Awesome Device.. :-) seandainya resolusi bisa diubah jadi qHD.. hehehehehe... sampe skr pasti pake HD2.. On Nov 29, 2011 7:17 AM, "Defriando Riza" <defriando.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> the story of successful htc hd2.. cekidot.. > > It’s hard to believe just how much the smartphone space has changed since > *that* phone, the HTC HD2, was released in November 2009, two years ago. > It was one of the last Windows Mobile devices, but it eventually got ports > for both Android and Windows Phone 7. With this active developer support > and a thriving community, it went on to become the most popular device in > xda-developers history, and was voted as the best HTC device of both > 2009<http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=599210>and > 2010 <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9579473> in our > forums. > > Now, it’s November 2011, exactly two years later. Time to recapitulate the > story of this extraordinary smartphone. > > *How it came to be* > > The HD2 was the latest in a line-up that HTC established in 2008, and as a > main differentiator from other Windows Mobile devices included its custom > TouchFLO 3D (codename Manila) interface. It started with the original Touch > Diamond released in May, featuring a strikingly elegant design; later, in > November, the Touch Pro added a dedicated hardware keyboard for the > business type; finally, the Touch HD, released in December, had a (for that > time) huge 3.8″ screen and was targeted at enthusiasts. > > This line-up was continued in the first half of 2009, with the successors > predictably named Touch Diamond2 and Touch Pro2. The successor to the Touch > HD, though, didn’t arrive until November, and it dropped the “Touch” in its > name, to be called just HD2. And that name change was significant: The HD2 > was the first Windows Mobile device with a capacitive touchscreen, and that > screen was a massive 4.3 inches – the biggest of any smartphone at that > time –, and it was only the second smartphone (after the ill-fated Toshiba > TG01) with the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, clocked at a massive 1 GHz. > In the US, where it was released in March 2010 exclusively on T-Mobile, it > sold > out within four > hours<http://www.bgr.com/2010/03/25/t-mobile-htc-hd2-sells-out-in-four-hours/> > . > > Even today, the HD2 is still quite usable and reasonably fast, as opposed > to the other Windows Mobile devices of old. But the hardware, however > impressive, is not the main reason. > > *Development and hacking* > > This site wouldn’t be xda-developers if not for custom > ROMs<http://www.xda-developers.com/announcements/do-you-have-obsessive-rom-updating-disorder-ord/>, > and the HD2 is no exception. After > HSPL<http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=611433>was released in > early Jauary 2010, custom ROMs started to appear with just > about any build <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544445>of > WM 6.5, 6.5.1, 6.5. and 6.5.5. And, among all those Windows Mobile > devices, the HD2 was the most popular one, with a combined 235.000 posts in > its WM 6.5 ROM development sections, compared to almost 220.000 for the > second one, 2007′s HTC Kaiser (also known as TyTN II). But, again, this is > not the whole story. > > It was all clear from the beginning that the HD2 would be crippled, > because it shipped with the Windows Mobile operating system, which, even > with improvements in version 6.5, simply wasn’t designed with finger-use in > mind. The iPhone had taken the smartphone world by storm, and Android, > though promosing, wasn’t yet ready for prime-time in late 2009. HTC had no > choice but to use Windows Mobile – so it dressed it up in an beautiful > interface called Sense (especially awesome with the excellent CHT > mod<http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=625483>). > It went much further than the old TouchFLO versions, providing an > incredibly well-designed homescreen with fancy weather animations, > replacements for most of the stock apps and settings, and even multitouch > support in the browser and photo apps. It also spurred a frenzy of custom > themes > and > skins<http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=535&daysprune=-1&order=desc&sort=replycount>in > our forums. But still, as > Engadget <http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/25/htc-hd2-review/> put it: > > The experience was a quick and painful reminder that no matter how pretty > the window dressing is here, HTC has staged its fashion show in a building > that should be scheduled for demolition. > > *Porting Android* > > Being open source, Linux had always been popular among developers for > ports to other devices, and among power users for its sheer flexibility and > customizability. Consequently, people wanted “Familiar > Linux<http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=217182>” > ported onto 2002′s Wallaby, sold as the O2 XDA, the device that started it > all (well, this site, at least). Ports of Linux never gained widespread > popularity, though, since Linux was a desktop OS: it didn’t even include > phone functions. > > Then, in 2005, Google purchased Android Inc., a startup founded two years > ago, and released the first beta version and SDK of Android, the operating > system, in November 2007 (more information can be found on the Wikipedia > article on > Android<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29>). > This finally gave Linux ports a real purpose – Android was designed as an > operating system for smartphones, to be used with fingers instead of > styluses, and it was based on Linux. So, even without any actual Android > devices released yet (the first one, the HTC Dream, only arrived in late > 2008), ports of the SDK build started popping up; the most actively > supported one of those early ports was for the HTC > Touch<http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=382265> > . > > The aforementioned line-up of devices, specifically the Touch Diamond, > Pro, HD, Diamond2, and Pro2, also got their own Android ports, beginning in > 2009, most notably through the XDANDROID > project<http://xdandroid.com/wiki/Main_Page>. > However, the HD2′s Snapdragon processor was quite different from the CPU > used in those other devices; it always crashed when trying to load > HaRET.exe, the tool used to boot from Windows Mobile into Linux. On June > 25, 2010, this issue was finally > solved<http://www.xda-developers.com/android/major-breakthrough-in-porting-android-to-hd2/>; > barely three days later, Android was > booting<http://www.xda-developers.com/android/android-and-ubuntu-now-booting-on-htc-hd2/>on > the HD2, and in June, the first > Android builds were > released<http://www.xda-developers.com/windows-mobile/android-and-ubuntu-now-released-for-htc-hd2/>(visit > this > thread <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=719646> for a > more detailed overview). > > Development didn’t stop here, though; aside from the usual assortment of > bug fixes and other incremental improvements from various developers and > cooks, another > breakthrough<http://www.xda-developers.com/android/breaking-magldr-for-the-hd2-boot-directly-to-android/>happened > in the last days of 2010: > MAGLDR <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=893618>. It > allowed people to boot directly into Android, erasing and thereby > completely bypassing Windows Mobile. With this kind of native NAND support, > development accelerated once again: ClockworkMod Recovery was > released<http://www.xda-developers.com/android/clockworkmod-recovery-for-hd2-android/>a > few days later. Since then, all major Android ( > Gingerbread<http://www.xda-developers.com/android/gingerbread-ported-to-htc-hd2/>, > Honeycomb<http://www.xda-developers.com/android/htc-hd2-checks-in-at-the-honeycomb-party-sensefully-steals-several-gingerbread-cookies/>, > Ice Cream > Sandwich<http://www.xda-developers.com/android/ics-aosp-hits-the-hd2/>) > and Sense > (3.0<http://www.xda-developers.com/android/hd2-keeps-on-living-sense-3-0-with-working-720p-camera/>, > 3.5<http://www.xda-developers.com/android/htc-bliss-rom-with-sense-3-5-nadnd-sd-now-for-hd2/>) > versions have been ported to the HD2. > > But still, this is not the whole story. Barely two weeks into the new > year, something else happened. > > *Windows Phone 7* > > Let’s take a step back first. As we all know, the HD2 shipped with Windows > Mobile 6.5, to the disappointment of many. But what had caused Microsoft to > fall so far behind in the smartphone space? In hindsight, it’s clear that > Microsoft didn’t see the progress early enough. They eventually saw it, and > realized that another pimped up version of the same, old interface wouldn’t > take it anywhere – so, Windows Mobile 7 > “Photon”<http://pocketnow.com/smartphone-news/windows-mobile-7-exclusive-screenshots-and-analysis>, > was canceled, and instead Windows Phone 7 was born. These decisions > probably happened sometime in late 2008, but work on the new Windows Phone > would take another two years. They needed something to hold them over – and > that something was Windows Mobile 6.5, introduced at the Mobile World > Congress in February 2009. > > A year later, at the MWC 2010, Microsoft finally unveiled Windows Phone 7, > at the time called “Windows Phone 7 Series”, though that “Series” was > dropped <https://twitter.com/windowsphone/status/11493142530> later. > Initial reactions were quite controversial – journalists and bloggers > praised the slick Metro design language, while we at xda-developers thought > it was too locked > down<http://www.xda-developers.com/windows-mobile/windows-phone-7-series-has-microsoft-failed/>, > missing > features<http://www.xda-developers.com/windows-mobile/windows-phone-7-series-has-microsoft-failed-part-2/>… > and > beautiful<http://www.xda-developers.com/windows-mobile/windows-phone-7-hasnt-microsoft-failed-part-3/> > . > > With an emulator > dump<http://www.xda-developers.com/windows-mobile/windows-mobile-7-build-7-0-0-6077-out/>and > a leaked > Mondrian > ROM<http://www.xda-developers.com/windows-mobile/news-update-on-the-windows-phone-7-rom-leak/>available, > developers scrambled to port the new OS to the HD2; a donation > fund <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6523099> in May > reached a whopping 1350$. But several things complicated this process: > WP7′s ROM system was quite different from that of older WM > versions<http://www.xda-developers.com/windows-mobile/windows-phone-7-facts-how-about-rom-cooking/>, > and it wasn’t open source, like Android. A proper port would probably have > been impossible, if it weren’t for the fact that the HD2, along with the > Toshiba TG01, was used internally as a testing device (which is also why > the TG01 got a > port<http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1135193>as well). This > meant that Microsoft and HTC created Windows Phone 7 drivers > for it, which (thankfully) got into the hands of the Chinese > DarkForcesTeam <http://darkforcesteam.com.cn/forum.php>. > > So, coming back to the new year of 2011: On January 12, the DarkForcesTeam > released the first working Windows Phone 7 port for the HTC HD2 on their > website, but it wasn’t publicly accessible yet. One day later, the ROM was > posted on our forums as well, and people were all over it. This original > ROM had a lot of bugs; for instance, you weren’t able to log in with your > Windows Live ID to set up marketplace access. As fixes were > discovered<http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=911579>, > though, these were cooked into new custom ROMs. > > But when the first Windows Phone 7 update, NoDo, which brought along speed > improvements and copy-and-paste, rolled out in March, there was no port in > sight. Only after two months did an enterprising forum member, YukiXDA, > who’s since left xda for personal reasons, take it into his own hands to > figure out how to port > NoDo<http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1080950>. > He even managed to do things that are impossible with real WP7 devices, > like fully rooting and unlocking the ROM. > > Things were different, however, when the second update, version 7.5 > “Mango”, rolled out in September: YukiXDA and xboxmod had already developed > a ROM <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1236027> that > could be updated all the way to Mango, using Zune, a full month before the > official update. > > Still, a few bugs remain with Windows Phone 7 on the HD2 – for instance, > pictures taken with flash have a green tint, and multitouch is spotty. And > they probably won’t ever be > fixed<http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1270444>, > since they’re all related to low-level drivers, which are practically > impossible to implement without any documentation. > > *What else* > > So, we have one smartphone that’s able to run four different operating > systems – Windows Mobile 6.5, Android, Windows Phone 7, and desktop Ubuntu. > There’s even been work on a MeeGo > port<http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=895617>– but since > Nokia jumped ship to Windows Phone, that project is on hold, > though there’s still the (distant) > possibility<http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18917432&postcount=273>that > MeeGo Harmattan, as used on the Nokia > N9 <http://www.theverge.com/2011/10/22/2506376/nokia-n9-review>, could be > ported over. > > Anyway, with the latest Android and Windows Phone versions working on the > HD2, it is surprisingly up-to-date, whereas other Windows Mobile devices > have long faded into obscurity, even here on xda. Sure, development has > slowed, but now, with over 1.1 million posts across all its subforums, the > HD2 has over 100.000 more posts than the second most popular device, the > EVO 4G. Remarkable, considering how Windows Mobile was already outdated > when the HD2 was released. > > Maybe there’s something special, tragic, about it, just like with the > N9<https://twitter.com/Livven/status/133999449226756096>: > It’s both ahead of its time and > outdated<https://twitter.com/Livven/status/134000004200267776>, > all at the same time. The HD2 was essentially the blueprint for the EVO 4G, > HD7, Desire HD, and all those other 4.3″ devices from HTC; yet, none of > these can be considered as a real successor – even though they came out > later, their hardware was pretty much the same. And even though the Android > devices also got lots of attention and development here on xda, they never > got any meaningful ports of other operating systems. Probably no future > device will, as the smartphone space is now consolidating around iOS, > Android, and Windows Phone, which are all miles ahead of the old Windows > Mobile in terms of usability, so there isn’t the same kind of desire, from > both users and developers, to port over other operating systems. > > The HD2 pushed the limits on size, speed, and industrial design for > smartphones: When it came out, many found it too big, but now, there are > even bigger devices; the Snapdragon went on to be included in lots of other > devices; the industrial design, with impossibly thin bezels, soft-touch > plastic and metal on the back, was, at the time, a class of its own. The > HD2 was a great device all by itself, especially being one of the last ones > to feature Windows Mobile; what made it this special, though, was the > support it got from developers and our community, which refused to let it > die and tweaked and hacked it until it became the most popular device in > xda history. > > I also have an > HD2<http://livven.tumblr.com/post/13351816083/my-personal-experience-with-the-htc-hd2>, > bought in November 2010, exactly one year after it launched. If it weren’t > for this community, it wouldn’t be half as awesome: it’d be stuck with > Windows Mobile. Heck, if it weren’t for this community, I probably would’ve > gotten another phone altogether. I’m glad I didn’t. > > With this, let’s say thanks to HTC for this magnificent piece of hardware, > Google for Android, Microsoft for Windows Phone, and: everyone who made the > HD2 the device it is today. Normal users, themers, tweakers, hackers, > developers – thank you. 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