HTC's Desire HD coming to North America, too little, too late?

[Bateluer]

http://www.bgr.com/2010/12/28/htc’s...with-north-american-3g-bands-coming-to-telus/

Earlier today, HTC’s Desire HD crossed the FCC’s desk with a welcomed surprise, North American 3G bands. The 4.3-inch device — which boasts a 1GHz processor, 720p video recording, Android 2.2, and much more — is rocking WCDMA bands II and V, which makes AT&T, Bell, Telus, and Rogers all potential suitors.

With the LTE enabled HTC Thunderbolt incoming, plus the dual core Motorola Olympus and LG Star not far behind, is the Desire HD worth a look? Its a nice device to be sure, but I wonder how its going to stack up against the new phones?

 

[zerocool84]

Why would it be too late? We have no idea when any dual core phones are coming here to the states, just speculation. It's a good phone now and that's what matters.

 

[Bateluer]

Why would it be too late? We have no idea when any dual core phones are coming here to the states, just speculation. It's a good phone now and that's what matters.

We don't have an exact date for the Desire HD either. Just know that it sporting North American 3G bands. I'll willing to bet it'll show up on Canadian carriers and some regional US carriers, while the national US carriers go after the higher profile multicore phones since they already have comparable phones to the Desire HD.

 

[Strk]

Isn't the Desire HD basically the myTouch 4g with a bigger screen?

 

[Bateluer]

Isn't the Desire HD basically the myTouch 4g with a bigger screen?

Its closer to the Evo 4G than the myTouch, but they share similar SoCs. Its a high end phone, no question, but the question is: Why choose the Desire HD when the faster Thunderbolt, Olympus, and Star will be the same price?

 

[s44]

I bet the Thunderbolt is a CDMA/LTE version of the same phone.

Like the Nexus S, it looks like no processing or screen advances will come before the Tegra2 Star/Olympus.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Its closer to the Evo 4G than the myTouch, but they share similar SoCs. Its a high end phone, no question, but the question is: Why choose the Desire HD when the faster Thunderbolt, Olympus, and Star will be the same price?

We've been talking dual core the day the Cortex A8 landed with the iPhone 3GS. I'm not saying it won't happen, but we don't know when. And once again, it's not about CPU specs only. This isn't too little too late. It's NOT coming to the US first of all because no one is gonna give a crap to even use it. The only people who might would want unlocked phones anyway and are importing from Canada.

Let's see a show of hands how many people here use the Telus Motorola Milestone on AT&T. There's a bunch on XDA forums, but I bet I'm probably the only guy here. So I think this phone will be a bigger hit in Canada than it will ever be in the US. Aren't most of the regional carriers leeching off of Sprint anyway meaning they're CDMA based? The US bands means 850/1900, and only AT&T comes to mind. T-Mobile won't work, meaning you would be better off with the international version anyway since it's cheaper. Oh yeah, that's the big thing. The Milestone could be had for ~$400-500 if you bought the Europe/Asia version, but still sells for $650 for the Telus version. Price will be a big thing, and to import from Canada costs an arm and a leg.

I would consider this phone since HTC is easy to get under the bootloader for. Good luck with Moto's locked crap. I mean it's nice to have breakthoughs here and there for my Motorola Milestone, but when we're still stuck with a beta 2.2 build, it's kinda... meh. That and the damn 854x480 reso + 3.7" screen makes the keyboard harder to use than for my iPod Touch, so I noticed that this whole vacation I've been reaching for my iPod more to find Wifi hotspots as I don't have a data plan internationally.

 

[Bateluer]

We've been talking dual core the day the Cortex A8 landed with the iPhone 3GS. I'm not saying it won't happen, but we don't know when.

Err, dual core phones are coming in 1Q11. Its been pretty much a certainty for a while now, since dual core devices from Moto and LG have both leaked, and Nvidia's been selling Tegras to various manufacturers for phones and tablets. Exactly when in early 2011 is what we don't know.

 

[MrX8503]

IMO, any smartphone that is released recently that isn't a dual core is obsolete, including the Nexus S.

2011 is going to be the year of Dual core 1080p recording LTE/4G smartphones. What I'm concerned with is that even with a dual core, I believe performance gains will be minimal to the end user.

I wouldn't be surprise that a Honeycomb powered dual core android phone is only as fluid as the current iPhone4. When I got my Android 2.1 device, I envisioned that Android wasn't going to be quite there until beyond Gingerbread. As it seems, it looks like Honeycomb may be Google's answer.

 

[tdawg]

Its closer to the Evo 4G than the myTouch, but they share similar SoCs. Its a high end phone, no question, but the question is: Why choose the Desire HD when the faster Thunderbolt, Olympus, and Star will be the same price?

Personally, I don't have any interest in paying more for phone/data services, so 4G/LTE at a higher monthly service cost doesn't interest me at the moment (we'll see when it actually lands in retail with detailed pricing plans). The market needs options up and down the price scale (initial outlay and monthly service rates), not just a few top-end devices to choose from.

 

[Deeko]

As I posted in the Thunderbolt thread, HTC has been pushing phone after phone with the same basic hardware since the HD2 came out ages ago. Hopefully we'll see some more powerful specs out of them soon....its hard to be impressed by these rehashes.