Sexy and Stupid

According to as yet unconfirmed rumours the owners of the HTC HD2 (formerly known as the HTC Leo) can look forward to a free upgrade to the Windows Mobile 7 OS when WinMo 7 becomes available next year.

Expected to be announced at the Mobile World Congress to be held in February 2010, whilst the WinMo 7 upgrade is yet to be confirmed it seems wholly viable as the HTC HD2 has the distinction of being the first phone to meet all the hardware requirements laid done by Microsoft for its new iteration Windows Mobile – specifically meeting with MS’s Chassis 1 specifications.


Whilst information concerning the purported free WinMo 7 HTC HD2 is pretty space as at the time of writing, MsMobiles additionally reports that as such upgrade will be an “official upgrade from HTC, not a hacked ROM from PPCGeeks or Xda-dev” though the site does no qualify this by offering any indication as to the source of this information. Still, being that the HTC HD2 is an enormously popular phone, added to the fact that from a hardware standpoint its ‘WinMo 7 ready’ and taking the (again unconfirmed) rumours concerning the HTC HS2 being due to hit T-Mobile in the US sometime in Q1 2010 into account there’s little doubt that such an upgrade would very much work in favour of HTC’s 4.3” already highly desirable capacitive touchscreen smartphone.

If you’ve been waiting for Vodafone to release its first touchscreen only Android powered handset in the UK, namely the HTC Magic, and you’ve been building up your expectations in light of a previously touted April release we have bad news - the Vodafone HTC Magic will now not launch according to schedule.
The Android powered HTC Magic was supposed to hit Vodafone this April (ie, anytime now) but, whilst Vodafone are remaining silent concerning the delay, HTC have confirmed that ‘a last minute hardware change’ is to impact on the originally touted release date.

According to HTC the delay being occasioned by this ‘last minute hardware change’ will transpire to be a short one, however, they have not actually acted to give us an insight as to their particular definition of the word ’short’ and, as mentioned previously, as at the time of writing, Vodafone’s take on the HTC Magic’s delayed launch is seemingly not even acknowledge that the release of the HTC Magic on their network is at issue here (when it patently is, certainly according to HTC).
It’s always particularly inspiring when a company goes out of its way to keep it’s customer in the loop, isn’t it?
We’ll update you the moment Vodafone decide to say something, assuming that, ultimately, they’re going to have to what with HTC admitting that there’s an issue - though what the purported hardware change actually entails, and why it’s of sufficient importance to hold back the launch on Vodafone, presently remains a mystery.