The HTC HD2 is now capable of dual booting in to either Windows Phone 7 or Android thanks to the guys at XDA Developers.
To do this, you need to have a couple of SD cards ie, an 8GB and 16GB card. You need two cards so that you can create the needed partitions and once done, you copy the smaller card partition to the larger card. [click to continue…]
We've seen Windows Phone 7 before on the HD2 although only a few screen shots have been revealed.
Today, a video of the HD2 running Windows Phone 7 has been uploaded. Unfortunately the video is only available in some regions, so some of you might not be able to watch it. [click to continue…]
Mobiles.co.uk earlier today pushed details out about the release date of the Nokia N8. We now see that they have also listed the HTC Desire HD with a release date of October 8 here in the UK.
The Desire HD looks to be available on the Orange and Vodafone networks (details here) although at the moment, when clicking on Orange you just get another register your interest box just like when clicking O2 on the Nokia N8 pages. [click to continue…]
The HTC Desire ROM was ported to the HTC HD2 earlier this week. The team at XDA Developers have now managed to port the same ROM over to the DROID Incredible, the HTC Desire and the EVO 4G.
If you go ahead and install the Desire HD ROM on your smartphone then just take note that the builds are not final and are very early in terms of getting it all working. For example, the camera is not working on any of the devices. Class the ports as a beta and a work in progress. [click to continue…]
Drawings and pictures as well as a bit of rumour has been revealed about the HTC HD7. The only thing we don't know at the moment is what it will be actually called. The image above shows it as the HD3, but most documents seen recently online show it as the HD7 which seems like its in answer to the Windows Phone 7 OS that it will run.
What we have now is the technical specs that reveal the handset is slightly larger than the HTC HD2. Size wise it measures 122 x 68 x 11.2 mm. For connectivity it works on the T-Mobile USA 3G frequency of 1700 MHz (might be just this model only) with other markets supporting other networks.
The HD7 is expected to be a flashship smartphone in terms of technical specs. [click to continue…]
Some pictures of the HTC HD7 (or perhaps the HD3) have been posted online. The reason we are not so sure of the name at the moment is that it clearly says HD3 on the back of the device although earlier reports and documents leaked from O2 and other places indicate that the new Windows Phone 7 device will be called the HD7. It could be that this particular prototype is an early model before they changed the name of it.
The device its self looks just like the HTC HD7 drawings found on the web a few days back.
Either way, we know that the device above will run Windows Phone 7 and will be a step up from the popular HTC HD2. Hopefully this time around though, people wont want to remove Windows Phone 7 in favour of Android like they did with Windows Mobile 6.5 on the HD2. [click to continue…]
Thanks to the HTC Desire HD ROM leak, a number of screenshots have been captured of what the new ROM will look like when it launches. The screenshots were captured thanks to the HTC HD2 Desire HD ROM port that was released yesterday.
New features on the ROM include the latest version of HTC Sense that will soon have the ability to interface with HTCSense.com.
During the account setup, we see that the ability to create a HTC Sense account has been provided (screen shot below). This will allow the device to synchronise with the sense service to back up data as well as an option to download new themes for the Desire HD (or HD2 in this case). [click to continue…]
Yesterday, the HTC Desire HD ROM was leaked online. The ROM that leaked wasn't the final build although it was a full build.
It appears that the guys at XDA Developers have already managed to get a working version to port on to the HTC HD2 Windows Mobile smartphone.
Along with being able to get the HTC Desire HD ROM on to the HD2, it also allows people to see what exactly is in the latest version of HTC Sense. When HTCSense.com is opened up it will also allow HD2 owners more access to extra skins and the likes. [click to continue…]
An XDA Developers user has managed to grab a full Android build from the new HTC Desire HD. The build isn't final yet although it is a full build.
A warning does accompany the thread that basically says, don't use the ROM on any device as it hasn't been modified to work on other devices. It then goes on to request that the chefs start cooking up ROMs for devices such as the HTC HD2. [click to continue…]
We've mentioned before that the HTC HD2 is capable of running Android thanks to some work done by guys over at the XDA Developers forums.
The reasons you might want to install Android on a Windows Mobile device is that the hardware is great but the current OS is just bad. It also won't be eligible for a Windows Phone 7 update leaving users with Windows Mobile 6.5.
If you are unsure how you can put Android 2.1 on the HTC HD2 designed for Windows Mobile 6.5, check out the details below. They must be followed step by step as doing anything like this voids warranty and has the potential to make your HD2 in to an expensive brick. [click to continue…]
Several weeks ago, Microsoft [MSFT] announced that there would be no third party UI enhancements to Windows Phone 7 which in turn, would give every Windows Phone 7 user the same experience in terms of the UI regardless of what smartphone they are using.
We heard today though that HTC still plans on making some UI enhancements that will see a version of HTC Sense used on Windows Phone 7. In an interview, Drew Bamford of HTC said...
'Microsoft has taken firmer control of the core experience, meaning that the Sense UI couldn't be fully integrated into Windows Phone 7 devices, but that they would 'augment the OS with extra functionality, which he remained tight-lipped about.
The HTC HD2 has a lot of potential locked up inside. The processor on the HD2 is a Snapdragon that can run at 1GHz. The new OverClock applications lets you push it even further to what looks to be 1.267MHz making it run faster than it was designed to do. We of course mention that you should only overclock if you are willing to risk things a little.
On the flip side, you can also lower the CPU speed down to 768MHz to save battery life if needed.
The application has been out a while now, but has received an update recently that lets you more easily control the clock speed through a slider. [click to continue…]