Windows Phone 7 for HTC HD2 NOT declared a hoax

April 2, 2010 | By Surur

It may be stating the obvious a bit, but April’s Fools Day is over, and HTCPedia have not come clean and declared their claim of a Windows Phone 7 ROM for the HTC HD2 a hoax.

In fact Tom Codon, who runs the site, has staked his reputation on the claim, saying:

As you all know my past work has earned me a great credibility in the development world, and my current work with WM7 has not come to finish yet. As soon as I am able to provide a stable ROM, I will do so immediately. Please note, all the videos and images are authentic. I will continue to develop on it and will post back here once it is ready to go.

Other well known cooks and mods have joined him, with Duttythroy, of the famous Dutty ROMs saying for example.

If you think its a fake then believe its a fake, Tom, myself , itje , miri and alot of devs out there would never do or post a fake such like this.

Due to things getting pretty vicious in the thread it has now been closed, but given the personalities that have provided assurances of the reality of the ROM HTC HD2 owners may feel pretty safe that a Windows phone 7 ROM will be available if and when they decide they are tired of Windows Mobile.

Are our readers now any more convinced than before? Let us know below.

About Surur

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 phone 7

mcasao

These guys left XDA in a huff and are trying to get people to come to their site.

I call BS.
chris

I hope there is gona be a release soon
http://intensedebate.com/people/Foamy Foamy

I will not believe it until either i can test it myself or one of you guys gets to test it.
efjay

Have watched the video posted carefully and unless someone can tell me how the browser is somehow already moving in advance of the user's actual screen gestures then I beileve it is fake.
xchaser

I am not hoping for it but if it happens then I will try it. if not oh well I like my HD2 just how it is.
http://intensedebate.com/people/ParsaCalavera ParsaCalavera

they are respectful ppl, i cant believe that they are joking …

i think win phone 7 is there, but maybe the SPL issues wont leave them alone
gravon

Well, it's past April Fools. The people behind it are trustable. I don't see any reason to doubt it, unless it gets proven that it's fake.
http://www.facebook.com/Bugblatter Bug Blatter

Before I learned what WP7 was all about this would have been mahoosive news.

If it comes out I'll probably give it a try out of curiosity, but I'm sure I'll flash back to WM6.5.x afterwards.

Even ignoring the fact that it would massively dumb-down my HD2, how much software is there for it yet?
Blacked Out

I have only flashed dutty's custom ROMs so I have a solid inclination that this is real.
Even if it isnt we will still get WP7 on there, its not a matter of IF its a matter of WHEN.
Android on the other hand, thats a bit less likely, although several people are working hard on this one.
http://intensedebate.com/people/Lennard Lennard

I like xda more than htcpedia hands down. there has been a couple of commotions between the two where htcpedia always release new rom files they get their hands on to a "hand chosen" few. as peter of petoria said: "this really grinds my gears" (family guy reference) because no one else gets to deal with the files until they're done with it (don't even know if they're going to release the files).

Mostly (if not all the time) on xda the files are released where everyone can get their hands on it, jump in and contribute. this is how the community was started in the first place.