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Windows Phone 7 Series on my HTC HD2!

Ok folks, time to have some fun this afternoon. I think that you are all aware that the cooks at HTCPedia have claimed yesterday to have been able to make…

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Ok folks, time to have some fun this afternoon. I think that you are all aware that the cooks at HTCPedia have claimed yesterday to have been able to make Windows Phone 7 possible on the HTC HD2 via a supposedly leaked HTC HD2 ROM… So I just decided to “leak” my own WP7 ROM and put it on my HTC HD2. Hey, I even grabbed a blurry cam video to prove it. What I actually did was set my desktop in portrait mode, then set it to 720×480, start the Windows Phone 7 Emulator and start the Remote Desktop software on the HTC HD2 to control it. Voila:

The Emulator can also be controled with a Bluetooth keyboard paired with the HTC HD2.

PS: I’m not claiming that this is what the HTCPedia boys are doing , just wanted to show you guys how easy it is to fake stuff when bored….

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