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xda-developers

An amazing thing happened toward the end of last year when the HTC HD2 was released into the market. This is one of the most advanced smart phones yet built.  Problem, it ran windows based mobile 6.5.

a team of developers gathered together to make it possible for an android (linux based) platform to run on it.

It took nearly 8 months to perfect on all levels of the device.