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Seeing as HTC’s CEO Peter Chou sorta slipped up and mentioned this back in October, it’s not exactly, you know, news news – but just in case you were a little bit shaky on the dates, HTC has gone ahead and confirmed that the 1 Ghz, WinMo 6.5-powered HTC HD2 will be coming to the United States “with a major US carrier in early 2010. ”
Note that they specifically say a US carrier – implying that it’ll be just one, at least right off the bat. The rumor mill has endlessly pinned this one as being destined for T-Mobile, so it’s at least somewhat safe to assume that’s where its heading.
Either way, we’ll be getting it a bit later than our overseas brethren; in the same press release, HTC disclosed that HD2 shipments in Europe and Taiwan are heading out right this second, and the rest of Asia should see it hit the shelves over the next few weeks.
omg, what a beautiful phone. What a shame that they put winmo on it. I hope they make an android version.
Why? Since the UI is replaced by Sense UI on HTCs flagship WinMo and Android phones what difference does the OS make?
Specifics please – why is Android better for the people buying this than WinMo or, indeed, any other mobile OS?
Because Windows Mobile is terrible? Look we’ve all been over this before….
I had a winmo device for years and I used to be an advocate for the OS…even did some programming for it. I finally had a “who the hell am I kidding??” moment and gave Android a shot.
I wouldn’t go back to winmo if you paid me…
That’s nice.
Do you want actually give specifics though?
Specifics? I don’t really see the need to give exact details beyond the basic facts: my windows mobile device was just terrible to use and required me to yank the battery out several times a week to force a reboot. It was just miserable. The android phone JUST WORKS and is a joy to use. Winmo was just painful.
Right. And this was a WinMo 6.5 device was it?
Hmm…
Look, fair enough – some WinMo phones are really, really awful but then so are some Android phones. I don’t think the OS is going to make much difference with this one.
Does anyone know if there would be any reason for me to hope this would end up on a different provider than T-Mobile even though it is being made available for UK T-mobile users? Are there any phones that were made available for UK T-mobile but not US T-mobile?
If you haven’t seen this phone in action, go Google “HTC Leo hands on” or some equivalent. The Sense UI has COMPLETELY reskinned WinMo 6.5, which really is already a great mobile OS in it’s own right. No apologies, it is. If you took the iPhone and gave it a crappy resistive screen with a non-hardware optimized UI it would blow too. If you haven’t seen it in action, STFU. If you have something against huge, capacitive screens and 1 GHz mobile processors then you suck at life, and can therefore STFU. See the theme?
Look we all know WinMo 6.0 is ugly and chock full of disorganized menus. That being said, my Blackjack I, II were stable as hell. A lot more stable than my iPhone. So stable OS + demoed super smooth and awesome skin + huge capacitive screen + 1 Ghz = my iPhone’s replacement.
very nice phone. i waiting for it :)
Wow…. the phone is amazingly beautiful….
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