10-16-2009, 06:18 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 431
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A couple of quick impressions:
Wow! That is a big phone. I own the original Touch HD (though for now it has been benched in favor of the Diamond 2). While it is not what I would call heavy, you could never forget it was in your shirt pocket either. The screen was big, but where that really worked was for pictures and video. I found reading regular websites on the HD as big a pain as on any other smartphone (iPhone included). Panning webpages just ain't cool after a while. Websites designed for phones are easy to read on phones of this size.
Second, the mobile-review reviewer makes what I think is a very poor point in his discussion of the new HTC Sense user interface. Saying Sense is just old Touch Flo 3D is like saying Windows 7 is just Windows 95. Yes, they share family traits, but Sense appears (from videos I've seen. I haven't had the chance to experience it) to be far more than just old Touch Flo 3D. Each new HTC phone has enjoyed some enhancements to the Touch Flo interface over the past few years. Sense appears not to be just an enhancement, but an entirely new phone UI experience. In my opinion, it wouldn't be a bad idea for Microsoft to strongly consider licensing Sense as its UI for WM 7.
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