VIDEO: HTC Leo with Snapdragon shows off WinMo's multi-touch capabilities

Video Review: With a 5 megapixel camera and a massive 4.3" multi-touch display, the HTC HD2 allows users to customize every aspect of its interface. Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn review its 16 gigs of storage and special features, all for $100 with a...

You get multi-touch browser support in the form of pinch zooming, but once we really set it to task, we found it was not as reliable as the Palm Pre, occasionally stuttering around the edges of pages and bouncing back to the centre. Double tap zooming is also present, quickly snapping in and out of pages. Dragging pages around is also relatively smooth, not quite as good as some other rivals, but the best we've seen on a Windows Phone. This is partly due to ditching Internet Explorer Mobile in favour of Opera, so you get great full screen browsing which is relatively quick, with support for multiple pages.

VIDEO: HTC Leo with Snapdragon doing Multi-Touch on WinMo

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HTC HD2HTC's HD2 is the first Windows Phone to ship with a capacitive touch display (a screen that uses a charge-storing coating to register finger touch events). The ultra-thin phone has a 4.3 inch, high-resolution touch display that supports multi-touch gestures such as pinching and scrolling as well as onscreen-typing. The HD2 is equipped with a 1Ghz Snapdragon mobile processor for enhanced performance, a 5 megapixel camera and 3G tethering for on-the-go web browsing on your mobile or laptop. The phone ships with the latest version of Microsoft's OS, Windows Mobile 6.5. The phone will be available in Europe at the end of October before rolling out to other countries in the following months. 2ff7e9595c