There’s a nice default text selection tool included on the HTC HD2, an HTC Sense feature rather than a Windows Mobile one, which we’ve video demoed recently. It allows you to tap and hold on a text and bring up an adjustable selection box that you can spread to encompass the desired text.

You can further expand both the functionality and the eye candy of this feature by enabling the magnifier. To do that, edit your registry HKLMSoftwareHTCTextSelectionEnableMagnifier and change its value from 0 to 1. You’ll get a nice magnified preview of a portion of the text allowing you to select text more easiliy. Wonder why HTC had that disabled out of the box?

(Source: XDA Developers)