HTC Touch HD with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional

Let's go through the settings.

We can customize a long press of the Call button, but that's it. This is one of the most disappointing aspects of the Touch HD - the lack of hardware buttons. It doesn't even have a camera button.

You can turn on and off the haptic feedback for the four hardware keys.

You can somewhat customize a tap and hold of the End key.

Here we are in System Settings.

You can have the device automatically adjust sound levels for you when recording, or (on the next tab) listening to music.

Here is the second pane of the System Settings.

After ending all programs from running, we have about 90MB of RAM left, which is good, but not as good as the Touch Pro or the XPERIA X1.

If you go into Screen settings, you can't rotate the screen full-time, which is a shame. With some registry tweaks, you could make this happen.

And there is a new setting in the TouchFLO panel - seen on the bottom there. This is the other bit of haptic feedback I wrote about earlier.

This is a neat feature of the Touch HD. If you set up your YouTube account credentials in the account manager...

...and you press "menu" in the gallery application when you're on a video...

...the video will jump into the Uploader, where it'll upload to YouTube. Neat! For a demo, check out this post.

And here we are in Connections.

The device will configure itself to any carrier when you install the SIM, which is great. I popped in my AT&T SIM card and immediately got EDGE data and could make calls.

And finally, here is what the Communications manager looks like.

This video shows some software features that I've written about so far in this review.

CAMERA

Here is the Camera app. Since there is no hardware camera button, you must activate the shutter with the shutter icon on the right. The Touch HD has selective auto focus, so pressing anywhere on the screen will focus on that area.

All of the controls are finger friendly and the application is fast.

From here, you can change the capture mode. The Panorama is a good feature and it works well. The Touch HD can take images up to 5MP.

You can have the camera utilize the whole screen to take wide-aspect pictures.

You can also adjust the metering mode and turn on flicker adjustment.

Using the selective auto focus, I was able to get a super crisp picture of this flower - even though it was swaying in the wind!

Without a flash, low-light pictures come out noisy.

And here is an outdoor shot. Everything is clear, but the color is quite dull.

Click on to the next page as we wrap up the review with a note on performance, battery life, and talk about all the Pros and Cons of the Touch HD.