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hey guys it's random in the minute from pocketnow.com they said it could not be done but we held on to our hope the HTC hd2 can now run Windows Phone 7 seriously let's take a look so this is thanks to the dark forces team it takes a few steps to get this working but when you get it working it works great let's show it to you from beginning to end here so we're gonna start up the hd2 and just hold down the start button and it's gonna kind of go through a bunch of different screens it's going to go through a special bootloader and it's actually going to go into a Windows Phone 7 faster then it will go into any other operating system and this device the hd2 is turning out to be probably the most versatile device on the planet you can run Android on this Windows Mobile or Windows Phone 7 you can also run Mego Ubuntu other operating systems that are Linux based it's a really it's really an amazing device so here you have it Windows Phone 7 is working in full glory this is literally Windows Phone 7 on the HTC hd2 now you may be wondering how do the buttons work since Windows Phone 7 devices require those three buttons and here on the hd2 we have five well here is how it works the button on the right here is power standby so it turns off the device obviously we'll slide that up performance is very good by the way the back button is still the back button the Start button goes to the Start screen so if we go to the calendar and we hit the start button it's going to go back to the Start screen the button here the home button is actually the search button so it's going to bring up the Bing application here let's go back to the Start screen and if we if we tap on the call start button pretty cool it's actually going to just take you right into the camera since all Windows Phone 7 devices have to have a dedicated camera button so could you use this as your full time operating system answer is yes there are some things that don't work but there's a lot of things that do work you can make calls you can go on the web you can use Wi-Fi you can use Bluetooth in fact let's take a little tour of what you can do here then we'll talk about what you can't do so we'll go into internet explorer here and it's it's really amazing for us to see this because a while ago when News Phone 7 was announced there was so much speculation on whether this would actually work on the hd2 among other devices most people said no but after many many months we finally have it here so here's pocketnow.com we are that's something always going on outside we are loading this over over Wi-Fi although you can see I've got full bars on my cell phone signal we can go into landscape performance is as good as it is it seems as an HD 7 or the Samsung Focus I mean it works it works just the same it's there's no other way of explaining it than that so here we're loading pocketnow.com and if we go back into portrait we can open up multiple tabs and sort of click around and do that sort of thing so let's go back to the Start screen and move around more you saw it before the camera so I'm gonna go back into it again so we can take a picture of the the wood here so there you go got the same same photo features as you have in Windows Phone 7 on any other device you can swipe to the right get the basic built-in applications you can sync this up with your email you can send text messages go into the calculator it works if we go into I keep hitting the home button thinking that it's gonna take me home but it actually takes you to the Bing application Maps works just fine so you can find yourself would allow them Bing to use my location and yes it's working there you go there's my location so what doesn't work on here well anything that requires a synchronization or communication with Microsoft's clouds so the app marketplace unfortunately does not work you plug in your Windows Live ID and it says we can't activate your device so that means also that Zune doesn't work the Xbox features don't work so hopefully in the future that those things are fixed because those are pretty important to the core experience of Windows Phone 7 but if you're trying to just get a feel for Windows Phone 7 on your HD 2 and use all the basic features plus email and calls and text messages this works just great we're going to post full instructions on pocketnow.com on how to do this it only takes about 10 minutes if you know how to do a few things that will make it easy for you but really really really exciting news that when phone 7:00 finally is on the HTC hd2 it's a good thing to have hope please thumbs up this video if you liked it and thanks for watching that's it for now