HTC Touch HD wins choice between it and Blackberry 9500. There are a few additional features that explain the choice of the winner. One of them is the TouchFLO 3D finger swipe navigation found in HTC Touch HD.
Blackberry 9500 and HTC Touch HD have auto-rotate functionality due to the presence of an accelerometer sensor. But, in addition, HTC Touch HD has touch-sensitive navigation controls and pre-installed and loaded handwriting recognition software. You also have a neat and sophisticated auto turn-off with the availability of a proximity sensor.
HTC Touch HD has a larger 3.8-inch screen and a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels.
Blackberry 9500 has a 3.25-inches large screen with a resolution of 360 x 480 pixels. Java MIDP 2.0 is the Java platform in HTC Touch HD and this is definitely better than the Java offering in Blackberry 9500. Six and a half hours of talk-time is guaranteed in this handset while the other one has a talk time of five and a half hours. It has a Qualcomm processor. The operating system is Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and this is very sound and robust.
Blackberry 9500 has 32 channels and polyphonic ring tones. But, they need to be only in the MP3 format. HTC Touch HD has 40 channels. You can set ring tones with tracks and tunes in many formats like MP3, WAV, and WMA. Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP is present and its also comes with a miniUSB. The browser is a WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML one. The operating system here is the Blackberry 9500 OS. There is 1GB of internal memory storage available with the mobile phone.
Black is the only colour both the handsets are available in. The selling point of HTC Touch HD is its camera. A 5-mega-pixel camera with a resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels compared to Blackberry 9500’s 3.15 MP camera with a resolution of 2048×1536 pixels. Besides this, the former comes with auto focus, video and an additional secondary VGA video call camera. HTC Touch HD comes with stereo FM and RDS while this is totally absent in Blackberry 9500. The browser is an HTML type. Both come with limitless call, entries, records and fields.
