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HTC Touch HD officially unveiled
AFTER WEEKS OF leaked images and speculation, HTC has officially taken the wraps off its Iphone copy, otherwise known as the Touch HD.
The device is aimed at those multimedia users who are happy to compromise, on the one hand it won't be as expensive as the Iphone and it won't lock you into Itunes, however you will have to use Windows Mobile 6.1 with Touch Flo over the top – so it depends largely on which you consider the lesser of the two evils.
The Touch HD tries to pip the Iphone at every turn with a 3.8-inch VGA 480 x 800 screen inside a 115 x 62.8 x 12 mm housing and weighs 146.4 grams with the battery.
It has a 5.0MP camera - although no flash - as well as a VGA video call camera on the front.
It has quad-band connectivity, 3G support, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 and 802.11b/g support.
It runs on a Qualcomm MSM7201a ship at 528MHz with 288MB RAM, 512MB flash memory and a microSD slot for extra storage.
HTC says the Touch HD will be available across major European carriers towards the end of the year, and will rolled out to other less deserving regions shortly after that.
There was no mention of price, but if the specs are anything to go by, expect it to be slightly cheaper than its frui-themed rival. µ
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if anyone has thought of using Nvidia's Tegra chip in a phone. Their demo unit was thicker than an iPhone, but it has a boatload of connectors. The really nice thing is you can play a movie back @ 720p out HDMI to a TV.

Oh the possibilities. Still I'm no expert in this area AT ALL. Their chip might consume too much power or the design base not allow for phone stuff, et al. Still the above idea would be a winner for me in a phone. Take your movies with you (the Nvidia display models can go above 64GB easy, if you pony up) and plug into a TV at the hotel! Might need different breakouts, but the last 6 hotel rooms I was in had HDTV's with DVD players and cabling exposed (and unsecured) enough to let you jack in your own device :)

Oh the possibilities... Anyone want to build something like this: Phone, Contacts, IM, Games (on the unit or output), Movies (on the unit or output), Music (on the unit or output), and heck toss Bluetooth in and an IR control while your at it.

I'm wishing for too much, but lets say Earth: Final Conflict thin design for the screen (OLED might work, if it's flexible, but I heard of them being printed on paper at one point, by Epson). I believe the show called them "Globals."

Heh, I know, waayyy over the top. We can dream though, right?
There are a few features missing from this phone which the Chinese are going to jump on with their copies.

Two Sims for a start.

Built in Projector would also be nice - it gets around the problem of connectors on TV's and the like!

This is sick, man.
@vlad: not that sick man:
Built in Projector for phones have already been presented monthes ago...
Just a bit early, that's all.

I completely disagree with the author when it says that it will be slightly cheaper than the iphone...How would it be possible, as the HTC Touch Diamond, which is clearly less good than the HTC Touch HD, is more expensive than the iphone!!!
Calling any phone an 'iPhone copy' is truly pathetic.

I wish reputable news sites wouldn't be so ignorant.