HTC HD2 walk-through

Thanks for the vid!

How is HD2's landscape support? can you use browser in landscape mode? or any application you want?

What about the keyboard? I'm always surprised when some many people do video reviews and walk-throughs yet don't go over the keyboard, which is so important since you have to enter the data in to that thing right? and if data entry is a PIA than the whole device fails.

Can the keyboard be used in landscape mode? how comfortable is typing on it?

Here's some landscape action in the browser: http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2009/10/16/htc-hd2-display-rotation-speed-shown-on-video/
You'll also be able to use the majority of the apps in landscape too.

It was just a sham demonstration. This is because they showed you some things, but hid others.

The entire video only showed you HTC's 'Sense' interface. It showed you nothing of the ugly side of Windows Mobile that lies beneath. There are reasons they didn't show you this.

Windows Mobile looks like it was from last decade, a bit like Windows 3.1 of the early 1990s. Windows Mobile was designed for a stylus pen, not a touch interface. There are conflicts between the OS and older applications which were designed for stylus use, and the capacitive touch screen of the HD2.

For example, you can buy Microsoft Excel for this phone, but it's nearly impossible to use on the touch screen. You can't swipe your finger across the screen to select each cell in a row, because the entire page will scroll instead. It means you have to manually select each cell. It becomes completely useless, as do a myriad of other business apps.

HTC's next flagship phone will be the HTC Passion to be released in January (it will be called the Bravo in Europe). This phone has very similar specifications to the HD2, except for one important detail: The HTC Passion runs Android, not Windows Mobile.

Android (and the applications that ride upon it) were designed for multi-touch finger input. That's why the Passion / Bravo will be a much more usable phone than the HD2.

I'm from Sweden and I've had my HTC HD2 for more than one month now.
Do you know there was a special forum dedicated for our beloved phones, yes, it's http://www.HTCHD2Forum.com.
The HTC Hd2 is my third HTC device and man it's great! I knew it had twice the clock speed compared to my Diamond but could never imagine the difference to be that huge.

Anyway, I know a little bit about WM and can hopfully help people.