Exterior
Of course the large display has its price and this can be seen not only on the price-tag, but on the overall size as well. Touch HD is no small animal, it’s 115 mm high, 62.8 mm wide and weighs 146 grams. All these has been compensated by making it only 12 mm thick, which would be a great value even on its own, but it’s something fantastic in the case of such an otherwise large PDA. Thanks to this, it’s quite a comfortable wear in our back pocket (even though you shouldn’t try it in a shirt’s pocket), the only annoying thing might be its weight. The guys in Taipei have taken good care of the materials as well, since the new machine is made of very high-quality plastics, we won’t find no joint problems at all.
With some exaggeration the front is one huge display, it’s completely flat, and it’s made of a shiny plastic that looks rather heavy-duty. Of course there are some other things over here too, like an HTC logo in the top left corner, or the secondary camera used for video calls in the opposite corner. In between them there is the speaker and the status LED, while below these four you can see the TFT screen. I have already mentioned its diagonal, but not its resolution: 480 x 800 pixels. You can see that it doesn’t have a 4:3 aspect ratio, and it’s not even 16:9, as it’s something more like 5:3. In the predecessor Diamond there have been 480 x 640 pixels on 2.8 inches, so there the pixels have been physically smaller than on HD, so this means that image quality didn’t improve. Of course color fidelity is perfect, it’s rather easy to read in sunlight as well and we might say with some exaggeration that the huge size takes user experience to a whole new level – and I’m telling this after having a PDA with a 3.8” screen for a couple of years. On the whole I can tell you that the display is just awesome and furthermore using HD is child’s play, as all labels are large, so it’s hard to miss them. On the bottom there are four touchkeys, the ones on the side are for initiating/ending calls, between them there is a back and home screen key. Not many like such functions, and to tell you the truth I’m one of those people, but in the case of the new Touch I had no problem with usability, mostly because I have been using these keys rarely.
The back cover is mostly made of a rubber-like plastic that’s very soft and provides a firm grip. On the bottom there is a shiny stripe made of a hard plastic, but we’ll be touching this only when taking out the stylus, as that’s in the bottom right corner. It’s just like the one on Diamond, so we have the magnetic lock, I think there is no better solution currently available. Getting back to the back: we can’t say that it’s very overcrowded, as it only has the camera and some related labels on it. As a matter of fact we can also see the handsfree speaker, which has a metal grating, just like the brushed metal surface around the lens. 5 megapixels, autofocus, no flash. We’ll discuss this a bit later.
On the top we can see the power button and the 3.5 mm jack output. It’s great that HTC can always evolve, which is evident from the output made in the spirit of “better later than never” – yeah, this is the first handset of the Touch series which lets us use our own headsets without the need for any kind of adapter. On the bottom there is the HTC ExtUSB output, which will be used only when charging and syncing the PDA. The volume control keys are on the left, while the reset gap can be accessed only after taking the back off, as this is between the SIM and microSD slots, it can be pressed only with something pointed, like a pen.
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