Chris, (or anyone – HELP) if you have a suggestion, it wold be very helpful.

cheerios from the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland :o)

1. With the default screen filter (not literally sticking like a real screen protector), it seems HTC HD is less responsive cf iphone 3g.. does anybody know why, is it because of different sensitizing technology or sth?..even when pressing the HOME button (2nd from left), its not as sensitive (mayb to avoid being too sensitive?), as I have to press it good to make it respond
2. Also, I wonder why (as per review), in open sunlight, HTC screen is not as good as iphone (no explanation)
3. I tested the camera, and it seems if one wants to zoom in and out, have to swirl your finger inward/outward.. but cant drag the pic left/right/up/down after zooming – this is a cons cf iphone 3g, where its very easy to zoom using fingers and just drag along the picture after the pic is zoomed in/out to have a look around
4. There was no free available wifi that can be logged during the test, so, I cant test the Opera9 / browsing capability fully. However, when testing to load a log-in page (secure network), using Opera, the screen somewhat became a bit jumbled (as with Omnia, last time I tested). Its gives me the same awkward feeling as browsing with Omnia. At that time I have my iphone3G..and the login page was not as such. I wonder when will WMobile have its own Safari.

Logmein on the iphone/itouch is disappointing since it works only in html : each time you click on something, it reloads the whole distant page. not fast, not user friendly.

On a windows mobile 6 pda, there is a special logmein client for internet explorer that works really perfectly. it is really usable.

Does anybody knows if it works with the HTC HD and Opera ? If it works, it should be a pleasure to use it with the bigger screen/bigger definition of the HD…

So, did anybody already tested logmein on the HD ?

Thanks, M.

I found Part 1 informative and had no trouble understanding that many issues would be tackled in Part 2. I’m grateful for your review and the time and trouble you’ve taken over it. I can contain my impatience and avoid using intemperate language.

Part 1 seemed to me to be fair, mentioning the good and the bad: far too few reviews do that. Some aspects will be more important to some readers than others (e.g., I’m not that fussed about multimedia) – my fellow-readers should allow for that. After all, the reviewer is only human!

you probably know that chinese saying – “one picture tells more than a thousand words” …

I believe, that the HD is so anxiously expected, that one finds a really hard time to satiate all those hungry gizmo lovers appetites … Chris, keep up feeding them, you’re doing a good job.

As far as the HD is concerned, I have just bought mine and I’ll do a test on my own. If it’s not what I expect it to be, damn, I’ll probably sell it in a no time …

Let me explain why I jumped the gun:

You stated that the second part will look at GPS, Media, and how it performs as a phone. I assumed that you already did your piece about the touch screen as you seemed to “cover” it in part 1 while there was no mention of it in the upcoming review points for part 2. If this is not the case then you do have my apologies.

You are right in that pushing out part 1 quickly was the right thing to do- there is no argument there.

The infuriating aspect is that it seemed like you simply overlooked our suggestions, it came off as you simply ignoring us. I hope you at least can understand WHERE I was coming from. Sometimes it’s good to know the reasons behind another persons actions, even if you don’t agree with them.

Regardless, I have read over what I wrote and I did go overboard, you have my sincerest apologies.

I will wait for part 2 to make any final conclusion, which is what I should have done in the first place.

Again, you have my sincerest apologies. :)

-John

Losdrivare:

Eat my balls.

Don’t let ONE GUY who can’t hold his language get to you and affect how you choose to do things. Personally, I’d rather have part 1 on wednesday and part 2 on friday than having to wait for the whole review till friday.

See it as a plus that you get feedback from the first part, that you can bring to the second. Just ignore the rude guy that’s always going to be there. After all, this is the internet. ;)

You’re right, you and lots of other people gave me plenty of questions and things to try out. I’ve been trying to get through them all within the limits of what I have available to me, and as such I knew the review as a whole would take longer than I expected. Since there’s obviously such great interest, I thought I’d put out the first half when it was done. In the future I’ll probably think twice about that.

I would be really gratefull if you could answer this please. Thanks.

-Dan

“Thanks for that, seems a bit of a mixed review to me. Doesn’t leave me any clearer as to whether to get this device or not.”

And that means the review SUCKS.

You literally made me wait for days man, I gave you questions and things to consider, and you used ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in comping up with this POS review.

You spent more time ANALYZING THE BLOODY AC ADAPTER THAN ON THE TOUCH SCREEN. TELL ME THIS IS LOGICAL. PLEASE.

I don’t give a BLOODY DAMN if the wire has rubber or not! I DO care about the performance of the TOUCH screen of the TOUCH BLOODY HD.

Honestly, when I read that line about the wire I figured this was going to be a very in-depth review. Then you skip over the MOST IMPORTANT aspects of the bloody phone. Seriously disappointed.

Seriously? We put in like two pages of questions and that’s all we get?

Earlier you stated that the touch screen is “surprising” and that you didn’t want to give anything away until you fully reviewed it. Now we get, “oh it’s alright but not as good as the iPhone.” WTF does that even me? Examples man. Depth. Details. Looking for some insight. Is it smooth and pretty damn good but just not as good? I mean….. for such an important aspect of the phone, the PRIMARY importance considering the BLOODY PHONE IS CALLED “TOUCH” you give it about a line. WOW.

It could have a 90 megapixel camera and teleport us to Mars, but if the damn touch screen blows than we got a big bloody problem. You in all of your genius decide to give it A SINGLE BLOODY LINE.

This review sucks man. Waited days for a review and this is it? Fuk it.

What about the phone feature (call quality, adress book,..)
What about battery life ?

Judging from the landscape full-qwerty in your photos, it seems HTC has wasted valuable screen-estate width with the arrow buttons. Those could have been put below the keyboard instead, leaving space for either wider keys or language-specific characters. That’s a shame, it could have been better designed IMO.