[Full HD2 review] The HTC HD2 was the first Windows Mobile phone with a capacitive touch screen. The HD2 comes loaded with Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional with HTC Sense (TouchFlo 3D) interface on top. It's packing a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 576MB of ROM and 1GB of RAM. The 4.3-inch color transflective TFT screen has a WVGA 480 x 800 resolution. The HD2 has a five-megapixel camera with dual LED flash and autofocus. And thanks to the tons of developer support, the HD2 is also able to run other operating systems such as Google Android, Meego, Ubuntu and even Windows Phone 7. Read on for the latest HD2 news, reviews and videos:
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by Anton D. Nagy | July 4, 2011 2:18 AMRead OnWe know that Windows Phone 7 Mango has been hacked over to the evergreen HTC HD2 and we even hope to see a public release sometime soon (probably even today) but until then there are a couple of videos to get you through the waiting. Yes, Windows Phone 7 Mango is working on the HD2 even if there are currently some things that do not, like the Marketplace, search or HTML 5 rendering in Internet Explorer. Other than that, just take a look at the two demo videos below to see how the beloved Leo is handling Redmond's upcoming greatest: Source: XDA Developers Via: WMPU
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by Anton D. Nagy | July 3, 2011 2:33 AMRead OnThis beast just wouldn't die! The HTC HD2 was probably the Taiwanese manufacturer's most popular smartphone ever and because of its solid specs it was able to run anything thrown at it, from Windows Mobile to Android and Windows Phone. Now it will get Windows Phone 7 Mango. The Dark Forces Team, same peeps that originally made Windows Phone 7 happen on the HD2, have a working Mango ROM for the Leo. It's not public yet but according to the forum posting a link should go up as early as tomorrow. Of course it will have its glitches due to the old (not Windows Phone 7-specific) hardware and ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 13, 2011 11:18 PMRead OnWith three days left until the release date of T-Mobile's HD2, we want to show you the differences between the T-Mobile version and the international version of the HD2. Size: T-Mobile HD2: 122x67x11mm / 4.803x2.637x0.433in HTC HD2: 120.5x67x11mm / 4.744x2.637x0.433in The T-Mobile HD2 is 1.5mm / 0.059in taller than the International HD2, a difference which in my book is negligible and I'm sure you'll find it too, in case you happen to own an international HD2, so no need to be affraid, it won't stand out compared to it. Both devices weigh 157 grams (5.54 ounces) with the battery attached ...
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by GabePeters | May 16, 2011 1:48 PMRead OnYukiXDA over at XDA brings us a very thurough guide to disassembling a WP7 ROM for a device, introducing new components from other ROMs (Cooking), and rebuilding the resulting mash-up into a flashable ROM for your device. For a while now, we've had some Custom ROMs available for the HD2, and functioning Live services, but the knowledge to create these ROMs was limited to a small set of developers. With this post the process is now laid out in detail, allowing other developers to create custom ROMs for the HD2, and bringing us the first NoDo ROM for the device, which is also available from ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | April 5, 2011 2:50 AMRead OnWindows Phone 7 running on the HTC HD2 is probably well known to you by now as there's a NAND solution bringing the mobile platform to one of the most popular HTC smartphones. HTC branded Windows Phones get access to the HTC Hub and the Hub itself has been hacked enabling it to run on any (jailbroken or unlocked) smartphone running Windows Phone 7. Check out the video below to see the HTC Hub running on a Windows Phone 7 powered HTC HD2. Source: Twitter
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by Anton D. Nagy | March 30, 2011 6:35 AMRead OnIn mid-January we saw Windows Phone 7 running on the most popular HTC HD2 courtesy of developers from DFT and the device handled the new Redmond platform pretty well -- need to mention that it could be within the specs outlined by Microsoft for Windows Phone 7, give or take the buttons. Turns out that the same peeps at Dark Forces Team are working on a Windows Phone 7 NoDo port for the HTC HD2. There's also a video to prove it where you can clearly see that the new feature, Copy/Paste, is present and running on the smartphone. Check out the video below and let us know if you're anxious to ...
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by Adam Z. Lein | March 15, 2011 3:47 PMRead OnIt's kind of surprising to see the HTC HD2 increasing in popularity according to Krusell's Top 10 selling phones for August 2010. The HD2 moved up to the number 3 spot, just above the Apple iPhone 4, and just behind the Samsung I9000 Galaxy S. It seems the Windows Mobile 6.5 HTC HD2 smartphone is still selling even though it's been around for so long. Although, the iPhone 3G is still in the top 5 smartphones despite being around for a long time as well. It's also interesting to note that the number 1 top seller in Krusell's list is the Nokia 3720 Classic; a dumb phone. Here's the new full ...
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by Brandon Miniman | March 15, 2011 3:14 PMRead OnRunning Google Android on the HTC HD2 (or any Windows Mobile phone) is old news. Through the linux bootloader haret.exe, anyone can easily dump some files onto their SD card and get Android working, often to a state plenty good enough to work as one's primary operating system. This method is less than ideal because when you reboot your phone, you're taken back into Windows Mobile. Enter the NAND memory method, which stores Android on the device's RAM, making it much faster in terms of performance. And best of all, with this method, you boot directly into Android, giving the device a ...
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by Stephen Schenck | February 16, 2011 7:17 PMRead OnThe tinkerers over at XDA-Developers have uncovered an HTC update for its Chinese Huashan smartphone, bringing it up to Android 2.3 with the latest version of Sense. The Huashan is an HD2-alike running Android, so there's potential to see this ROM ported over to similar hardware in the West, including our HD2 and the Evo 4G. While it may take some work to account for hardware differences, like the Evo's CDMA and WiMAX, you can expect to see early versions of a port, likely within the next few days. The more interesting consideration is if this means that other HTC devices are also about to ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | February 12, 2011 9:56 AMRead OnLast September, HTC's integrated Twitter client Peep stopped working because Twitter's switch to a new authentication method called OAuth. Three days later the app started working again, being allegedly fixed by Twitter itself (we believed it was making an exception in Peep's regard). Last week reports of a security leak surfaced concerning Twitter passwords being leaked and a fix, at least at that time, was offered by HTC on-demand in the form of a secure Peep application. The Taiwanese manufacturer released an update for the HTC Touch Pro2, HTC HD2, HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC HD mini ...
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by Joe Levi | February 4, 2011 12:00 PMRead OnHTC makes great hardware, they have ever since the Pocket PC days. They make Windows Phone devices. They make Android devices. Although they do customize some of their devices with their own home-grown UI, they pretty much just make devices. Some of their devices look very similar to one another, for instance, the HD2 and the EVO 4G. Sure, they run different operating systems, have different innards, and run on different carriers, but you can't help but notice some similarities. The HD2 was a little ahead of it's time. Microsoft's latest operating system for phones was Windows Mobile 6.5 ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | February 2, 2011 4:56 AMRead OnAfter successfully porting Microsoft's latest mobile platform to HTC HD2 allowing it to run from NAND, we now live to see the first Windows Phone 7 cooked ROMs emerge and they're for the Leo. First one is called HD2 1.00.00.WP7 and is OS version 7.0.7004.0 with OEM version 2250.09.07401.605, advertised as having the Live Services Activated (!) and also being ChevronWP7 unlocked. The second one is Moon light HD2 Rom and contains the same version numbers, 576 MB RAM-enabled as well as ChevronWP7 unlocked with some added performance tweaks and hacks to emulate a legit HTC HD7. This should ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | February 1, 2011 2:26 AMRead OnDFT (Dark Forces Team), the ones behind the NAND Android solution for the HTC HD2 -- among other remarkable stuff -- are preparing some more interesting things for all you Leo owners out there. According to a recent tweet, the team is working on a solution that would allow the smartphone's native operating system, Windows Phone 6.5, to run from an SD Card. The tables could turn: if previously, you could run Android off of an SD Card while your handset was running legacy Windows Phone 6.5, you could now run Android from the device NAND and Windows Phone 6.5 off of your SD Card. The status ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 25, 2011 6:21 PMRead OnAs we await Microsoft's first Windows Phone 7 update, blocking the old ChevronWP7 means of unlocking the phone, there are already alternative jailbreaks coming out of the woodwork. No matter how Microsoft ends up enabling some degree of homebrew, there will be hackers who will settle for nothing less than complete control over their hardware. While it's too soon to speculate how all that will play out, for the moment WP7 users can still elect to unlock their phones and load non-Microsoft approved software. Now with a little bit of effort, you can enable USB tethering for HTC WP7 devices. ...
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by Joe Levi | January 24, 2011 12:45 PMRead OnCyanogenMod, my favorite Android custom ROM, is approaching the Gingerbread Release Candidate phase. This basically means that the entire CyanogenMod Team ("TeamDouche") has been able to port the AOSP source into their framework. It's not quite ready for a "final" release -- they still have some bugs to work through. What's remarkable about the CyanogenMod source is its framework approach. Developers can "plug-in" the files and configurations necessary for the hardware they're working on, and bring CyanogenMod to a wide variety of handsets. What do I mean by a "wide variety"? In addition ...