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To ensure upcoming HTC HD2 users on T-Mobile will get a great start with their new smartphone, the carrier will ship it with pre-loaded multimedia content and applications. During a press event at Mobile World Congress today, T-Mobile announced the creation of a comprehensive mobile entertainment experience for the upcoming HTC HD2, available exclusively in the U.S. from T-Mobile this spring. Offering the largest touch screen on a smartphone in the U.S., the new HTC HD2 will come ready with access to millions of eBooks, movies television programs and more. Consumers will have access to a complete entertainment package consisting of pre-loaded content and new pre-installed applications.

Deutsche Telekom owned T-Mobile, one of the world’s largest mobile services provider has launched its very first mobile entertainment device in the form of HTC HD2, which will run on Windows Mobile 6.5 and will feature HTC’s Sense UI technology. The smartphone, which is being looked upon as T-Mobile’s iPad, will be more focused on eBooks and movie rentals and will be decked with pre-loaded software from T-Mobile.

The HTC HD2, which we loved when we reviewed it as an unlocked phone, has finally found a home in the United States, on T-Mobile’s network. The carrier launched the phone today, along with the webConnect Rocket USB Laptop Stick, an HSPA+ mobile broadband card. Like the HD2 we reviewed, T-Mobile’s runs on a fast 1-GHz Snapdragon processor and has a 4.3-inch (800 x 480) touch screen, Windows Mobile 6.5 as its OS, GPS, a 16GB microSD card, and a 5-megapixel camera with Autofocus and an LED flash.

T-Mobile USA announced that it would carry the HD2 back during CES. Today the carrier said that the HD2 will now ship with BLOCKBUSTER on Demand for downloading new movies, MobiTV for watching live on-demand TV, a Barnes & Noble eReader for viewing books and magazines, and up to six months of free in-flight Wi-Fi through Gogo. The device will also ship with two movies: "Transformers" and "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" preloaded.

Last week, T-Mobile teased us all with a little jab on Twitter about the HTC HD2 that it will be shipping soon. It was exciting and, to be frank, it made me a little antsy.

T-Mobile USA has been showing off the HTC HD2, which will be offered exclusively in the U.S. in the spring. The operator has lined up a whole bunch of content partners to provide out of the box entertainment, including the Barnes & Noble's eReader, Blockbuster on Demand movies, MobiTV and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen from Paramount. In terms of spec, the Windows Mobile 6.5-based HD2 is built around Qualcomm's 1GHz Snapdragon processor and comes with a sizable 4.3-inch capacitive touch display. It's also the first Windows phone to come with HTC's Sense UI. Also out of the box comes GPS functionality with access to turn-by-turn navigation from TeleNav GPS Navigator, a pre-installed 16 GB microSD card and a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with dual LED flash.

As promised, T-Mobile spoke of all the fun things that the HTC HD2 will have. It is definitely designed for those who like to be entertained. It will be the first handset to support Blockbuster’s On Demand video download application, which allows the user to preview and download films on-the-go.

AT&T has the iPad. Now T-Mobile has the HTC HD2. In a surprising move, T-Mobile on Tuesday launched its anticipated big-screen smartphone with a focus on e-books and movie rentals. "The HD2 will be T-Mobile's first entertainment device," said Brenda Fisher, marketing product innovation manager for T-Mobile. The HD2, as it's known to most of the world, is probably the best Windows Mobile 6.5 phone ever. It has a gigantic 4.3-inch, 800-by-480 capacitive multi-touch screen, it runs a 1-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, it's thin, and it mostly papers over Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 interface with an attractive series of panels HTC calls TouchFlo 3D.

Today in Barcelona T-Mobile announced some of the content and applications that will be pre-loaded on the HTC HD2 when it comes to market later this year. The HD2 will come with BlockBuster On Demand software, Barnes & Noble's e-book reader, MobiTV, and six months of free in-flight Wi-Fi from GoGo. The device will also be pre-loaded with the movies Transformers and Transformers 2. The phone will come with a 16 GB memory card. T-Mobile would only say that the device is coming this spring, and didn't announce pricing.

We already know that the HTC HD2 is set to land on T-Mobile here in the U.S. this year. T-Mobile announced at MWC that it would be tweaking the HD2 to support “never-before-seen” entertainment experiences on its network.