[Off-topic] pharao:
I just stopped responding to the flame throwers in this thread, as there is no talking common sense with some XDA'lers anyway.

Now this is what I found out by now:

a) My HD2 also has the "pink eye" camera flaw, that causes it to inject a pinkish haze smack in the middle of any bright, white background.

So far I wasn't able to find a solution for it (and that latest HTC ROM update did not fix my problem) nor could I say for sure from the many, many postings I found about this problem on the Web whether this is a Software or a Hardware issue.

But that an $800 phone shouldn't have such ridiculous problems to begin with is self-explanatory for me.

b) There is no (I repeat NO) 100% functional Web Browser available for the Windows Mobile platform. And I tried them all.

Opera is just ludicrously unpredictable in its choice of which web pages it'll display correctly and which ones it won't

NetFront works far more reliably in that matter, but has huuuge issues with JavaScript on many pages.

The Iris Browser works sturdy and reliable as well, but not in WVGA mode and is no longer supported. But it is the only(!) WinMo browser

that supports a "restart" option for interrupted file downloads - a true life saver with a GSM or even GPRS based Internet Connection.

Unfortunately the IRIS browser is no longer supported for WM (like so many other products on this dying platform).

SkyFire should be working flawlessly, as it does its page rendering on a dedicated Server. But for some reason it has the same issues

on JavaScript heavy pages that Opera does. I also found it has issues with text "copy & paste" functions.

Mozilla's Fennec is just totally useless. I couldn't get that thing to even start right, nor find anyone who did.

Finally the built in IE did the best job at rendering most web pages. But for some reason it terminates all to often when it has to wait

a long time for a load to finish, or when being run in the background.

I also couldn't get "copy & paste* to work right on IE at all. But still, I know prefer IE for most webpages to Opera -

which is way overhyped IMHO.

From test reports I noticed that Apple's Safari browser is supposed to be way superior in all of these areas and I think that is just

one more point in the iPhone's corner and one extra strike against WinMo.

c) Up until a few years ago, there were literally dozens of companies providing office productivity software for WM.

But except for MS itself, they all stopped developing and in some cases even selling their software for the WM platform.

So for now I am stuck with MS-Office4WM, and that leaves a lot to be wanted for.

d) I did find 5 more really "must have" pieces of Software: RainEffect's FluidPDF, WizCode's PhotoCopy Mobile and

Pocket Mechanic & Pocket Data Recovery and finally Mort Buttons.

The first two allow you to turn your Camera equipped PPC into a veritable PDF factory and scanner, copier, fax machine as well.

But they all combined cost over $200, a steep price tag for a Cell Phone platform, while the two later ones offer all the technical

tools you would normally have on your PC for Data Recovery, Memory Card unformatting, scanning, checking and bad block rescue

operations. And finally Mort Buttons fix that big flaw of the Manilla surface, that it is 1 dimensional.

C'mon HTC, if one only has 9 (3x3) or even 16 (4x4) apps to "quick launch", then (s)he just way overspend him/herself on this $800 gadget.

I for one found out quickly that both the lack of grouping abillity as well as the total limit of QL itself was way to limiting for my needs.

e) There are many, many freeware tools you would want to have running on your HD2, if only they would all be working as well as e.g.

BsB Tweaks. But way to many of them (-> Max Manilla, NaviComputer, ...) either make a real mess out of the PPC, or they just don't

work as advertised. Like NaviComputer, that held my PC "hostage", downloading European maps for 5 hours, and then its PPC companion

wouldn't load a single one of those maps - even so I did put all files exactly into the specified location.

There is also Data Encryption SW like FreeOTFE that works really nice - after you spend a full day figuring out why it refuses to

locate that darn keyfile you had created. Turns out that FreeOTFE only locates its associated files when they are stored in certain dirs.

But that bit if info is nowhere mentioned in the Docu. Issues like this are typical of "free" software and I do not want to sound ungrateful

for "free" stuff. But in the end you all to often end up paying for such "free" stuff with your own precious time.

And e.g. way to many GPS freeware forced me to reset my HD2 over and over and over again.

f) I am still looking for usable turn by turn Navigation Software for my HD2. I also had high hopes for Google's latest Map Software, but my GPS

suddenly stopped functioning. By now I narrowed the problem down to a software issue and I read in other reports that some (badly written) GPS

programs end up blocking the COM port for all other devices, by polling the HW address directly (rather than using WM's virtual device driver

for this).

That is it for now and now the usual bullies can go back to flame me for simply stating the obvious:

The HD2 is a bizarre marriage of impressive hardware with inferior (operating system) software.