Monday, February 7, 2011

HTC HD2 a TRUE Developer's Phone?

HTC HD2 / LEO

                HTC HD2 was 1st windows mobile phone with massive big capacitive multitouch display. It was one of its kind when it was released, blazing fast 1 GHz processor, tons of RAM, powerful GPU, it worked fast despite old buggy windows mobile 6.5.
Tech Specs:
Processor/Chipset:             Qualcomm MSM 8250, 1G Hz.

Memory:                               RAM: 448 MB / ROM: 512 MB (T-Mobile has Rom: 1GB).

Display Module:                  4.3-inch 480x800 WVGA resolution, Capacitive touch screen.

Color:                                    65K-color.

Battery:                                 1,230 mAh.

Camera:                               5 MP Color CMOS with auto focus, 2x LED flash.

Wi-Fi:                                     Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Wi-Fi router

Bluetooth:                            Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP

GPS:                                     Yes, with A-GPS support; NaviPanel.

OS:                                         Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional.

Audio:                                    3.5mm Headphone Jack        



You all might think this is a normal windows mobile 6.5 phone, what makes it a true developers phone?

HTC HD2 has biggest Developer community:

Windows Mobile 6.5 Development

Customizing the present working operating system is the first step which developers choose to know about the device. HTC HD2.

Custom Roms made features from unreleased version of Windows Mobile 6.5 work on HTC HD2. 

How to flash HTC HD2 custom Roms

one of my Favorite developer NRG gives maximum customization on windows 6.5.




For More Roms and customizations click here

ANDROID DEVELOPMENT

Android development on HTC HD2 started booting it from SDCard via linux bootloader and now, where it can be installed directly on to NAND i.e you can make android as primary operating system.




Android 2.2 HTC Sense Roms, 


Android 2.3, & 
CyanogenMod 7 customized Roms made under guidance of  Charan Singh.


Click Here to check SDCard bootup Android development were u can boot into android as secondary operating system and when not required can return to your primary operating system without causing any changes to your user data.
 


Click Here to Check Nand Bootup Android Development If u have a plan for making android as there primary operating system this is the place you should be looking into.


Installing rom on Nand



UBUNTU DEVELOPMENT

 Having a portable Linux running device is what a developer wants, ubuntu is max used linux operating system. booting HTC HD2 to ubuntu you can click here to check how to do so.

MEEGO DEVELOPMENT


Meego is yet an operating system like android, its also open source linux based operating system. It comes with nokia in some of its phone and intel going to have meego on there phones. So developers interest in having support for another operating system for there application. here it is Click Here

HTC HD2 running test build


Windows Phone 7 Development

Windows Phone 7 is the latest operating system offer by Microsoft on their Mobile devices. 


video comparing HTC HD2 vs HTC HD7


DUAL BOOT WINDOWS PHONE 7 & ANDROID

The video video explains how to backup your settings and then flash
windows 7 n android to get Dual boot  
 


Running 5 operating systems on a phone. So if you are a developer u have more platforms on single device
it becomes very easy and very cheap to work on softwares for each platform.

So what do u think will you buy HTC HD2
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2 comments:

  1. i had one but gave it to my brother but the way things are going i am looking to pick up another one just to be able to run all these OSes on it

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  2. Its a great Hardware, and when you are able to run so many OS. u can change it acc. to day's when u go to office. :)

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