HTC announced its new HD2 smartphone during the launch of Windows Mobile 6.5. It has a 1 GHz CPU and a 4.3 “touch screen. The screen is capacitive, while resistive screens were common with Windows Mobile.
The HD2 has a Qualcomm QSD8250 chipset on board; the cheapest chipset from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon line. The processor has a clock speed of 1GHz and an ARMv7 core. HTC’s models of recent years contain MSM7xxx chipsets, whose processor has an ARMv6 core, which has a lower performance at the same clock speed. In addition, the MSM7 chipsets were clocked at 528MHz.
In addition, the HD2 has the largest screen that a smartphone has ever contained. The screen has a diagonal of 4.3″, one stroke larger than the 4.1″ screen of the Toshiba TG01 and considerably larger than the 3.8″ of the previous Touch HD and the 3.5″ of the various iPhone models. HTC has saved space by narrowing the bezel around the screen. Below the screen is a row of five buttons.
The screen is capacitive, a different screen technique than the resistive screens that Windows Mobile devices have been equipped with until now. The iPhone and various Android devices, such as the HTC Hero, have so far been equipped with capacitive screens. The HD2 has 512 MB of ROM on board, but also 448 MB of RAM.
The camera has a maximum resolution of five megapixels, the battery has a capacity of 1230mAh. Things like WiFi, Bluetooth, HSDPA and GPS are also included. The software on the device is Windows Mobile 6.5 with the TouchFlo3D 2.5 interface that HTC releases under the name ‘Sense’. The latter shell is an updated version of TouchFlo with, among other things, shortcuts on the home screen and various new elements, such as a Twitter tab. The HD2 is for sale from the end of October and the price is 599 euros, including VAT.