HTC confirms official Windows Mobile 7 upgrade to HTC HD2 via twitter

December 30, 2009 | By Surur

Great news for current and future HTC HD2 owners! HTC has confirmed, via their official Russian twitter channel, that the HTC HD2 will be getting an official Windows Mobile 7 upgrade.

While in some ways this is not surprising, considering the specs of the device, the way HTC Touch HD owners were treated recently with an upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5 suggested quite the opposite.

Hopefully the company plan to stick to this promise (even if only made over twitter), giving Windows Mobile fans yet another reason to buy the device.

Via Pocketnow.com

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Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

Tagged htc hd2, htc leo, windows mobile 7

Foamy

It makes sense that they would do this. it would be a lot of work to update the 6.1 devices to 6.5 and then to 6.5.x. this suggests that WM7 is a lot easier to set up for the company. also it is easier to update in the future so they only really need to do all the work once.

I’m surprised this is how it is announced though. i was expecting a big announcement next year. the fact that it’s russian, on twitter and is a reply to someone suggests this may be a mistake. hopefully just a mistake in announcing early and not about the update.
Jos Dewey

Well if it's for real there's nothing to say but huzzah.

http://intensedebate.com/people/Lennard Lennard

huzzah!!

ganondolf

will never happen. wm7 is going to come out at the same time as the hd3 so it would be bad business to update the hd2 to wm7 as that will be the big selling point of the hd3

http://intensedebate.com/people/Lennard Lennard

I'm not aware of an HD3 in the works. how do you know this? or is this just you speculating?

http://intensedebate.com/people/wmphone wmphone

I think its true …
http://intensedebate.com/people/mohsen7x8 mighty

Oh I really hope this is true [praying]
http://intensedebate.com/people/wreiad wreiad

Guess now I should get a job
http://intensedebate.com/people/ParsaCalavera ParsaCalavera

that day , hd2 is a mid end device so we're gonna need something much better …
http://www.sinaview.com Sina

also i think its a good news for other htc users such as diamond 2.because the most difference between hd2 and older device is cpu speed.so it means wm7 will can be port to other devices too.

http://intensedebate.com/people/ParsaCalavera ParsaCalavera

you are wrong . capacitive screen is playing a big role here sina jan

http://intensedebate.com/people/mohsen7x8 mighty

and ROM capacity

but it may well be possible to port it to MSM720x devices. Will need a lot of chef work though

Ngoc

The Twitter message was deleted. http://twitter.com/HTC_Ru/status/7192147430

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