read!! :D