Touch HD & Touch Diamond2 Demo Videos

How to Add Currency Exchange Rates to TouchFLO3D of HTC Touch HD

TouchFLO3D on the HTC Touch HD sports a Stock tab, where you can easily track your favorite stock quotes.

You can also have your Stock tab display the most up to date currency exchange rates for several currencies. How? Navigate to Yahoo! Finance Currency Converter page, select the parity of your choice (for instance, we will use EURO to GBP) and click convert. Look for the string under “Symbol” (in our case GBPEUR=X). Go to your Stock tab in TouchFLO3D on your Touch HD, add a new Quote and in the search box, type in the string Yahoo! Finance displayed (it’s GBPEUR=X in our case). Tap for search and tap on the result. You now have an Exchange rate Quote on your Stock Tab.

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TouchFLO 3D Changes on the Touch HD

With the announcement of the high-resolution new Touch HD from HTC, a modified TouchFLO 3D comes along with it.

Because the screen of the Touch HD is 160 pixels taller than the Touch Diamond and Touch Pro, more data can be shown in one screen. Thefore, HTC improved the People and Weather tab on the new TouchFLO 3D to show more information.

People Tab

There are more buttons on the HD people tab that allow you select other options such as call, text, email, etc. This improves usability as there is no need to go to the application such as text message, scroll through the long list of contacts and add the particular person.

Weather Tab

HTC has put the 5-day forecast and current conditions all in one screen on the Touch HD, rather than on a second page accessed via the left soft key as found on the other TouchFLO 3D devices.

Stock Tab

Also new to TouchFLO 3D for the Touch HD is the inclusion of a stocks tab, which is worth applauding. The newly added Stock tab keeps you informed of the latest stocks, where you can easily track your favorite stock quotes.

Rearrange Tabs

With complains from the Touch Diamond and Touch Pro where people prefer to have the ability to remove unused tabs, most people have to download a third party program in oder to have that ability. HTC must have listened to user feedbacks and with that, the Touch HD comes with that ability right out of the box. Touch HD users can turn off tabs, or move the order of them. Unfortunately, some tabs cannot be removed like Settings, Program, and Home.

Slide to Answer

This is new. When you get an incoming call, you get this. Slide left to answer, and right to ignore. You can use the Call Start/End keys for this function as well. From here you can also send a text message to the person, or mute the ringer.


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HTC Touch HD Launch Video

HTC "First"s on the Touch HD

The Touch HD is HTC's first device with:

1. 5 megapixel camera (highest at time of release)

2. Mobile phone with WVGA resolution (highest supported resolution for windows mobile, does not include comparison with HTC's mobile computer series)

3. Mobile phone with biggest screen - 3.8 inches (does not include comparison with HTC's mobile computer series)

4. 3.5 mm audio jack (does not include comparison with HTC's mobile computer series)

5. Touch sensitive navigation controls (i.e Home, Back, Call, End)

6. On screen camera shutter button

7. First device to use HTC's new logo (Experimental unit still uses old HTC logo found in devices such as Touch Diamond and Touch Pro, but the release version uses the new logo)

Wide Video Graphics Array

A screen that is 800x480 (WVGA), like the Touch HD, has an astounding 384,000 pixels. WVGA resolution is the highest that Windows Mobile supports, and devices with this resolution offer a crisper image and the ability for lots of screen data to be displayed at once. This is ideal for movies, web browsing, and remote desktop. That said, the Touch HD is among the WinMo elite that have such a high resolution display.

The Touch HD is the first HTC device that sports a WVGA screen. Since then, more and more new devices that appears in the market uses this screen resolution.


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Windows Almighty!

The iPhone drooled many people's eyes. I, too, wanted to get my hands on it. Unfortunately, it was only available in selected countries. Until HTC came with the new HTC Touch HD, which surpasses all the specifications of the iPhone 3G. The only thing that it could not beat was the finger friendly user interface. Apart from that, the HTC Touch HD outbeats many other phone such as the Samsung Omnia, T-Mobile G1, Blackberry Storm. (I saw a video from "The Gadget Show" that shows the competition between those few phones and the HTC Touch HD won!)

Bought the HTC Touch HD for more than RM3k. It really hurts my wallet. Pre-ordered it on the second day of KL PC Fair (13 December 2008) and got the device on 16 December 2008. Its my very first windows mobile device. I think I require plenty of time to explore and get used to this phone.

Detailed Technical Specifications of HTC Touch HD T8282 (HTC Blackstone 100)

Brand: HTC

Manufacturer: High Tech Computer
Hardware Designer: High Tech Computer
Project Codename: HTC Blackstone 100
Model ID: BLAC100
Release Date: October, 2008

Physical Attributes
Dimensions(width x height x depth): 62.8 x 115 x 12 millimetres2.5 x 4.5 x 0.5 inches
Bounding Volume: 86.7 cubecentimetres
Mass: 146.4 grams (battery included)

Software Environment
Embedded:Operating;System: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional

Operating System Kernel: Windows CE 5.2

Microprocessor, Chipset
CPU: Qualcomm MSM7201A
Width of Machine Word: 32 bit
CPU Clock: 528 MHz
CPU Core: ARM1136EJ-S
Instruction Set: ARMv6

Memory, Storage capacity
ROM type: Flash EEPROM
ROM capacity: 512 MiB, including 327.15MiB user-accessible non-volatile storage
RAM type: mobile DDR SDRAM
RAM capacity: 288 MiB, 195.5MiB accessible

Graphical subsystem
Display Type: color transflective TFT display
Display Color Depth: 16 bit/pixel (65536 scales)
Display Diagonal: 3.8 " (97 millimetres)
Display Resolution: 480 x 800 (384000 pixels)
Dot Pitch: 0.104 millimetre/pixel

Audio Subsystem
Audio Channel(s): stereo sound
Analog/Digital Converter(Recording): 16 bit nominal quantization 44100 Hz sampling frequency
Digital/Analog Converter(Playing): 16 bit resolution44100 Hz holding frequency
Microphone(s): mono sound
Loudspeaker(s): stereo sound
Audio-Output: 3.5mm plug

Cellular Phone
Cellular Networks: GSM850, GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS900, UMTS2100
Cellular Data Links: CSD, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA
Cellular Antenna: Internal antenna
Call Alert: 40 -chord melody (polyphonic)
Vibrating Alert: Supported
Speakerphone: Supported
Phone Controller: Qualcomm MSM7201A (QDSP4000, QDSP5000)
SAR (head) GSM850: 0.529 W/kg
SAR (body) GSM850: 1.11 W/kg

Control Peripherals
Positioning Device: Touchscreen
Primary Keyboard: Not supported
Directional Pad: Not supported
Scroll Wheel: Not supported

Interfaces
Expansion Interfaces: microSD, microSDHC, TransFlash, SDIO Supports High Capacity (SD 2.0/HC) memory cards with capacity of up to 32GB
USB: USB 2.0 client, Hi-Speed (480Mbit/s)USB Series Mini-B (mini-USB) connector
Bluetooth (802.15): Bluetooth 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate, Internal antenna
Wireless LAN/Wi-Fi (802.11): IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, 54 Mbit/sInternal antenna
Infrared Gate: Not supported

Multimedia Broadcast

Analog Radio: FM radio (87.5-108MHz) radio reciever Proprietary headset as antenna
Digital Media Broadcast: Not supported

Satellite Navigation
Built-in GPS module: Supported
GPS Protocol: NMEA 0183
GPS Antenna: Internal antenna
Complementary GPS Services: Asisted GPS, QuickGPS
Navigation Chip(set): Qualcomm MSM7201A gpsOne

Built-in Digital Camera
Sensor Type: CMOS sensor
Resolution: 2560 x1920 pixels (4.92MP)
Autofocus (AF): Supported
Optical Zoom: 1 x
Macro Mode: Supported
Built-in Flash: Not supported
Camcorder: 320x240 pixels , 30frame/sec
Recordable Image Formats: JPG, BMP
Recordable Video Formats: 3GPP, MPEG4, MJPG

Built-in Secondary Digital Camera
Sensor Type: CMOS sensor
Resolution: 640 x480 pixels (0.31MP)
Camcorder: 320x240pixels
Recordable Image Formats: JPG
Recordable Video Formats: 3GPP, MPEG4

Power Supply
Battery Technology: Supported
Battery Build: removable
Estimated Battery Life: 8 hours
Battery Capacity: 1350 mAh
Estimated Avarege Current: 169 mA

Additional Details
Built-in accelerometer: Supported
Additional Features:

GPRS Class 10
HTC TouchFLO 3D (HTC Manila)
Bluetooth stereo audio profile (A2DP)
pre installed Opera Mobile 9.5

Related Page:
http://www.htc.com/www/product.aspx?id=64796
Datasheet State: Preliminary specifications
Datasheet Added: Sep 10, 08 19:54:03

More reviews and specifications could be found at:

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_hd-2525.php

http://pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=reviews&id=1111&p=1

More pictures and detailed specifications here http://www.mobile-review.com/pda/review/htc-touch-hd-en.shtml

p/s: with just few weeks of the release of the HTC Touch HD, Nokia released its 5800 ExpressMusic, which has almost the same features, but with only 1/3 of the Touch HD's price =( While many says that the Touch HD's quality and features are way much better, I just hope that it is true and truely worth to be priced that value.

*Specifications adapted from: http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=1469