The Verge - I remember the first time I ever held an HD2: I was astonished. A 4.3-inch 800 x 480 LCD is old hat these days, but it was the first time I had beheld that combination, and my jaw literally dropped. I wasn't holding a phone, I was holding a screen, and that screen just happened to be densely populated with crisp text and gorgeous graphics. Of course, the HD2 held a darker secret: Windows Mobile 6.5, and a blocked upgrade path to Windows Phone 7, but for a brief moment none of that mattered.
Way back in 2009, then fledgling smartphone maker HTC released the HTC HD2, a phone that seems positively quaint by modern standards.
The Verge - It initially appeared that the HTC HD2 would have a short life — after all, the phone came to the US in March of 2010 with Windows Mobile 6.5 and was denied an official upgrade to Windows Phone 7 when the OS launched some six months later. However, the venerable device has gone on to receive an almost unprecedented amount of hacker support, as the device has been cracked to run Windows Phone 7 and 8 as well as Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich — not to mention other, more peculiar options like Windows XP.
Electricpig - Yes, you read that right. The three-year-old HTC HD2 can run Android Jelly Bean, thanks to a port by some enterprising chaps.
So if this can run Jelly Bean, surely pretty much any Android handset can, right?
