HTC's HD2 is a near perfect combination of physical hardware and silicon that delivers impressive performance on a device that's surprisingly sleek given the display's massive 4.3-inch expanse. Even Microsoft's much maligned Windows Mobile 6.5 is expertly masked by HTC's Sense interface. So it's easy to understand the anticipation felt by the HD2's first US release, questions of a
Windows Phone 7 OS upgrade path notwithstanding. T-Mobile has the release honors and is now showing the HD2 as "coming soon" in its phone inventory. We've also got the first "in the wild" shots courtesy of
TmoNews showing that big Blockbuster shortcut linked front and center for downloading On Demand movies directly to the device. Still no firm price or date but
$199.99 on contract ($449.99 unlocked) sometime around
24 March sounds about right. One more shot with official T-Mobile branding after the break; the rest at the source link below.
Update: Tipster Nigel spotted a
"†" footnote to nothing (yet) at the bottom of the page that requires 4 payments of $112.50 (or 20 payments of $22.50). That's $450, matching the rumored price of the unlocked handset.
[Thanks
Taylor]
posted March 8th 2010 1:33AM
20 payment of $20 and not under contract... hmm... which means I could ride out my current contract until WP7 rears itself, then re-new for a WP7 phone in the future under contract.
I wanted to hold out for WP7, but the payment plan might change my decision.
Also... wouldn't it be more appropriate to say "$450 for the unsubsidized phone"... not exactly 'unlocked'? Or are we suggesting that for $450, you get a phone that's more 'open' than the $200 contracted phone?
phone is sold out.