HTC explains decision to skip Android 4.0 for Desire HD: we'd rather not wipe your data

HTC damaged a few spirits when it dropped the Desire HD from its Android 4.0 upgrade list. The company might feel your pain, but it claims to have a good reason for denying the update that it's been doling out elsewhere. There's no way to shoehorn a new version into the device like there was for the Desire's leap to Android 2.3, the company says. Fitting all that Ice Cream Sandwich into the Desire HD would require repartitioning the internal space, and repartitioning risks overwriting personal content; needless to say, the company isn't keen on explaining why it might nuke our family photos just so we can run Chrome. Even if that weren't an issue, a nebulous set of "other technical limitations" might not rub upgraders the right way. All of the explanations add up, although it's nonetheless easy to sympathize with Desire HD owners now stuck in Gingerbread land and are void access to updating to the official android 4.0 updates.

So if you own a Desire HD what are your thought and feelings will you be rooting your phone or be avoiding htc in the future let us know your thoughts by leaving a comment below.

HTC to release Zenith, Accord, and Rio Windows Phone 8 devices

According to The Verge a source says HTC has already set out plans for the Windows Phone 8 platform.

Three devices will be coming this year from HTC running Windows Phone 8. First the RIO device will be a low-end device featuring a 4-inch WVGA display, a 5 megapixel camera with 720p video capture and 14.4,Mbps HSPA, 512MB RAM memory and a Qualcomm MSM8227 processor. The Accord will be the mid-range device and will have a 4.3-inch 720p Super LCD 2, an 8-megapixel camera with 1080 video capture, 1GB of RAM memory a dual-core processor, 42Mbps HSPA+, and support for NFC. The Zenith is said to be the high-end device sporting a 4.7-inch 720p Super LCD 2 with an 8-megapixel camera, a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, and 42Mbps HSPA+.

The devices are said to ship some point this year, with the Accord and Rio coming in October and Zenith coming sometime in Q4.

With the popularity of HTC’s Titan Windows Phones I’m really not surprised by these plans,and I’m sure they will be well received considering the boost of power that Windows Phone 8 will give to them. What do you think? Let us know in the comments.