[Desire HD General] BartOtten:
A lot of information available is covered in this topicstart. Saves you reading a lot of crap :P. Please read this whole post before asking questions

Box includes:

- HTC Desire HD

- Includes a 8GB SDHC card Class 2 (already inside the phone)

- Crappy earpieces

- Charger

- Cable

- Small quick guide with the insert-battery stuff in it

Photo's and video:

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http://www.finalcity.com/dhd/vid.3gp

http://www.finalcity.com/dhd/vid2.3gp

16 october:

http://www.finalcity.com/dhd/cam2_1.jpg

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http://www.finalcity.com/dhd/vid2_1.3gp

http://www.finalcity.com/dhd/vid2_2.3gp

http://www.finalcity.com/dhd/vid2_3.3gp

Hardware Info:

- There's no specification of the screentype in the manual or on the box. It looks better than de Touch HD in brightness and colour, but i can't say for sure it's an SLCD.

- Compartment for SIM + SDHC is nicely finished and apparently a lot more resistant to dust and stuff than the Touch HD. (Cover here is fine).

- The camera does come out pretty far. Not really annoying, but it is a bit like a pimple.

- The sound from the build in speaker is good. It lacks some bass, but what else is new. It doesn't have a great max volume, but it sounds overall beter dan de Touch HD. (much less schrill)

- The piece around the flash is a patch of rubber/plastic from the same material as the battery+sim cover. It's just a little thicker, so it sticks out a bit. Very little though. It's properly attached and doesn't come loose.

Additional info (speed and such)

- To sync with my Google Apps it does need Google Talk? Never heard of, let's find out.

- The link to the HTC Sense site works well and the lag between them is really minimal. Click on the site to make it ring, and the DHD starts ringing immediately.

-Surfing is (with 3g) a whole whole lot faster than with the Touch HD. On the THD you'll have to wait for it to render the page and the pictures, on de DHD it's all done in a second or so.

- The Sense skin (and Android ofcourse) provide a far better user experience than the THD on WinMo.

- The rendering of the windows is instant, just as the browsing and the animations. I'm not yet familiar with Android, so I don't know what's normal.

- There's no CD in the package, only a small quick guide with the insert-battery stuff in it. The phone isn't on the support site from HTC yet, so the full manual isn't available yet

-Important: if you're going to use the phone to synchronise with Google Apps or go to the marketplace (or in fact to anything whereby you need a google account) you need to enable the service 'Chat' in your Google Apps dashboard. Else the phone rejects your account and gives an error about google talk or so.

-By default the languages are limited to: English, Francais, Deutsch and Dutch. You can get a keyboard in Turkish and many, many other languages (including arabic as far as I can see)

-The power off (hold powerbutton and choose power off) takes some time (measures:....5 seconds). The powerup then takes 1 or 1,5 seconds. Very quick! All apps are closed during the shut down.

-The restart (really a power off and a cold reboot) takes about 30 seconds.

Results:

Quadrant

Desire HD - 1879 points

Nexus one 2.2+ - 1300 points

Samsung Galaxy S - 800 points

Nenamark1 gives a score of 33,6 FPS.

Reported Problems

Proximity sensor failure: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=811285

Updates:

13:48 - added pictures

13:58 - added source

14:02 - added some important answers

14:18 - added answer about the manual

14:23 - added answers about speed and browsing

16 oct: New video's

This post is constantly updated

I hate the ***** for updating so fast. It's a hell of a job to keep up with it ;)