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HTC Touch HD

By Joseph Hanlon on 22 January 2009

The Touch HD is a fantastic phone, if you can afford one. It out-performs every HTC phone previously and looks fantastic doing it.

Editor's rating:8.8 User rating:7.9

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  clustered gave 1/10 on 02/12/2009 00:47

  • Good: when it worked
  • Bad: touch screen failed after 4 months - warranty useless

  Beware of HTC's large screen phones.
  Any force applied to them, even taking off a screen protector, is enough to produce "newton rings" and the screen stops responding to touch.
  Not much use for a touch screen phone.
  HTC refuse to cover this by warranty and refuse to negotiate. expect to shell out up to $500 to repair it. With no guarantee that the next screen won't do the same thing.
  Design or Materials fault but they won't cover it by warranty.

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  RB gave 10/10 on 10/11/2009 01:05

  • Good: THE BESTTT

  U can find the market the one u choose if u deserve GD

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  Jayson gave a review on 06/11/2009 17:08

  • Good: Fast, good coverage
  • Bad: Cant sms with optus

  I dont know why, but this phone wont sms with YES optus Australia, shouldn't the settings go straight over like the mms ones did?

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  Cluttered gave 1/10 on 06/11/2009 07:31

  • Good: when it worked.
  • Bad: screen stopped working - not covered by warranty

  Phone worked ok for 6 months but when i removed the screen protector the touch screen stopeed responding to touch. HTC will not cover it under warranty because they claim it has "newton rings" and want $500 for the repair.

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  lincoln gave a review on 17/10/2009 16:22

  • Good: large screen size
  • Bad: few hardware buttons

  I used Touch HD for a couple of days and quite satified with it,
  except for the fact that I have few options of hardware buttons.
  
  I finally get around this by using this little app - Rosseta TaskMgr. It's an accelerometer-enabled task manger which let you shake your phone to switch between tasks and desktops.
  It can be downloaded from www.rossetamobile.com.
  
  Also I don't like the built-in today plugin so I disabled it and just use the plain original windows mobile today. This solved all the freeze fuss amazingly.
  
  When it comes to GPS, I use google maps. It's a free and wonderful application. I also tried many other apps but finally come back to my lovely google maps. It doesn't have many seemed shining but useless functions. It's down to earth and meet most of the daily needs.
  
  After all, Touch HD is a wonderful phone which takes some tuning to be perfect. This is actually a fun for geeks like me.

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  billybob gave 10/10 on 17/10/2009 13:45

  • Good: Everything
  • Bad: No flash No GPS software

  the best dam phone i ever got Iphone suck i swaped the iphone for this phone

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  pai gave a review on 22/09/2009 03:06

  • Good: everythng except
  • Bad: no flash, lag mp3 player when u put many song, and message tone cant be change

  huerm.. juz as in my comment

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  g1nchy gave 9/10 on 21/09/2009 00:10

  • Good: Screen Resolution, Touch Flo Interface, Windows, Battery
  • Bad: No flash on rear camera. No TV out

  I haven't had any problems with the touch hd.
  
  For most business users who want to use the phone as a tool, you have everything to go ... out of the box, MS Office Suite which is usuable. MS Exchange push email. I work on site during events, previously I would carry around paper work. These days I load up all my pdfs, xls and docs for a project. It makes recalling information on site so much easier and it gives me answers within seconds. It also works well with our offices Citrix remote access the virtual desktop on the hd screen is like running a pc on your phone.
  
  The next generation of HTCs Touch Flo 2.5 has great social network integration and the contact centric messaging is great. Some of the software features are thoughtfull like the weather forecast popping up in your appointments.
  
  The multimedia features are adequate but hoping for some MS Zune integration in the future.
  
  Active Sync does a great job of keeping your PC outlook (calendar/email/notes/contacts/sms/ie favourites) in sync with your mobile and is easy to setup and seamless in use.
  
  Performance is more than adequate if you consider that windows mobiles multi-tasking capability having word, excel and opera browser can save so much time when researching and putting together costing sheets or typing up notes on the go. This said I can't wait for the next generation model using SnapDragon process with capactive multi touch screen.

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  simon gave a review on 02/08/2009 23:52

  • Good: very good battery life,looks solid,multi-tasking,
  • Bad: after hibernate loose wifi connection so fone dont do downloads or any internet activity.

  averall good phone

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  TheRocker gave 9/10 on 28/07/2009 18:49

  • Good: Screen, battery life, looks, excellent for browsing,
  • Bad: Camera flash!!!!, Only with Telstra????!!!!!

  I've been using this phone for around 6 months now. Bought it from Telstra and using on an Optus network. I been using Windows mobile for last 3 years. The previous phone was an O2 Atom Life.
  
  I find this phone awesome!!! OK.... it did have a few problems out of the box... like the problems with the answer sliding key and sluggishness of the music player and HSPA..... These were solved with the patches from the HTC site.
  
  Trust me...the Telstra software pack ****s.... The real beauty of the phone comes only if you put up a diffrenet ROM.... you've got more options in the standard HTC pack.... and the cooked ROMs you find can really speed up the phone. Head over to XDA-DEVELOPERS for the ROMS.....
  
  Since I dont use the camera a lot, flash or no flash doesnt make much of a difference, but still.... should have had one.... But then ofcourse.... where would you put that flash on such a thin phone!!! I wish they didn't even have that camera thing bulging out!!!
  
  I really do blame Telstra for putting up so many restrictions on the software, especially on the TouchFlo tabs.
  
  I still think this is the best phone in the market. Even now. Just one advise. If you're buying it from Telstra, flash the ROM.

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