I think this is a brilliant program for Uni students or people who work way. People who need to move their PC from location to location fairly regularly but leave it in one place to work.

Considering the fancy screens, I would have expected more impressive specs. I would have thought that we would have seen screens like this on a gaming laptop first rather than on a tarted up netbook.

Still tempted to get one though.

I've been using the HD1 since launch, it has never put a foot wrong and I've not managed to slow it down or use up the memory despite using applications like tomtom and divx.

Now the HD2 comes out with some insane specs and I find myself wondering where can TC go next? Obviously they could try to go smaller but in terms of power I can't see a reason to want any more.

Hopefully WM7 will be less demanding and maybe add some completely new features but i'm struggling. If the build quality of this phone means it will last this could be the last phone I get for a very very long time.

+1 for the transparent aluminium. It's finally here and only 23 years late!

But didn't HTC recently patent a stylus for capacitive screens? You can't just use any old thing like on a resistive screen.

Isn't it ironi that a lot of PSPs will be modded to do just these same things.

If only they'd stuck two analog sticks on it.

Does this thing have a tv-out. It's the one thing I miss on the HD1.

Maybe 1080p won't be final standard. Hear me out hear....

Say someone does setup a decent and reasonable priced product at a slightly lower resolution like 720 and for a large percentage of the audience this quality is acceptable (as well as sufficiently better than DVD) and deliverable quickly via broadband, then this could become the standard. Sure 1080p would exist for videophiles just as super-CDs and now FLAC exists for audiophiles.

I'm concerned that if blu-ray does become the standard by the time broadband catches up, hardware and movie companies will just release an even higher resolution standard and put the consumers through the mangle again.

This line of thought does have precedent, record companies were looking at higher and higher bit rate where all the average Joe wants is a bit rate slightly higher than what the player is capable of outputting and a fast and cheap way of getting it. MP3s are the standard now and the other ideas are long gone

Unfortunately Google have a habit of forgetting to finish their million and one projects. How long was Gmail in beta?

Whilst it would probably be good for the market fir there to be another big player I can't help and think that Chrome OS and Android just won't get the updates they require at the rate they need and will be left at the wayside only being used by a cult group of developers and fanboys.

Google is a search engine and they develop web based applications, this is a long way from fully fledged operating systems and we can't expect them to nail it immediately.

I wish it wasn't coming to O2. I'm currently on the HD1 on Orange.

I wonder if this means that O2 might be losing the Iphone??

I do like the look of the the HD2 but I don't see enough of a difference (although I'm sure there is something like a processor bump) to updrage from a HD1.

I am due a renewal in the next few month but I think I'll wait for windows mobile 7 and then see how soon the HD3 comes out. Haven't seen that capacitive stylus yet that HTC patented.

Anyone else think the framework for this and by that I mean the interface and the software developer kit is going to similar looking if not completely complatible with Windows mobile 7?

We've seen that microsoft are going to dictate hardware requirements and hopefully that will mean tegra processors and capacitive screens (although i quite like restitive, each to their own).

If they could tie the zune, xbox 360, windows 7 and windows mobile 7 that would be awesome.