Thanks to orangekid here at PPCGeeks for directing our attention to this exciting news. XDA Developers have been working hard on successfully getting WP7 to boot on the HD2/Leo. One of their members, Cotulla, linked the video from his twitter account. The video will show you proof of WP7 booting up on the HD2/Leo. (thread here)
You might remember Cotulla as the developer who wrote HSPL for the HD2 so that custom ROMs could be flashed. He has also written a custom bootloader called MAGLDR that can boot Android 2.2 from internal flash instead of an SD card (in progress). MAGLDR (his closed source bootloader) can also apparently boot WP7 which he is working on fully porting it seems, as well as MeeGo and Ubuntu.
Stay tuned for further updates on the porting project!
With that being said, one of the greatest benefits to having this device is being able to run 3+ different operating systems, fluently. Maybe this will lead to developers figuring out ways to make it possible on more than one device. Isn’t this just awesome news? We can definitely see that Orangekid is over excited here at PPCG to be rocking more than one OS effortlessly.
Source: XDA developers & orangekid
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Just tipped this to you guys lol guess I’m too slow
haha thanks and that’s ok. orangekid tipped it earlier today too. there will be more chances
We all knew it was going to happen eventually, after all it does have the hardware to run it.
yeah it’s the only winmo phone to ever have a snapdragon + capacitive screen which is perfect for Android and WP7
erm i thought that the tp2 could run more os’s. winmo android ubuntu win 98 am i missing some thing?
Please someone get the Evo 4G to run on Winmo 7!!!
lioncat you are right. i’ll update. that info was taken from the site stated. thx!
Congrats to those that actually use one here in the U.S. I’m sure I’m not the only one here that would have loved for an HD2 to come to Sprint.
Not a chance of me switching over to T-mobile.
y dont u switch to tmobile?
heres my SIG: My Tp2 runs WinMO, Android, Rhobuntu: Ubuntu, Win7 or iPhone(via WAD2) and Full versions of WIN95/98(im late to the show on these 2 lol).. lets see an any other OS do that!
I cant argue a TP2 is better than an HD2, Id just be wrong… im not really interested in wp7 so far, but id still love to be able to add wp7 to my OS’ i can run.. i can run 3+ already as well if you count the WIN95/98, but WP7 is a much nicer hack i can admit that right now// kudos to that guy..
hmmm, custom bootloader huh… bet that thing could help me with several projects Im working on, like my multiboot-ROM/profile switch prgram im doing right now..might have to go talk to the OP over on xda..
good article
Hey, I want WP7 for my TP2….
wait…..you can run WP7 on TP2? How on earth did I miss that…..LINK LINK!!!!!!
Is it as smooth ?
cookies home tab is an amazing app,those with an htc hd2 should give it a try.