HTC Touch HD officially reveals its gorgeous mug
HTC Touch HD
(Credit: HTC )The poor HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro; the two smartphones just made their CTIA Fall 2008 debuts, and we've already moved onto the next big thing. But can you blame us? On Monday, HTC introduced its newest Touch model, the HTC Touch HD, and it's a stunner.
The Touch HD features a 3.8-inch (diagonal) VGA touch screen, which is the largest display on a smartphone that I can remember to date. Given the spacious screen, it's no surprise the company designed the Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone for heavy Web and multimedia usage, hoping to replicate what you might get on your desktop.
The quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) handset does offer HSDPA speeds for a faster browsing experience, but currently only works on the European 900/2100MHz bands. We imagine U.S. support will be added when and if brought to the States. The smartphone also comes equipped with a 3.5mm headphone jack and a 5-megapixel camera.
Like the other Touch series models, the Touch HD will feature the TouchFlo 3D interface and has integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, and GPS. There's 512MB of flash memory and 288MB of RAM with a microSD card slot for expansion capabilities. According HTC, the Touch HD will be available through major European carriers in Q4, while other markets should follow shortly. No word yet on pricing.
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Plus Windows Mobile is a pig, and throwing TouchFlo on top of it is going to cut two legs off that pig. Get ready to grow old waiting for the spinning wheel to let you do anything.
The advantage of Apple is that they are a U.S. company and they distribute their phones to the U.S. first. All the Asian phone manufacturers always give their phones to Europe first. I don't know why they give preference to Europeans! I despise HTC just for that!
The best way should be to launch worldwide (never gonna happen). Hope that this phone does appear soon and knocks the pants off the iPhone. Lets hope you can use bluetooth properly with this phone.
One thing that stinks are these stupid GSM phones. Of course they should release cdma phones first. As one on cdma, we enjoy a much faster, cheaper, better quality network.
The main reason the iphone stinks is the rotten network its on. Dropped calls, crappy so called 3g that doesn't work half the time despite all the firmware upgrades, browser & app crashes, and a dictatorship run by apple who won't approve any useful apps mainly because it would have nothing to offer in future iphones. Apple is the greediest company i've ever seen.
Thirdly it's going to use a resistive touch screen because WM is built around a stylus. And resistive touch screens suck for touch input. Get ready to press three or four times to get any kind of recognition.
It does look, however, like Touch may become to iPhone what Sansa is to iPod. A strong second place player.
At least the screen is big :/
meaning 160x480 more pixels
- by dufu October 3, 2008 2:14 AM PDT
- You can use this phone in the US in regular networks (if it's unlocked) but NOT in 3G networks.
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- by FunkBunny October 29, 2008 9:33 AM PDT
- That is an incorrect statement about using this phone on US networks. You will be able to use this phone on 3G networks in the US.
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(21 Comments)About the "iPhone killers", at the end of this year there will be several iPhone killers, like SE XPERIA X1, Google's G1 and of course this one, which is the best of all!