HTC HD

When I picked up this phone and was testing it, everyone thought it was the new iPhone 3GS. After all, it has a big screen, it was simple looking and had a brilliant display. But hey, it’s the HTC HD.

The HD stands for high definition, and the phone has a whopping 3.8 inch VGA of landscape on a touch screen to tackle that feature. It has just one button to lock and unlock the phone, a USB port (though proprietary cable) to charge it and sync it with your PC and a 3.5 mm earphone jack—all in black. The widescreen VGA lets you see videos and web pages in full screen. Since the screen supports 800 pixels of display width, there is no need to tap screens to zoom in and out, or scroll left to right while on a web page.

At Rs 42,990, the price is a bit of a downer, but it has brilliant speed as compared to any other HTC phone that I have tested on the Windows platform. Great interface and the improved Touch Flo 3D user interface provide intuitive access to the phone. If anything comes near an iPhone, this is it.

The 5 megapixel camera and no flash (very iPhone) are bad, and it can take good pictures only outdoors. The camera is very slow, which I did not like.

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The above review was printed in the Open Magazine, Issue Dated 11th July 2009