Vodafone UK now serving up the HTC HD2
We hate to tease our American readers who are holding their breath until it arrives on American shores, but Vodafone UK has begun selling the HTC HD2. Free on all tariffs over £35 on a 24 month contract or free on all tariffs over £40 on an 18 month contract, the HTC HD2 is a monster of a smartphone with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and 4.3″ WVGA capacitive touchscreen display. Plus most users will hardly realize that the HD2 is running Windows Mobile 6.5 thanks in part to HTC’s Sense UI. Just watch out for a sharp bezel around the 5 megapixel camera. It scratched the hell out of our desk.
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I guess they think it cost that much to ship it over here….
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On their 24 month contract you get a free bad ass phone plus for 35 Pounds you get 900 minutes, unlimited Txt, Unlimited calls to Landlines, and Unlimited Web. For 5#’s more you get 1200 minutes.
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I think the real problem is that the US companies are a bunch of over-coddled Baby Bell descendants who get a free pass from regulators and customers — and yet still manage to get themselves massively in debt.
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Hmm, did you say 2000? that’s nearly a decade ago… to build out a 3G network in the UK an aread the size of… well you get it.
You think that you want, but at some point reality makes you have to factor in economies of scale. We pay less for “petrol” than the UK, is that because the American oil companies are so heavily controlled by regulators and don’t get free passes from customers?
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Nice!!!
BigBoy, One additional point to consider when comparing phone plans in the US to europe, here in europe we only get charged for the calls and txts we make, receiving a call or txt does not cost us. So that 900 minutes is only for outgoing calls.
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I feel ripped off.
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I wonder how much these guys are going to sell their phones state side on ebay……
T-Mobile sells most of their smart phones for less than $200.00 with 2 year contract so we hope it would be less than $200.00
Where is our hands-on review?
We already know our British and Asian friends are getting it before us. We want to know how good and bad the device is…
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Where’s my passport? I think I’m moving to the UK!
This phone is awesome! I hope one of the carriers in Canada get this phone so I can bring it to AT&T. I know tmobile is getting it but it won’t work on AT&Ts 3G. Why doesn’t the US have a standard frequency for all carriers it’s stupid to have so many different frequencies the phones are never compatible!
I think this coming to Vz as the Predator with Android.
It’s fucked up that the. govt even charges for specturm. If they didn’t we’d have some bad ass networks here in the states. *Sighs* oh well.
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So they get all the good hardware first and cheaper? Still proud to be an AMERICAN, God bless the NY Yankees!
FREE?!?!? In the US this phone would cost $300 or so