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HTC HD2 launch event: iPhone is small says HTC + Steve Ballmer is laughing
November 04, 2009 [Pocket PC phone]
This HTC HD2 launch event was taking place in Taiwan so naturally neither European nor American media has been covering it too much. After all an intercontinental flight can cost a lot of money, not to mention hotel costs in Taiwan.

Unlike other news sources we don't care about HTC and their Android phones and their HTC Sense, etc, but HD2 is the first Windows Mobile phone with multitouch, so its launch is an important milestone in the history of Windows Mobile.

From the reports that we have seen so far, the most impressive 2 things are this: this snapshot where CEO of HTC is showing how small iPhone is (we have impression that HTC HD2 was artificially magnified to make iPhone look small, but we might be wrong):

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... and the second thing is Steve Ballmer, who came to the launch event of HTC - first time ever - and he was laughing for some reason:

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Commentary: nowadays HTC is all kissy-kissy with Microsoft because carriers realized that the best Android phones are coming from Samsung and Motorola and not from no-name "HTC" company. However Microsoft's Windows Mobile app store has only 281 apps compared to 100,000 apps in iPhone store... but what choices has HTC? Obviously HTC has enough power and money to launch their own operating system, but this will not happen.

While we are happy that they are now back in love with Windows Mobile, we must give them one advice: most of Windows Mobile apps is not made for capacitive display, so HTC should follow example of Samsung and immediately (!) start releasing SDK that would bring APIs for all the sensors (including compass) and also that would bring APIs for multitouch handling. Otherwise HTC HD2 will end up being a great phone with tiny number of apps that mostly are unusable because they were designed for stylus...

See also: more photos from HTC HD2 launch event in Taiwan.

Credit for the photo of Ballmer above: Jason Gordon from HTC USA (follow him there by clicking the "follow" button).



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