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Early but still preliminary reviews of HTC's newest high-end Windows 3G smartphone, the HD2, give high marks for its huge screen and the suppleness of HTC's Sense UI as an overlay for Windows Mobile 6.5.
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The HD2 is now shipping in overseas markets and will arrive in the United States in early 2010, on a "major carrier," according to the manufacturer.
The phone runs Windows 6.5 with HTC's overlay, Sense (formerly dubbed TouchFLO), and has a 4.3-inch diagonal screen with 480x800 pixel resolution. It's the first capacitive touch screen for Windows Mobile, the biggest on the market, and considerably larger than the iPhone's 3.5-inch, 480x320 pixel display. At the heart of the device is a powerful Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processor.
The screen forces the HD2 to be slightly larger than the iPhone: 4.7 x 2.6 inches, compared with the iPhone at 4.5 x 2.4.
Yet it's slightly thinner: 0.4...