android-style buttons on Touch-HD?

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Is it just me, or this phone has the same button layout as the Dream?

Any chance we will see the Touch HD with android on it?

The dream, the Diamond and the Touch Pro all have the same 4 buttons.

And no, i don't believe for one single, solitary second that HTC will sell a device with Windows mobile and offer you a choice to install android on it.

If they did offer you the choice to change, i'd expect MS would get seriously pissed with HTC!!

They will not offer a choice for sure, but they can sell a different SKU with Andoid (based on the same hardware). MS would have nothing to say, and at the end of the day I don't really think that HTC cares a about how happy MS is.


But that is just speculation.

Well, at least these latest WM devices lost the dedicated Strat, PIE, Messaging and OK buttons, which were included probably in the reference WM phone design.
Now the phones look a lot more OS agnostic, and MS has to live with that, since their os is crap and manufacturers need to fight the iPhone.

oh thank god i'm not the only one that kept thinking that... I was starting to think that I was seeing android stuff everywhere! But this does leave me to believe that they (HTC) are leaving us open in the future with OS choice on our phones. And by that I do mean same hardware, but different systems on separate SKU's.

I´m sure in a short time, from this fantastic forum some devs will start to develope Android to be ported on several HTC models.

Lt´s see how good it is

personally I think the diamond and TPro should have ditched the dpad and gone with wide (tall) screens as well, would add another quarter inch or so to the screen, which would be more welcome than the dpad.

The 4 buttons are enough for most people (but 6 would be better, I miss my dedicated win and OK buttons).

I hate the current trend of removing buttons in favor of a full touch like device. Can dcall me old school, but the idea of completely removing the dpad is insane to me. However, I do like the touch HD and I look forward to seeing it run android. I think it's just a matter of time.

I'm concerned that I won't be able to play any of my games. Some dude is working on an app that converts the g-sensor moves into button presses and he has it working but still...