While the owners of HTC Touch Diamond2 use emulators and expect a full firmware from the operating system from Google, Chinese craftsmen have produced a clone of the smartphone, offering the user to choose the desired OS at startup: Windows Mobile or Android.
The clone is equipped with a processor with a clock frequency of 624 MHz and is inferior to the original screen resolution – only WQVGA instead of the usual WVGA. One of the additional functions of the smartphone is the support for WiFi and GPS.

So HTC manufacture the HD2, the most powerful smartphone and Windows Phone current on the market they also produce many other high profile Windows Phones and without the company the Windows Phones would be in a far worse state than the platform currently is. HTC have also worked with Microsoft on the HTC Shift which was one of the best Ultra Mobile PCs from a few years back.

Android devices needs registration before satrting up which requires network connection. Well xda user mr.tenuki has found out a way to skip this and start Android devices without registration. He explains a very simple process to do that. All which involves is simply pressing all 4 corners of the screen one after the other clockwise and done, you’re on your home screen. Start from the top left corner, then top right, bottom right, and then bottom left.

Here’s a screenshot explaining this:

As previously announced by Microsoft, the online “desktop” web version of the service is now also available. I will briefly go through the different features and also recap with a nice comparison to the other application store fronts available on the marketplace today for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Nokia, WebOS, Samsung.

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