Super WinMo phone in “early 2010′
It looks like HTC has outdone themselves.
The Taiwanese cell phone manufacturer has just announced the soon-to-be availability of their HD2 smartphone.
It’s for sale today in Europe and the Far East beginning today. It is reportedly coming to the United States via a “major carrier” in early 2010.
What’s so special about this phone? Let’s see. The HD2 will ship with a monster, super-sized, 4.3-inch (diagonal), WVGA, capacitive touch screen and will have Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5 running on a super-speedy 1.0 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.
Who knows? Maybe, by the time it reaches the our shores it will be running Windows Mobile 7. The timing for that might be perfect.
Best of all, the phone will use HTC’s Sense – what is being touted as a “user experience focused on making the phone more simple and natural to use and by enabling people to personalize their mobile experience in their own unique way.” Sense is the nifty user interface that comes with the Google/Android-based Sprint/HTC Hero phone.
Let’s see. 4+ inch screen. Snapdragon interface. Windows Mobile operating system. Sounds a lot like the very similar Toshiba’s TG01 smartphone. That beauty was released months ago in Europe but still hasn’t made it to a carrier here in the United States. The Toshiba has its own user interface on top of the Windows Mobile OS 6.1.
And then there’s the upcoming SonyEricsson Xperia X10 handset with a 4-inch screen, Snapdragon processor running version 1.5 of the Android-OS. It’s also reportedly getting here sometime after the first of the year on some un-announced carrier.
And let’s not forget Verizon’s Motorola Droid phone which goes on sale this Friday. Thin form-factor, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 3.7-inch screen and it’s the onloy phone (so far) to run on the newest version (2.0) of Android.
But, back to the HTC HD2. We know it’s arriving here in the next few months (after the busy holiday shopping season) but we don’t know who will be selling it or how much it will cost.
The online rumor mill is guessing that the HD2 will probably be a T-Mobile device. Unless, of course, another carrier wants it first.