HTC CEO, Peter Chou, announced on Friday that HTC will be releasing a Windows Phone 7 Series device late this year. The device might be a HTC Obsession, if some old rumours are anything to go by. The announcement of producing a WP7S phone is considered unusual, as HTC’s earlier position was that it would not produce a Windows Phone until Microsoft removed certain restrictions for manufactures and developers, including the freedom to customize the OS/interface.
However, it seems we are probably going to see an HTC phone running the Windows Phone 7 Series OS before HTC’s official release of its device, as Russian hackers have managed to put the WP7S OS on the HTC HD2, which is one of HTC’s flagship devices. Check out the pictures of the phone running the WP7S OS, as well as the videos posted below.
While the HTC HD2 is quite up-to-date on the hardware front, it does not meet Microsoft’s minimum specifications for the WP7S OS, yet somehow, the Russians have managed to make it work. They claim that everything seems to be working barring some device lag, including WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS etc, except the graphics driver, which is still delivering jittery output. The Russian team is planning to release a beta version of the HD2 Windows Phone 7 Series ROM for the public soon.
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