[HD2 General] Wevenhuis:
HTC HD2:

Plus:

-Thin Portable Device

-> 4 inch touch screen

- 1 GHz Processor!!! (This is madness, you could only get this power in a desktop tower in de not so distant past, and now the power is in your hands, running off a Li-ion battery!)

-WiFi enabled

-Bluetooth enabled

-GPS enables

-G-sensor enabled

-Microphone and speakers

-Camera for photos AND video

-GSM and 3G enabled

-Live Sync with windows and microsoft office! Fantastic!!!

-Windows MyPhone. You can save sms, how about that! (sorry, again new to this phenomenon)

- I am amazed how feature packed this phone is softwarewise. I read many posts on XDA about missing this and that. But if you look well, many things are present. It is as some suggest of looking around to find what you want. I agree this is perhaps not customer/user friendly, but its good to know that it is already there, and not having to hunt endlessly to actually get the function/program from the computer/Internet. All we need is the help of some experienced people/enthusiasts to find it.

Call me old fashioned, but come on, this phone is hardware PACKED in a SMALL FORMFACTOR!!! (Sorry, I am new to this scene since the arrival of my HD2.)

Minus:

-Battery life. The rumors and reviews are true, even with the tweaking of settings, it is inevitable to recharge the battery after 1-2 days! My Samsung C260 can even outlast that! Ok, Ok, but I hear you say that the HD2 is a whole league of its own. I have to agree. I saw somewhere on this site a picture of a concept of an extended cover so you can add a bigger battery. I'm all for it. Let is go into production! Or use the available power socket to create a back cover that can couple to a mophie juicepack like device, also all for it!

-Capacative touch screen. I admit I did read the specifications before I went for the HD2. Both resistive and capacative touch screen have their pro's and con's. I like the capacative on a touchscreen phone because the whole screen is involved. With many resistive screens I've tested is that the edges work less well, losing screen estate to work in. I have a tablet pc and I love to ink. This is not work well on the HD2 because of the technology. But with some tweaking (hopeful someone or microsoft can solve this) it should be sensitive enough for a stylus. I tried using an iPhone stylus on the HD2, but the results were at best poor. Tweaking should be possbile since NTrig has also solved the issue with their Duosense technology on a capacative screen. The HD2 has a ink notetaking app in outlook, inconveniently called drawing. I also installed Evernote. An amazing app. Unfortunately the inking function is less than average at best due to the current limitations on the capacative screen.

-small on screen keyboard. Have not other onscreens keyboards of mobile devices though. Although the screen is > 4 inches I can't help notice the fact that the keys are still small. There is noticably unused space to the left and right of the keyboard. I would suggest, well, then make the keys bigger to fit the screen. I understand the layout of smaller rows at the bottom because of thumb typing, but I would then still argue to make the keys a little bigger. There is after all a bigger screen. This could improve typing errors because of the big fingers we have. We perhaps do not needed the column of arrows to the right. These can be summoned by a shortcut key. Also the T9-ABC switch key is irritatingly small and close to the function key. I press it accidentally too often to the point it becomes anoying. Developers/Tweakers I would advice a shortcut function for this.

-It is really unfortunate that the phone did not come with a screen protector. The device is beautiful and deserves some love and protection. HTC was attentive to add a basic case. It would have been nice though if they added a silicone case as well, or other practical case.

-It is also unfortunate that the phone did not come with an extra Li-ion battery

-Thirdly it is very sad that the HD2 carkit does not come as part of the package.

I hope 2010 brings improved software updates, more useful applications, and more accessories (mophie juicepack like devices, desktop (stereo) stands), Tom Tom like carkits (suggestions: one with speaker, external gps for better signal, built in battery for stand alone function (no ugly interfering wires to the sigaret lighter).

I wouldn't return my HD2. It has a lot of potential and in many aspects an improvement to the iPhone. Admittedly software and accessory wise much improvement needs to come. I think 2010 will show this. After all the iPhone also started with a rough ride, and just look where it is now. Patience is a virtue, but we have to make ourselves heard. Perhaps we can mention our ideas somewhere so that HTC, microsoft and accessory enthusiasts can see and read what we want and get things done!?