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Since the mobile phone is the one gadget you are pretty much guaranteed to take with you when you’re abroad on business, whether signing that deal or evaluating that supplier, you need one that works well.

Since the mobile phone is the one gadget you are pretty much guaranteed to take with you when you are abroad on business, you need one that works well.

Windows Mobile has always seemed, on the face of it, the operating system of choice.

It has the same programs so familiar from regular computer use such as Word and Excel, and comes in a range of handsets from different manufacturers.

But the truth is Windows Mobile has always been difficult to use. It was slow, tricky, cumbersome and awkward, with touchscreen interfaces that needed a stylus to get anything done. Even the new version, Windows Mobile 6.5, launched last Tuesday and called Windows Phone to sound more friendly, wasn’t perfect. It didn’t support the better-looking, easier to use capacitive type of touchscreens, like the one on the iPhone. Capacitive screens are more responsive because they don’t require pressure and offer sharp, richly-coloured displays.

Everything changes with the HTC HD2 out later this month. The Taiwanese smartphone maker has added layers on top of the vanilla Windows Mobile interface and has improved it out of all recognition. It has also added support for the multi-touch capacitive screens everyone craves.

So there’s a great-looking home screen with weather details that update to show you what’s going on outside that windowless conference centre. And it picks up emails, texts and voicemails.

The main screen shows a carousel of shortcuts, making it as easy to get to your calendar and contacts as to Facebook and Twitter, if you must. Programmes of your choice are displayed so at just one touch of the huge 4.2-inch screen you can connect your laptop to the internet using the phone’s 3G connection – handy when there’s no wi-fi.

It’s sleek and light, powerful and very fast. Windows Mobile 6.5 is the best version of Microsoft phone software yet, but it’s the HTC hardware that makes this potentially the most efficient, accessible and certainly the best looking business phone yet.

There’s even an optional hardware accessory: a windscreen mount which automatically launches CoPilot satnav software. The perfect overseas companion.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/uk-trade-investment/6293661/HTCs-HD2-mobile-phone-brings-Windows-Mobile-6.5-alive.html

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General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100
Announced 2009, September
Status Available. Released 2009, September
Size Dimensions 104 x 55 x 12.9 mm
Weight 110 g
Display Type TFT resistive touchscreen, 65K colors
Size 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches
- TouchFLO 3D finger swipe navigation
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Touch-sensitive zoom bar
- Handwriting recognition
Sound Alert types Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3, WAV ringtones
Speakerphone Yes
- 3.5mm audio jack
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
Card slot microSD (TransFlash), buy memory
Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
HSCSD Yes
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, miniUSB
Camera Primary 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels
Video Yes
Secondary No
Features OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional
CPU Qualcomm MSM7225 528 MHz processor
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, IM, Push Email
Browser HTML
Radio No
Games Yes
Colors Black, Brown, Silver
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Yes, MIDP 2.0
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA player
- MP4/WMV/H.263/H.264 player
- Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer)
- Organizer
- Voice memo
- T9
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1000 mAh
Stand-by Up to 500 h (2G) / Up to 370 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 7 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 6 h 10 min (3G)
Misc Price group [About 340 EUR]

Unveiling our first Windows phone to embody HTC Sense. The ultrathin HTC HD2 features a 4.3-inch, high-resolution display that delivers a truly cinematic experience. It is also the first Windows phone with capacitive touch technology and it is powered by the lightning-fast 1GHz Snapdragon processor – making it really fast and smooth as you switch between applications, browse through websites or play games.

HTC Touch HD2 is set to hit the stores for sales on Oct 19.

Even though O2 has not disclosed any dates for the rolling out of HTC HD2, according to certain reports available from the O2 customer service representatives, the network will be launched on Oct 19.

HD2, which sports HTC Sense user interface, will be using Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system and is flaunting numerous features, which will enable it to emerge as market leader.

Some of the features flaunted by this smart phone include a 4.3-inch touch screen, which will help in the better viewing of the movies and videos in high definition on the handset, as well as a widget-based home-screen to allow users to customise the layout.

According to HTC Chief Executive Peter Chou, this is the “most advanced” from O2 but is “simple and natural to use”.

The company is all set to launch its Tattoo, which will use the Google’s OS, Android. This will be the smallest of the phones to use Android. Tattoo sports a 3.2 Mp camera, which has auto focus properties and comes with pre-installed Google apps like Facebook and YouTube.