June 29, 2012
Now this is very interesting… A Windows Phone developer has tipped our friends over at WMPU with an interesting story. If the following stats are to be believed, it looks like Microsoft tested Windows Phone 8 on current Windows Phone devices. The stats above indicate that the HTC HD7 and HTC Surround were used in ...
April 1, 2012
A patent from HTC shows us that they might be wanting to take another crack at a speaker themed Windows Phone with the 2nd coming of the HTC Surround. Even though according to Patent Bolt the design was submitted nearly a year ago and the priginal wasn’t all that successful. HTC is all about Beats Audio ...
February 17, 2012
Reports are coming in from W7ph.ru that one of their members received an Tango early preview (7.10.8107 to 7.10.8757.81) upgrade for his HTC Surround. So far the site has reported no differences as of yet. It could be that this early preview build only contains a few internal changes and doesn’t show off any new features. ...
November 11, 2011
The Dark Forces Team (DFT) is at it again as they just updated their Freedom ROM to V2.0. Some New features include: Ability to sideload dozens of XAP’s Support for 20 languages Updated HTC XAPs from Titan/Radar Fully unlock with IE download XAP Freedom ROM as of now works with: Trophy HD7 Mozart 7 Pro ...
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October 17, 2011
It was really fun while it lasted, but the HTC Surround is no longer available on AT&T and Telus. As sad as it is, especially since its the first Windows Phone handset to bite the dust. It is a natural progression for some devices not to be available after a year of service. Especially since the ...
June 16, 2011
AT&T is finally playing catch up with their device updates. They are finally scheduling update 7932 for the HTC Surroung with “Other models to follow”, this according to the Windows Phone Blog. Update 7932 aims to protect its’ users from fraudulent SSL certificates issued by certification authority Comodo. In reference to the Samsung Focus, which ...
May 4, 2011
The HTC Surround is finally receiving the NoDo update. Microsoft’s Where’s My Update Page has finally changed the status of the HTC Surround update to “Delivering Update”. It’s about time that Micorosoft finishes delivering NoDo to US handsets. There are still two international mobile operators who are still not delivering the update to its’ users. ...
April 28, 2011
Finally the only US phone left to update is getting NoDo. Now on the ‘where is my update’ page it shows the HTC Surround as scheduling. This means that we should see a rollout within the next 10 days. Eric Hautala from the Windows Phone Blog had this to say…. ‘We’re now scheduling the February ...
April 18, 2011
AT&T users have be irate over the fact that they are still waiting for the infamous NoDo update.  Eric Hautala GM, Customer Experience Engineering posted on the Windows Phone blog that they are now in the scheduling phase for both the Samsung Focus and the LG Quantum….sorry HTC Surround owners. Also in his post regarding the update ...
March 23, 2011
Even though this update process has been horrible. I think what everyone wants is atleast an honest and open communication as to when things are supposed to happen. And if for a certain reason things do not go accordingly then tell us why. Finally I think Microsoft is getting the idea and they just posted ...