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General characteristics

Deciding on the type of device (phone or smartphone?) is quite simple. If you need a simple and inexpensive device for calls and SMS, it is recommended to select the phone. A smartphone is more expensive, but it offers a wide variety of options: games, videos, the Internet, thousands of programs for all occasions. However, its battery life is significantly less than that of a regular phone.

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Everything you expect from mobile device– you will be offered the model of the HTC HD2 communicator. Large touch display 4.3 inches diagonal, operating system Windows Phone and the powerful 1 GHz processor is a quick response to even the light touch of your fingers. New interface HTC Sense makes communicating with your new device simple and straightforward. The communicator can be customized to suit your tastes and needs. The functions you need are easily displayed on the screen - mail, messages...

Also on home page you can easily place your favorite and frequently used applications, the range of which is unusually large in this communicator. However, if you need something new, you can quickly download it on the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. A convenient feature for those who often go on business trips to other countries - the communicator's clock is automatically converted to local time. In addition, special wallpaper on your phone will show you the weather outside right on the screen.

In addition, the developers have made a convenient location for all contact functions - address book, messages, Email and updates in social network Facebook is now collected in one place, making it possible to quickly contact the right person. You can call the recipient immediately after reading his message, just by pressing one key. Required function for all businessmen - conference calls in the communicator are connected quickly and easily. There is also a call reminder function - the phone itself will prepare not only a number, but also a password so that you can immediately contact the people you need.

Key characteristics of the HTC HD2 communicator:

• Convenience and simplicity are the main characteristics of this communicator.
• Touch screen and updated platform with powerful processor make working with the device truly instant.
• Excellent functions for businessmen - collecting all contacts in one place, switching to local time automatically, fast connection conference calls will help you stay up to date with events.

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IN model range HTC had smartphones with the names “Legend” (HTC Legend) and “Hero” (HTC Hero), but another model turned out to be truly legendary - the HTC HD2. In a short article I want to tell you about this unusual device, released back in 2009, but still used and supported by different communities. What was so good about the HTC HD2 and why do some people still use this “unit”?

The model was announced in October 2009, at that time there was no such clear classification of devices by type (at least in Russia), so they called it a communicator. The HD2 was released at a turning point for the company: on the one hand, Microsoft began to show serious unrest with its Windows Mobile OS, on the other hand, a few months earlier, HTC introduced Hero on a then-unknown Android platform. The company immediately appreciated its potential, having already managed to create a convenient Sense interface for Android 1.5, which was completely crude in terms of ease of use.

It was between 2009 and 2010 that there was unrest within Microsoft regarding the mobile OS, at least that’s what it looked like from the outside. In fact, MS was already developing new Windows Phone, and the aging Windows Mobile received the name WP (rather for show and easier perception of the future new OS). Based on one of latest versions that old Windows Mobile 6.5 and worked HTC HD2. However, over many years of working with MS and its system, HTC learned to hide most of the shortcomings of the OS, and the Sense shell used in HD2 became the crown of alternative interfaces for Windows Mobile - it completely changed appearance system and most of its elements. Therefore, you can immediately recognize the HTC HD2 as a communicator on Windows based Not everyone could do mobile.

In any case, some crutches were visible, and if at the beginning of sales the operating system on which the HTC HD2 ran did not yet cause many reproaches and laments from users, then the older the device became, the more obvious a simple fact became evident - the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system was for HTC HD2 is old. Time has shown this. Now Windows Mobile is already history, and HTC communicator HD2 is still supported by various communities and is being ported to modern systems. On the Internet you can easily find guides for installing Windows Phone 7 OS, for example, or Android OS on HD2. Moreover, for HTC HD2 there are different assemblies the world's most popular custom Android versions– MIUI. You can read how exactly to install firmware with MIUI on HD2.

It may seem that in the case of such an old device, all these installations of new firmware and porting of other systems are mere self-indulgence, because if everything worked well, then the manufacturers themselves would release such updates. Alas, everything is not like that. As an example, you can take some MIUI build for HTC HD2; many of them work stably on the device and allow you to use it like any other Android smartphone with average characteristics.

My HTC HD2 with MIUI on board is quite suitable for use as a phone, it lasts about a day on one charge, makes calls, takes photos and does everything else. And this is a device that is already four years old, that is, all the deadlines for its relevance seem to have passed. Now flagships are updated annually, and it’s hard to imagine that a phone released four years ago remains relevant and works on modern systems. At the same time, manufacturers are now focusing on cores, RAM, graphics, and so on, but the HTC HD2 used a single-core processor with a frequency of 1 GHz on the Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon platform and about 500 MB of RAM. And new OSes can easily run on this hardware without any brakes.

At one time, HTC HD2 was chosen because of several excellent qualities - a high-quality metal case, a display with high resolution and good viewing angles and other characteristics, as well as performance. An operating time of approximately one or one and a half days was already a luxury for communicators back then, and the HTC HD2 was no exception. But an even more important criterion for buying an HTC HD2 then, when sales of this model began, was its exclusivity. Nowadays such a concept is almost absent in the world of smartphones, but in the past companies sometimes managed to release devices that other manufacturers could not or did not want to offer analogues. This is exactly what HTC HD2 was - this communicator was the most powerful and coolest, if we say in simple language, and simply had no competitors.

Today, the HTC HD2 seems small compared to top-end smartphones and even middle-class models in all respects, especially in terms of dimensions. But when it came out, it seemed like just a huge shovel and was one of the largest devices on the market, not counting PDAs. Time passes, and understanding " large smartphone" is changing. Who knows, maybe in a couple of years devices like Lenovo K900 and Sony Xperia Will Z Ultra be perceived as the norm and seem ordinary in size?

Over many years of use, my HTC HD2 has gone through a variety of events, but overall the body of the communicator is still strong, although it has numerous scratches, chips and other damage.

Oddly enough, if you believe information from Yandex.Market, HTC HD2 can still be found on sale for about 8,000-11,000 rubles. Naturally, buy this model just to get new smartphone, is pointless, but if you collect interesting phones and suddenly forgot about the existence of the HTC HD2, it’s worth filling this gap. This is one of the few truly legendary communicators of its time and simply one of the most interesting devices ever released on the market. operating system Windows Mobile. Again, if we do not touch on the topic of pocket computers.

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Review HTC smartphone HD2

Choosing a smartphone was not easy for me. Doubts arose primarily when choosing a platform - it was quite obvious that Windows was losing its position, and Android was still damp. I didn’t consider the iPhone for purely subjective reasons - I don’t have a passion for Apple products.

Switching between shooting modes is quick and intuitive. In addition to regular photos and videos, you can select panoramic shooting mode, photo contact mode, “light” video for MMS messages, as well as photography with geographic coordinates (GPS photo).

Video shooting I also tested in a variety of modes: during the day, at night under artificial light, in motion. The quality of shooting, color rendition, noise level and autofocus performance do not cause any complaints; in my subjective opinion, according to these parameters, the video shot by . is superior to videos shot by smartphones of the same class. I also liked the fact that when shooting at night, the LED flash automatically starts working as a backlight, while it produces a powerful stream of white diffused light.

You can view the footage, as well as watch images, videos and films, both from the standard “Explorer” and by using the “Album” function, where media files are presented in the form of graphic thumbnails that can be scrolled through in the vertical plane.

By touching the icons on the right side of the screen, you can switch directly from the album to photo or video mode.

Listen to music possible using the included in Windows firmware Media Player, but it’s much more convenient to use the HTC Sence Music feature for this. By touching the treble clef icon at the bottom of the desktop, we launch an interface in which sound files are structured by artist, album and genre; You can also create playlists or play files directly.

The default settings make it possible to listen to music in excellent quality; for finer adjustments there is an equalizer.

The application for watching videos from YouTube is minimalistic and convenient; when connected via Wi-Fi at a speed of 1 Mbit/s, the videos are played without slowdowns:

Browser

Opera Mobile 9.7 is installed as the default browser; the standard firmware also includes mobile Internet version Explorer. Despite the quite nice IE interface, it somehow never occurred to me to use it, especially since mobile version I liked Opera right away.

The interface is very minimalistic and user-friendly; controls in the form of large icons are located at the bottom of the screen. The creators of Opera really took care of user convenience, thinking through every little detail. The default settings are optimally selected, allowing you to immediately switch to comfortable surfing: the page loads very quickly and automatically fits the width of the screen; after a couple of seconds there is an automatic transition to full screen mode. To call up control icons, just touch the screen. You can open up to three tabs at the same time, switching between them is implemented through the corresponding control element in the center of the panel. Multi-touch supported; In addition, I liked the option that allows you to instantly zoom the page by double-tapping the screen - reading articles and looking at photos on the Internet is very convenient. You can also send a link directly from your browser via SMS, MMS or email.

GPS navigation

The basic package includes a version navigation program Navitel 3.5.0.224, developed specifically for HTC, as well as a complete set of maps of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. On this moment Navitel is the undisputed leader among domestic navigators, best choice I wouldn't do it myself. Map drawing, detailing, address search and route planning - all this is implemented very competently, and, in addition, there is a feeling that the Navitel team intends to continue to actively develop its product. Well, the power of the processor and the advantages of a wide and bright screen make using the navigation functions a real pleasure.

Energy consumption

The characteristics declared by the manufacturer - 380 minutes of talk time or 490 hours of standby time - I did not check with a stopwatch in my hand. However, I note that I have been using the smartphone for a year now and the power of the included lithium ion battery 1230 mAh capacity is consistently enough for a full day of active use: 10-15 calls, YouTube viewing(5-10 min), Internet surfing, reading books, scrolling through news in an RSS reader. Although especially high traffic calls or watching videos for a long time, the battery does not last until the evening and there is a desire to change it to a more powerful one.

The time required to fully charge the battery is about 2.5 hours.