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[HD2 General] thomas_pieps:
I must say, the HD2 is one of the best phone I came across.

I've worked over 2 years as the buyer for a multimedia chain and got the oppertunity to test drive a whole lot of device.

Also I'm using a ppc over 7 years now and untill the HD2 there were only 2 devices who have the "professional"/fun factor that the HD2 has.

And that was the Magician and the Universal.

Now I don't argue about the N900 because he has a "full" linux on it and for the linux guru's this is a wonderfull device. But if you aren't that good or fond in Linux then there is nothing special on the N900, and he is idd quite slow in normal use.

The other problem is that several years ago people did not compare a ppc with a normal phone (nokia symbian and etc...) but the mainstream users now also want a pcc thus the discussing is started... (certainly no personal blame meant)
[HD2 General] emigrating:
I have no intentions of getting rid of the HD2 until there is a Nvidia Tegra powered platform available running WinMo7 with a screen equal to or bigger than the HD2.

The extra screen size compared to other mobiles on the market today really does make all the difference. I see people considering exchanging their HD2 for the Nexus One, but personally I find the screen a real letdown after being used to my HTC.

The one thing that does bug me about it is the low capacity battery included but, touch wood, so far I've managed to keep it running 24/7 by charging thru the night and every now and again in the car. Not enough of a let down for me to start looking at other handsets anyhow.
[HD2 General] thomas_pieps:
That is a serious battery drain, do you work so much on your device?

Eg I use my device constantly, 15 sms/day, 1 a 2hours phone, 30min surfing wifi and or hspda and I can do over a day and a half with one battery charge
[HD2 General] lorin.bute:
This topics makes me laugh :) (not being offensive).

But it's pretty difficult to get bored of it. Of course we could have much more action on it but i'm sure in time we will have that also.
[HD2 General] bzdemes:
I cant see myself getting bored of the HTC HD2 anytime soon. Still got lots to do to it. Custom Roms, writing my own apps etc. Once i have it perfect then I will be using it until my contract runs out and i can get the latest super phone for free :D
[HD2 General] kr00t0n:
Seeing as I have just discovered 800x480 encoding of 720p videos using WinMenc makes amazingly clear videos, and the demo of Electopia showing OpenGL 2.0 capabilities, I don't see myself getting bored any time soon. :D
[HD2 General] emigrating:
Yeah, I use it constantly for the web and MSN (wifi/hsdpa/3g) as well as calls/sms. I could probably tweak it to last longer by disabling wifi/bluetooth etc when not connected but haven't found a good app to automate this yet.

Of course, once I find a 'cheap' car-cradle with built-in micro-usb (ie. put the phone in the cradle and it automatically starts charging - rather than fiddle around with cables and whatnot) the batterylife won't be a problem no more.
[HD2 General] mickfarr:
No where near board with it but as you've most likely tried everything there is for the HD2 why don't you list your best top 10 apps that you've tried and then we'll compare notes ;)
[HD2 General] Wevenhuis:
For me the HD2 is my very first PocketPC/Smartphone. For me this phone is very powerful that it'll do fine for the coming years, if the phone can last that long. My only reason for switching to another phone is when the specs are at least equal to the one of the HD2, MUCH improved battery life and support of both capacative and resistive touch with adequate software and UI support. You can't get better than that. I'm not a gamer, so more power and a higher frequency is not necessarily my wish.
[HD2 General] thomas_pieps:
I use 2 buttons on my front manilla page to enable/disable wifi and one for BT.

For the car cradle I'm most pleased my active brodit holder (isn't that cheap but it is good quality)
[HD2 General] bramgg:
gheheh this made me laugh
[HD2 General] thomas_pieps:
can you please post your profile settings for WinMenc? I'm still looking for the right settings
[HD2 General] Cret:
Not bored by a long way. I loved the HD when I had it but the HD2 is superb.

BUT, one thing that is annoying me a little bit is that it seems to have slowed down a LOT now that I have a bunch of apps on it. Like, when I scroll on the home screen up or down to the shortcuts it's quite often jerky and slow, instead of smooth & fluid like it should be.

Not sure why exactly this is. Should be able to cope with some programs being installed without it bogging down.
[HD2 General] kenkiller:
Not sure where he/she found the settings.....here's my take on Winmenc settings.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=5331497&postcount=38
[HD2 General] MartiDiamond:
So you're saying a phone wouldn't get better if it had boobs!?
[HD2 General] kaospiloten:
HDWOBBLE!!! Boobs that move :D
[HD2 General] meegulthwarp:
The only "bored" I get are the people around me. My social life has seriously suffered since buying my HD2 as I spend most my day staring at it or stroking it.

In all seriousness I bought this phone to last me a year or two and still after two months, I smile when pull it out of my pocket (especially when with a group of iphone users).

My one problem with the HD2 is that since it is the first in a lot of areas there are not that many great games, one thing I am really wishing for is that the new Unreal Engine is ported to WM/Qualcomm. But that should all be solved very soon with WM7 around the corner and all the rumours of Xbox Live Games for WM.
[HD2 General] ComPas-V:
This is an important topic... really.

I have to admit : I am bored.

First of all I would like to apologise for typos - English is not native language for me...

Well . Let me explain. There a lot of things that define a "fun" of the device , service , car ... anything. And we are going to basis.

Lets define 3 main points. For me it will be form factor, technical chars., and usability.

No dubt - first two are just perfect. Slim body with big bright "finger friendly" screen, enough memory and processor to run anything with no visual lag(finally!!!) ....

ALL THIS IS AN EASY PART! no kidding. Nothing unreal - just to take the latest hardware and to try put it in right order. The screen is TG proved itself in iphone where it was actually used first time.

And ( yes, yes, I'm going to the iphone) we come to the tricky part. USABILITY.

HD2 beats iPhone in any possible comparison except the main one (at least from my point of view) - the way of use all that technical stuff squized into the slim and (finally) durable body.

iPhone doesn't have multitasking in the way we like to see it, just not long ago they "invent" copy-paste, no usable bluetooth, no easy synchronization ... many "no". But look at that peace of technical art.

I use iphone(the very first one) and HD2 "in parallel". The copy-paste from iphone jumped somehow to new 1922 manilla messaging. Why?

Why the iPhone design concept not changing and we have in our wonderfull powerfull HD2 3.5 jack but ... on opposite side? is it comfortable??? Or no "sleep" option - only screen off??? The two sides answer.

First one is from Apple. iPhone is nothing but an interface. One of the bests. You can not go deep into the device, but anything you do - looks nice, logical and easy for use.

Second is from HTC and it is easy - rush. HTC makes all possible steps to make "bigger", "larger", "quicker" and ASAP. And that "ASAP" kills the concept. The HTC makes all possible steps to hide windows mobile deep inside of the Sence(Touch Flo .. or what ever). Just to make device usable. And they didn't have a choice until Android. The have to fight against the biggest OS vendor. Any guess?

HD2 - first device where shipped ROM can be used without heavy tweaking.

So finally I am bored to try to make my HD2 usable. I will use it as is, with some custom ROMs just to free the memory from "shipped" crap. And hope for winmo 7.....

sorry for the long post.....
[HD2 General] lovebell:
HD2 is absolute the best wmphone I have ever used, but I have to say I am bored of it cuz mine has so many issues since I got it (battery drain super fast in standby mode, hard-rest,remove micro SD/SIM card,airplane mode ,flash lastest rom, nothing worked out.

and volume sometimes popping during a phone call.)I have to send it to repair and considering a steady(not powerful) phone plus a MID(the coming Viliv N5 or UMID M2).
[HD2 General] chalid:
After 2 month, still not bored ... :D Best phone I ever had and very happy with it - after customizing everthing to bits.
[HD2 General] kr00t0n:
I actually slightly altered your 2000kbps profile :)

I changed FPS to be 30 (I encountered some issues with some files when leaving it as auto) and changed the 'Extra Command' field on the 'Extra' tab to be "-delay 0.400 -sws 9" without the quotes, as audio was slightly out of sync.

I really am amazed at how clear the image is!

Some example 720p trailers I encoded:

http://www.kr00t0n.com/Kjam/StarWars.mp4

http://www.kr00t0n.com/Kjam/FantasticFour.mp4
[HD2 General] NEC0067:
With one of the best hardware and a community like this one, I don’t think I’ll feel boring soon.

Actually with Leo I found things to do when I’m bored. :rolleyes:
[HD2 General] kenkiller:
Hmmm, FPS wise sometimes it will get it wrong. For such videos (in my experience, wmv files have such problems), I will just get the actual FPS with mediainfo, and set it as such....no point encoding a 23.976fps video to 30fps.

I also have no problems with audio sync (or maybe my ears are faulty :)) But take note that I have noticed some encodings from mkv with vorbis/dts audio may result in horribly OOS encodes, or videos that end prematurely. :( Thankfully those are rare. Also, having Sense do any updates in the background will result in lags at times.

edit : I also noticed that your videos are both 800x480, even for non 16:9 videos. To encode to their proper resolution without the black bars added, or to maintain the proper aspect ratio, tick the "Fit to width" option. But of course, if you like your videos to fill the screen and be stretched out of proportion, you can ignore the above. :)

The "Speed and Quality" control can be set to Best as well. Not sure if your F4 video had the audio delay inserted, it played a tad OOS on my PC but fine on HD2. :D
[HD2 General] Badde:
I'm not disappointed. On the contrary, I like it better from day to day. There are really endless possibilities for the HD2. I'm excited after 1 month of use.
[HD2 General] Syphon Filter:
I really love this device but I'm no fool. HTC will announce a new device for us to lust after in the next few months which will make the Leo seem old-hat.

It's an endless cycle that tech-whores like me have to endure.
[HD2 General] terrytpot:
bored...are you mad? there's an endless world of possibilities with the HD2and I'm only just beginning to scratch the surface of what's achievable...
[HD2 General] Darkyy:
Very bored

I usually don't keep a phone for more than 3 months.

I had like 10+ phones in the last half year...

Now selling my HD2 after 1.5 months of use. It's annoying.

I bought a Nexus One, let's see how it performs ;)

Greets
[HD2 General] kenkiller:
Great....thanks for letting us know you're rich. :D
[HD2 General] whitepedro:
Hi all had my htc hd2 since 17 dec on o2 24 month contract unlimited web bolt on 600mins 500txts,within the first 2 weeks i got the corrrect encoder so already i've 8 720p blueray movies 16gb sdhc along with 3 dvds,waiting for avatar brrip now,i've downloaded all the games from xda like the open gl's great on 4.3&like skyfire options for rich browsing ontop of preinstalled great phone:)
[HD2 General] kivine:
good for u .

now its time for u to work on ur sentence structure.
[HD2 General] terrytpot:
I know I shouldn't but I can't help giggling at that...

[l/COLOR]

:)
[HD2 General] NetDwarf:
For usability I can mention just two things: Xannytech Pandora ROM and MaxManila 2.81.

The standby is actually not only screen off.

The only issue I noticed is the touch screen. It sometimes acts a lil bit weird (wrong capacitive technology, but hope it's fixable softwarewise).

And I don't get really bored of the device, but what I really miss is the ability to brew coffee ;).
[HD2 General] dso371:
Man, you are not the only one who does this. My beautiful wife is jealous! I've had my phone for around a week and I love love love love love it.

David
[HD2 General] drewX2:
LOL. Is this the pot calling the kettle black?
[HD2 General] meegulthwarp:
No racism please...
[HD2 General] Rossimac:
That's not racism...
[HD2 General] Karlos G:
You've got to love posts like this, why do people come on here just to aggravate others? :rolleyes:

Indeed it is! LMAO! :D
[HD2 General] adell_:
Me too :). I expect the HD3 to be a lot more powerful than the HD2.

Nevertheless, according to the news, Snapdragon Dual-Core 1.5GHz will be released the next year.
[HD2 General] enyaj:
I'm bored with my HD2 coz its working perfectly! somethings gotta break on this goddam phone!
[HD2 General] :
Strange man!

I'm not, thanks to this thread I've started to encode my bluray rips for my HD2! Browsing Youtube while in school gathers quite a crowd behind me, and the bigger screen is a magnet to curious folk! :P
[HD2 General] rahulelectra:
I have an idea 4 u...... If ya hv used liek 10 phones in 6 month swhy dont u review and share with us......... I think it might be helpful fo many of usgetting reviewd by actual user then the reviewrs who gets only 1 -2 days for hand on....

Just like other mate said..... are you very rich or none of teh pphones satisfies ur exoectations whaterver let us know...

(forgive my tyoing, google spoiled me)
[HD2 General] PugLord:
I've just brought the HD2 on Wednesday 20th after sitting on the fence for about a year and a half as to what phone to get. I've never brought a phone on the day of release as i like to make sure i'm happy with what i'm buying.

Before this i had a Nokia N95 which does what it says on the tin!!

I decided to get the HD2 after a guy at work had one and i could see that the lag/sensitivity had improved that i'd seen on the diamond and previous hd models.

On the whole i'm pleased with the HD2 but what i would say is that the whole windows mobile/HTC sense seems a little fragmented. For example i was trying to change the tone for the alarm and it took me ages to find it. I went into the Settings menu > Sound & Display then i would have expected it in the Ring & Notifications section but under Notifications Sounds all there was is Reminders, New Message, New e-mail message, Voice mail & Missed call. Then i looked in Settings > All Settings where you can see Clock & Alarms but this didnt have the alarm sound setting.

I ended up doing a RTFM........:D and discovered i had to go into the alarm from the main home page to set the alatm sound.
[HD2 General] MerLinh:
Didn' you set the alarm first then go for the tone? you are a strange man =) i had n95 for a year and a half before hd2 too and i hated it all that hack and stuff altough i could do that no problem, but i think symbian is worst than wm =)
[HD2 General] PugLord:
I set the alarm when I first got the phone but wanted to change the default alarm. All my point was that i feel that htc seem to be patching up wm.
[HD2 General] rahulelectra:
I m Bored with this thread. No Offence but Yeah
[HD2 General] lee1980:
ooohh yes. I'm that bored that I'm gonna buy a second one for my wife because she has been making me craazy since weeks why she doesn't get one but I do:)

btw. she does have a 3g from work and doesnt like it anymore but that has noting to say :))
[HD2 General] jonbaker76:
delete delete
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Cassatta:
Nice work!

Is it possible to have it in french?:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nullstring:
as long as you have a French word list, it'll be fine :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] the0ne:
nice app. have linked to it from here : 1800PocketPC
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nullstring:
thanks so much!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] harveydent:
Great app!

Where the hell did you get the Tagalog word list? (:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nullstring:
Well, you can't find it in hell :)

There's a lot of site providing Tagalog words.. and I put them all together then removed all duplicates and sorted them out using Excel.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] naga01:
Nice App and Nice Title too
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] darthnol:
Kabayan, thanks for sharing this great app. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nullstring:
uy thanks man. yan ang ginamit ko nuon sa Love Radio kaya na nalo ako ng 3500 pesos. lolz
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jjollyroger:
hi, here's an italian words list

the app works good on PC but on my HD2 crashes each time I try to open a dictionary ,it looks like it does not support a large txt file on WM

could it be fixed?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Joshua020:
Great application, I am using now an online website that works as word finder
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Fresher8:
Thanks for sharing the app and the English word lists! Seems to me like you could improve performance greatly by using a database instead of loading the words directly from the word file. For better speed you could even compile several word files and order words by what letter they are starting with.

Scrabble actually has it's own dictionaries on what words are allowed. To unscramble words I have been using this word search for Scrabble.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] finderd:
Nice app
[XPERIA X2 General] royalbloodvi:
There are some things I'd like to point out, I purchased from mobicity and I'm here to confirm some things about my X2.

1) Firmware: (Official release?)

Software ID 1231-7617

Software version R1AA-097

Customization version R5A

Language region Generic_SG

Radio 6.5.60221

2) Keyboard backlight lags and takes 5 seconds to light up after sliding.

3) Keyboard feels really light and plastic..

4) When sliding out keyboard, it doesn't have a heavy metal feel like the X1. Is this just the new feel of the X2?

5) It was said on wmpoweruser.com that X2 will be running windows mobile 6.5.3, I don't see any 6.5.3... or the start at the bottom of the screen.

6) Speaker volumes are quite soft, nowhere as loud as X1 with audiopara volume booster.. wondering if audiopara will work on X2?

7) Choppy video recording

8) Nice landscape pictures with 8,1 megapixel, BUT autofocus fails like X1 for up-close objects.

9) Less blurry than X1, but still blurry

That's all for now, will keep testing the X2.
[XPERIA X2 General] emuneee:
I believe WMPoweruser said that the upgrade may come in the future, but all the shipping X2s will have plain 'ole WM 6.5 on them.
[XPERIA X2 General] doministry:
WM 6.5.3 wa first officially presented at CES

few days ago.

So you won't have it now.
[XPERIA X2 General] Leddy:
So in terms of build quality, is the X2 better or the X1 better?

The thing I hate the most about HTC phones (X1 inclusive) is that they all feel cheap.
[XPERIA X2 General] royalbloodvi:
I can come to 4 conclusions about the X2:

X2 has better keyboard

X2 has faster/smoother graphics

X2 looks dam sexy

X2 gives me bragging rights

Everything else is available on X1 that X2 has, so if your a cheapo and want value for your buck, stick with X1.
[XPERIA X2 General] mbernstein:
How is the camera, please?
[XPERIA X2 General] doministry:
Thanks. Please report further info!!!
[XPERIA X2 General] ultrashot:
Same as our leaked official firmware:) Good sign.
[XPERIA X2 General] royalbloodvi:
Camera is the same as X1, laggy, blurry.

Tried infinite focus, macro, twiddled all the settings.

Very disappointed, actually I would say no difference in quality as X1.

Autofocus function just seems useless, cant even take medium to close quality pictures of anything.

X2 maybe 8.1 megapixels, but to me its just a number after testing it out.

I can come to one conclusion, image quality output are the same as X1..
[XPERIA X2 General] ring-bearer:
Royal-b:

Thanks a lot for all the information. All of us really appreciate it.

I'm not sure how valuable this suggestion is, but it would be very interesting: could you run the sk tools benchmark and report the values? I think that would at least tell us whether SE tried to optimize performance.

I'm not highly optimistic that they did; my suspicion is that software development money for the X2 when into making the facade more slick, at the expense of optimizing performance. The camera issues seem to be case in point.
[XPERIA X2 General] mbernstein:
This is very bad news. Besides the Megapixel count, X2's camera seemed to have better lens than X1, and supposedly they've made a good camera on the Satio... :(

Please let us know if you get around this somehow or have a different judgment after some use...
[XPERIA X2 General] Viper89:
Honsetly for the price of the X1 and X2 are phones should of came with cyber shot with are cameras.
[XPERIA X2 General] doministry:
From GSMArena preview:

"The image quality is surprisingly good for a prototype - we are quite convinced that the XPERIA X2 will be equal or even better than the one of Sony Ericsson C905 Cyber-shot. All the colors are accurate, there's no over-sharpening or purple fringing, white balance is adequate, the resolved detail is pretty enough with foliage looking especially good. It's only that we believe the resolved detail could be somewhat better and we guess that Sony Ericsson will work a bit more on this until the release."

So where is the problem...?
[XPERIA X2 General] mbernstein:
Problem is he has the latest X2 and says the camera is as bad as any HTC's (X1), which are normally quite bad, as my Kaiser's...

We (I, at least) were expecting a Cybershot/Nokia/Satio like quality, which unfortunately does not seem to be the case. From your posts I assume you are buying the X2 as soon as it gets out in Poland in the 18th. Just hope you have a better experience(and please inform us, post some pics etc)... I am very willing to buy the X2, but a bad camera can be a deal breaker for me.
[XPERIA X2 General] ru.ego:
Some photos, that i shoot with xperia x2

sony-ericsson.ru/forums2/index.php?showtopic=57604

You can see it at the end of the page.

The camera is realy good.
[XPERIA X2 General] ring-bearer:
Yeah, I don't get why no one can put a semi-decent camera in a WM phone. Actually, the X1's is good but they did not optimize the software. If motorola continues including good quality cameras (like apparently the Droid and maybe here), I'm tempted to cross over.
[XPERIA X2 General] doministry:
Well I won't buy that on 18th just because of lack of cash :D

But hopefully soon after!

And yes, will report than!
[XPERIA X2 General] doministry:
great report from X2 there, thanks!
[XPERIA X2 General] mbernstein:
Thanks. Google translations is sometimes difficult, but seems to be a pretty nice review, nice screen captures. Some photos are nice. I hope people post more so we can keep checking. Thanks.
[XPERIA X2 General] ru.ego:
ring-bearer,

sk tools benchmark results (pre-realize firmware R1AD002)

Integer;268.3021;Moves/25 usec

Floating point;7.322;MWIPS

RAM access;548;Speed index

Draw bitmaps;780;Speed index

Main storage (write);1535.62;KB/sec

Main storage (read);7119.35;KB/sec

Storage Card (write); 980.53;KB/sec

Storage Card (read);1123.83;KB/sec

File List;1344;Items/s

FL: Storage Card;728;Items/s

SKTools loading;4048;ms

it would be very interesting, to see the official (R1AA-097) firmware values.
[XPERIA X2 General] royalbloodvi:
Ive checked the pictures posted, as I said, pictures turned out superb for far view pictures, but when it came to taking objecs up-close, autofocus fails.

Same quality as X1 when it comes to attention to detail, but obviously landscape pictures will turn out better on X2.
[XPERIA X2 General] ru.ego:
royalbloodvi, and what about video recording. Is it good ?
[XPERIA X2 General] mbernstein:
Do you know/believe if this be resolved by software updates? Or is it inherent to the camera?

Thanks.
[XPERIA X2 General] circleofomega:
does it have the start menu at the bottom or top left??
[XPERIA X2 General] ru.ego:
it have the start menu at the top left