HTC Touch HD

The bottom touch-sensitive keys under the display do not light up so you’re going to have to memorize them, but the screen does provide ample light to keep them a little visible.

AT least the 288 MB RAM and Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 Mhz processor, allowed the handset full speed capacity. There was virtually no lag or hiccups when it came to navigation.

Media
Video
Like I said before, being the vidiot I am, I was overanxious to review the handset’s media capabilities, and I’m obviously talking about its video capabilities. I had already converted various videos to the appropriate screen size and resolution for the device even before I got it in anticipation. I had to choose video files with resolutions higher than 800 x 480 and I used WinAvi, AnyVideo Converter and Super to convert the files. I use either of these converters for all my tests.

The files played ok on the PC but I was appalled at the ridiculous framing and pixelation of the same files on the HD’s display. The player itself was drastically slow. It took over 6-7 seconds just to bring up the scroll and menu bar while the video was running. Just to be sure and for your benefit, I re-encoded other videos to make sure and the same result prevailed. In some cases there was no pixeling but the framing was still very evident. Needless to say I had another disappointing experience with the handset.

For some strange reason after copying video files onto the drive and updating the Windows Media Player library, the Video folder was empty but the music folder had the .Mpeg4 files I converted for video and even played from there.

This is where the handset’s processor seemed to be inadequate.