As you may have noticed now, I'm very precise with my device names, rarely shortening things like HTC Touch Diamond to HTC Diamond or just Diamond - if I were to shorten that, it would be to Touch Diamond. So, the fact that the title of this post is HTC HD2 is significant.

...OK, I'll stop teasing you and let you see what I've found. Anyone familiar with looking for stuff about HTC's devices before they're launched should be familiar with htcmms.com.tw, which appears to be a place that HTC shares some of the specs of its devices (especially things that look like MIME types), presumably for something to do with MMS (most likely just stating what sort of content the device can handle). Devices appear on htcmms.com.tw not too long before they are announced, but the URLs of their information are often hard to guess. Lately, HTC (I have checked the ownership of the website) appears to upload some data under the codename of devices and, presumably after the hardware and software is finalised (or close to being finalised), they upload the data again under the final name of the device.

So, what's my point? As you know, I have been following the Firestone/Star/SuperStar/Leo rumors since the start of the year. The data for the Leo was finally uploaded and spread around the internet via various blogs and websites a few months ago. After a bit of searching around for information, I've guessed the URL for the second set of data for the Leo: http://www.htcmms.com.tw/gen/HTC_HD2_T8585-1.0.xml. The data seems to be pretty much the same as the older data but the name of the device is quite clearly "HTC HD2" (with the model number being T8585). Other recent, similar devices clearly have "HTC Touch whatever" in their URLs and in the data, whereas the HD2 does not. Coupled with recent whispers about "HTC HD2" being the default bluetooth name of one of the Leos apparently mysteriously making their way around the world, I think it can be concluded that the HTC Leo will be known as the HTC HD2, and apparently HTC is dropping "Touch" from its device names - presumably for simplicity and because they've realised that their Touch family is the way forwards.

Oh yeah, and sorry for the abrupt cessation of activity here recently - I had to go to a funeral in Scariff.
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:25 WEST | Category: Technology
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Mark Hogan
HTC HD2...
Just to shore up the evidence, here are the details of the owners of HTC.com and HTCMMS.com:
- HTC.com
- HTCMMS.com
Notice the fact that they are both "High Tech Computer Corp., 23 Hsin Hua Rd., Taoyuan, Taiwan".
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:38 WEST

Anonymous
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Anonymous
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:51 GMT

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:52 GMT

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