I Desire the HTC Desire HD!

For the past 15 years of my life, I already owned 7 cellular phones. I'm currently using a Blackberry 8900 which I got as a gift for my graduation last year. So here I go again or should I say here we go again? My friend and office mate Reuel (who is a HTC Wildfire user)  have been eyeing the HTC Desire HD for some time now. And we can't stop looking online for reviews and hands - on videos just to satisfy our itch. Here are the specifications from the HTC website.

CPU Processing Speed

 1 GHz

 Storage1

Internal phone storage: 1.5 GB

 RAM: 768 MB

Expansion slot:

  * microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)

Connectors

 * 3.5 mm stereo audio jack

 * Standard micro-USB (5-pin micro-USB 2.0)

Sensors

  * G-Sensor

  * Digital compass

  * Proximity sensor

  * Ambient light sensor

HTC Widgets

 * Bookmarks, Calculator, Calendar, Clock, FM Radio, Friend Stream, HTC Likes, Mail, Messages, Music, My shelf, Navigate, News, People, Search Anywhere, Settings, Stocks, Twitter™, Weather, and more

   * Downloadable widgets

Multimedia

 * Gallery, Music, and FM Radio

 * Dolby® Mobile and SRS virtual surround sound

 * Share videos, photos, or music from your phone to your TV via DLNA®

Audio supported formats:

 * Playback:.aac, .amr, .ogg, .m4a, .mid, .mp3, .wav, .wma (Windows Media Audio 9)

 * Recording:.amr

Video supported formats:

 * Playback:.3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .wmv (Windows Media Video 9), .avi (MP4 ASP and MP3), .xvid (MP4 ASP and MP3)

 * Recording:.3gp

Power & Battery2

Battery type: Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery

Capacity: 1230 mAh

Talk time:

 * WCDMA: Up to 320 mins

  * GSM: Up to 550 mins

Standby time3:

 * WCDMA: Up to 490 hours

 * GSM: Up to 420 hours

Network 4

Asia Pacific:

 * HSPA/WCDMA: 900/2100 MHz

 * GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

Platform

Android™ 2.2 (Froyo) with HTC Sense™

Camera

 * 8 megapixel color camera

 * Auto focus and dual LED flash

 * 720p HD video recording

 * Face detection capability

 * Built-in effects include depth of field, vignette, and more

 * Geotagging

Internet5

3G:

 * Up to 14.4 Mbps download speed

 * Up to 5.76 Mbps upload speed

GPRS:

 * Up to 114 kbps downloading

EDGE:

 * Up to 560 kbps downloading

Wi-Fi®:

 * IEEE 802.11 b/g/n

Bluetooth®

 * Bluetooth® 2.1 with Enhanced Data Rate

 * A2DP for wireless stereo headsets

 * FTP and OPP (object push) for file transfer

 * Other supported profiles: AVRCP, GAP, GOEP, HFP, HSP, PBAP, SPP, Service Discovery Application Profile

Social Networking

 * Facebook® and Twitter™ for HTC Sense

 * Friend Stream

 * Share photos/videos on Facebook®, Flickr®, Twitter™, or YouTube™

 * HTC Peep for tweeting

Location

 * Internal GPS antenna

 * With Locations, explore maps with zero wait, zero dead spots, and zero data roaming fees

Tethering

 * USB and Wi-Fi® tethering

Special Features

 * Register at HTCSense.com to manage your phone remotely and protect your phone in case of loss

 * Read eBooks on your phone

 * Watch Adobe® Flash® on websites

 * Easily transfer contacts, calendar events, and text messages from popular brand phones via Bluetooth

    * Check email from all your email accounts in one unified inbox

Recommended Windows System Requirements

 * Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, or Windows® XP

 * HTC Sync

Quite a lot right? What made me more interested is how easily you can organize your widgets in your home screen with just a tap and a slide. And they update on it's own too! Sweet! Here's how the phone looks like by the way:

Here's a video from the HTC website:

I've read a lot of reviews and people say that this is the iPhone killer. Do you agree? I can't wait to get my hands on it! Hopefully soon! :D