Big-screen lovers, capacitive touchscreen fans and smartphone users “in the know” will be happy to hear that the HTC HD2 (aka Leo) is almost here. HTC has today announced that their HTC HD2 will be launch later this month in select European markets. Boasting a class-leading 4.3-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen (a first for Windows Mobile smartphones!), blaze fasting 1Ghz Snapdragon chipset (a first for HTC) and a 5-megapixel autofocusing camera, the HD2 packs some serious processing and multimedia system power under its slim 11mm thick shell. And, as HTC’s first base Windows Phone to sport the smartphone manufacturer’s custom Sense UI, the HTC HD2 isn’t just a pretty facing, it’s also easy to get along with.
The HTC Sense UI blush wine to fame as the Android-powered Heron’s slick homescreen interface. And, this is the first time we’re seeing aspects of the multi-superman Sense UI devising its way to Windows Mobile, and it looks promising. The new Windows Mobile River 6.5 Professional interface has been re-worked to swordplay nice with finger inputs, but it took HTC’s Sense UI to gloss it to a touching-optimized shine.
The HD2’s Windows Mobile River-based Sense UI also brings along a couple additional features from its Android roots. For one, HTC’s Peep Twitter app makes the jump from Android to Windows Mobile. Another new lineament is integrated support for photo uploads to Facebook and Twitter. Facebook also syncs up with the address book.
As for hardware, the HD2 is the first HTC smartphone to yield advantage of the powerful Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) 1Ghz Snapdragon chipset. Paired with generous random-access memory stores, the HD2 should make quick employment of anything you can throw at it. Hopefully, that also spells the death of the dreaded UI slowdown that WinMo users rich person been gritting through all these years. The 4.3-in capacitive touchscreen is as big as they come in the mobile space, and the 5-megapixel camera takes impressive photos. The feature-exercise set rounds out with a heaping parcel of smartphone fixings – 3G, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD slot, FM radio and a digital ambit.
An optional cable car climb kit turns your HTC HD2 into a fully functional twist-by-turn Global Positioning System navigation system. We tin see a sprint of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s designing aesthetic in the HD2’s cable car climb, but that’s just mulct by us.
Suffice it to say that the HTC HD2 is going to turn heads on the street. Unfortunately, those streets volition only be in Europe for the meter being. Launch is expected later this calendar month in the EU, with O2 in the UK possibly launching on October 12 and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) Spain aiming for a November launch windowpane. Additional markets should go live shortly after. Price? Ђ649, but it’s not like it even matters. We’ll trade a kidney for an HD2. What about it, HTC?
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