HTC Desire HD review

You all remember the desire from HTC. Well I thought that we should also take a look at its Bigger bro the Desire HD. If what you do on the phone is watch videos or movies then this is really great for you as the screen is really big and crisp.

Design
Because of the 4.3-inch screen, the footprint of the Desire HD is quite large at 123 x 68mm. HTC has kept it slim though, with a thickness of just 11.8mm. These dimensions are only slightly larger than the HD2's 120.5 x 67 x 11mm. We liked the aluminum material, which has a matte finish. This is used throughout the device except for the screen and plastic cutouts on the back, which hide the battery and SIM/memory expansion card slots.

The bigger size of the Desire HD means it's not for everyone. It will fit into most pockets, but those who are smaller in stature or like to wear tight jeans may not feel too comfortable with it, especially when trying to sit down.I found it really hard to keep it in my pocket and would carry it in my hand all the time.

Features
The phone uses Android 2.2 (Froyo) OS so you will be happy there. In this iteration of Sense, aside from being able to change your home screen wallpaper, themes can be downloaded that modify the look of the menu interface. HTC has also tweaked the pull-down notifications bar so it shows a list of your recently used applications aside from the usual crop of unread messages or missed call alerts.The phone has a good typing experience with accurate predictive text and spelling correction.

One other interesting feature found in the new Sense is called Fast Boot. Previously, when you pressed and held down the power button to turn off an HTC Android phone or in fact any Android phone, booting it up again could take quite long, over 30 seconds. With Fast Boot, this was cut down to less than 3 seconds when I tried it. This is possible because the phone doesn't really shut down fully but instead goes into hibernation mode similar to what Windows is capable of on a PC.But there is a problem when you really want to shutdown the phone totally. To restart the phone, perhaps to kill off an offending app, you'd need to either take out the battery or choose the new Restart icon which appears when you press and hold the power button. These actions will bypass the Fast Boot feature, giving you the power to fully shut down the phone.

 The phone comes with  about 1GB of free space for installing apps and is bundled with an 8GB microSD card. so its not the best cause now a days all hi end phones are coming with 16 gb internal storage but it offers a microSDHC card slot that supports up to a 32GB module.
The Desire HD sports an 8-megapixel camera capable of capturing 720p HD video. the camera is good but not excellent.
The Desire HD has a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 processor which is good and has very good graphics capabilities.The battery life is not that good but its not bad. It has a 1,230mAh battery.

So if you want a android phone take a look at this phone and if you can live with the size then its a great phone. as usual if any questions or suggestions just email me or leave a comment.