[HD2 General] RikfromBelgium:
Ok, I am in the same position as you and can provide some more neutral feedback. First of all, I did not sell my iPhone, it's a good phone and my girlfriend uses it now so there is a decent back-up phone in the house.

Your first remark is already very biased, the big screen for over 40 and show off. Seriously this screen is 100 times better for 2 big reasons:

- the better resolution is a must

- the bigger screen size makes this phone a much better multimedia phone than the iphone. Watching a video longer than 5 minutes on the iphone is painfull. It's just too small for that. The HD2 is much better equiped. Let's not forget another big reason I switched: wireless syncing, proper bluetooth. It's horrid apple hasn't fixed this yet for the iPhone.

I disagree that the 3G is easier to hold with these words " soft-touch plastics combined with alu" These not only feel a lot better than the plastics uses for the back of the 3G, they offer far more grip. Btw, handling it with one hand is also ver easy for me, you don't have to use the taskbar on the bottom but can just swipe like a 3G. But ofcourse this is subjective since I don't know how big your ladyhands are. BTW, let's not even mention the body of the 3G, had a white one? I had and a black one, and the both got hailine fractures for NO reason after weeks. I treated them like my baby and they still cracked. The white one has it the worst. And Apple did NOTHING, said the warranty didn't cover it and repairing it would cost me €280 ( this is within the first year of buying a €625 phone ) Steve jobs should have his balls cut of for this, seriously.

As for responsiveness, try not syncing your iPhone for a week or 2, it will drive you TROUGH the wall as it is slooooow and unresponsive. The HD2 seems to be a lot more independant and doesn't suffer from that. Saying you never had to redo a swipe or pinche on a iPhone is just BS, just as saying a small bezzel is worse than the total waste of space the 3G has arround it's screen.

Safari is a joke on the iPhone, it offer no flash and apple has used 3 years to get at the point where it kinda works right now. Safari crashed on me ALL THE TIME. Opera hasn't crashed once since I have my HD2. Same goes for IE.

I don't get the dissin on copy paste ( a subject one IMO should stay away from when it comes to the iPhone )since the system is almost identical to that on the 3G.

the Keyboard on the HD2 is faaaaaare superior to that on the iPhone for one big reason: the autocorrection is amazing. Seriously, you hardly have to type. The auto correction on the 3G sucks monkey balss and apple gave in to the demands for a toggle to be able to turn it off after 2 updates. Seriously, something that works proper isn't asked for to be able to turn off by so many people.

You shouldn't use any phone in the car, especially not a touch device, period.

conclusion, apple will win this, only because it's apple, the device itself is severly overhyped and the arrogance apple is trying to sell this and how they are pushing unwanted patents ( like advertisements on sponsored iPhone's ) and the unwillingness to answer simple demands by the customers will bite them in the ass.

The apps? Let's not even mention that shall we, sure 100.000 apps: I-fart, you-fart, we-fart and I almost forgot: everybody-farts ... It's becoming a laugh and serious developpers ( like the ones behind the facebook app ) are turning away because of the way apple is treating them and the market. I don't want 1000.000 apps, I want Facebook, twitter, a decent mail app, a good browser, ... and 2 or 3 extra apps and that's it. I had 3 pages of apps and games on my iPhone ( which isn't all that much ) and didn't use them. The HD2 offers me 90% of what I want and the rest is easy to find.

IMO the iPhone doesn't need jailbreaking anymore, I agree ( except maybe shortcuts to wifi and stuff ) but it took them 3 years to get to that standard. That's ridiculous. Nonetheless the HD2 still wins because of the better hardware where it handles all the tasks better and nicer the iphone doesn't need jailbreaking anymore.

agree with coms, GPS and battery.

Memory, utter BS, there is no 32 GB Micro SD, god knows I've tried finding it. 16Gb will cost you €50. IMO, it's worth the extra since it's a safe way to keep everything on a card in case of a hard reset. You don't have to sync again for hours ( which you need to fill up 32Gb ), just pop it back in. Don't have that option with an iPhone.

perifeilia is BS, went to a large electronics store today, had it's own HTC acc part in the store. And HTC has it's own acc store online. a charger is a charger.

I agree iPhone is easier to use, because it needs more, be it more logical, steps, less setting up.

IMO though the HTC sense solution with everything revolving arround contacts and not apps, is 100 times better. I love the facebook updates, images, 1 place to go. Although I'd love a WM spotlight version.

conclusion: HD2 IMO is the best out there, both in hard- and software. Competition will catch up, fast, but just give this baby the WM7 update, make it a zune phone, and it will rock WM again.