The Windows Mobile HTC HD2 is the swiss army knife of smartphones. Thought to be plauged by the lack of an upgrade path from Windows Mobile, it seems that each week a new OS is ported to this beefy handset. In the latest port, MeeGo 1.1 (vanilla kernel) has been spotted on the HTC HD2.
Following the instructions at MeeGo’s MSMQSD wiki page and using the latest kernal from Ubuntu for HD2, Irish iPhone and Mac developer Steven Troughton-Smith has his HTC HD2 up and running MeeGo 1.1. Unfortunately this isn’t a perfect port, in fact many things were not working such as the touchscreen, WiFi and graphics acceleration.
After some tinkering he was able to get the touch screen to work using a different kernel as well as Wifi, however neither are working properly, “touchscreen registers clicks as drags and wifi won’t assign an IP address to the interface after connecting”. Keep in mind that this is just the beginning of a formal port and with some help it seems likely that a complete solution will follow.
For now the HD2 seems like the ultimate hacking tool — able to run Windows Mobile 6.5, Windows Phone 7, Android , Ubuntu and now MeeGo. Anyone out there with a HTC HD2 looking to try out a new OS on there device?
