There are plenty of thin and light laptops on the market these days. But for years it’s been hard to beat the LG Gram lineup if you want really lightweight notebooks with big displays. The current lineup includes a 17 inch notebook that weighs less than 3 pounds, a 2.5 pound model with a 15.6 […]
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The HTC HD2 can run Android 7.0 Nougat (obviously)
When hackers managed to port Android 7.0 Nougat to run on the HP TouchPad tablet, the first question that came to many people’s minds was “what about the HTC HD2?” Yep. You can run Android 7.0 on that aging smartphone too. Well, kind of. Developer macs18max managed to get the HTC HD2 to boot a […]
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HTC HD2 still isn’t dead yet… gets Android 6.0 port
So you thought it was impressive when folks started porting Android 6.0 Marshmallow to run on the 2011 HP TouchPad tablet? That’s nothing. Recently we saw Marshmallow ported to the original Samsung Galaxy S smartphone from 2010. But why stop there? Now you can also run Android 6.0 on the HTC HD2… a 2009 smartphone […]
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Android 5.0 ported to the HTC HD2
The HTC HD2 is a smartphone that was released in 2009. That makes it about 300 years old in phone years. It originally shipped with Windows Mobile 6.5, and while it had some of the best hardware of any Windows Mobile device on the market when it launched, HTC and Microsoft never released a software […]
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Windows RT ported to the HTC HD2
It’s starting to look like there’s no operating system that won’t run on the HTC HD2 smartphone. When the phone launched in 2009 it shipped with Windows Mobile 6.5, and many customers were disappointed when Microsoft released Windows Phone 7 later that year and the HD2 didn’t get an upgrade. But since then we’ve seen […]
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Windows Phone 8 ported to the HTC HD2 (the phone that won’t die)
The HTC HD2 was released in 2009 as one of the most powerful phones ever to ship with Windows Mobile 6.5. Unfortunately HTC and Microsoft never released Windows Phone 7 for the HD2… but that hasn’t stopped hackers from porting WP 7, WP 7.5, and even MeeGo, Ubuntu, and Google Android to run on the handset. […]
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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ported to Transformer Pad, NOOK Tablet, HD2
It’s been less than a week since Google released the source code for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean — and independent developers have been hard at work, bringing Google’s latest software to existing devices including the Acer Iconia Tab A500 and Amazon Kindle Fire. Now there are early builds of Jelly Bean for a few more […]