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[HD2 General] aZzz.bZzz:
the most common reaction: "wow, it can work as a cellphone!?" :D
[HD2 General] purezerg:
you do know that here in china, china made products aint as respected as taiwan made products.

haha.

i usually dont pull out my HD2, but i have friends who have iphones, and i always go, 'hey i got a picture to show you, let me Bluetooth it to you. eh, wait, yours is an iphone, you almost cant bluetooth anything. "
[HD2 General] Spl4tt:
rofl! xD i got a similar situation one time:

an old woman asked me if i knew when the train would arrive in the end trainstation. i took my hd2 and looked online for it, with no problems i got the time.

she was amazed about todays technology and thanked me.

then my gf called me... after i hanged up she looked at me asking: "what? wait... this is a phone??" her face was like WTF OMG

the moment was so awsome xD
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
I still havent seen another HD2 in the wild.......:(

Come to think of it, Ive never seen another HTC phone at all, makes me wonder whats wrong with people round here......

I saw someone on the bus today using an old nokia........... it didnt even have a colour screen...:p

Im starting to worry that Ive accidentally fallen into some sort of technological wormhole where decent phones havent been invented yet..........
[HD2 General] Spl4tt:
lol omg, and what do they say when they see ur phone? >.<
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
They accuse me of being a witch and try to burn me at the stake..... :(

Nah, its just the usual sort of "wow thats a big phone" type response...

Some people just sort of stare, a colleague of mine was pretty interested in it until I mentioned windows......

Another colleague liked it because we could use it to watch the world cup, live at work :D
[HD2 General] aZzz.bZzz:
honestly, all my friends are not surprising with its dimensions. they saw me using universal for 1 yr without bluetooth :)
[HD2 General] enyaj:
I have a colleague at work who has an iPhone 3gs but at the same time carries an extra phone just in case he wants something to be sent to him through bluetooth. What a shame.
[HD2 General] bountygiver:
call him to jailbreak and install ibluetooth and ifile from cydia

can be easilly jailbreak through a website nowadays
[HD2 General] kontradictions:
Let's just say I've had the opportunity to use the "That's what she said" joke on a regular basis.
[HD2 General] sumflipnol:
lmao! Best response I've seen.:D
[HD2 General] ceh01:
THE answer

A: wow, what kinda device is this? is this the new iPhone?

me: yes, it is the new iPhone 6.5 ...

A: ah, exiting, I need it! where to buy?

me: gimme 1000 bucks and I will organize it for you ...

;-)
[HD2 General] l3mm:
what a tool!
[HD2 General] rmdeathwish:
+1 LOL so true :D

BTW ... Im getting my HD2 tommorrow .... after an excrutating 10 months :D

wish me luck :)
[HD2 General] Spl4tt:
wtf... never... XDDD
[HD2 General] realrael:
i got mine shipped from the US.

at the customs office, the box was opened and inspected. the girl beside me just said, "wow".

enough said :)

ps: i have yet to challenge somebody who mastered his qwerty keypad vs. an amateur with swype...
[HD2 General] Spl4tt:
xD nice one xD

uum, i dont like swype and still using fingerkeyboard 2.1

dont know my kpm/wpm cause i didnt find a typingspeed app for winmo ;(
[HD2 General] Tachi91:
I like Swype but cant find it for WM6.5 or Froyo... All the ones that i've found are expired. or not compatible...

And at the hospital 2day.. since my spanish SUCKS! they got an interpreter for my parents... So i just stayed texting on my HTC...and i kept noticing that she(interpreter) kept eye in my phone.. so im like watevr.. then at the end of the visit she comes up n ask..

lady: "o what phone is dat?"

me: "its a HTC HD2"

lady: "ooo"

me: "you want to try it out?"

lady: "wat o no..i got an iPhone and it looks similar to it"

me: "....wat?

It is a known fact that once and iPhone users touches the HD2... They question them selfs...

i would agree with her to some point as to how it looked like a iphone.. The hard case on it... makes it look like a silver trim around the phone much to how the iphones boarder is... but the HUGE screen really?
[HD2 General] sherlockpwnz:
If you want swype pm me

sent from my HTC HD2 running chuckydroidXrom and shubcraft 1.3 cm6
[HD2 General] ap3604:
ROFL :(

that is signature material stuff right there katana ;)
[HD2 General] d33f:
i own my htc HD2 for more then an half year, today for the first time i saw an HTC HD2 in the wild :D a guy standing next to me waiting to enter the train :P (station sittard)
[HD2 General] realrael:
you two should've made a loud high five... and then hush and say, "ssshhh... quietly brilliant"
[HD2 General] micaman:
I like to play off that my HD2 is a cheap knock-off of the the Iphone.. Its the only way I can keep my friends. For some reason they get very defensive with their Iphones.
[HD2 General] enyaj:
People in my office are slowly recognizing the HD2 and I'm actually surprised that some already know about it which is nice.

Off Topic, has anyone seen the specs on the Desire HD on the HTC Worldwide site? Damn its sweet! Although that I can say is an Android on an HD2's body. :)

EDIT: I'm sure the next generation HD2 will be at least on par with the Desire HD in terms of specs.
[HD2 General] rr5678:
Well, one person I know said "Is that a Droid?" I told 'em "Hell no, you can't run Windows Mobile, Android and Ubuntu on a Droid"

Another person (Android person.......uh-oh :p) made me go in competition with his Droid X. Needless to say, my phone loaded things the fastest. Did a screen comparison, they check out at around the same size, mine is a bit wider. Startup test - same time. Webpage test (wikipedia.org) - mine won :p

Another one of my friends has an iPod touch. He likes the Wireless capabilities of my phone........alot :p

Can't forget the public reactions to the damn thing. Someone with an iPhone wanted to compare my phone to his.......As soon as he saw the size of this damn thing, he says "Damn. Should have gotten one of those"

I love the reactions :p
[HD2 General] Tachi91:
People at my school actually recognize it as an HTC phone.. better then calling it a dam iPhone... One girl in MATH has one.. I guess theres actually smart people in the popular crowd... WHO knew?!
[HD2 General] m0bmentality:
What i get now that i like.. is when someone else with an HD2 says...

"Oh wow i have that phone too!"

And i politely say... "No, no you dont" then try to direct them to xda

As much as i loved my hd2.. my NRG/OrangeStreet/CHT Beta/Froyo dual boot beast... is NOT my original hd2 and its nothing like the phone they are holding when they say "hey i have the same phone".
[HD2 General] rr5678:
Today, I pulled out my phone while I was entering a building (metal detectors) and a cop, after seeing my phone, says "And I thought my phone was big" and whips out an EVO 4G

Then we get into a discussion. Needless to say, I wound up booting into Android :p
[HD2 General] pirate1640:
I usually receive the reaction of wooo that is big wich always makes me smile and reply with irony "come on, is not about the size"...

then i receive the usual comparison with the iphone... there i have only one answer..."with HD2 i can call people and actually talk to them"...usually after that they dont talk to me again.
[HD2 General] rr5678:
Speaking on that........I had gone to the Apple store today to check out all the new crap.....On one of the iPhones, the damn dialer didn't even work :p
[HD2 General] azlan96:
all I get is, Is that an iPhone? or Does that thing fits into your pocket?
[HD2 General] Back Stabbath:
if i get reaction i dont notice. im glad i dont worry about what people think of my phone...
[HD2 General] Symondo:
Although its childish i must admit i love it when iphone users try and show off and it doesnt work - its like having a brand new kia cee'd opposed to a bmw 3 series.

a lot of people at my work have iphones - a few love to show off thier latest app, 1 instance - talking tom. admittedly a fun thing ( my 1 year old boy loves it lol) then asked sarcastically 'what does that thng of yours do' i just calmly sat there and showed them me watching freeview digital tv and a task manager with about 5 things open. I did ask them to video it for reference but it appears they didnt build that into that version of the iphone. Shame.

My Mrs also has an iphone but admits given the chance she would of gone for my phone opposed to it as she really likes it, however she summed it up nicely - iphone is for girls, hd2 is for guys. she just wants it to work and not fiddle with cab files etc...
[HD2 General] pirate1640:
we have to admit HD2 is not for those that they want just plug and play. like all windows programs they need specific...lets say care in order to work properly. at the beginning i couldn't even send a msg with hd2 due to a little sense problem.

a monster hardware with a poodle software. thanks to people like the guys in this forum we can enjoy the full potential of our phone.

thanks guys
[HD2 General] hardik119:
they see the phone and says eh! its so giant!!

Then I start transformers(it came loaded on my Tmobile HD2) and give it them..and they go...

wowwwwww!!!

What phone is this?

I want one like this!

why is the volume so low(lol)
[HD2 General] rr5678:
Who's worrying? This is just a thread where you tell if someone noticed the phone and spoke to you about it.
[HD2 General] OrionCarl:
people say"fook me thats a huge phone!" but for what it can do,its small!!.

Infact ive got a few peolpe to choose them over a iphone for their contract renewal!
[HD2 General] Nakazul:
the size thing comes up a lot here in Sweden, then with the HD2 being so flat they try it out in there pocket and realize its not that bad.

2 friends of mine have HD2´s now, just a month ago i was at the mall and i saw a guy holding his HD2 waiting for a call.
[HD2 General] thekillingroad:
There are different impressions. Mostly about the amazing screen. =)

Like %99 of the people seeing it says "look at that giant screen"

half of the people confuse with iPhone, even some jerks asked whether I bought an iPhone4 and half of those come to me saying "yiii and here s the old apple hater"... then they check out for a while and.. boom =)
[HD2 General] qanoon302:
After seeing and handeling my phone, few of my friends now hv HTC HD2. They like the secreen size and particularly the cover that came with it...
[HD2 General] chrisrj28:
Yeah I have a Co-worker with a bone stock HD2 and he has used it faithfully but he saw mine and how modified it was, then I switched to Android and downloaded a few apps and he was blown away, now he wants to pay me to do his
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
Thought I'd dig this thread up just to say........

Ive still never seen another HD2 :eek:

I did see an old man having a conversation about baked beans on an HTC Wildfire the other day though.....:D

Does that count?? I think its about as close as Im ever going to get......:rolleyes:
[HD2 General] frostmore:
got my hd2 abt 2 weeks ago after thinking about buying a Desire hd or HD2.

read about xda and gsmarena about the spec of the 2 phones.settled with hd2 coz its cheaper than dhd and of course there are already tons of cooked roms for me to choose from.sweeeeeeeeeet.

love my hd2.watched movies,listen to music,surf the net and do some other boring stuff.

no one came up to me to ask about the fone,but i can feel their prying eyes when they saw how huge of a screen i have to watch my movies.and i am doing all these using stock rom!

that being said,winmo sucks.user experience is not what windows had in mind when they wrote the god damn program.but i'll give it credit for trying to match up to iphone.(and for the record,iphone's too restrctive for me.i wan to customize the **** outta my fone and do whatever the hell i want with it,not be bound to some jackass who thinks he's got the best user interface.)
[HD2 General] hagba:
Just install Android on it.
[HD2 General] huggs:
I just moved down to Southeast Kentucky and alot of people down here are still using razr's :eek: and clamshell tracphone lookin ****s. I went into a gas station to pick up a pack of cigarettes for somebody I know, and had to txt to make sure the right kind. The girl behind the counter was like what kind of phone is that? I told her its the new iphone just because whenever I try n explain a WM/Android hybrid HD2, it takes ten minutes. New iphone is easy way out, and to the mind of most non-tech savvy folks, its the same thing really
[HD2 General] frostmore:
Damn straight i will....but i only have time during the weekends.have to spend time cutomizing my hd droid.

and gf's not going to be happy i am spending more time with my fone than her....
[HD2 General] :
I always have people say that my phone is awesome, even the iPhone owners!
[HD2 General] Wevenhuis:
I get remarks that it looks like a big iPhone!

They like what they see, but many people are having a difficult time handling the sense UI and windows mobile OS. I have no issues with the latter, because I am used to its peculiarties. Still many would probably argue a super simple no issue end user experience of the iPhone. I guess, in that perspective, windows phone 7 is a step in the right direction.
[HD2 General] rr5678:
I don't like it when people call it a big iPhone. Then I have to go into explanation mode and give tons of reasons whit it will NEVER be like an iPhone.
[HD2 General] denyboy:
I just read the entire topic from page 1 to 25 and i must say this is far the best topic on this forum :D

I never saw anyone using HD2 out there. Before buying it (4 days ago) i only saw it on internet. Most of people in Bosnia doesnt even know about HTC.

I never get comment like "is that Iphone". Most of comments are like "Thats a big screen"...etc.

I love the expresion on people faces when i recieve a call and put HD2 out of pocket and on my ear. Everybodys faces are like "WTF is that" :)

P.S. Im 25. M.Sc
[HD2 General] romskii:
i showed everyone with an iphone, that the iphone is really big **** :-D even my hd2 was better than an ipad :D:D:D
[HD2 General] tmihai20:
It depends where you show it. Generally, in the US people have heard about iPhone and they kinda use it a reference point. In Europe, especially Eastern and Central Europe, we get that "That's a big phone" reaction.
[HD2 General] Spl4tt:
here ein switzerland there are about 60% wich are iphone users.... really... >.<!
[HD2 General] sstfn:
Everybody said it has a BIIIG screen :D But they like it very much! I love it too :D
[HD2 General] Rurph:
no idea about the rest of Europe, but sadly in the UK HD2 is not an impressive phone anymore, mainly because of the number of new similar phones on the market. Also recently I have seen a bunch of metro controllers, yes metro controllers :), all having HD2s with ugly plastic covers which was not pleasant to see as much as i like my phone :)
[HD2 General] kdskamal:
People just keep staring at its huge display and look amazed. I love their expression!
[HD2 General] Strike_Eagle:
I am 17 and believe or not, i have a girlfriend because of HD2!

I am studying at US and bought an HD2 here.

One day, the girl from Korea (my GF now) forgot her laptop at home and she had to write down a Word document quick and sent it through e-mail. She was freaking out because she didn't know what she could do. I took my HD2 out and told her to finish it on my HD2 and sent it. She had an iPhone 3GS, but useless in that situation. That helped her a lot. At least i had a free lunch with her... lol!

Several days after, when the wireless at my school went down, and my GF was unable to talk to her administrator about her school work at US...and that was important because if she didn't contact him, she had to go back to Korea. And then, i pulled out my HD2 again, made a Wifi Hotspot through my 3G Network for her... and now we are a couple.
[HD2 General] ronalgps:
jejej cool htc hd2 is the best phone ever
[HD2 General] Kalavere:
Nahhh, Desire HD is. :cool:
[HD2 General] ManyPearTree:
"Holy sh*t! That's like a mini laptop!"

"What is that phone called?" - randoms

"HD2" - me

"What's that?"

"It's comparable to the Evo 4g" -me

"Evo? Is that the phone up there with the Env Touch?"

"-_-"
[HD2 General] phrixus:
This has always been the case for Apple though. It's not the computer, they could care less about the specs and hardware, the important thing is that it looks apple, costs a lot of money and gets replaced several times a year by something new costing even more money :). Apple is a lifestyle, not really high-end gadgetry.

The iPhone users at my workplace, which is a telco, envy the HD2 which makes me a bit uncomfortable :P but it's kind of amusing at the same time. I'm the only one here who has one but there are a fair amount of other HTC phones in the building but tons of sIghPhones.
[HD2 General] FunFrog:
Well it`s a very funny thread :D

One guy asked me "Is it an another chinese iphone?"

Another guy say something like "Shame on you, you buy NTS" (some people in Belarus think that HTC is cheap chinese phones and read "HTC" as "NTS", lol)

But when i bring it to univercity - one of my friends ask "Is this HD2?"

And of course many peoples says about huge screen :)
[HD2 General] norodaigh:
That made me laugh
[HD2 General] norodaigh:
I think it is funny when people say "is that an iphone?"...people must think apple have made millions of different types of cell phones..though they havn't. Even better is that Android own over 35% of the world market with iphone/apple just under 30%.
[HD2 General] Imperator Nick:
lol I've never seen any of the guys on the Metro using them - I'll have to keep an eye out
[HD2 General] norodaigh:
Originally Posted by Rurph

no idea about the rest of Europe, but sadly in the UK HD2 is not an impressive phone anymore, mainly because of the number of new similar phones on the market. Also recently I have seen a bunch of metro controllers, yes metro controllers , all having HD2s with ugly plastic covers which was not pleasant to see as much as i like my phone

ABOVE IS A QUOTE:

Its not impressive in the UK anymore? What a load of bull dude, if you port android onto it its better than most phones out there with droid built in, people that arnt impressed are people that dont know anything, which is i'll admit...most of the UK population. Oh a sandwich shop, sandwhiches at £1.00!!! Oh look subway £3.50 for a sandwich, lets go there...
[HD2 General] Derek0228:
How can you fit that in your pocket?

That's what people always tell me. They say it's huge! But they drool over the screen. Even iPhone users drool over my HD2. I've got a friend that has an Iphone4 and we're always comparing. I think the only thing i envy about the iPhone is the front-facing camera and 720p video recording.

PS: I'm 13 y/o.
[HD2 General] Spl4tt:
it seems like the iPhone hype here in switzerland slowly comes to an end... more and more ppl are buying android now, and suddenly i get even more "wows"

when i tell them that i have the hd2 over a year now they just say "...THE ****, why did i buy an iphone when this thing is out for so long..." -> cause u were not intrested in other phones than the iphone back in that time..

well, but there are still some iphone users that think can destroy me in saying my phone would suck.

the only point i say then is:

"I. have. triple. Boot." (<- winmo + android + ubuntu, never forget our beautiful ubuntu :) )

thats the moment when they just shut up and turn around.. XD
[HD2 General] :
everybody who i showed it to just said "omg is that huge" (i hear that very often XD)

then i say "its just a screen which is a little bigger than your phone" :D
[HD2 General] pteradactyle:
hd2 doesn't afraid of anything
[HD2 General] rr5678:
i think hd2 is a pretty cool guy. eh steals phoen's OS's and doesn't afraid of litigaetion :p
[HD2 General] TheiPhoneKiller:
people often ask is it better than an iPhone or wich hTC it is :D last week i was sat next to some chap on Bristol Temple Meads station waiting for athe Plymouth train,playing around wiv his new iPhone 4 and showing off what it can do so i wipped out my Hd2 with android desire hd build :D ,started playing with mine and the chap the other side decided he was gonna get out his Desire HD and started playing with his,the guy next to me put iPhone 4 away and walked off down the platform :D :D he got proper Rinsed :D :D
[HD2 General] jaidedfocus:
Top questions I get are:

1. Is it an iPhone?

2. What size is that screen?

3. Is it bigger than an iPhone?

4. Is that the Droid?

Top comments I get:

1. Damn that thing is huge! (thats what she said)

2. the screen size is big!

3. how can you hold something so big? (thats what she said lol)
[HD2 General] auximinies:
I'd pretty much decided I was replacing my Tytn with the Touch Pro 2 - having had a Nokia N95-2 for a year then come back to WinMo I wanted a hard keyboard.

Then I went in the T-Mobile shop and asked the man if he had an HD2 I could look at. "You can look at mine if you want" he said and whipped it out. The leather pouch (which I had to buy seperately you T-Mobile bastards), the home screen with weather wallpaper, the huuuuuuuge screen with amazing resolution. Then I tried the soft keyboard for the first time, realised it was fine, and was smitten.

Now I use my phone for so many things, and everyone is impressed by it. Had a few "is that the new iPhone" comments, and proceeded to have a quick head to head with a 3GS-wielding colleague. He loved his phone, then realised mine had a bigger screen with better resolution. Was faster. Had that weather wallpaper which was "the bollocks". Did all the eye-candy stuff his did. THEN I cracked open RegEdit and showed him how to change every last detail he hated about his iPhone that were fixed.

I don't dispute that iPhone is a design classic. Its the "we invented X" comments that wind me up. Retina display? Can you see any difference from ours? Welcome to the world of high-res screens iPoo users....
[HD2 General] rr5678:
Remember, they invented the A4 in March 2010, SEVEN MONTHS after it came out. And they also invented the 960x640 display. Boy, some Apple fans are fraking retarded. :p
[HD2 General] Wdave:
I hate to de-rail the fun in this thread, but people in my workplace just don't really recognize the HD2 at all.

Although it is funny when someone whips out their new phone and is boasting about it, I take out my phone and tell them "Hey man, How should I tell you this...MY SCREEN IS BIGGER THEN YOUR ENTIRE PHONE!" Ususally lots of laughs are had.
[HD2 General] Flatcap2010:
It usually ends up with someone phoning the Police or calling Security, along with shouts of "Filthy pervert!"

:p
[HD2 General] Callumpy:
Depends where I get the HD2 out.

Got it out once and had a whole speech of how crap apple are directed at me, then when they were finished I just said, its a HTC not a f***ing iPhone.

Apprently the HD2 also looks like a brick, a very thin brick :S
[HD2 General] :
lol awesome
[HD2 General] :
I never have people thinking it's an iPhone... they always think it's a Droid. Jesus consumers are so stupid they can't differentiate between the **** that Motorola produces and an operating system! How can you confuse it, anyway? The build quality of the Droid X is terrible!
[HD2 General] cathyng:
Everytime I took it out, my friends thought it's iphone, and they just took it and tried to play games. And when they clicked it, they just realized it's not iphone and asked : Oh, it's a mini comp (not even PDA?), I just laughed and point to the logo - HTC.
[HD2 General] bloodychaos:
My friends' first reaction will be the huge screen and how big and slim it looks, and most of them have no idea what kind of phone it is, since they only know the iPhone.
[HD2 General] neophlorys:
Everytime my friends say to me: " You get your tv with you". Thats because of big display! Anyway, i'm very proud!
[HD2 General] qtwrk:
Omega should have one build in, just enable it in omega setting