I am not the first to post my thoughts and I am certainly wont be the last.

I have however been fortunate enough to have had for a short period a HTC HD2 in my hands and I thought I would let you know what I think about the unit.

Now this is by no means a full review, more a collection of thoughts.

First and foremost I personally thought the device would be huge and feel clunky in hand.  With the exception of a couple, this is the biggest screen on a smartphone to date. I was completely wrong. 

I would be lying if I said it was small, but it does not feel anywhere near as big in the hand as I thought it would.  I do not have the largest of hands, but it felt comfortable and i soon became used to the overall profile of the unit.

If you do have big hands and have hated the smaller smartphones because of this, the HD2 might just be the first phone that you can truly use with ease.

The screen goes to the edge of the unit, there is no clunky or chunky edges, everything feels smooth.  The case of the unit is robust and feels good to the touch.

There are buttons at the bottom of the screen, physical ones.  Now personally I feel that this is the downside to the device, they feel a little bit of an after thought and cheap.  I would have expected or liked more of a touch sensitive affair.  Having said that nothing beats the physical, tactile feedback of a button or key.  It does detract from the overall style of the device.

I wont talk about call features and quality, other than say it was more than up to scratch and is on par with any other HTC product.

The camera is good and perfectly acceptable to most for a camera shot.  I dint get the opportunity to test the dual flash on the HTC HD2, but it has to improve the image, especially in low light and I am sure many HTC fans will be pleased to see this addition.

Windows Mobile 6.5 is of course installed, not a great deal to say about this. 

There is of course HTC Sense installed to improve the overall experience.  It does not disappoint. I won’t talk about this either as there are more than enough reviews and information on this online.

One thing I did find, and this may be a personal thing is that this is the first device that I can truly use a ‘fat finger’ on.  By this I mean that most devices I have used previously required a mix of the very tip of the finger/nail to work and in places allow you to use your true finger tip ‘fat finger’.  The HD2 however is he first device I have used, other than the iPhone where the fat finger/full finger tip actually works better than using the very tip/nail of a finger.

It goes almost without saying that the device was super fast.  Everything was snappy and responded much quicker than normal.  The device I was using was a pre-production model, which did have the odd software bug but still I was impressed.

Orientation switching from landscape to portrait was very fast.  I actually preferred writing emails and text messages in landscape mode.  You could not view as much actual text on screen, but you gain from a larger keyboard, which is a big plus when typing  message, especially in a rush.

My final thought is around the new microUSB connection that HTC have adopted.  It is a little frustrating as a HTC owner, I will now need to purchase new cables etc but in the long run it should be better as all new devices are switching over to the connection due to a European imitative to cut down the production of chargers and accessories.

You have probably already made a decision as to whether or not the HD2 is or you.

Without any influence from my affiliation with HTC, I have to say that this device has surprised me.  I looked upon it quite cynically as a fan of the Snap and those devices with a physical QWERTY keyboard, I was expecting to be a bit more disappointed.  This could be the device that gets me back into touch screen smartphones.