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hey guys it's Brandon Minuteman from pocket now calm and this is a look at Android 2.0 point one that's Eclair running on an HTC touch diamond2 a device that comes with Windows Mobile of course the guys at XD developers have posted an emulator that will allow this to run very smoothly it's very easy to use - I'll push the link on pocketnow.com you definitely don't want to use this as your daily operating system a lot of things don't work or I should say most things don't work the general software experience does work but Wi-Fi and the phone just don't function so let's take a look at what it's like running on this device okay so we'll unlock the screen and we have the standard Android interface here we can go to the to the left we can go to the right we can tap and hold to move the widgets around on the screen we can bring up the application tray here and we can flip through all of the applications here of course not all of these work only the ones that don't require internet internet access like the calculator and we go back to the home screen by doing call end and sometimes there's a lag in doing that okay here we are and we can go back into the application tray let's go to the calendar which probably won't work this is going to ask to synchronize with a Google account yeah and there it's a sign in with your Google account we can't do anything there let's go back to the home screen go back into the applications let's tap on something like let's go into this program I lighter it should work doesn't require internet access looks to be working quite well and I oh I see you can flip open oh that's pretty neat and you can flip close the lid I guess you can light the lighter it's kind of a novelty but it works you can move the flame around very neat let's go back to the home screen and of course we can pull down the notification shade the window shade of course we have no notifications but it does recognize that I'm on 18 T that's good I tried to make a call but couldn't because the phone dialer failed let's go into settings and sort of what we have here so we go through the standard Android settings privacy and I'm not sure which one of these is the back button it should be this but that doesn't go back so you have to go back to the home screen as far as I can tell to actually go back so we can go to say a sound and display turn on silent mode turn off silent mode all this stuff works for the most part and then we can go into applications and really there's not too much you can do in here also you can check off if you want applications from unknown sources you get the pop-up now it's checked off and you get the point so really not too much that you can do but it's really fun to actually run it and see it working not too bad on the on the HTC touch diamond2 certainly any application that requires internet access won't work but a lot of things actually surprisingly do work and not too bad so this is the gallery application and got some pictures here that we can tap on hopefully it'll go fullscreen we can maybe swipe to the side or actually tap the arrow we get a little slideshow we can set as wallpaper see if that will take and here's here's an example of the errors you get the application camera has stopped unexpectedly please try again so that did not apply the wallpaper so again if you want a taste of Android 2.0 point one on your HTC touch diamond2 we'll post a link on pocketnow.com on how to get it to run that's it for now