Confirmed: HTC HD2 will not be upgraded to Windows Phone 7 series

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• Filed under: Mobile Phones
• Date: Mar 15,2010

Bad news, HTC HD2 owners: Microsoft has finally come right out and confirmed our suspicions that the mighty HTC HD2 won’t be upgraded to Windows Phone 7 Series.

Joe Belfiore just told us that the HD2 is “not compliant with the Windows Phone 7 Series hardware specifications,” which should end any of the lingering doubt that’s clouded this issue since MWC.

That certainly puts a damper on the HD2′s upcoming launch on T-Mobile, but hey — every Microsoft employee here at MIX is carrying one, so it’s clearly the WinMo handset to get until it’s eclipsed by 7 late in the year.

Pour one out for the king, friends.

Motorola: Droid update to Android 2.1 ‘will start to roll out this week’

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• Filed under: Mobile Phones
• Date: Feb 8,2010

We knew Android 2.1 was coming for the Droid, but we’ll confess – we didn’t expect it to come this soon.

Motorola is now reporting via its official Facebook page that it’s “happy to relay the 2.1 upgrade to Droid will start to roll out this week,” going on to tease that it “will have more information to share on other device upgrades later.”

There’s no detail on what the Droid update will entail or whether it’ll roll out to every user this week (we doubt it), but by all indications, this is a promising sign that Moto’s keeping the pedal to the metal, we’d say. Read the rest of this entry »