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[HD2 General] mystik610:
A friend of mine has been looking for an iPhone, and has been asking me questions about it since I've had mine for a while now. She doesn't want to leave t-mobile and doesn't want to drop 5 bills on one off contract. She also wants a phone to read books and watch movies on.

The HD2 was a no brainer, so I told her to get the HD2, or if she really was in love with the iPhone's interface, to get the Nexus One. Either phone is a better alternative in their own way.

She's still on the fence.

The iPhone has an enormous amount of brand equity behind it (all of Apple's products do). People feel like they're sippin the kool-aid just because they have one. Nevermind that a lot of their competitors are building better devices now. The iPhone still has that cool factor.....even though just about everyone has one now. I think Apple has effectively saturated the market with iPhones. People are buying them like it's going out of style (and it literally is lol).

I was an early adopter to the iPhone, and at the time nothing came close to it...I felt even more 'elite' when I unlocked and jailbroke it, modded the hell out of the interface, and *gasp* played games on it!
[HD2 General] :
HD2 ... nahhh... ignored...

HD2 EVO 4G ... nahhh...ignored...

iPhone 4G... nahhh...ignored...

Dell Mini 5...that's what I'm aiming for now...
[HD2 General] copualt3:
thanks, bored2nite
[HD2 General] Drazik0711:
I was on the train a while ago showing my mates how cool the HD2 is, when two kids sitting opposite started to get a look in. One of them piped up, 'is that one of the Chinese imports!' I thought, 'you w*nkers'.
[HD2 General] bored2nite:
not a problem... did it work for you???
[HD2 General] agentaaron:
34 years young here

...I never get out, work and home...mostly. My kids ask me "Dad, did you get ANOTHER new phone?"

I have really only recieved one reaction to it and that was when the wife and I were standing in line at a Subway sandwich shop...The guy knew what it was and started asking questions about it. I handed it to him and let him play around with it...he pulled out his 3Gs and called his wife and told her he found the new toy he wants to replace his "iDont" (which cracked me up because that is exactly what we call my wifes iPhone)
[HD2 General] lonelykatana:
I've not seen the dell till now.

And I've just fallen out of love with my HD2.

I need that not so mini dell mini 5.

I NEED IT I TELL YOU!
[HD2 General] lonelykatana:
Nope, I've still got the boxers hanging out :p;)

But I wouldn't be seen dead with an iphone
[HD2 General] ThiefZero:
Girls go: "Oh my God, it's huge!!"

Seriously, even my friend's girlfriend said that to me. He has an iPhone, muahuahauhua.
[HD2 General] jonny68:
haha brilliant :D
[HD2 General] senzan:
haha, that's funny!
[HD2 General] quasi_mojo:
im glad to see members of all ages communicating on the same level, much better than some forums ive been on...

im only 26 and have owned wm devices of various flavors since 2002, i cant get enough of them!

with a few friends last night, one produced an iphone and tried to show me something it did...

i squinted and put my glasses on just to take the mick :D
[HD2 General] kweiss10:
it would be good if u guys would state where these events took place so that we could compare the reactions of the people.

im from germany and every time i pull out the hd2, ppl go like, is that the new iPhone or is that some cheap china gimic phone or something.

wierd enough, when i try to explain the specs, they think im kidding them or something.

guess HTC doesnt have that image yet.

only a few people have recognized what i got.
[HD2 General] :
hahaha. One of they key reasons I left Android was the maturity of its users.

With WinMo and the HD2 everyone respects everybody. I like that!
[HD2 General] mystik610:
engraved on the back of.my iphone: designed by Apple Califorrnia. assembled in China
[HD2 General] tannim31:
I hear you my friend, I'm 41 (always been a techie tho) Loving my HD2 (was using an UL LG Incite via TMO) Major difference! I showed my old boss (an Iturd user) and kinda gave me the "hurumph" of discontent at my Windows phone LOL To me the Iphone is just a toy with a phone in it that you have to download everything too do anything "There' an app for that" Really? We have that too on our phone...it's just already installed :)
[HD2 General] neil_swann80:
I guess you need a nice big screen so you can make the text size massive so it's visible to your ancient eyes! ;)
[HD2 General] HTC_Junglist:
Same age as me, and same taste in games.

I grew up on Street Fighter, my next door neighbour & I spent many hours playing that after school & had to use Ryu & Ken to make it a fair fight between us with the same moves etc.

Mario Kart nes was just as good in my opinion.

Man, they don't make games as addicting anymore!!!

Oh, and I have only had positive feedback on this phone so far, even from iPhone users bizarly!

My 2 closest friends are waiting to upgrade to HD2 now after seeing the screen size & speed.

Swype also made them jelous as well as the removeable battery and possibility of expanding storage memory.
[HD2 General] :
Here's a new one:

I whipped out my HD2 at lunch and a kid nearby loudly said, "woah its like an ipad!"
[HD2 General] Qazz~:
Here's a new one:

One day my friend wanted to use my wifi router so i turned it on. so happened one of my classmate was searching for a wireless network to join, miraculously he found out my password(the default* 1 to 10) and he exclaimed; WOO! i found the password for a wireless network!! i shouted back saying that was my phone and boy was he shocked.

A week later, my schools wireless network was off as it was a 1 week vacation. My teacher wanted to show us a video and my classmate then asked me to turn on my wifi router. I couldnt refuse so i turned it on and everyone enjoyed the lesson :D
[HD2 General] erick10:
Hey guys well im a Senior in Highschool. So I was playing some Mario on my HD2 (Morphgear) and some kid next to me says,

"Hey I thought only my Iphone could do that"

Then I showed him Gran Turismo on FPSECE to make him feel bad lol.

I love my HD2.

People now a days are haters.
[HD2 General] :
haha I'm a freshman and man are they annoying about it
[HD2 General] INeedYourHelp:
:confused: That's just dumb.
[HD2 General] Chastiser:
52 year old kid here lol

Mike
[HD2 General] :
haha looks like we have all ages here!
[HD2 General] chris_ah1:
When I got my HD2 the first reaction i got from my girlfriend was "whoa, that's big".

Sadly, every opportunity she gets she plays with it - you know what I mean - err the phone - and absolutely loves from a non-technie POV:

a) screen size, colour, brightness, clarity etc.

b) weather animations

c) the calendar

d) animations in general, such as the album view and gallery or even turning the page in an ebook. It amuses her vastly.

e) fast web browsing for cinemas, timeout, vids, music, email.

f) the clarity, detail and size of any GPS app - whether it's Garmin or even googlemaps.

g) that everything is touch - as she still has a standard phone and never used a touch one before - it's all a bit novel having soft buttons, touching the glass and then the device doing something and all the buttons and screens changing, and being configurable - like a mini laptop or configurable canvas.

What she doesn't like:

1) Camera flash

2) I keep playing with it instead of with her.

3) Every time I play with it she can't play with it.

TBH I have got positive reactions from everyone - at first they think it's big - but then everyone pockets it fine...and then of course you can joke about 'bulges' in one's trousers.

I personally love the thought of android but don't think it's matured or has such a nice community as windows mobile. The jailbreaking community is nice too, but tbh I got the HD2 for two reasons:

a) screen size

b) resolution.

of course, compared to a jailbroken iphone the HD2 isnt so far ahead, but the one feature I do miss is the blackberry IM client which iphone and blackberry can use - since all my friends have iphones or blackberries I can't IM them with that app.
[HD2 General] avemn1:
Haha.. I've gotten a few responses to my phone. I remember the first encounter was when I first got it. I went to school and was walking towards the gym. About 8-10 feet away, someone I know was like you have a new phone? Mind you, this is with the scilicone case on. I was like, ugh YEAH!! lol He told one person and they told someone else... Before you knew it, I almost gave a release presentation on campus.. lol

Second (Major) encounter was when I was in english class. This girl came from across the room and was like woah, I love your screen and started admiring my phone like everyone else. lol Then someone asked is it better than the iphone? I was like yeah.. while I was explaining the phone, I was holding it in my hand. The girl who asked the question pulled her iphone out and I put it next to hers. What a disgrace. She was soo sad in a split second. You shouldn't put a phone in the ring that can't match up. lol Sorry! The screen difference was major. The iphone had a blue-ish tone and was much duller than the iphone lol. Soo sad.

Now my friends don't pull out their phone around me that much anymore anymore.
[HD2 General] M3PH:
I have a divide in my friends group. The people that come to me for IT advice and ask for help and the people that don't care (this second group are far smaller in number). My HD2 has caused a stir in both groups. One person was surprised at the size of it but when i explained i could play dvd quality video she was upset my new phone was better than her brand new samsung jet (also a WM 6.5 device but no where near as nice to use or as fast). Alot of my friends also have iphone and are pining over the iphone 4G especally about it's ram capacity. I think atleast one of those is gonna get a hd2 since he used mine last weekend.

So over all a good response from everyone but tbh when i buy anything techie most of my friends sit up and take notice because they know what i'm buying now they are gonna be looking at in 6 months time
[HD2 General] cool_dhamz:
21 here, wen i bought it d next day my dad asked me "was there a need to buy a portable TV?" i just said "my tv can make phone calls too" :D
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
I've found that people usually do all of the above

Step one "wow thats huge"

Step two "what is it"

Step three "so its like an iphone?"

Step four is me walking away muttering something under my breath about what a bunch of twats the general public are.

I've still never seen another HD2 "in the wild" (as someone on here eloquantly put it).
[HD2 General] foxhound494:
Whenever someone sees the phone they are impressed. It's a head turner. I pulled my HD2 out on the bus yesterday and had atleast 10 people asking about it.
[HD2 General] lissile:
I had the same thing happen. It was sitting next to me at work the other day and one of my coworkers asked "Is that the new iPhone?" to which I responded curtly with a no. She then proceeded to ask if it was one of the "cheap Chinese imports". She didn't believe me when I told her that it wasn't. Although, I suppose, the fact that it runs a Chinese ROM since it's from overseas didn't help my case...
[HD2 General] rawrscary:
I've had a few people walk up and say "Damn, thats a big phone. How much :D" My mates have a cry everytime time i pull it out (Iphone users)
[HD2 General] mon_money:
Haha.. this thread is full of jokes..

Well In my views.. Iphone2g,3g and 3gs are nothing just a bag of shi* in front of Stylish n fast hd2..

I have iphone 3g also .. and using it is a pain when u used to your HD2..

HD2 is best .. iphone doesn't stands anywhere near by it..
[HD2 General] Trudi:
First they call it an iPhone rip off.

Then they ask questions about it.

Then if they are not Apple addicts they say it's giant. If they are Apple addicts they just say it's still an iPhone rip off and the Iphone 4G will make you feel your HD2 as crappy as the first iPhone looks crappy now compared to the HD2. What they don't understand is that HTC has probably already all the next generation competitors to the iPhone 4G in his labs.
[HD2 General] M3PH:
Technically the iPhone 4G still isn't as good as the HD2. The iPhone 4G has less ram than the HD2 and the processor is only just about as fast. So those iPhone addict people you've met are just plain wrong!!! :D:D:D
[HD2 General] rmsa786:
i'm too scared to pull it out in public in case i get mugged :p

tbh, it does get ppl envious purely for the huge screen :)
[HD2 General] secano:
"Is that the new iphone??" Makes me wanna slap them in the face!! There's a lot of lost people out there...:)
[HD2 General] goldt:
I have lots of people ask me about this phone, and i am amazed that some of them actually know what it is. They'll say "Oh its that new HD2" but know nothing else about the phone lol

A friend of mine keeps making fun of me for having what he calls a small tv :D

But what annoys me the most its the iPhone users, every time they see it, they try to say something bad about it, like "oh i like it but my screen is so much more responsive", so i let him play with it and his responds was, "ok its not bad better than G1 but i like my iphone"

So I told him, HD2 is faster, has a better camera, the screen is amazing, you wouldn't want it any bigger, the phone looks much cooler, i can replace the battery and double the fun, i can change ROM and customize my registry, can make it look different every time from stock win 6.5 to spb to HTC UI and more, and what can you do?

Oh and this phone is so good that apple filed a lawsuit, scared? ;)
[HD2 General] oshizzle1991:
well... i set it on the table next to other peoples phones and let them see just how big the screen is...i even do it to itouch's and iphones, it dwarfs them! then, i open up transformers, and watch the last fight scene in HD! that basically puts an awestruck look on their faces! ;)

and when im in a devilish mood, i tell them that it is a brand new device made by HTC, and i am one of the 50 people in the country that get to test it for a month... its hella funny cause no one knows what this phone is at my highschool. im 18, graduate in ****ing 8 days!!!!
[HD2 General] M3PH:
Well, on the video front i paid for coreplayer today and watched an episode of scrubs. I think I will be doing that again in front of my mates but the transformers tip is classic. I'm very poorly sighted (and very deaf) so HD is pointless for me because i literally can't see the advantage but having a copy of transformers in hd on my 8GB memory card (when it arrives) would go down a storm and most of my friends are nudging 30 (although they don't like to admit it)
[HD2 General] enyaj:
Is there a way we can get the transformer movie(from HD2 TMOUS)? Or is that illegal?
[HD2 General] M3PH:
you could just go out and buy it. Once you have paid for it you can do whatever you want with it and that includes converting it to a divx movie, an mkv file or whatever.
[HD2 General] DD9200:
My friends say all three, they're mad!
[HD2 General] pakure:
my brother fondly calls it a "compass box"..(the large pencil box we carried in school with all the geometry tools)....ha ha ha
[HD2 General] jeibare:
pretty easy, show flash 5mp camera...

can't upgrade memory, can't have insurance, no flash, no 5mp camera

there is not app for changing battery in the stupid iphone. neither to change memory hahahaha get that little fruity phone!!!! :D
[HD2 General] sherlockpwnz:
the above statement is not true i have insurance on my hd2. my phone gets mistaken for an iPhone and sometimes a laptop lol I've got half my coworkers jealous of my phone
[HD2 General] polo735:
My dad asked if it was an iPad! He was joking of course. Mostly people are wowed with the browser and how the large screen can render full webpages so well.
[HD2 General] friend'scatdied:
Them: "Nice iPhone."

Me: "Thanks."
[HD2 General] rodrir1987:
ugh! i love my HD2 I got the same thing my husbands family is a Hd2 hater. They talk about how my phone is too big and they dont like winmo. My husband just got an iphone 3g for himself. he hates on my phone all the time. About how his phone is better blah blah blah. when it comes to it he only talks smack about my baby in front of his family. Just yesterday morning he asked if he wanted to trade phones!!! of course not!!! lol!!!! i dont hate on iphones im just not an obsessed fan of em. i love my phone and im glad i got it!!! I dont care if its big thats what i love about it. at least i cant lose it haha!! o by the way i have the today screen set to iphone killer lol!!! and when my husbands and my phone are charging together i put mines on top of his and make fun about how my giant phone makes his iphone dissappear!!! yey!!! for HD2 LEO!!!
[HD2 General] alisonwonderland:
haha exactly. I pretty much tell people when they ask me if it's an iphone that a) it's WAAAAY better and b) iPhone's are like f*ing kid's toys to me
[HD2 General] Thegovernor:
as i have read this whole post from my laptop w/ wifi sharing enabled i laugh at my 2g iphone which is on the charger next to me....

even tho both phones do what i need em' 2 do i still perfer my hd2 as my primary device over my 2g iphone....

i must say, reg edits are a must w/ the hd2....out of the box the phone is crap...

thats all.....
[HD2 General] ayhansan:
Yeah, well the iphone is imported from the Republic of China anyway!
[HD2 General] rlydiard:
Quote:

Originally Posted by Drazik0711

I was on the train a while ago showing my mates how cool the HD2 is, when two kids sitting opposite started to get a look in. One of them piped up, 'is that one of the Chinese imports!' I thought, 'you w*nkers'.

Quote:

Yeah, well the iphone is imported from the Republic of China anyway!

Well, just tell them the HD2 is M.I.T. (Made In Taiwan), unless it was manufactured in HTC's Brazilian plant.
[HD2 General] neowkewl:
big (hughe) thin beautyfull, it`s crazy if i take my hd2 out of my pocket the iphoneuser puts his iphone IN the pocket if they have a look at my hd2 ;D

oh men i like this to quote :D

well i thnik i will take this sentens for my mail signatur :D
[HD2 General] MixerNoMore:
I'm a 26 yo student. I study Communication & Multimedia Design over here in the Netherlands.

My first Windows Mobile phone was an Orange SPV. Loved that thing. It was so much fun playing Doom in stead of Tetris or some other crappy black and white game.

After I wrecked my last decent phone, a Sony Ericsson W810i (loved it, actually) during a night of heavy drinking, I borrowed my dad's old Nokia 3210. I HATE Nokia phones, so after a while I just had to get a new phone.

Even though I didn't have any spare money, I decided to go with another smartphone and bought the HTC HD2. At the moment, I've got it running the latest cooked ROM from Laurentius26 with some programs like BSB Tweaks.

I've gotten all the infamous reactions:

"Why didn't you get an iPhone?"

"That's just an iPhone rip-off."

"Wow, that's a HUGE phone!"

etc.

Not only am I a Nokia-hater; I also loath iFanboys (and -girls). And as you can imagine, at my school, there are a lot of Apple fanboys and -girls. Teachers included. And of course, some friends of mine also fell for it's 'charm'.

It's fun to boast about the HD2's power and abilities. It's even more fun to just install (downloaded - hush hush! ;) ) programs without having to jailbreak anything or pay top dollar.

It also doesn't get old laughing at them when they fail to get a beamer running (for example) on their MacBooks (I've got a nice MSi laptop running Windows 7).
[HD2 General] waichai:
my first co-worker thought it's a new 4G Iphone, and second stupid co-worker thought it's a clone iphone.
[HD2 General] ariel123:
i work at a public school and the vice principle had just got the incredible last week and he kept showing it off to everyone. so i walked by and pulled out my phone just so see what time it was. someone standing next to him asked me what phone i had. i said oh no big deal its the htc hd2 from tmobile. they were like woooo that screen is huge and the clouds flowing on the screen looks hot. i said you mean the weather animation yea its nice and i just showed them how the screen turns when you are in photos and music. they were so stuck on my phone. 30 seconds later the vice principle says "oh dont you guys have kids to attend" i said nope this is my prep. he put his phone away and walks away. i have not seen him pull out his decredible since then. well atleast not around me.
[HD2 General] EgoMaximus:
Not sure with what kind of people you surround yourself.

Everyone loved HD2, got no: brick, big, is this iPhone comments or so.
[HD2 General] AinsCrowbar:
AARRGGGHH!!!!! I hate this sooo much. I'm 17 here in Australia, and no one my age has one, so everybody thinks it's an iphone. In the rare occurrence somebody actually knows what it is, they call it a cheap iphone. At that point I tell them how much more powerful the HD2 is and tell them how much cheaper it is. If they say the iphone is better for gaming I just start playing PS1 emulator.
[HD2 General] chuck232:
Most people are impressed with the large display, and a couple even noted (a bit surprisingly) that it isn't much larger than an iPhone and that it's thinner (so clearly they could distinguish between it and the iPhone).
[HD2 General] Gibbage:
I have a unique perspective. I work at a rather LARGE software company and get fustrated at all the Iphones my co-workers have. Nearly half have Iphone's! Where is the loyalty? Its a nice device, with a ton of apps, sure, but its a crap phone. A lot cant get receptions in the building, but me, standing next to them, can get calls all the time. I sometimes pull it out and get the "That an Iphone?" and I make sure to correct them and say "No, its a phone for people who need to do ****, not just play around" and show them. They are typically very impressed with it, and the fact that it has MS OFFICE on it.

One time when in an elevator, I heard someone talking about his co-workers Ipad. Typically, we all have notebooks we bring to meetings to type notes on. This guy got an Ipad to do the same. He thought it would be better then dragging a notebook around. His co-worker asked "Why dont you bring your Ipad to meetings anymore?" and his reply was great "I found myself bringing my Ipad AND notebook so I can type, so now its gathering dust on the coffee table to show it off to house guests". Priceless. The Ipad is a 500$ Sears catalog.

I also saw someone with an Iphone 4 searching for a signal. I walked by and said "Your holding it wrong". :rolleyes:

And no, I dont know anything about Windows Phone 7. Not my department =(
[HD2 General] Faelok:
For me, sadly, it is almost always the iPhone question.

What really amazes me is when I get the "is that an iPhone?" question from people who HAVE AN IPHONE! I usually preface my response with "Gimme your car keys. Your are obviously either too drunk or too stupid to be operating a motor vehicle..." After my 20 minute in-depth explanation on how NOT an iPhone the HD2 is, they sadly look down at their "phone" (as though it were evidence in a murder investigation against them) and slide it back in to their pocket, never to be retrieved in my presence again.

Now all the apple fanboys at work scatter like cockroaches under the bright flash of light that is my HD2. Recently I bought the wife an EVO4g. We're a terrifying combination.

Top 10 questions/comments that invoke my wrath:

10: Is that an iPhone?

9: Why would you need a screen that big?

8: I wouldn't want a phone that will crash all the time.

7: Does it have apps?

6: Why would you want to be able to remove the battery/memory?

5: Does it have iTunes?

4: Windows mobile? You probably have to have anit-virus huh!

3: It's so big! I couldn't even fit it in my pocket/hand. (reply: That's what she said!)

2: Did you jailbreak it? (after explaining some of my customizations)

1: Is that an iPhone?
[HD2 General] chuck232:
Yeah, many in my department have either iPhones or Android devices. It's a bit sad really, but I'm hoping Windows Phone 7 will change that. Did you get to see Ballmer fake stomp the iPhone? My friend was in that row and had quite that time at the meeting.