I've got a HD2 and I did EXACTLY the same things on my HD2 that Josh did on their one in the video. Um, the music app loaded in one second on my phone.

I've re-read Josh's review twice now and I still don't understand what he's getting at about lag - I haven't had any. Or about the WM UI... sure its not pretty but its still functional and in reality thats all that matters. Also in reality, you almost NEVER see the WM stuff anyways.

As for those "automatically" dissing a 1GHz CPU in a phone... I get three days out of my phone with heavy use - obviously its heavy because I've only had it for two weeks so I'm still in "playtime" phase :-)

So in all honesty, NOTHING that Josh has written above is NORMAL. This is an AWESOME phone and it works very well.

@(Unverified) You honestly won't regret it. They are a great phone!. You honestly won't see the original WM UI every day. Engadget are just being extremely picky about stuff you don't do day-to-day or even week-to-week.

For those looking for a review of the HD2 here's a good overview of pretty much everything including videos etc etc

http://pocketnow.com/review/htc-hd2

There are already PLENTY of HD2 reviews on the 'net - that thankfully don't have Engadget's pro-iPhone bias.

The HTC HD2 is a SERIOUSLY great phone. I've had mine for two weeks now and my wife wants one already!! She's already put her iPhone up for sale.

@Ike Turner You do realise its an extremely small percentage of the first production run phones that MAY have this problem.

I have a HD2/Leo from the first production run and its camera works absolutely perfectly

@Jason and Lars... this is *definitely* the Silverlight app that was demo'ed at PDC last week.

@Matt - 30 minutes to install??? Sorry, I never experienced that myself. Only took a minute or so to install and get running for me.

@glenskey - MS and Toshiba are partners... along with LG, Sharp, HTC, Samsung, etc etc. All these form factors and diffrent manufacturers is *just one* reason why WinMo sells a LOT per month around the *world*

WM6.5 fixes the 64K colour limitation... Remember though, the picture might be 24bit but there are not many 'small screens' that can display a full 24bit.

Pika2000 & others...

WM does support capactive and multi-touch and pretty much anything else you want... you just need to add the driver for it.

I really can't believe the stupidity of some people that say WM can't do this or that. Add the hardware and the driver... and its supported. Thats what so good about WM.

Its like saying Windows 7 doesn't support a mouse. Well obviously it does but it just needs to add a mouse driver and ta da! :-)

Its great to see a great car in Valentino's name... but I'd prefer to see Lamborghini honor Bob Wallace name first.