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T-Mobile releases HD2 software update, too late for me

By | May 14, 2010, 11:04am PDT

Summary: Isn’t it always the case that as soon as you get rid of a phone an update comes out to make it better? I no longer have my HD2 and now T-Mobile released an update to fix all the problems I had.

I wrote a couple weeks ago that I was done with Windows Mobile until Windows Phone 7 was released, in large part due to my sheer frustrations with the T-Mobile HTC HD2 performance. I just read and followed a link from an HTC Tweet that leads to a software update for the T-Mobile HD2. I actually sold my HD2 last week so I cannot test this out and am a bit sorry I did not wait longer to try this on the device.

I haven’t yet found the official changelog, but from what I can find from sites like WMExperts the update includes an updated radio (hopefully fixing some of the connection issues), updated Swype (it was unusable on the HD2 before), and stability and responsiveness fixes (all things I had trouble with). So, if all of this is true then the HD2 may now be the device I had wanted when I purchased it. I am a bit disappointed that T-Mobile did not come out on their forums and say an update was coming out thanks to all the issues that people had been reporting.

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Matthew Miller started using a Pilot 1000 in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since.

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Matthew Miller

Matthew is a professional naval architect by day and a mobile gadget freak at all other times. He purchases his own devices and then sells them on eBay or Craigslist to buy more. Many other devices are sent for review on a 30-day loaner basis and then returned to the carrier or manufacturer. If any are provided as “long term loaner units” this will be clearly disclosed in his reviews.

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Matthew Miller

Matthew Miller started using a mobile devices in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since. He is a co-host with GigaOM's Kevin Tofel on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and an author of three Wiley Companion series books. Matthew started using mobile devices with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 125 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, iOS, Android, webOS, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone operating systems. His current collection includes an HTC Radar 4G, Dell Venue Pro, Apple iPad 2, HTC Flyer, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nokia N9, Apple iPhone 4S, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".

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@DonnieBoy
Rama.NET 15th May 2010
Their market is falling because they decided to kill the product.
>>And, I have played with Window Mobile phones.
So you don't know how to use it. your opinion doesn't count still.
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RE: T-Mobile releases HD2 software update, too late for me
kevinsneel 14th May 2010
But is there any Windows Mobile/Windows Phone device that is as stable as iPhone or Android? WP7 may fix that, but it seems pre-7 is fatally flawed.
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Stable? don't be so quick, the iPhone is a bit unstable itself
John Zern 14th May 2010
Trust me, I've seen people reset their iPhones/iPods because they just simply locked up while doing not much of anything at all. And I've read here of people having some issues with Android.

The day anyone can make a stable OS on hardware is teh day computer techs can hang up their tool belts.
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Windows Mobile problems run a lot deeper than stability. And Windows Phone7
DonnieBoy 14th May 2010
is unlikely to fix any of that.
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In any case, Windows Mobile is fading fast into irrelevance.
DonnieBoy 14th May 2010
Goodbye.
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That's right, to be replaced by Windows Phone 7.
John Zern 14th May 2010
And once again DB, your post proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that you're worried that Windows phone 7 will make Android a "ho-hum" slow seller, maybe even making Android the definition of word irrelevant.

You were the one saying that:
Linux was the Windows killer on the netbook.
Wrong.
Gears was the Sharepoint killer.
Wrong.
Buzz would be universally used by all
Wrong.
Windows 7 a big flop
Wrong.

With your track record, I guess that means that Windows Phone 7 will do better then anyone expected! happy
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RE: T-Mobile releases HD2 software update, too late for me
Wolfie2K3 14th May 2010
@John Zern

Don't forget some of Donnie's other infamous predictions - like Microsoft was going to be bankrupt and out of business by the end of 2010.

I'm fairly certain Donnieboy's prediction there has ZERO chance of coming true either. You just don't go from making $4 BILLION in a quarter to broke in under a year - especially when you're still selling Windows 7 and now Office 2010 hand over fist.
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Desperately ramming a failed music player OS onto a smartphone is NO
DonnieBoy 14th May 2010
guarantee of success. It could be a disaster.
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RE: T-Mobile releases HD2 software update, too late for me
Rama.NET 14th May 2010
@DonnieBoy.
Sorry, I don't know from where you are sprouting, but at least 174,516 people differ with you as of now. http://www.facebook.com/KIN
--Ram--
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RE: T-Mobile releases HD2 software update, too late for me
Rama.NET 14th May 2010
@DonnieBoy. Your opinion doesn't count when you haven't used Windows Mobile. Everyone knows here that you don't know anything about Microsoft products and never used one .
--Ram--
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You don't have to use Windows Mobile to know that the market share is
DonnieBoy 14th May 2010
Falling like a rock. And, I have played with Window Mobile phones. They SUCK. That is why RIM, Apple, and Android are killing them.
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@DonnieBoy
Rama.NET 15th May 2010
Their market is falling because they decided to kill the product.
>>And, I have played with Window Mobile phones.
So you don't know how to use it. your opinion doesn't count still.
--Ram--
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MS should release reference platform
paul2011 14th May 2010
I spent some time with HTC touch phone and have to say that simple finger scrolling does not work well. Apps just start for no reason while scrolling the app list.
Either nobody had 30 spare seconds to test touch functionality properly or somebody was just too damn lazy to debug the clear problem.
If MS wants to have success with WP7 they should build their own phone or work very closely with OEMs to show how to do that properly. When simple things such as touch do not work then the whole phone is just a worthless paperweight.
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Not sure what MS can do, but, jamming a failed music player into a smart
DonnieBoy 14th May 2010
phone is bound to be a disaster, especially give the lead that Blackberry, Apple, and Google/Partners have.
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RE: T-Mobile releases HD2 software update, too late for me
paul2011 14th May 2010
@DonnieBoy I am sorry to tell you but you do not know what you are talking about.
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RE: T-Mobile releases HD2 software update, too late for me
Rama.NET Updated - 14th May 2010
@DonnieBoy You don't have any clue about what you are talking. Kin has 174,516 fans as of this posting. And it is growing at a good speed. Kin is just a teaser of upcoming Windows Phone 7. Check it here http://www.facebook.com/KIN
--Ram--

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