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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] THUDUK:
I sold my Android Samsung Galaxy S for a HD2...

and it runs smoother and looks great on this huge screen, better build quality and battery life, better camera, has a great flash, also benefits from running windows too...perfect
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] reorx24:
Around March, I traded my Milestone (friggin locked bootlaoder) for an HD2 since I fell in love with the Hardware. First time I saw a naked HD2 I knew I just had to have it. I was also loving winmo, CHT's customizability and the plethora of ROMS available here made me love winmo.

Then Android came along, and being no stranger to it, I dove headfirst, and am loving it! Dual Boot FTMFW

THUDUK: So the HD2 runing Android is faster and smootehr than a Galaxy S? Really? HOw so?

I find it hard to believe a native Android phone with an arguably faster processor and gpu is beaten by an HD2 running android off an sd card
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thompsd:
I've been a winmo and tmo user forever and wanted to upgrade to a nexus but tmo offered no discounts on the phone and wanted to put me on some crappy plan so I upgraded to the hd2. At the time Android was a no show and it looked like 7 was going to be the future but now...All I can say is that if winmo came out of some garage shop I would expect some buggy work but it just the opposite. All the work the chefs are doing here far surpasses the best that comes out of this billion dollar company, makes me scratch my head and wonder what the plan is. Do they not get it?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tmihai20:
First of all, Microsoft was never good at squeezing every bit of performance out of WinMobile. They were always left behind because they fail to comprehend a few basic things. If the cookers didn't have the possibility to modify WinMobile like they do now, most likely HD2 would have run Android (I think). Now, to get back to the main point. I had an N95 (I have been a Nokia fan since forever :) since I bought my HD2, that is :D) that started to break down. I almost ruined its display and after a while the screen went blank (something happened to the band connecting the main part of the phone with the screen). I have a friend that owns an HD2 since last year. Anyway, I saw it and I wanted to have that much power at hand. I made a little analysis and I cam to the conclusion that I won't be buying a Nokia Symbian phone anymore. I was left with to choose between Android and WinMobile phones. When I heard that there is a possibility to mod WinMobile, and even more important, to be able to run Android, I was more than convinced to get the HD2. I used my N95 to its fullest potential and I know HD2 has even more potential. I do not feel sorry that I made this move, because I totally love it. I even show off from time to time (a friend bought a Xperia X10 with Android 1.6). I am convinced that it will run WP7. I am not sure it is faster than Galaxy S though :D

Edit: I only thought of an iPhone for like a few seconds. I do not love Microsoft for how it released Vista and how it treats users, but I could say I really hate Apple for being more and more close minded. I do not like how they like to control everything. They are even worse than Nokia with Symbian (although even the latest Symbian release is hackable). I must add that I love the fact that I do not have to hack apps in order to enjoy them in my HD2 :D There are plenty free apps to use for everything you want to do :) Dualbooting is even better :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] whatevaUsay:
First I was leaning towards Desire, because of Android. I was pretty new to this smartphone stuff, and after reading some reviews I came to a conclusion that Android OS is better than WinMo. But then I found this miracle on eBay for £240 !! I know, nobody buys this kind of stuff on ebay, but since it was almost half the price I bought it! Besides it was turned on only once, so it's unused and brand new. Good buy? I think so. And Windows Mobile isn' t as bad as many say it is. Sure it has a couple of glitches here and freezes there, but all of that can be fixed with ROMs and Radios and tweaks and stuff. Besides it' s more fun to play around and tweak your phone, right? :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] law16:
i looked at the specs of the phone and thought they were amazing, i noticed WM and thought hey that will be cool i never had a WM phone i've had everything else why not learn to use WM.....now that android is available im alot happier with my choice but using windows mobile was very frustrating
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] .BetaBoy:
When I first saw this phone in the t mobile store I instantly fell in love. The massive screen and weight of the phone made it seem pretty well built so I looked into it more. Read some reviews and learned the specs and I l loved everything about it except the windows mobile. So I was stuck between great phone or great operating system. When I found out about android development I was sold. Great phone great OS. And I wanted to get into the whole Modding and changing stuff in phones and thought this would be a good start.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] serialzapper:
Screen size and unrivalled design/build quality of the HD2 hardware. :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] HelloKittyWhite:
I bought it because i thought win7 esa coming as it is a high-level gadget. Now i feel righteous ejem hacked into it to give it android
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] biscuits:
I paid £500 on day one like a fool but haven't regretted it at all. I also expected android pretty quickly, but there's elements of WinMo I still like. TomTom is still just better for instance.

I'm a right showoff with it now, but I also get to say I've had it a year!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] byrdman443:
Well I have been an iphone user since the early days from 2g all the way to the 3gs and i really did like the phone but I have t mobile and it involves me constantly having to unlock the phone, which sometimes doesn't turn out very well. So I decided it was time to shed the iphone hype until maybe T mobile gets it in its line up. A friend of mine showed me his HD2 a few months back and I really liked it, so i figured i would go check it out at the store. My choices were either the vibrant or the HD2, and to be honest the vibrant looks WAY too much like an iphone so out the window with that one. I didn't even know about android on HD2 when i got the phone, I was completely content with win mo. After a few days of reading about stuff i could do with this phone, and the list was amazing. Then I found this forum and discovered android, threw it on my hd2 and having been using it since. I definitely made the right choice getting my hd2 and having android and win mo on it makes it even better.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] madindehead:
I got mine for the hardware. I was fed up of my painfully slow X1! I also loved the look of Sense 2.5 (still do it has to be said!).

Used CHT on my HD2, and I still will when using WinMo. But...now that I have Android running, and HTC Sync to get all my Outlook contacts etc, I might stick with Android for a bit. It runs VERY well :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] FriedSushi87:
I got mine the day it came out. I found a super deal, but then realized that the OS was crappy. I then got a mytouch slide and used it for a month till these guys managed to make amazing builds.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Wilco:
For me the decision was quite simple:

I had the touch HD, Awesome phone (just regretted that 3 months later the HD2 was coming up). I got involved in flashing, even more awesome. It really was my baby. My wife also had the touch HD, but it got stolen, just around the time I got a brand new Nokia E71 from my employer. Since my wife had no phone, end needed push mail, I gave her my touch HD.

I regret it ever since: The Nokia is not syncing correctly, missed appointm,ents, hanging phone etc. etc. made me remember why I hated nokia phones. This togehter with the fact that customizing Nokia is almost impossible, apps are expensive, and hard to find.

When my wife approached contract renewal, I started comparison checks, and came up with three different options: Samsung Galaxy 9000S (because of camera), Iphone 3Gs or 4 (because of Iphone connector, which plugs into my HomeTheater set), HD2 (Screen, processor, memory, MicroSd slot and winmo)

Samsung fell off because of Android (1.1 and no clear answer to syncing with Exchange / Push mail)

Iphone fell off because off OS, Hype, Apple, Ego and complaints from co-workers (and not able to renew contract with Iphone)

HD2 was the way to go: renewed contract for one year, same dataplan, sms-plan and minutes for one year: Phone for free. Plus windows Mobile, push mail, 4.3" screen, baddass phone. Android will be one of my experiments to be researching (I would not run Android if I would need to flash it), since it can run next to windows mobile. For me that is a very big plus. I do not yet know if I will be running Android (or if I will be running it full time).

I am however very anxious to try it.

I still believe it is the best phone around for now, next year I will get another phone (dual core?), will keep up with mobile developments, but from this point I think the next phone will be Android, not WM7.

Mobile development is fastforwarding at the moment. Development is moving with Jumps, WM7 around the corner now (perhaps interesting) Android getting more and more mature. Apple offers better stability (due to its many restrictions) which is also its major disadvantage :)

Interesting times are ahead.........
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DennisCSUF:
Simple it was the best available phone (hardware wise) on T-mobile USA at the time i redid my contract. I went from an iPhone 3G (unlocked/jailbroken) to my HD2. Was pretty dissatisfy with the garbage that its Windows Mobile but I knew sooner or later an Android build will show up and if it didn't then I could always upgrade to a windows phone 7 when they become available :D

But I can say that I'm loving my HD2 with Android at the moment everything works at it should will probably hand to my HD2 for a while ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mattfmartin:
My brother just got the new vibrant and mine smoked his. That is why I got this phone. Nothing even comes close to this phone.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] alexleon:
I m an early adopter owning hd2 from the first day it came out to european market (november).

At that time, no Android phone had such a huge screen and good hardware as hd2's got.

Since haret and fairly good froyo/sense builds are fitting its snapdragon, I got rid of wm...for ever...there' s no competition!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] reorx24:
I keep reading that people love the sleek, solid constructtion, and that it is one of the best built phones today.

I thought that the EVO was going to be the HD2 on Android. However, its CDMA and not released in my country and ive never seen or felt in person. Is the HD2 just vastly superior in construction and finish to the EVO? Is the difference that big?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] flame10:
+1 same reason as mine, and the same time too
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] suua:
Because of the HARDWEAR!

But after now that we can "install" android on the HD2, its even better :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] foxcheng:
Android@HD2 was a Dream few months ago for us who is normal user, and now Android is my daily rom. My friends shocked by my pattern screen unlocker, Starwars's Force feel lol~

just the 3g data not stable, bad video support and the accelerometer causing the screen freeze...

NVM, we hope for brighter tomorrow ^_^ developers thank you very much :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] WoutH:
My reasons are pretty straight forward, at the time I bought the HD2 the only decent android phone was the HTC Hero.. and well, the HTC Hero is ****ass slow with its 400MHz CPU. Although I'd rather had android on my phone instead of WinMo, the big screen and top of the notch hardware convinced me in taking the HD2.

So the fact that Android is running smoothly now on the HD2, really makes it my dream phone :).
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kabuk1:
The EVO basically is the Android version of the HD2. Same screen size and hardware(AFAIK), but the design is a bit different. I have compared the two side by side & the EVO is thicker & the screen is centered a bit differently. I've heard its got really bad battery life too. I suppose the only real advantage it has over the HD2 is the 8mp camera.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Stealth Pyro:
I was growing bored of my old slow G1. I wanted the EVO or Droid X, but really didn't want to switch from T-Mobile. When I saw that the HD2 is pretty much identical to the EVO and that I had the chance to get it totally free (father's day special offer) I jumped the gun and got it. I knew beforehand that there would be a full Android port in due time ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] forelli:
Winmo! Coming from Omnia I, then Omnia II, the HD2 was a logical follower. The 1 ghz snapdragon and the 4.3" screen did the trick. Now that there's android on it is a good plus, reason why I haven't sold it yet BUT Micro$oft having slown down the COM5 developpment, I bought myself a Desire and I'm waiting for the HTC press event on september 15th to make a decision. I'm not sure I will remain a WinMo fan, I guess I'll switch to android for the sake of the Desire HD!

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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
The Desire HD looks to be awesome! I am going to try to get a HTC Incredible however on prepaid soon.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Showtime7:
Like most others, I bought the HD2 because of the hardware advantages.

The MyTouch3G Slide is a terrible device hardware-wise. One of the worst I've ever had, my old HTC Titan was better. The glossy nature makes it slip out of your hands a lot, and a lot of people have had their slides replaced 2 or 3 times and still have not got one that isn't "defective" in some way or another (too many issues to name). Terrible, terrible device that I regret buying (and have already sold).

I've heard different things concerning the Vibrant, the GPS issue concerned me as I think it could be hardware related. Also the build quality is not up to par with the HD2 and screen size is much smaller.

So, taking those into consideration I am satisfied with my HD2 until Tmobile puts something better out. I am confident we will have a fully working Android ROM (not Haret) at some point, and I've also got some hope in a WP7 port, so I will be hanging on to this one for a while, just to see what developments come out. For now I am OK with Windows, been using Dutty's rom and it's very stable. And of course it's always nice to be able to try Android out when I get bored with WinMo. ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pixine786:
I was coming from SE X1 and was looking for a change.. Thought of Android phone first..... as it was gaining market share and the "Android Market" looks promising with hundred of Apps etc... (dont like iPhone as UC is less...)

Back in March heard that T-mobile US is coming up with beefed up specs for HD2. Got me impressed and waited for 20 days after official launch to get one here...(you know custom/shipping and other govt. things .. how it works in different country)

I went for HD2 becoz of specs (1Gz processor, ROM, RAM) and felt like this would be the last high-spec 'ed WinMo device from HTC... another reason why i went for it is my son was born a day before the official launch in US.. so my TMOUS will be my second SON ;) (that i thought when i went for it ....again i loved it like that...sorry if u think it is kiddo... but here it is...can't help)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] rambo6:
Please forgive the long post. My choice of the HD2 was very difficult. I knew that WM6.5 was a last hurrah for Windows Mobile as we knew it. I had owned almost all the HTC WM phones from the begining - HTC Harrier, Blue Angel, Wizard, TyTn, Mogul, TyTN II, Rhodium and finally the HD2. I almost picked the Nexus 1 and many times I wish I had.

I chose the HD2 because I wanted the largest screen I could get. I also had lots of WM apps. I really wish the HD2 was originally offered with Android. I am a big fan of WM but I'm a bigger fan of Android.

The HD2 (with help from the wonderful ROM chefs on this site) was super fast and reliable. It actually had the best camera I've ever seen on a HTC device - finally!!! I bought my HD2 from Australia because it was the only place I could buy an HD2 to work on AT&T's network. My whole family are I-Phone (idiot phone) users so I'm stuck on AT&T. More on this later.

Unfortunately, my HD2's screen stopped accepting input a week ago. I could not get it fixed in the US because the model I have is not supported here. I had to send it back to Australia for repair. What a bummer!!!

I'm really quite disgusted with HTC and the US carriers for the following reasons. First, HTC should again offer unlocked versions of their latest phones with 3G radios which will work on AT&T's and T-Mobile's networks (as well as Europe's). These unlocked units should have front facing cameras and large amounts of internal memory, and all the latest bells and whistles. With the price of memory, HTC should put at least 16GB in each of it's phones - especially Android phones.

I just ordered a Samsung Galaxy S with front facing camera, 16MB of memory, etc. This is my first non-HTC smartphone. I buy a new phone very 6 months. I really hope that HTC will make a great Android 2.2 phone for the US market with a big 4.3" screen, lots of internal memory, front facing camera, etc. I know they will but we won't see it in the US market because of the greedy under-performing carriers we have here.

BTW, my secretary just bought a Droid X. If the Droid X was a GSM phone, I'd buy it in a heart beat. HTC has some real competition.

HTC have some courage and start selling some great useful unlocked phones again. We've been loyal to you. You have not been loyal to us.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] THUDUK:
I just sold a samsung galaxy s for a hd2.

The only thing going for the galaxy is that screen clarity and brightness.

This also goes against it, as you cant dim the screen at night for reading in bed.

The gps is plagued with problems where the hd2 is fantastic, hd2 10sats and a fix in about a second, samsung galaxy s max 5sats in about a minute.

Hopefully samsung will improve the stability xda are doing there best but it still runs less smooth than my hd2 running android from a sd card, must admit I hated touch wiz, sense on android is perfect. And the build quality of terribly flimsy, the camera ok has a brilliant hd video capability but it's photos are grainy and not a patch on the superior hd2 for photos, I love the flash on the hd2 which doubles up as a very handy torch.

Best thing I ever did was sell my samsung galaxy s, amazing for the money I got for it, I bought a hd2 and a sony psp.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
Astonishing that the Galaxy S phone lineup commands those types of prices :). Of course, today is the Fascinate and I will be at the Verizon stores to check it out.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bikrbikr:
a couple reasons:

1. as so many people have stated HARDWARE!!!! This phone is a beast.

2. i have a personal vendetta against apple and believe everytime i buy an apple product they acquire a small part of my soul

3. i knew android was currently in the works for this phone, so it would be only a matter of time before i could make the switch.

This was also my first smart phone and despite all the warnings i had received about winmo, i went for it anyway. consequently i didnt think winmo was all that bad especially after i had discovered flashing, and being able to dual boot puts this phone ahead of the game
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
Those are very solid reasons indeed...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mtk87:
Just wanted to move from my N95 to a touch device, started searching a good phone and i found HD2. People told me not to buy a winmo phone, didn't listen to them..

I think that i was right, had a good terminal months before desire's owner, now I can dual boot too..
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DerBozZ:
4.3 Inches! :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] CavemanXXL:
All of the above + overclockable CPU + flash 10. 1 support with android + ANDROID! + IT IS A FREAKING FANTASTIC DEVICE :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] slackersink:
My last phone was the tilt, which I loved. I didn't know much about android and I didn't like iphone, so I upgraded to the HD2. Aside from the sleek Sense interface, there's nothing much I enjoy about wm. Nobody except die hard xda people are developing decent programs for it, it seems. The reason I enjoy wm is because I have the ability to customize and install without being stuck to the market, which now android also has and also has a lot more current support for.

Since then and especially since I've been able to play with android I've wanted one of those instead. I kinda wished now I checked out android before I went with an HD2. The devs here have been amazing at bringing out stable android builds and I hope one day I can switch completely since I'm stuck under contract with t-mobile for another year and a half.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jquill:
The hardware OBVIOUSLY

Plus the fact that most people suck at programming for windows mobile and I don't

Here are two versions of Winodws Mobile on my HD2 (WM 6.5.5 ...My Own Rom / Mods)

and...

When done CORRECTLY Windows Mobile can rival Android in functionality, with things like remote desktop mobile, and the right modifications to WM & HTC Sense. (Microsoft's dev team I swear to god smokes crack right before going into work every day, they couldn't make a decent rom if their life depended on it.)

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And of course it runs Android better and faster than any phone including the Nexus One
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] xdantic:
I fell in love with HTC first and was pretty following its wave since 2008. The HD2 is my 3rd HTC device and its my second WinMo. Unlimited possibilities is the reason I jump on this unit-I have more confidence in the guys here than I do within cell carriers. I knew it would only be a matter of time before Android was ported into it.