Gadgetory

hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com Android on the HTC hd2 has made tremendous progress thanks to the guys at xda-developers let's run the Herot XE bootloader and I'm going to show you how far it's come it's a really remarkable let's get to it alright and here we have the Nexus One boot animation and it's gonna go into Android 2.1 in just a minute okay and here we are and this says welcome to Nexus One we can skip this wizard by doing four presses in all four corners of the screen so here we are this is Android 2.1 working very well the Internet is actually working I'm getting four bars on AT&T so I can use the cellular data I can also use Wi-Fi I can even make calls but most of the time the speaker doesn't work so that kind of makes it pointless so I can swipe to the right it's updating the widgets I'm gonna get on the Internet in a second so that we can actually go to some websites and the live wallpaper works perfectly it's really amazing so let's go into the phone application and I'm gonna dial a number and I'm going to press call and what you're going to see this going to dial out but you're not going to hear anything that's let's wait just a second here okay so right now it's connected and you can't hear anything if I put on speaker nothing comes through so that's one of the biggest falls but almost everything else works so let's go over to Wi-Fi and turn on the Wi-Fi radio and then I'll connect to my wireless network and the internet works and applications work and it's really really close to being done here so I'm gonna dive into settings and connect to my Wi-Fi network this is very much further than it was last time we checked on the the the status of Andrew it on the hd2 I'm gonna type in my password here alright and I'm connected I'm going to jump into the browser well that's let's go to a web site we'll just go you can see it's working we're going to end gadget and it works and click on a link see the accelerometer works and it does very nice very good a lot of these buttons over here work too to action on Android we can go into the market set up a Google account let's go back home go into the application tray look around at some of these programs here the widgets works so you can go to a blank screen tap and hold add a variety of widgets different clocks very impressive to see Android working on it HT - almost so well that you could use it on on a regular basis that's not registering the battery up here so it's it's close it's not there but it has come a long long way from where we saw it previously I'll put a link up on pocketnow.com on how to get the latest build of Android 2.1 for your HTC hd2 that's it for now thanks for watching