If you have seen the latest video demonstrations for Windows Touch and other multi touch application software, you have probably been wondering when the technology will finally land on the mobile phone. HTC brings an end to this wait by launching the new HTC HD2 smart phone. This mobile device has a 4.3 inch capacitive multi touch screen and is currently running the HTC Sense interface on Windows Mobile 6.5.

We are hoping for an upgrade compatibility with the upcoming Windows 7 in order to make full use of its multi touch features. Multi touch alone does not make a great mobile phone, and the HD2 is a pretty expensive device to boot. Fortunately for us, HTC has packed some pretty serious hardware in the HD2 to make everyone happy.

Everything but the Memory

The HD2 is jam packed with great hardware that makes it a powerful smart phone. The Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processor makes everything run smoothly, even the clunky Windows Mobile operating system. Expect insignificant load times and no slow downs in graphic intensive programs. If you are familiar with the HTC Touch, consider the HD2 as its big bad cousin. The only problem with the HD2’s specifications is that it only has 512MB of internal memory, forcing you to rely a lot on the microSD transflash card slot for storing larger files and media.

HD2 Hardware Specifications

The HTC HD2 has support for HSDPA and GSM network bands (similar to its Asian release counterpart). It will connect to EDGE, GPRS, 3G HSDPA and wireless LAN networks. It has GPS capabilities and is supported by HTC’s navigations services such as HTC Footprints, Digital Compass and the NaviPanel.

Thanks to the large screen of the HD2, you can use this mobile smart phone as your navigation device while driving. It also has Bluetooth device compatibility allowing you to use hands free headsets for greater freedom of movement. The external casing of the HD2 carries a nice black finish with texture that is easy to hold. At 0.43 inches thick, it’s slim enough to fit into most pockets.

Software Specifications

HTC has also designed integrated applications for Facebook, Twitter and YouTube allowing users to instantly access their accounts for quick updates. The HTC Sense is very easy to use and thanks to the capacitive touch screen, it responds quickly to commands. We are still going to see if it has been modified for multi touch input as well.

You should check out some of the fantastic HTC HD2 contracts if this phone is of interest to you. Best Mobile Contracts are a good place to look as they are the UK’s leading mobile phone price comparison website. They also compare mobile broadband ensuring that you are always connected.

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Tower defense games have been around for a long time, they have been available for years and years and have entertained people for hours at end. And since a week or so there is an amazing version of tower defense that works perfectly on your windows mobile WVGA/VGA device. If you don’t already know what a tower defense game is, enemies spawn on your screen that have to go through a map towards your base and damage it. You as the commander of this base have to defend your base by placing towers on the map that fire at the enemies. So far Tower Defense seems one of the most fun games that has graced Windows Mobile so far.

When you start the game, gradually enemies start walking from one side of the map to the other trying to reach your base. When you are unable to stop the enemies from entering your base and doing their damage you lose health. When 20 enemies land in your base you have lost the battle and have failed has a supreme commander of your base’ defense. As said you have to place towers in the way or on the way of the enemies moving to your home base to stop them. In this Windows Mobile WVGA game you have the option between 6 difference towers to place in your defense. All towers have different aspects and do a different type of damage to the incoming enemies. Although it is not very clear what kind of damage the towers do, So over time you learn what are the best combinations and you can act on that And it can be quite tedious to find a right mix of towers if this remains in the dark.

As you kill enemies with your mix of towers you gain more money, with this money you can either buy new towers or upgrade the towers you already have. Towers upgrade 2 times and they get better graphics and often increase in size, think of bigger guns, more guns, bigger flame thrower and such things.

The game features 2 levels that you can play and they both bring different type of strategy to this windows mobile game. There are 3 difficult levels and I would suggest starting out with the easy one unless you are a true tower defense veteran. Sound and music you can change in the options menu like most other games.. There is not a real option to save option for this Windows Mobile game but you can quit and resume your game later on. But if you decide to start a new game in the meanwhile there is no way to resume a game you started before that.

This game is one of the best and most fun games featured on the newer WVGA/VGA Windows Mobile devices you can find. Tower defense fanatic or not, you should really consider getting this game for your Windows Mobile phone, because it is one of the best games that has come out for Windows Mobile phones. The little downsides of this game include not being able to save different game and the fact that it’s not completely clear what the different towers do. These little things don’t bring the game down that much though and the game would get at least a 8 out of 10.

Find out more about the game right here!

A fun Windows Phone game can be hard to find these days. But the one reviewed here today is a real gem, and best of all it’s completely free wvga game. Totem Star Lite is a simple but fun puzzle game for the Windows Mobile platform. Totem Star Lite does it’s thing perfectly on the WVGA resolution, and as an enthusiastic gamer who loves the new WVGA devices, and games that work on these phones I just had to do a review of this puzzle game.

Totem Star Lite is obtainable for free via the developer website – Touch Dimensions. Where you can find the game as a .cab file for your phone. The game in cab format can be either downloaded to your mobile phone or copied over via Windows with Bluetooth or Active Sync. This WVGA game requires that you have Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.5 installed on your Windows Mobile Smartphone device. You can get it by searching around in the search engines or the Microsoft site.

This WVGA Game that used to be known as “Dream Catcher Lite” but for unknown reason was renamed to Totem Star Lite. In this game you lead the destiny of your fellow tribesmen through the stars or so say the creators of this game. Totem Star is set in the Native American desert sunset. The goal of the game is to draw patterns around stars of similar shape or color. You can also make combination in as the authors say – ‘an infinite variety of patterns’ which in the real world will is quite finite. But there are plenty combinations possible and a lot to be found out in the game play.

Totem Star Lite does not have a steep learning curve at all, but you will soon discover that the game is much deeper as it seems to be from the beginning. The goal of the game is to make a lot of patterns from the stars that appear in the game area. The combinations can be found in the bottom right corner of the screen. Just below a totem pole that you have to fill up to have your fellow tribesmen build more buildings, which results into a new pattern and a higher score.
Sometimes a certain star color is not available and you can make combinations to force it to spawn and complete your goal. The combinations you can make in the game can be found on Touch Dimensions site that you can find through Google.

The game play is fun, and keeps you busy for quite some time. The background music is very relaxing and the entire atmosphere of the game is just great. These days finger friendly applications and games are really hot. But because of how the game is made it’s often better to use the stylus. The patterns you have to draw can be quite small and thus your finger can be in the way. The game plays fine with your finger as long as you are not that concerned about getting the best high score that day. In the options menu of the game you can view your current high score and switch between music/sound disabled or enabled. Other than that it’s just a great little WVGA game that works on all devices it was tested on, WQVGA and more. Be sure to try this gem of a game, which on top of it all is free.

This game was tested on the following devices: HTC Touch HD, HTC Touch Pro 2, HTC Touch Diamond 2, Samsung i900 (Omnia), Samsung Omnia 2 and Samsung Omnia Pro. And will most likely work on the HTC Touch HD 2.

Enjoy the gaming!

Windows Mobile 6.5 has been officially released for some time now. And we already had the launch event last week (together with Windows Mobile marketplace, together with Windows Mobile Marketplace this has been the biggest thing since the release of well.. Anything Windows Mobile and phone related.

Microsoft has woken up and smelled the competition, although many feel they acted a little bit too late. Luckily Microsoft is well known for putting major funds into projects and getting them back on track in record time. Although Windows Mobile 6.5 could have been more, everyone agrees that it is a huge improvement over Windows Mobile 6.1. So what phones will be getting an upgrade?

First let’s have a look at the amount of windows mobile phones that a company like HTC has launched over the course of 2 years:

HTC Touch Diamond
HTC Touch Diamond 2
HTC Touch HD
HTC Touch Cruise
HTC Touch Pro 2
HTC Touch Pro
HTC Touch Dual
HTC TyTN II
HTC Snap

And the list goes on and on, there are about 5-6 lesser known Windows Mobile powered phones released by HTC over the last 2 years. So what devices are getting an upgrade? Sadly not too many HTC already released a press release about this and stated that only the Touch Diamond 2 and the Touch Pro 2 are getting an upgrade. Probably the only reason for this is that they had promised this to the audience when these phones went on sale.

They call the other phones like the Touch HD to be dated technology even though it has the exact same hardware as the Touch Diamond 2 and the Touch Pro 2. So basically it’s all about the money. HTC has no intention in spending time and money on bringing out updates for older devices because that would only hinder their sales. For a company standpoint it’s pretty clear but from the consumer point of view it’s a bit disappointing.

Microsoft has released a list of devices that are getting an official Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade. The list can be found here.

Please note that although they say that the devices are outdated and therefore not getting an upgrade a lot of people are already running Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade on their HTC phones for months. If you are interested in this go find out if your device has a custom rom available on the best message board out there xda-developers.com.

If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment, we have been flashing our devices for years and are willing to answer any question about this issue.

Windows Mobile Marketplace has been released for a couple of days now. So how did the release go? Are the users happy thus far with the applications you can find here? One of the bigger problems so far is that users from smaller windows mobile market place ‘groups’ as Microsoft calls them have little applications available in the new shop.

For instance we have heard from people in The Netherlands that next to the applications that Microsoft themselves have to offer there is only one third party application that you can install with the marketplace.

So where does this problem come from? The issue lies with the policies Microsoft thus far has enforced on the mobile Marketplace. Application developers have been forced to have their applications translated to the country language of the sub-shop, this can be an expensive endeavor depending on the size of the application. Next to the fact that an application needs to be translated the developer also has to pay 10 dollars per submission per country. So for smaller developers it’s of course a much better idea to submit an application to the bigger countries and forget the smaller markets. This leaves the users of Windows Mobile Marketplace from smaller countries with little applications and a sour taste in their mouths.

It’s weird that Microsoft concocted such a strategy for the release of the Marketplace, because looking at the success of the Android and iPhone market, why would you change a winning formula? These shops are doing millions and millions of application downloads every day and most of the applications do not have Multilanguage support. It’s really the last thing you want to do in this world of global communication and internet-wide information streams. Nobody is interested these days in being restrained from the English language in applications and communication.

Let’s hope Microsoft listens to their customers and changes the application so you can access everything, let the user choose their destiny and live happy ever after with or without applications on their Windows Mobile Smartphone. Next to that, it’s in their own best interest. We look forward to hearing from Microsoft officials. We will keep you posted.