Comments on: HTC Touch HD officially reveals its gorgeous mug

HTC Corporation announces its new smartphone, the HTC Touch HD, which features a 3.8-inch VGA display and focuses on Web browsing and entertainment.

[5errr]

nice mug shot! :)

[donth8]

when are these phone makers gonna come out with CDMA smartphones in the U.S. at or near the same time as in europe.

[Prof_Craig]

Probably never... I have word that this phone will actually hit stores the 2nd or 3rd week of October. Can't wait to play with it.

[Prof_Craig]

Probably never... I have word that this phone will actually hit stores the 2nd or 3rd week of October. Can't wait to play with it.

[AppleSuxLeo]

Wow...this looks like the real deal. About time someone beat Apple in screen size ! I want it NOW !!!

[b_baggins]

You probably don't. Odds are good it uses a resistive touch screen which means crappy response. Get used to pressing three or four times to get any response.

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.

[Rottentomato]

It will probably be a while before this phone comes to a CDMA carrier.

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!

[sknight99]

I live in Europe UK, I am still waiting for a phone that will beat the apple. I appreciate that people in US have the upper hand with this one and am glad at least the Asian market caters for us in Europe.

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.

[cardfan1212]

Why would you hope that? It's a WM phone so of course it will use bluetooth properly. This isn't apple's limited feature browser 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.

[garment69]

GSM comes first becuase it is the world standard.

[standa06]

Typical close-minded American attitude: "We do everything the best and the rest of the world has it all wrong." If you crossed the borders other than to Canada maybe you would then learn that "stupid" GSM is the standard and most common platform in the rest of the world (yes, it does exist!) and the quality of a network depends on each operator, not on the system. I used to live in an area with awful Sprint coverage and I did not complain about "stupid" CDMA. I'm on GSM, don't remember the last time I dropped a call and my 3G works flawlessly.

[j0rdanj]

GSM is far superior you need to look at the whole cellular picture

[garment69]

This baby looks to be a powerhouse. If they can bring a keyboard on par with the Iphones we may have ourselves the first "iphone killer".

[b_baggins]

Don't bet on it. For one thing, the web experience will suck, simply because WinMobile doesn't have resolution independence. Secondly WM is a pig, and TouchFlo is a hog, when you mate a pig and a hog, you get a dead sloth.

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.

[bubblebathgirl]

Unfortunately the HTC screens are less responsive and the interface is much less a joy to use then the current smart phone champ.

At least the screen is big :/

[Rasjahshout]

I am liking this new HTC Touch .... looks bad ass ! ! ! ..... I was gonna buy the Touch Diamond ... but now i have a new love .....

[JonTitor]

its not VGA, its WVGA
meaning 160x480 more pixels

[vickyprodigy]

Hey.... Since this has GSM 850/900/1800/1900 wont it work in US if i buy an unlocked phone? or only the european version 900/2100MHz has been released???

[roniag751]

So do we have to wait for a US version or will it work if purchased unlocked? Anyone know how much?

[dufu]

You can use this phone in the US in regular networks (if it's unlocked) but NOT in 3G networks.

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!

[FunkBunny]

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.