HTC HD2 vs Google Nexus One browser comparison: Mobiler

Anyone wanna sumarise the review in words? Vids are blocked here :P
 
I am so lost as to what to do. There are so many options "about" to be released, that I'm getting agitated! My upgrade has been due since beginning of December last year, and I've still not made up my mind!
 
carudden said:
I am so lost as to what to do. There are so many options "about" to be released, that I'm getting agitated! My upgrade has been due since beginning of December last year, and I've still not made up my mind!
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I say hold out for 1 or 2 months more, when stock of the new phones actually arrivew, and the agree interconnect price cuts happen, and when ICASA will hopefully conclude its interconnect research and findings, and forece the operators to drop it even more.

Why be stuck in a contract for another 2 years??

Edit: MTN OneRate prepaid tarriffs are the cheapest true per-second billing peak call rate in RSA. It's even cheaper than contract. It's an Anytime rate, meaning you get one rate to all the networks, irrespective of the time. So maybe buy the phone cash, and switch to prepaid?
 
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nexus one > hd2 because of 1: Android and 2: Snapdragon. That's the end of the argument imo.
 
cerebus said:
nexus one > hd2 because of 1: Android and 2: Snapdragon. That's the end of the argument imo.
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On the contrary, the reverse is true. HD2 has 1GHz Snapdragon. WM is still very much richer than Android, and the HD2 has a nicer screen, better apps support, and is much more business-oriented. Android has a way to go still.

I've been using an HD2 for 2 months now. It works well.
 
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Oh HD2 does have snapdragon I apologize.

Still I've used winmo enough to not have any desire to go back to it. Are you sure the hd2 has a better screen? The Nexus is meant to be the best going.
 
Use GSM Arena to see a side-by-side comparison of the specs:
- HTC Google Nexus One vs HTC HD2

Or view them individually:
- HTC Google Nexus One
- HTC HD2

UPDATE: from the above specs, the HD2 and Nexus One differ on the following points:
- screen size (HD2 is 4.3" vs Nexus at 3.7")
- popularity on GSM Arena (HD2 is more popular, and the average rating by users is higher)
- the HD2 has a Dual LED flash, compared to the Nexus One's single LED flash
- the Nexus one is smaller in size overall
- the Nexus one has a bigger battery and better battery life overall (probably because of the smaller screen size)
- the HD2 is more expensive (550 EUR) than the Nexus one (350 EUR)

All the other features are almost the same, except for the OS, which I guess comes down to user preference.
For hardware features, I would choose the HD2. For OS and software, I would choose Nexus One, because Android is more open, and because MS don't seem to care too much about mobile. MS took forever to provide updates to WM6 and WM6.1, and all they gave us was WM6.5. WM7 will only reach the world end of 2010 (not official), and probably in early 2011 for RSA...

If I had to choose between the 2 phones, I would go with Nexus One. The resolution on both screens is 800 x 480, but the Nexus One has a smaller screen, so the picture quality will be sharper and crisper. Also, the Nexus One has a bigger battery, coupled with a smaller screen, which will give longer battery life between charges. The Nexus One is also cheaper (if you can get your hands on one).
 
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ToxicWazte said:
the HD2 and Nexus One differ on the following points
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There's also the o/s difference HD2 = Windows Mobile, Nexus = Android.

As others have said, winmo has been around for a long long time, so it's had an opportunity to stabilise and gain community support (i.e. lots of apps out there).
 
Winmo has better database of apps but the OS itself is horrible. Unless v7 proves to be a serious overhaul I think it's on its way out.
 
cerebus said:
Winmo has better database of apps but the OS itself is horrible. Unless v7 proves to be a serious overhaul I think it's on its way out.
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TheMightyP said:
There's also the o/s difference HD2 = Windows Mobile, Nexus = Android.

As others have said, winmo has been around for a long long time, so it's had an opportunity to stabilise and gain community support (i.e. lots of apps out there).
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I'm not sure how true this is anymore. Android has a massive free application database these days when you access the market. Then again, my experience with winmo is limited to using my brothers touch pro 2.
 
cerebus said:
Winmo has better database of apps but the OS itself is horrible. Unless v7 proves to be a serious overhaul I think it's on its way out.
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No it's not horrible. People don't like the UI because it's old and dated and comes from the CE days, with stylus and so on. But the UI is only the surface and is emphatically not the operating system - the underlying OS is very capable, stable, multitasking, and has BY FAR the richest API set and device support of ANY smartphone/PDA system today. With HTC Sense (formerly TouchFlo 3D) on the HD2, you don't even see WM anymore. And you don't need a stylus - the HD2 doesn't have one, but rather a multi-touch capacitive touch screen (which doesn;t work with a regular stylus). And you still get the rich function and unmatched application support of WM. I run some 8 year-old apps, believe it or not, and also 2009 apps of course, and on the HD2 WM is stable, snappy, powerful. Even the dated WM UI has been tweaked to be more finger friendly, but as I said, HTC Sense basically replaces the WM UI and is itself a work of art. Everything is so snappy. Even Garmin Mobile XT acquires satellites faster than my Nuvi 760. I have faultless wifi, wifi router, BT, push mail, multimedia (I also use CorePlayer), Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook, even IE has been updated to zoom with pinch. In short, it all works.

And then there's that magnificent, unmatched, beauuutiful screen! Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.

SIDEBAR: WM7 is an entirely new OS. It won't have legacy app support (regrettably). Steveb at Microsoft fired the whole WM team because they neglected WM for too long, and now they're seriously investing in making WM7 the best mobile OS, hiring the best talent from inside and outside. We'll get a better idea next month when the market expects an announcement. So far WM7 has been tightly under wraps. But don't underestimate Microsoft's resolve when it's back's to the wall. After years of neglect, they are now very very serious about mobile. Exciting times.
 
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Arthur said:
SIDEBAR: WM7 is an entirely new OS. It won't have legacy app support (regrettably). Steveb at Microsoft fired the whole WM team because they neglected WM for too long, and now they're seriously investing in making WM7 the best mobile OS, hiring the best talent from inside and outside. We'll get a better idea next month when the market expects an announcement. So far WM7 has been tightly under wraps. But don't underestimate Microsoft's resolve when it's back's to the wall. After years of neglect, they are now very very serious about mobile. Exciting times.
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If only they did the whole overhaul to the OS in terms of the constant exploits. The above is a definite step in the right direction for MSFT and hopefully a great one, at least with all this competition we're going to get some great results in the smartphone sector.
 
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Arthur said:
SIDEBAR: WM7 is an entirely new OS. It won't have legacy app support (regrettably). Steveb at Microsoft fired the whole WM team because they neglected WM for too long, and now they're seriously investing in making WM7 the best mobile OS, hiring the best talent from inside and outside. We'll get a better idea next month when the market expects an announcement. So far WM7 has been tightly under wraps. But don't underestimate Microsoft's resolve when it's back's to the wall. After years of neglect, they are now very very serious about mobile. Exciting times.
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DJNgoma said:
If only they did the whole overhaul to the OS in terms of the constant exploits. The above is a definite step in the right direction for MSFT and hopefully a great one, at least with all this competition we're going to get some great results in the smartphone sector.
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What is your guys source of this information? Please share.
 
DJNgoma said:
If only they did the whole overhaul to the OS in terms of the constant exploits. The above is a definite step in the right direction for MSFT and hopefully a great one, at least with all this competition we're going to get some great results in the smartphone sector.
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Couldn't have said it better.
+ 1.

:)
 
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