To buy or not to buy Samsung Galaxy Note? That’s the question… Samsung Galaxy Note is the ‘big’ thing in Android world beside its smaller brother Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. In short, it is basically a bigger version of Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 with 720p Super AMOLED display, upgraded CPU and has S Pen stylus as input. It is a phone and tablet hybrid. Or you can also say that Samsung Galaxy Note is too big as a phone and too small as a tablet. It is really up to personal taste and usage. I usually buy stuffs online without even hand on those products. Same applied to my HTC HD2 and Samsung Galaxy S II. I ordered them without even see them in real life first. Just read lot of reviews about them then made the decision to buy. However, I have hard time to convince myself to buy Samsung Galaxy Note without see it and hand on it first due to these 2 reasons…

Samsung Galaxy Note
Want to try the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on your HTC HD2? Today is your lucky day because you can try the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich SDK port version on HTC HD2 now. As usual, most of the HTC HD2 ROMs are coming from Nexus One, HTC Desire, HTC Desire HD… And this Android 4.0 ICS ROM is SDK port based on Nexus One. This is the alpha version. So you can only have the look and feel of Android 4.0 ICS. Touch screen is working but limited. Most of the other stuffs are not working. Try it to find out yourself…

Android 4.0 ICS SDK ROM for HTC HD2
Beats Audio is the best feature on latest HTC smartphones now. However, you can enjoy Beats Audio on old generation HTC smartphones like HTC HD2 too. Just install Beats Audio on HTC Sense ROM will do. Personally, I don’t prefer HTC Sense ROM anymore because it is slower than CM7 and MIUI ROM on HTC HD2. But this Beats Audio makes me to try it again. So I have HTC Sensation XL ROM on my HTC HD2 now…

HTC Sensation XL ROM on HTC HD2
10 Oct
Posted by Jayce Ooi as Software
CyanogenMod 7.1 is out. CyanogenMod is an aftermarket firmware based on open-source Android operating system. It is a light and fast Android ROM for my HTC HD2. If you want the latest Android version, CM is the one that you want to get. There are stable mod, experimental mod and nightly build for you to play with. And good news for Samsung Galaxy S II users because official CyanogenMod support for the Samsung Galaxy S II was added in CyanogenMod 7.1.

CyanogenMod 7.1 Stable Version
If you still own HTC HD2, Android should be the operating system on it instead of old Windows Mobile 6.5. And the good news, there are still lot of developers working hard to develop Android ROM for HTC HD2. TyphooN CyanogenMod 7 is one of them. And it is based on latest Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread GWK74 and using latest Tytung r12.4 Kernel. Besides, it is equipped with latest SuperUser 3.0 and new Android Market 3.1.5 too. And I like the new ring lockscreen style in CM7.

Android 2.3.7 CM7 on HTC HD2