Unboxing The HTC HD2!

If you’ve been reading earlier in the week, you would have seen that I was pretty peeved with a certain local phone network, and their pricing policies. Thinking that the HD2 had been upped to a price that was beyond my means, I went to local PDA supplier Organiser World. They were sold out, but expecting more the following day, and the price was right. The service was great, I much prefer buying devices from other geeky Windows Phone enthusiasts. Rather than corporate drones.

The HD2 is probably the most anticipated  windows phone of all time, and I certainly didn’t expect to get my hands on one this quickly. Just a quick refresh on the specs

• Windows Mobile 6.5 professional
• 120.5 x 67 x 11mm
• HSPA/WCDMA 850/2100Mhz
• 4.3 inch TFT/LCD capacitive touch screen
• 1 Ghz snapdragon processor
• 448 Mb Ram
• 3.5mm audio jack
• 5 megapixel camera with dual led flash
• GPS
• Micro SD expansion up to 32 Gb

So what’s in the box, that’s the pressing question?

Noticeably device packaging, has become greener, no pun intended. The size of the boxes that phones come in now, have drastically reduced, producing less waste, the HD2 box even sports a disclaimer, printed with soy ink. There’s a lovely matt finish and texture to the packaging, that also ensures that it’s recyclable.Of course you are presented with the HD2, which is wrapped in a plastic film printed with a warning, which basically says don’t sit on the phone, you might damage the screen. More of the phone later though.

All the goodies

Of course you find the general smattering of paperwork, a manual, warranty details, some promotional leaflets, and something I’ve not seen before, a licence for Office mobile. I’m not sure why that’s there yet, I’ll have to investigate that further. There’s a tacky vynil slip cover, that is going to take some wearing in to be useful. Best of all, a 16 Gb micro SD card and adapter from Sandisk.

Of course their is the obligatory hardware, charger, sync/charge micro USB cable, and with the inclusion of the headphone jack, a pair of proprietary HTC headphones. The charger is exactly the same as the one I received with the Touch Diamond 2. A universal charger, that comes in two parts, with different plugs for different international configurations. The headphones are interesting, the phone and volume can be controlled via the bud on the connecting wire, all of that through the 3.5 mm jack. Somewhat reminiscent of the controls on the new iPod Nano. They actually don’t look that bad either. Everyone lauds Apples design values, I think though, HTC have got game in the looks department. There’s little foam thingamajiggies as well to cover the headphone speakers.

As for the HD2 itself, it’s all metal and a touch screen, with a beautiful curve and a really slim form factor. The weight of the device, and the matt finish, just feel right in the hand. It’s hard to describe, but it fits in the hand and almost warms it. You want to hang on to it.

You can see above the micro USB, and 3.5mm audio jack, and the small hole on the left, is the microphone. The raised camera is the only thing that strikes me as blemishing the sleek design.

It looks huge compared to the Touch Diamond 2, and it is, sort of. The angle of that image doesn’t do the HD2 justice.

Besides screen size, and power, the HD2 offers a simplistic slate format, besides the volume control, there ere no external controls on the HD2, other than on the front of the phone. There’s been lot’s of talk about a tablet device from HTC, but I think the HD2 is it. The HD2 is a hard core winmo users device, whilst I’m not enamoured by the Telstra ROM included, I can tell, this is the device that tops all at the moment.

One artistic random photo to finish up with!

Unboxing The HTC HD2!

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Post written by Peter Murphy on January 30, 2010  in
windows mobile, windows phone