HTC HD2
gosh pithsoh, this post is like 3 months late! if my Fujifilm camera wasn’t stolen, i would have upload these photos immediately on the day of purchase! i remember losing interest in my work the entire day the moment i receive the device.

anyway, the content of the limegreen box is the HD2 (duh!~), a charger which also works as a usb data cable when detached, a handsfree/earpiece, a free 8GB SD card, warranty card and some manuals.

specs of the phone are:
1GHz Snapdragon™ processor
4.3″ WVGA capacitive touch screen (480×800 resolution)
512MB ROM, 448MB RAM
5.0MP camera with auto focus & dual-LED flashlight
Windows Mobile® 6.5 Professional
blah blah blah…
below is a screenshot of my phone’s home tab. HTC did a good job wrapping up the ugly Windows Mobile 6.5 interface, making the HD2 the world’s first Windows Mobile phone to feature capacitive touch screen and HTC Sense™.

as you can see, i’ve made alot of tweaking to the interface as opposed to the original screen below:

i’ve added a notification bar above the clock, removed weather animation in Home tab (this screen) background, tweaked the quicklink menu to show 3 pages of 4×4 shortcut icons instead of the default 1page of 3×3 icons, changed my ISP from “MY MAXIS” to “TAI LEONG”, all this thanks to Co0kies’ Home Tab + CHTEditor.



i’ve also changed the taskbar battery icon to display in percentage, instead of the original 4-bars, thanks to XDA user smaberg. the screenshot below is the Messages tab (listing 25 latest SMS/MMS).

next is the Mail tab, which in my case, lists down mails from 3 separate email accounts. see 4 icons on the right? the first one is to write a new mail, while the remaining 3 are the 3 separate accounts tab.

the next tab after the Mail tab is the Internet. this displays bookmarked thumbnails of 10 of your favourite sites, and pressing the “Launch Browser” button loads up the default Opera Mobile 9.7 browser with multi-touch support. nothing fancy here except the huge screen equals more web info displayed, so… moving on.

the Calendar tab helps me keep track of my meetings and appointments. HTC in a way provides an option (under Settings tab) to automatically set my phone to vibrate mode during pre-set appointments time. you know those times where you forget to silent your phone and a call comes in during important meeting/movie etc?


the Photos & Videos tab comes with the ability to let you browse your photos and videos in a river-flow manner. just slide your finger up or down gently and let the effects take your breath away.

this tab with HTC Sense also supports automatic landscape mode, thanks to the phone’s G-Sensor.

the Music tab gives you access to HTC Media Player, which i’m not sure if it’s running with Windows Media Player Mobile in the background. this player lets you have album arts flying across the screen, which is pretty cool too.

not to mention that it supports automatic landscape mode as well.

nothing to comment on HTC’s Weather tab, just the animated weather looks awesome.

last but not least, the Settings page which HTC gives you easier access to customize your phone.

the 5.0MP camera in my opinion is good, but not great. it’s LED flash is bright enough to be used as a flashlight during blackouts, or to annoy people. the speaker sound quality is awesome, but the speakerphone (loud speaker during calls) can be a tad bit too loud although volume has been set to the lowest.
although the built-in Media Player does not support DivX/XviD playback, having 3rd party softwares like CorePlayer Mobile solves the issue (unfortunately, it doesn’t support subtitle files like SRT, SUB, SSA etc.)
throwing in Garmin Mobile XT application into this device makes it a superb GPS navigator, also thanks to up-to-date Malaysia/Singapore maps by Malfreemaps community.
before i end this post, i just want to say, who needs so many apps when all you need is just a couple of quality ones.
































































































