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Confirmed: HTC HD2 will not be upgraded to Windows Phone 7 series {Engadget}
Mar 15th 2010 8:02PM I am buying the HD2 because it is a really nice phone and as a former Touch Pro2 user, running 6.5.1 and HTC Sense, I know how nice that setup is.
Come November my girlfriend gets the HD2 or I will sell it on eBay and get most of my money back.
Did that with the Touch Pro2. Got it in August, sold it last month for $50 more than I paid.
You can really do OK on this kind of stuff if you take care of a phone and simply sell it when it's time to get a new one. I do this about every 8 to 12 months. (Also just sold the G1 for $200. So that cost me $50 to use for 16 months.)
There's really no reason to get all worked up about phone upgrades and new models coming out. Take care of your phone and sell it on eBay, end of issue, end of concern. Personally, keeping a phone for two years because you bought a subsidized phone seems foolish to me. I like getting a new phone every 6 to 12 months, especially if it works out to costing me $10 a month to "rent" the most current handset.
Confirmed: HTC HD2 will not be upgraded to Windows Phone 7 series {Engadget}
Mar 15th 2010 7:54PM @kenny goo Huh? HTC already announced coming out with a Touch Pro3 and HD3.
The HD2 by November will be over a year old, that's ancient in handset terms.
First Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series devices to boast 480 x 800 pixel displays, HD2 owners sigh {Engadget}
Mar 14th 2010 5:49AM It's all pretty simple really, if you put the pieces together. Bottom line, the HD2 cannot run WP7. And it's not because of the three keys. It's the processor (or chip, whatever name floats your boat).
(And nothing will sober up and snap back to reality those demanding an HD2 WP7 upgrade than the understanding that the HD2 simply does not have the dual core processor needed to run WP7. Even the most unsophisticated and unreasonable "I want my WP7 upgrade!" troll understands what it means when MS says the HD2's hardware can't run WP7.)
OK, so I may be full of shit, but here is my argument:
At MWC this year Qualcomm had a booth and was showing off it's next generation processor, the dual-core with twin 1.5 GHz Scorpion . What was important was for people to note that the reps were trumpeting that this chip was the main difference between current smartphones and the superphones debuting "later this year" as the rep characterized things. (He also called them "smartphones" not superphones.)
One also should note that the reps were talking about the new superphones having an HDMI port and the capability of the phone "exporting" video to an external monitor, and playing in 1080p HD mode. (Current Snapdragon processors decode at 720p HD.)
IMHO that is the big secret of the WP7S superphones coming out, the multi-media aspect of them, being able to connect a WP7 phone via an HDMI port to one's home flat panel TV, download a Netflix movie and play it as if one is playing a DVD.
Bottom line: the HD2 does NOT have the power or hardware to run WP7.
But this is not the end of the world. I pointed out last November, first on YouTube, while the HD2 is a great WinMo 6.x.x device, it is not a WP7S superphone. Why should it be.
As has also been noted, the industry standard is that people replace a phone every 12 to 18 months. Applying that to the HD2, by November 2010 the HD2 will be one year old. That's a dated phone regardless how many people wish, hope, curse, dream, fantasize, demand, rebel, riot, or complain that their HD2s should get a WP7 upgrade.
But who cares. As I keep saying, and have said for five months, the HD2 with WinMo 6.5.x and HTC Sense is a slick device. I know because I was running this configuration on my Touch Pro2. I loved it.
Finally, people should take note that MS has adopted a dual platform strategy, WinMo 6..x.x and WP7. When the WP7S superphones debut consumers and business can choose between the two.
With each platform there will be handsets designed for WinMo and separately for WP7. On the WinMo side of the showroom there will be the Touch Pro2 and the HD2, both very nice devices. (I am buying the HD2 too.) Or you can hang on the WP7 side and buy a Windows Phone 7 Series handset. I am sure those will be uber cool.
Of course, if you really want to be the coolest person on the planet, in October you can check on eBay and bid on my HD2 that I will be selling in anticipation of getting a new WP7S phone. Remember, bid early, bid often.
That's my take on all this upgrade nonsense, being perpetuated by people who should quit whining about not getting WP7 on their HD2.
Jaxbot's Windows Phone 7 Series Theme now available in beta (video) {Engadget}
Mar 14th 2010 1:17AM @DaveBach The point is that this demonstrates 8 months early that XDA members will have a WP7 hack. It was not meant to please self-appointed armchair critics.
I guess he could have kept this to himself and not released it until it was ready for prime time, but I like that he let us see his work in progress. In a sense we are seeing the cooked ROM process, from concept to finished product in the months ahead. That's uber cool in my book.
The person has talent and it's amazing what he has achieved at such an early stage (that is, early in the context of what we know about WP7.) Sure it's easy to sit back and criticize, but your criticism is misplaced since this was not billed as an OS or finished product.
Your criticism begs the question, what have you done lately in the mobile OS arena? Also, what did you expect, a full blown hack of WP7 or a product ready for sale?
This is a shell or theme and I am sure complete OS will be here soon enough. In the meantime I suggest you not download anything that pops up on the Net. That seems pretty foolish to me. You are lucky you did not brick your phone. If that happened you would have been SOL and instead posting on here "Don't download, it bricked my phone."
Hmm... come to think about it, please continue to download anything and everything that shows up on the Net. And tell us how it went. :)
T-Mobile invites us to 'come experience the HTC HD2' on March 16; release on the 24th? (update: or 23rd!) {Engadget}
Mar 8th 2010 11:00PM @treats You are kidding right? I assume you are mocking the morons who choke the chicken while posting how they wish a WinMo device had Android.
If that's your intent, ha ha. If you are serious, can you please buff the bishop somewhere else besides Engadget.
Sanyo Eneloop lite Ni-MH rechargeable batteries are cheap, less filling {Engadget}
Mar 8th 2010 1:13PM @desertblade That's what I did, at about the same time. Back then there was the "Kit" that came in the blue case. CostCo had them for dirt cheap for what you got ($28 for 8 AA, 4 AAA and 2 C & 2 D plastic adapters, plus a recharger).
I bought about 10 of those kits at the time. They are not sold anywhere that I can see. Not on eBay, Amazon or CostCo.
I still need batteries.
As for use, they power up my digital cameras with flash just fine. My Flip camcorders work fine too and my Kodak Z8 gets about an hour on, with display running.
The only problem device is my 3w LED flashlights where the eneloop does not have enough power to turn on the light.
As to using regular batteries, based on price alone, those people are idiots. First, you get far more for your dollar with eneloop batteries. Second, how about not destroying the environment by using regular alkaline batteries.
Entelligence: Will Android fragmentation destroy the platform? {Engadget}
Mar 6th 2010 1:25AM As I have been saying for over 8 months or more, but no one believes me (too many fanboys out there, they flame me every time I say it online):
"Android because of fragmentation is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get."
Yes, I modified Forest Gump's line, but I thought it an appropriate response whenever fanboys would tell me to shut my pie hole because Android = openness = good.
Thanks for this article, except I suspect the Android fanboys still won't accept reality. Android has become so fragmented that the platform will be toast in a few more months.
But you explain it far better than I ever have. Maybe it might now sink in.
Microsoft sending mixed signals on Windows Phone 7 Series upgrades, HTC HD2 still in limbo {Engadget}
Mar 5th 2010 1:13PM @bobomo ... while it's true no one should be expected to hack the HD2, as a solution to all this, the HD2 is no longer a "$700 device" as you say.
T-Mo has priced the HD2 withing "old" WinMo 6.5 standards, $199 on a two year deal, $450 unsubsidized.
HTC is hiring... {Engadget}
Mar 4th 2010 3:44PM Hey, the ad snapshot cut off the part of the ad that said:
"Candidates selected for interviews are advised not to show up with an iPhone.
Interview tip for candidates: It's best during your interview to not use the letter 'i' unless it is in the context of talking about yourself, aka 'I love HTC products. Matter of fact, I have the letters HTC tattooed on my left buttock, want to see?'" ("YES!" says the male interviewer to the hot female interviewee. I digress, forgive me.)
"Bonus Interview Tip: The only time you can use a small 'i' is in the following situation, for example:
'What phone? Huh? What? No, that's not my iPhone that just fell on to the floor. Did you see me drop it, I didn't. Oh, OK I will show myself out.'"
HTC is hiring... {Engadget}
Mar 4th 2010 3:30PM There's two problems with Apple's case. Keep in mind, however, I rarely know what I am talking about.
1. The Patent Office does not know how to handle tech patents. Someone like Apple submits patent applications the Office grants them, because after all, it's Apple.
2. Many of those patents related to supposed technology that has been in use by other companies, long before Apple said "dibs."
A. The Toshiba (Audiovox) 2032SP (the "SP" means Sprint). This 2002 smartphone was a touchscreen only phone and PDA. I know how it worked because I had one. Many of the functions Apple claims are patented worked the same way on the Toshiba.
B. The Samsung i330 (yes, Samsung in 2003 had a phone with an "i" in the name) was also a Sprint touchscreen only phone. I still have that phone, stored as a museum piece (my personal museum). It too operated in a way similar to Apple's patented technology.
I think the focus on Apple should not be the basis for the lawsuit, rather we should try to figure out Apple's ulterior motive for suing HTC. Something is up and it has nothing to do with patents.
http://the-gadgeteer.com/2003/05/27/sprint_pcs_toshiba_2032sp_pocket_pc_review/
http://www.mobiledia.com/phones/samsung/sph-i330.html
