Windows Phone 7 Series Can Run on the HTC HD2
After we’ve seen all the official features, pictures and videos that Microsoft made available to properly demo its newest mobile platform, the Windows Phone 7 Series, we were left wondering how the actual OS looks and feels. While we’re yet to try Windows Mobile 7 ourselves we can’t but be interested to hear that Windows Phone 7 is properly running on HTC HD2 handsets.
That’s something we’ve been expecting to happen as the HTC HD2 is one of the few current Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones that meet Microsoft’s hardware expectations and consequently can be upgraded to WinMo 7. You will remember the whole discussion about the upgraded HTC HD2 destined to hit T-Mobile USA stores and the issue regarding the hidden memory in current European HD2 models, don’t you?
With all that in mind we tend to believe the picture here showing an HTC HD2 handset running Windows Mobile 7 somewhere at MWC 2010. Don’t expect Microsoft or HTC to confirm anything just yet! Imagine what will happen if the HD2-packing hordes would find out there is a way to get Windows Phone 7 onto their precious handsets. Chaos would follow at least until some unofficial Windows Phone 7 ROM pops up all over the Internet for HTC HD2 owners to devour.
The picture here could be fake but we secretly want it to be real. Windows Phone 7 looks exactly as described and the phone appears to be connected to T-Mobile NL 3G network. But wait a second, hasn’t this phone been spotted somewhere around Barcelona, Spain? Shouldn’t we see a different, local carrier providing service?
Moving passed the carrier there, we hear that HTC HD2 runs Windows Phone 7 faster than it runs Windows Mobile 6.5. It also comes with multi-lingual software right outside the box. Furthermore it seems that the HD2 with WinMo 7 on board ran perfectly a TomTom application which makes us wonder if other Marketplace applications are also going to be compatible with the new OS. We heard they wouldn’t be…
