T-Mobile goofs up about HTC HD2 specs on its website

When T-Mobile splashed an ad of the smartphone on its website (http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/coming-soon/htc-touch-hd2/detail/), the blurb carried so many mistakes, people were left wondering about the HD2's specs.

For instance, T-Mobile said that one of HD2's "biggest boasts" was its "huge 3.8" touchscreen." But we all know that HD2 has a 4.3" touchscreen display and not 3.8".

T-Mobile also called the smartphone HTC Touch HD2 though everywhere else, the device is being called HTC HD2.

T-Mobile also goofed up by posting an image of not HTC HD2 but its predecessor HTC Touch HD.

However, the biggest goof-up is that T-Mobile boasts that HD2 users can 'choose from loads of applications to download from Android Market."

Now, it is not that HTC did not launch Android-based devices earlier (HTC Magic and Hero are Android-based smartphones) but T-Mobile's boast is diametrically opposite of what HTC CEO Chow had told Forbes magazine earlier: "We've worked with Microsoft for 13 years. Technically, we could make the HD2 an Android phone, but I have to take care of Windows Mobile."

"Windows Mobile innovation has been a little slow and interest in Windows Mobile phones has been declining. We're working hard on these kinds of products to get excitement about Windows Mobile back," Chow had said, rather magnanimously.

Besides, HD2 is a Windows Mobile-based smartphone and not a Android-based device. Of course, Microsoft can always tweak the platform so that HD2 users can access Android Marketplace but that would mean Microsoft openly acknowledging that the Android Market is far better than its apps store - the Windows Marketplace.

Though the error continues to exist on T-Mobile site, prospective buyers can be rest assured that they are nothing more than goof-ups and the HD2 has not turned into an Android-based device overnight (though we wish it had).