The first full review of HTC Touch HD published

[windows]

Many photos, screenshots and a video!

Unfortunately this review is in German so here some highlights from this review:

• at last a smartphone that eclipses the iPhone but is powered by Windows Mobile
• display is not only big [bigger than in iPhone] but is also precise in usage and reacts quickly to finger input, what means that in most cases one does not need to pull out the stylus!
• HTC TouchFLO 3D that is in built-in into HTC Touch HD is better than TouchWiz user interface add-on from Samsung Omnia
• HTC TouchFLO 3D has new tab: stock price
• processor: 528 MHz from Qualcomm
• memory: working memory is 288 MB and storage is 512 MB, on top of that this phone has a microSDHC card slot for cards up to 32 GB
• HTC Touch HD is better than iPhone for web browsing because not only it has bigger display but also more pixels: 800x480 compared to 320x480 of iPhone [i.e. 2.5 times more]; in other words: many web sites can be seen clearly without the need to scroll
• quality of photos of the 5 megapixel camera of HTC Touch HD is lower than of other phones with 5 megapixel camera; authors of the review claim that the reason is that other phones use Carl Zeiss optics and HTC Touch HD uses no-name lenses
• camera has selective focus, i.e. you touch the object on the photo that should get focus, so situation can be avoided where focus is on some area of no interest
• low resolution camera for video calling is also available (note: iPhone cannot do video calling at all)
• the 3.5 mm stereo miniplug is available and can be used with built-in FM radio
• battery capacity is 1350 mAh and thanks to chipset from Qualcom it is possible to achieve very long battery life also with use of 3G (UMTS/HSDPA)

To learn more, visit the review of HTC Touch HD as well as a part where a video review of HTC Touch HD is available (scroll down to the bottom to get to video) and a section where touch-to-focus is presented on photos.

[Source WM Experts / MS Mobiles]

[boz]

I still want one!

[bydandie]

It does look nice!

[tonybro]

Now I really want one after seeing that video!

[boz]

The Touch HD video playback did look good, I hope it has 30fps.

[pgamble]

I'm really struggling

Awful vga video calling camera quality, awful over marketed 5mp stills camera with no flash (the CCD discussion is a waste of time when they put such rubbish lens on them) ..

Possibly no TV-Out on what HTC refer to as their first 'Media phone'

And quite possibly a complete inability to play games or use anything that focuses on the dpad and buttons.

Sadly, WM still uses small selection icons in it's native mode which means that using your fingers - even on a screen as big as this is so touch and go that it would frustrate enormously.

I was prepared to lose the hardware keyboard .... but all of the above for me are too much.

I'm definitely swaying back to the X1 ... desperate for an honest review of it.

Anyone any idea when a review of the Asus WVGA PDA is likely to be out ... is that a contender ?

Paul.

[windows]

a review of the X1 should be on the cards, no news at all on us getting hold of the ASUS machine.