Mobile Phone News :Windows Mobile 7 Coming To HTC HD2…Eventually

The HTC HD2 -  the poster boy for Windows Phone done right and a huge seller here on Omio – seems to have been future-proofed in development, with Microsoft hinting that the touchscreen wonder will be in line to get an upgrade to Windows Mobile 7.
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The HTC HD2 -  the poster boy for Windows Phone done right and a huge seller here on Omio – seems to have been future-proofed in development, with Microsoft hinting that the touchscreen wonder will be in line to get an upgrade to Windows Mobile 7.

Some effusive quotes from Greg Sullivan regarding Windows Mobile 7 and the phones that will embrace it in an interview with Betanews make it sound inevitable…

“Our fragmentation issue is primarily around screen resolutions and assuming a minimum CPU and storage. So it has been a little bit challenging, because that choice, that flexibility, that freedom that people have to build any kind of device and use any kind of device: touch, non-touch, keyboard, soft key, has required a little bit extra effort in some cases for developers to target apps that run across a wide array of devices,” Sullivan said.

“But the HD2 is a great early example of our new approach…We’ve got capacitive and multi-touch support in a Windows Phone, and that’s because we did the platform work while working very closely with HTC to do the hardware/software integration.”

“We’re going to continue investing in the user experience, and the legacy pocket PC 1999 UI that still kind of shows up if you drill down pretty deep? that’s another thing that’s changed.”

So, less Windows phones in the future, but ones which will work well with Windows Mobile 7 and without that archaic interface.

It seems like the HD2 marked the start of something big, but with murmurs that Microsoft’s new mobile operating system won’t arrive until 2011, perhaps the HD3 will be a more suitable home by then?

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