[HD2 General] Nighthawk:
So far everything has been fine, friggin great machine.

SIZE...

It definately feels the right size to me, easy for me to hold and use.

SPEED...

Damn!!! <--- enough said

HTC SENSE...

Kinda cool, most of it works well. There are a few little issues with some aspects of it, having to back out of some meus as there is no Exit or "X" available. Nothing that would stop me from getting the device.

WIFI...

Connected straight away to my Billion 7404VNPX unit, didn't do a signal strength test - I will tomorrow. Using WPA2-PSK/AES security, no broadcast SID and MAC address restricted.

GPS/COPILOT...

Really quick to lock signal, average 10 seconds I would say. I have been impressed with CoPilot on the HD2, looks really nice. Saying that, CoPilot has a few annoying points. No "qwerty" keyboard and it thinks my street is only in one suburb, not the one I live in. I have seen this on the dedicated Navteq units as well - all the other GPS's are fine.

It actually picked up the sats in my house, first device I had do that. While it didn't find the sats everywhere in the house, I'd say it worked in 60% of it. Weakest was four sats, near an external wall it jumped to seven or more. That's better than my dedicated TomTom that I "used" to use.

It gave me the option to pick a map to download for the trial. I choose Australia for obvious reasons.

I really do like the ability to HIDE CoPilot, actual button on screen.

GPS/TOMTOM...

I am loading TomTom tonight and will update this tomorrow.

CALL QUALITY...

Better than my iPhone, noticeably. It is stronger and cleaner, where I normally would loose signal (iPhone 3GS) I didn't with the HD2.

BLUETOOTH...

Will test this tomorrow morning when I go out to Rhodes Shopping Centre.

VIDEO...

THe HTC Album played my videos that I ripped for my iPhone without any problems (*.mp4 and *.m4v). It wouldn't play an AVI I downloaded . So, I installed CorePlayer and it played the AVI without any problems. Video (DVDs) that I ripped for my iPhone worked without any additional work on my part, that's nice. More importantly, they looked great on the bigger screen.

I know some of you are concerned about it being able to play 720p etc. While nice, my main concern was not having to re-do videos I already had done, again. I don't, so to me that makes it a winner. I'll just keep making the videos the way I was, they looked great.

OK, I might fiddle with the next one I RIP to see what I can get working. I don't need to as the quality was fine already, but it will be fun to try (a.k.a. play).

KEYBOARD...

Yes, the HD2 is a sensitive "gentle" beast when typing. I hit the wrong key a couple of times hear and there today, just a matter of getting used to the keyboard. I didn't have any lag or anything like that. Only issue I saw was getting used to a much more responsive screen, light touch is all that's needed.

SMALL OS BOXES/ITEMS...

There are still remnants of WM, for obvious reasons, that you may run into if you roam about the device, which most of us on this forum will do. While it was fiddly trying to click on the small items, it wasn't anything major and since I don't roam about my device continually every day (once I get it configured I I leave it alone) I personally don't have a problem with it. Some of this may disappear with WM 6.5.1 - definately with WM7.

MS OFFICE 10 BETA...

Haven't played with this yet (installed it), waiting on getting Sharepoint 2010 BETA up and running next week (already have Exchange 2010 running). I'll then give it a go and see how it all works together.

SOFTWARE...

I've only installed a couple of things so far, I am running the latest version of everything. I checked every title before installing.

1. Resco File Explorer (no issues, running on Storage Card)

2. SPB Wallet (no issues, running on Storage Card)

3. PocketBible (had to soft reset three times before it would launch - working fine now, running on Storage Card)

4. Resco Soduko Touch (no issues running, graphics/text need update to support high resolutions (jagged edges), running on Storage Card)

5. CorePlayer (no issues, running on Storage Card) ***Change VIDEO OUTPUT to GDI***

6. Dutty's Task Manager (no issues running - have two task manager apps installed (one included with Leo is very basic), running on Internal storage) *** I disable Sense before installing this, then re-enabled it after finshed install.***

7. Skype (no issues, running on Storage Card)

I'll add more as I experience it... Going to load Electopia tonight and see how that goes.