There hasn't been such an amount of hype around it like in the case of other similar handsets, but still lots of people are waiting for its launch. Yes, I'm talking about HTC Touch HD, which - as you can see of its name - tries to attract fans with its large, hi-res display, beside knowing everything we might expect nowadays of a PDA-phone.
The thing is that HTC has again a great attitude towards one of the greatest questions of the market, namely the situation that nowadays almost all PDA-phones have a 2.8" display. A couple of year ago we have told that such a diagonal is small, and today this is the general one, although there are still lots of users who would like to use a 3.5" - or even larger - display. They didn't really have a chance to do this until now, but the situation has changed in a flash.
We have received the handset from SpeedShop, thanks a lot! We don't know if it's final, but it's sure that the hardware won't change, so it's ready to be tested - according to this the review is coming soon, but we have thought that it's worth putting out a preview as we think that the handset has astonished others as well.
I don't even know where to start... maybe with the physical parameters. Touch HD is large, its size is 115 x 62.8 x 12 mm and it weighs 146 grams. The reason for this is very simple: a 3.8" display needs space. As you can see on the pictures the engineers have made the most out of the space, there is a minimal amount of frame around the 480 x 800 pixels large screen, buttons are placed only below it and even those are touchkeys. On the top we can see the power button and the 3.5 mm jack output - yep, the time has come to see a standard headset output on an HTC handset! The volume control keys are on the side, the HTC ExtUSB connector and the magnetic stylus are on the bottom, while the reset button and the microSD slot are under the back cover. On the back we can see the handsfree speaker and the 5 megapixel autofocus camera. In spite of being large, the phone is very comfortable to use even during calls, the reason for this being the high-quality materials and the supreme assembly quality.
The hardware is naturally very robust: there is a 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7201A CPU, 288 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM. There is only a large storage memory missing to make things perfect, but of course this can be added later through a large memory card. I would not like to write a lot about the software either, I'll just tell you that it's fast. It's very fast. It's much faster than the one on Diamond, even though it has the same interface, the only difference is the presence of a stocks tab, as we now have such a thing as well. Another new feature is that screen changes are "iPhone-like", so when closing programs they don't just disappear into nowhere, but they have a cool animation - it looks just like the animation on the Apple handset when we re-enter the menu.
That's all for now, here are some pictures as well, to have something to feast yout eyes at. The detailed review of the handset is coming very soon, but until then feel free to ask any questions in the forums.
Translated by Szaszati
