Not even a day since the Windows Phone 7 Series was announced at the MWC 2010, the most probably prospect to get the upgrade, HTC HD2 is already showing the new OS running on it. If sources are to be believed at winmo.nl then an HD2 Rom is already out running the new OS on HTC HD2. As can be seen in the picture on right, it doesn’t really look a fake.
Here is what was the user had to say:
- Multilingual
What immediately struck by the first boot: multilingualism!
Windows Phone 7 Series expresses a nice Dutch word as you start the screen (with the tiles / hubs) can see.
Or something of that multilingualism "children" build is a good question, because it is quite possible that the final version with different language versions will work, just as is the case. - Hubs
These hubs are great and resemble the shortcuts on the home screen of HTC Sense.
You can find contacts, applications, shortcuts to websites, widgets and place shortcuts to files.
The pictures hub takes the space of two standard hubs consuming and leave a slideshow with nice effects. - TomTom Navigator?
Very strange but true: the ROM contains a TomTom Navigator (see the shortcut on HD2). It is version 7.916.9189 and touching the icon will launch that TomTom Navigator just that you’re used to.
So ehh …. TomTom is already working in the context of developing a package for Windows 7 Series Phone? - Fast!
Windows 7 Phone Series is FAST!
So fast that it seems the Snapdragon processor of the HD2 but at half speed runs under Windows Mobile 6.5. - SMS problem
Good news: Windows 7 Phone Series on the HTC HD2 not affected by the super-annoying SMS problem.
- Zune does not
This ROM works unfortunately none of the Zune multimedia features (all error messages, etc.).
This review might be true in terms of the fact that Windows Phone 7 Series is not ready as yet and it shows. How it develops is to be seen in coming weeks before MIX 2010. We all know the raw Windows Mobile 6.5 that was presented to us in the starting and how much it has changed and developed by the confused Microsoft who is dying to do something new and still not loose its dignity.
