We have entered the age of the superphone. Phones that do more, hit harder, run faster, and generally all around kick ass. T-Mobile’s first entry into this arena ( not counting the Nexus One which from the sales figures no one does) is the HTC HD2. Its a beast of a phone with a 4.3 inch screen and a 1 Ghz Snapdragon processor, the new standard for high end phones. It has a a 5 mega pixel camera with flash, Blockbuster and Mobitv apps for video and streaming content and free copies of the two Transformers movies preloaded on its 16GB sd card. It also doubles as an ebook reader with Barnes and Noble. It integrates Facebook into your contacts and has a solid app for Twitter. HTC has placed its Sense UI on top of the Windows Mobile 6.5 core, which means they have done everything possible to make it has finger friendly and user friendly has possible so no one realizes its windows mobile.
But it is Windows Mobile and that is its biggest drawback. Even that souped up processor and RAM can get bogged down by a OS notorious for task management issues. Freezing locking up while not frequent can and do happen. There is a software update unofficially available from HTC and soon from T-Mobile that will hopefully correct some of those issues. Of course the elephant in the room for tech people is the fact that Windows Phone 7 was announced right before this phone launched and will not be supported on this phone per Microsoft. So anyone who was not paying attention (which is the vast buying public) will soon realize the new hotness this is not. Oh and it doesn’t help that Verizon and Sprint will have virtually the same hardware running Android.
Ultimately this is the most powerful Windows Mobile phone ever with multimedia content that is top notch. But you still have to go in with eyes wide open on the fact sometimes weird things happen. It is after all Windows.
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