HTC HD2 can be coaxed into doing 802.11n, if you know how to sweet-talk it

Published by Tech Pundit | Filed under Gadgets & Tech, WiFi | November 24th, 2009

Even though Broadcom , Atheros , and Qualcomm have all been sampling phone-ready draft 802.11n chipsets for some time now, you’re still not seeing the tech swiftly overtake 802.11g in the mobile arena — in fact, we dare you to find a single phone in your carrier’s store that can do it. Odds are you can’t, but HTC HD2 owners can win a few quid off their skeptical (non-Engadget-reading) friends by enabling support after the fact. Looks like draft-n support got buried in the company’s WinMo monster — a fitting device to add such a rare display of raw, savage wireless power, if we do say so ourselves — but it got turned off in the shipping firmware for some reason, possibly concerns over increased battery draw, flakiness, or a stark realization that the benefits of 802.11n might not be fully appreciated in a device hamstrung more by a crappy browser than by slow WiFi

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HTC HD2 can be coaxed into doing 802.11n, if you know how to sweet-talk it