[Touch HD General] lie_ui:
Welcome me! Congratulate me!

I'm officially part of you guys now! =)

Ok, its a long history, but let me recall from my first PDA:

1. Palm IIIc (Color!)

2. HP Jornada (Pocket PC! - Windows! Can play MP3 and has CF slot!)

3. Toshiba e310 (Windows Mobile! Has a SD slot)

4. Wallaby (First Pocket PC Phone Edition), made by HTC, T-Mobile branded

5. Magician (small form factor, PPC was finally same size like regular cell phone)

5. Universal (integrated keyboard, VGA screen, BT, Wifi, camera, etc..)

6. Prophet (tired of carrying bulky Universal and all the tricky part to do simple tasks like answer phone calls etc). Prophet has the best d-pad and hardware buttons. Last edition of HTC made PPC that still has the following: full size SD card slot, Infrared, normal audio jack. After Prophet, everything changed: mini/micro SD slot, no infrared, and no normal audio jack anymore. Prophet is the PPC I use the longest.

7. HTC Touch HD!

Finally, I decided its the time to embrace the HD! I'm so happy and excited holding my Prophet and the HD side by side! I'm surprise with the size of the HD, the weight, and the thickness.

For me, this upgrade will give me:

- Screen expansion, means better reading experience, better typing, better browsing, and playing movies etc.

- Integrated GPS

- Memory upgrade (from my 4GB SD to the 8GB micro SD (or more in the future)

- Processing speed

While still maintain the same weight as the Prophet and slightly thinner, only a bit bigger.

I'm charging it right now, cannot wait to play with it once its fully charged!

My first impression unboxing it:

1. Device-perfect!

2. Micro SD card: thanks HTC for including it. No adapter btw to use it with a normal SD reader, but luckily the HD has USB 2.0 client, so I hope no issue for transferring large files using the USB cable. In my prev PPC, transfer speed was always an issue, so I always use SD reader instead of the USB cable.

3. Pouch... it looks nice, and perfect fit. No problem putting it in and pulling it out.

I tried few times and found no issues. A bit worried before because I read some comments from the posting that mentioned its very hard to take it out from the pouch.

However, when I put the pouch with the HD inside my shirt pocket then took it out, ohhhh... it sticks all the fabric and look like... I don't have a word to describe it.

4. Power adapter... very small, nice! But, it does not have the charging cable, instead it has the USB port. It seems now HTC embrace the same stingy policy like Apple. With only one USB cable included, it means you have to unplug it and bring it along with the charger. No issue for me, I have plenty USB cable, but I can see people that buy a PPC for the first time will have issue to use the same cable for charging with the charger, and for syncing with the PC.

And the plug is British plug. Not sure where to buy the matching one (just the plug) for US. ='( The seller was nice enough to include a British-US adapter in the package, but now the power adapter becomes a big charger like the Lego.

5. HTC includes a "Smart Accessories" brosure!

I open it up, what is listed there?

Stereo headset (with ExtUSB connector) - does not work with HD

Multifunction Audio Cable (with ExtUSB connector) - does not work with HD either

Desktop Cradle (with audio-out port) - does not work with HD either

Oh.... why they simply not consistent make the HD ExtUSB carry also the audio signal?

Ok, that's my comment so far. I'll enjoy my HD! =)