Yesterday, i saw at Tweaker.net that the HD2 doenst get the upgrade to Windows mobile 7, WHYYYYYYY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! G*dD****T
mitchellvink said:
Yesterday, i saw at Tweaker.net that the HD2 doenst get the upgrade to Windows mobile 7, WHYYYYYYY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! G*dD****T
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Why are you so behind with the times? This has been discussed to death already, and there are dedicated forums for this.
You just have to search first.
The first WM7 ROM has been hacked, and our geniusses from XDA are already developing tools for cooking. I expect the first WM7 ROM for HD2 won't be too long .
Let's get the discussion running again
just get a blue marker and draw 4 big squares on your screen...........
conantroutman said:
just get a blue marker and draw 4 big squares on your screen...........
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Hehehe... and make sure you can't make connection to anything else but Microsoft related
Have you seen anything about Win Mo 7 that looks anywhere near as feature rich, customisable or even just pleasing to the eye as Win Mo 6.5 (or Android for that matter)?
Win Mo 7 is not a step forward! It is a marketing exercise by MS.
tonyblack said:
Win Mo 7 is not a step forward! It is a marketing exercise by MS.
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I agree. I reckon they're trying to aim for the iPhone market, not the current WM market. The current WM market will just be left to fend for itself on WM6.5 until we all go over to Android.
Don't worry, with people working on the leaked ROM, it'll be about soon enough.
You just wont see it being ported over in any official capacity by HTC or MS.
Though as tonyblack said, why would you really want that anyway??
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Will the Xperia be compatible with WM7 when it comes out?
Simple short question, but i am anxious to know.
Short answwer? Nobody knows, but probabl will be ported. Certainly not be official upgrade, but if they are able to put Linux on Experia, just couse it uses same processor arhitecture, that i am 99% sure they will port Windows 7 as well.
It is becomming more prety much like on desktop you can put Windows 7 on computer that came with Vista preinstaled right?
Windows Mobile 7 isn't the same thing a Windows Mobile 7. I am quite sure a version of WinMo7 will come out for the XPERIA when a beta version is available. There isn't a lot of new features in WinMo7 that I know of so for now I will use 6.1.
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Windows Mobile 7 isn't the same thing a Windows Mobile 7. I am quite sure a version of WinMo7 will come out for the XPERIA when a beta version is available. There isn't a lot of new features in WinMo7 that I know of so for now I will use 6.1.
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Wow, not a lot of new features? Have you seen the screens???
So I take back that statement. Screens look awesome.
Those pictures aren't official. Why are you guys making assumptions?
Well you can be sure WInMo 7 will have EVERYTHING rewritten. Every menu, SMS sending everything, no more ugly menus, so it is not that much abaut features iPhone has less of them for example. But if you will be moving through setting or stuff anywhere you won't see one single resemblance to WInMo 6. It will be like TF3D would be made to completly remove any WInMo 6 stuff there is, just different, so WinMo 7 is bringing buty to Windows Mobile, somthing that has been neglected from winmo 1 to 6. And a little tweaked for 6.5.
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Those pictures aren't official. Why are you guys making assumptions?
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Because that all we know is that they are leaked pictures so we assume that this is WinMo7, for at least a bit. Can anyone guess the system specs?
"Can anyone guess the system specs?"
seriously you want people to guess?
http://www.intomobile.com/2009/05/12/microsoft-pink-specs-windows-mobile-7-requirements-leak.html
I just want to know, how far is this a rumor that HD2 will have the option of upgrading itself to windows mobile 7 !
It´s still just a rumor. On the other hand, a Microsoft spokesperson most recently announced another delay of Windows Mobile until end of 2010.
jayom said:
I just want to know, how far is this a rumor that HD2 will have the option of upgrading itself to windows mobile 7 !
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I would say there is virtually no chance at all that there will ever be an official HTC upgrade to WM7. There will almost certainly be an unofficial one created by some of the ROM "chefs" here at XDA.
The rumor has been that HD2 owners will be some of the first to get WM7 from HTC...
The most important question for me to buy a HD2, is whether I can upgrade to WM7, because I do not want to be spending so much money, for 3 months from now, have the HD2 obsolete with WM6.5.
If only HD2 had good hopes for the WM7, what do you think?
Shasarak said:
I would say there is virtually no chance at all that there will ever be an official HTC upgrade to WM7. There will almost certainly be an unofficial one created by some of the ROM "chefs" here at XDA.
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Exactly. I think that answer is as accurate as it gets right now.
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I think jayom was referring to Windows 7 and not Windows Windows MOBILE 7.
Interesting idea - processor should be up to it - would need to find more RAM though
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Interesting idea - processor should be up to it - would need to find more RAM though
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I did not understand what you wanted to say, can you explain better...
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I think jayom was referring to Windows 7 and not Windows Windows MOBILE 7.
Interesting idea - processor should be up to it - would need to find more RAM though
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Windows 7 does not run on ARM processors.
I emailed HTC directly last week regarding this, and here's the response I got:-
"Thank you for your enquiry about HD2 What we do it ROM Upgrades from our website, however 6.5 windows mobile has only been out 2 months and windows mobile 7 hasn't even been developed. This wont be out until next november at the earliest. But when it is available it will be a free download"
jayom said:
I just want to know, how far is this a rumor that HD2 will have the option of upgrading itself to windows mobile 7 !
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chrisnash said:
I think jayom was referring to Windows 7 and not Windows Windows MOBILE 7.
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Eh? .
I just want to know if Windows 7 will let me do less soft reset in the future, because HTC has a bad idea to hide the reset point in the cache back of battery. I need to do soft reset once or twice a day.
biranouran said:
I just want to know if Windows 7 will let me do less soft reset in the future, because HTC has a bad idea to hide the reset point in the cache back of battery. I need to do soft reset once or twice a day.
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Do you want windows 7 to come with an extra hardware button, or are you looking for a software solution? If you're happy with a software solution, there's one in the themes & applications area, in the stickied threads.
I'm thinking we'll find out by March 2010, when MIX is on. This is when MS have said they'll finally talk about WM7. Until then, it's all just speculation.
will the windows phone 7 be released for HD2? when?
Highly doubtful HTC will update HD2 to WinPhone 7 cause they are releasing HD3/HD7 but i hope there will be xda release i think it's highly probable, just need to wait few months.
so how can I see WP7 on youtube with HD2... someone must had upgraded already or am I wrong?
Deiota said:
so how can I see WP7 on youtube with HD2... someone must had upgraded already or am I wrong?
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No, someone has successfully managed to get a hacked version running on an HD2, this has not been stable enough as yet for him to release it on xda. There will NOT be an official upgrade from htc. The button configuration of the HD2 does not meet Microsoft's strict requirements and so htc have released the HD7 instead.
Officially, the HD2 is stuck with WinMo 6.5.
Unofficially, the genius' here on xda will have it running in a month or two, maybe even less
biranouran said:
I just want to know if Windows 7 will let me do less soft reset in the future, because HTC has a bad idea to hide the reset point in the cache back of battery. I need to do soft reset once or twice a day.
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HD2 tweak from Omarket comes with a soft reset button i think.
Talking of buttons
For those keen to get WP7 going on their HD2; for me I'm not sure yet.
Do you know there's no phone button on WP7? I really miss that on my WP7 device (vs my HD2) - it takes a button press, a tap, and then another tap to get the phone keypad showing. Of course if some clever soul can get WP7 going on an HD2 AND map the phone button it may just be wonderful.
There's also a big reliance on buttons in WP7 - certainly the back button. I might be missing something but you can't just seem to swipe your finger across the screen to go back. I don't want to have to use the back button all the time. What's the point of having a touch screen phone if you have to always use the button. I never use it on my hd2 as the applications (or task manager) always provide a way on screen. And of course no (general) multi-tasking across apps (and therefore no quick task manager/switcher) means you're using that button a lot.
And text messaging without Swype? (not on WP7 as far as I know) It feels so two years ago!
Could it be that WM 6.5.x will stay around when WM 7 will be rolled out? I don't know what Microsoft requires at this moment from OEMs w.r.t. wm 6.5.x but I can imagine that they going to give developers complete freedom about how they want to alter the interface. So maybe we see two phones in the future: a WM 6.5.x based phone that is completely "skinned" by a OEM and on the other hand a true Windows Mobile Phone that is hardly touched?
Maybe we can expect a more enhanced and gradually more sophisticated Sense update for our HD2 (that will cover the complete wm interface) instead of WM7
wouldn't surprise me. Some PCs are still runing windows 95. 15 years after it was released, and you can still order PCs online with Win XP installed if you want.
So I think it should be left to the purchaser if he wants to have win 6.x. Of course, I doubt that you will get a choice of OS on the phone, more likely a choice of phones with different OS on
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Could it be that WM 6.5.x will stay around when WM 7 will be rolled out? I don't know what Microsoft requires at this moment from OEMs w.r.t. wm 6.5.x but I can imagine that they going to give developers complete freedom about how they want to alter the interface. So maybe we see two phones in the future: a WM 6.5.x based phone that is completely "skinned" by a OEM and on the other hand a true Windows Mobile Phone that is hardly touched?
Maybe we can expect a more enhanced and gradually more sophisticated Sense update for our HD2 (that will cover the complete wm interface) instead of WM7
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what a wonderful thing would that be, I'm not too excited about windows 7 anyway. but I also think they will have just both in parallel with different phones, 7 for mainstream users and the classic for business and powerusers.
antaed said:
what a wonderful thing would that be, I'm not too excited about windows 7 anyway. but I also think they will have just both in parallel with different phones, 7 for mainstream users and the classic for business and powerusers.
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I would reflash, as you don't know what else hasn't worked. Its 3 hours again, but might be more in the future when you noticed other stuff missing?
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I would reflash, as you don't know what else hasn't worked. Its 3 hours again, but might be more in the future when you noticed other stuff missing?
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D'oh!
Was flicking through threads and commented on the wrong one!
Guys, check out the new Windows Mobile 7 ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ5gpMf2--w
Check from 00:26 to 00:29. We can clearly see the unmistakable 'htc' logo and the 5 hardware buttons of HD2.
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Guys, check out the new Windows Mobile 7 ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ5gpMf2--w
Check from 00:26 to 00:29. We can clearly see the unmistakable 'htc' logo and the 5 hardware buttons of HD2.
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it is hd2 but no use of this thread it is confirmed to not have wp7
can't see it... but the lil guy is kinda playing with an HD2!!!
I think your right, it does look like a HD2, of course it doesn't mean ****, as with most advertisements it will all be fabricated, its probably just a HD2 running a video of series 7. Will wind people up nicely though
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it is hd2 but no use of this thread it is confirmed to not have wp7
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Yes, but I was just intrigued to see the new OS running fine even though it lacks some major hardware as per Microsoft.
However on the off chance that it is running something live it does mean there is some form of test rom out there....somewhere. . . . . but i doubt it
Silverlight app.
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Yes, but I was just intrigued to see the new OS running fine even though it lacks some major hardware as per Microsoft.
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Except that there are 99% chances the phone is actually off and dead or displaying a plain blue screen to allow image blending in postprocessing
i dont think that the pictures you see on the screen are real. usaly such things are made in post production. its much to complicated to film this situations in real life. so i think its no indicator for w7 ore not on hd2 anyhow.
regards mad
As much as I hate to up a not-so-useful thread
The idea is old... there has been a link posted somewhere here on the hd2 forums to a MS stage or something (and that was at least a month ago), where an infomercial for WM7 was done with a girl holding to her ear what definitely looked like an hd2, or at least a photoshopped one.
That doesn't bring you anywhere, since we have had different news elsewhere from an "official" source (check the other thread reagrding it) saying othrwise that WM7 will not be for hd2.
Anyhow, if you are so desperate to install a MS iphoneos wannabe on your already perfectly working WM6.5 hd2, I think there will be for sure a cooked rom with WM7 sooner or later. Afterall they are selling on aftermarket qtek 2020 alpines with winmo 6.5 on them....
It's Bill Gates, pissing in our collective ear: "Nyah, nyah; that'll teach you fellas to have two extra buttons".
to me is not looking like HD2 but if it's indeed HD2 for sure will be a rom for it here
NO MULTITASKING NO FILE EXPLORER
enough for me will buy leo and not go on wp7 WHY??????
IF I want nice OS can take Iphone or nokia s4o and get all like new wp7,but if anyone want mobile computer....... wp7 is nice good looking and thats it no more hacker boosting cant go in system well I could do that 4 y ago in my 66oo and want to do that now. microsoft make big big mistake windows mobile will lose lots of users.I will go on 6.5 and hd2 or will wait little more for maemo6 and see what device will go with it but windows phone 7 is big disappointment for me and cant understand why microsoft do this.
Wait for yours opinion guys
dont know if all these windows phone 7 rumours are true but if they are and it looks like the vids we are seeing im going to android next.
sharpey said:
dont know if all these windows phone 7 rumours are true but if they are and it looks like the vids we are seeing im going to android next.
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Yep, I agree.
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sharpey said:
dont know if all these windows phone 7 rumours are true but if they are and it looks like the vids we are seeing im going to android next.
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Yep, I agree.
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+1 here
when the rumors come true, my next device is definitely android/maemo/meego.
One of the reasons I have been using WM and HTC phones for the last 4 years is because I absolutely love tinkering with them, I don't think more than a couple of days pass without me doing something to the phone with new mods or apps.
A fixed OS would be a big turn off for me, I love the ability to customize my phone and just mess about with it, wherever I am.
I was WinMo then switched to Android for about 15 days with G1 phone... then returned it all together (2 times two different devices) and got myself Symbian )e71) which I use now. I was tired of touchscreen a bit and had no problem going to smartphone... since I wanted iphone that is not iphone litteraly I read the review if no touchscreen is a must - E71 is a way to go... review did not dissapoint. I quite happy user but that was about 2 years ago... I am now ready for another phone and it will be either MeeGo device (Nokia+Intel), Maemo (n900) or HD2. I am not thinking Windows 7 Phone for numerous reasons...
iPhone I do not want... Androids are simply NOT THAT SMOOTH as advertised but all models are simply compared to the previous Android device and blown out of proportion how better it is... problem is I want something that opens stuff in the blink of an eye, that has no bugs, that hold battery enough for me to operate on my stuff I need (1 days is kewl) and that's it... oh yeah - I want Garmin XT installed which I have now and my other choice is HD2 besides Symbian S60 devices... Nokia Touchscreen is not that perfect yet - so my favorite now is HD2 - however, I will not get it yet - I want to see massive reviews from people that get it...
i love htc sense and i will follow it to android
hoss_n2 said:
i love htc sense and i will follow it to android
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I'm leaving android sense for a hd2. android sense is nothinglike the winmo sense.
HD2 is just fine plus i am sure they will at some point make the WM7 avaible for it. And if not - the shefs will manage to cook similar roms.
Plus - waiting sucks, i've already waited way too long for the Leo and it was worth it!