Comments on: HTC HD2 to get Windows Mobile 7 — Nothing Else

By: Nameless

Nameless — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:19:03 +0000

I’m not even sure that I should be worried, given that I don’t know what Windows Mobile 7 will do for me. For all I know, it could be even WORSE than 6.1/6.5 to someone used to the old PDA paradigm.

I may want an HD2, but that’s largely because it runs the OS I want right now (WM6.5) rather well, and with some spiffy hardware to boot. (Though what are they thinking, putting a capacitive screen on a WM device and not including a capacitive stylus to go with it? Then again, capacitive multi-touch is probably the one reason why WM7 will only show up on the HD2 out of all existing WM devices.)

By: Marauderz

Marauderz — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:16:53 +0000

HTC isn’t the most trustworthy company in this aspect. And I’d actually be worried that any current phone is upgradable to WinMo7.

WinMo7 is supposed to standardize the hardware layer so that developers can start writing apps without worrying about what hardware’s available. ie. Open GL ES supported graphics on every device. So unless that part of the spec is already nailed down anything that is upgradable to WinMo7 next year will just be a disadvantage to the platform.

By: cr0ft

cr0ft — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:11:26 +0000

It’s pretty sad that everyone assumes that Windows Mobile 7 will be a slow hog of a mobile OS. Apple seems to have managed to get a supremely responsive device running on far less than a Snapdragon.

But wait, what am I saying; this is Microsoft, so I guess we can assume Snapdragon is required.

By: Luscious

Luscious — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:57:39 +0000

I’m sure many more of the Snapdragon handsets due to release will be upgradeable to 7 as well. I’m waiting to get my hands on a Toshiba TG03.

By: G2K

G2K — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:55:32 +0000

Hopefully MS doesn’t make WinMo7 backwards compatible. It should only run on powerful hardware so the experience will be perfect. And easily run Zune/Xbox LIVE services too!