The HTC HD2 gets unboxed and booted on video

SlashGear just posted their HTC HD2 unboxing video and a first boot-up video too giving us a glimpse of the initial device setup which similar to the HTC Hero. Here’s some of their impressions after playing with the device:

Switching on, and there are setup wizards for ActiveSync Exchange, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube integration. Like the HTC Hero, the HD2 integrates Facebook friends with entries in your contacts and comes with the company’s own Twitter client, Peep, which gets its own tab on the shortcut bar along the bottom of the homescreen. It’s hard to describe how easy typing on the huge 4.3-inch touchscreen is; in portrait orientation, when on-screen QWERTY keyboards can be cramped in width, the combination of large buttons and decent auto-correction makes for error-free typing. As for flipping the HD2 into landscape mode – screen rotations are practically instantaneous – the keyboard is ideal for two-thumb typing. Even in the short time we’ve had the HD2, we’re already faster at typing on it in this way than we are with most hardware keyboards on smartphones.

The touchscreen is equally good in the browser, which is Opera Mobile 9.7 as standard. HTC have added multitouch support, which works as you’d expect; alternatively you can double-tap on blocks of text or images and the screen automatically zooms and reflows to fit. Thanks to the Snapdragon processor this happens incredibly quickly, and we’re wondering just how much of a MID-crossover the HD2 might be.

Check it out here