First off the news comes from MSMobiles.com (great site, bookmark it)
http://msmobiles.com/news.php/6049.html
Check out the site for the full story but here is what I found to be interesting.
MSMobiles.com:
"Now it is not just a mention on a blog of some Microsoft employee but official story from Microsoft! Interestingly some Windows Mobile phones powered by Windows Mobile 5.0 will be upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6, including T-Mobile Dash (i.e. HTC Excalibur)!"
From the Official MS Press Release:
"...By the second quarter of this year, the world will see the first Windows Mobile 6 powered devices available on the market. In Europe, Orange plans to deliver the SPV E650 smartphone from HTC, and in Japan, SoftBank Mobile Corp. will offer new devices from Toshiba and HTC. And in the United States, the popular T-Mobile Dash will be updated with Windows Mobile 6 and be available in the coming months. Current T-Mobile Dash owners will also be able to upgrade existing devices with Windows Mobile 5.0 to Windows Mobile 6. "
Current T-Mobile Dash owners will be able to upgrade existing devices with Windows Mobile 5.0 to Windows Mobile 6."
Again, all this info can be found at the link above so go check out the rest of it.
Great news! Now will we have the option of getting the Professional version of WM6?
.PoNeH said:
Great news! Now will we have the option of getting the Professional version of WM6?
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yeah, but you have to hit your screen with a hammer for the touchscreen to register
More importantly, HTC will be releasing the WM6 upgrade as well. I hate carrier branding... and PINK.
-K
So Professional is only for touch screen devices?
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So Professional is only for touch screen devices?
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Yep, Proffesional is for Touchscreen devices, Standard for Smartphones (non-touchscreen) and Classic for PDA's with no phone functionality...It's a shame, it would be nice to edit office documents on a smartphone...oh well
aussienick said:
Yep, Proffesional is for Touchscreen devices, Standard for Smartphones (non-touchscreen) and Classic for PDA's with no phone functionality...It's a shame, it would be nice to edit office documents on a smartphone...oh well
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I believe one of the big things with WM6 is that it has smartphone office apps. I could be wrong but I am pretty sure engadget was talking about this the other day.
aussienick said:
Yep, Proffesional is for Touchscreen devices, Standard for Smartphones (non-touchscreen) and Classic for PDA's with no phone functionality...It's a shame, it would be nice to edit office documents on a smartphone...oh well
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We WILL be able to edit office docs with WM6 Standard.
aussienick said:
It's a shame, it would be nice to edit office documents on a smartphone...oh well
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I'm fairly certain that office mobile is part of WM6. I know I read that someplace...
-Mc
McHale said:
I'm fairly certain that office mobile is part of WM6. I know I read that someplace...
-Mc
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WM6 Standard does come with some Office editing, but not as much as WM6 Pro.
either way, it will be nice. it is very rare that a new os is being offered for an older device, but a good change of pace.
It's really not that old. It's had a very limited release and there hasn't been the first hint of a FW update.
I was hoping we would luck out. Looks like we did!
-Mc
WD6 (STD) just made The Dash the best out!
You will be able to edit office documents with WM6 (STD)
Just got done with a webinar focusing on the WM6 upgrade (he used a dash for the demo). Interesting thing was he used the s620 FW on the dash. Maybe they hate xt9 as much as we do!
Anybody want a copy of the presentation in .pdf format?
-Mc
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Just got done with a webinar focusing on the WM6 upgrade (he used a dash for the demo). Interesting thing was he used the s620 FW on the dash. Maybe they hate xt9 as much as we do!
Anybody want a copy of the presentation in .pdf format?
-Mc
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Please....
PM me!
I am sure that Microsoft is trying to establish the same flexibility with their PDA OS as they have with the PC OS. No reason why an OS should be upgradable.
McHale said:
Just got done with a webinar focusing on the WM6 upgrade (he used a dash for the demo). Interesting thing was he used the s620 FW on the dash. Maybe they hate xt9 as much as we do!
Anybody want a copy of the presentation in .pdf format?
-Mc
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would love to have that... email me at [email protected].. Thanks!
It's two megs. I put it on the XDA FTP site. Uploads\smartphones.
-Mc
Please and thank you
McHale said:
Just got done with a webinar focusing on the WM6 upgrade (he used a dash for the demo). Interesting thing was he used the s620 FW on the dash. Maybe they hate xt9 as much as we do!
Anybody want a copy of the presentation in .pdf format?
-Mc
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May I get a copy please - [email protected]
Gentlemont said:
May I get a copy please - [email protected]
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it's on XDA's FTP site in the uploads folder.
There's nothing earth shattering in it. In the middle of his presentation he showed a bunch of stuff on his Dash (running generic excalibur WM6) which was cool but the rest was kind of old news for those of us running crossbow already.
Worth checking out though...
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Does anyone know when O2 is likely, if ever, to release a AKU3 ROM? Heard some good things, and not so good things, but would welcome the upgrade.
Answers on a postcard please
Univerval is EOL so not shure we will see an official AKU3 ROM
EOL???????
What do you guys recommend then????
Nokia N95 looks pretty cool!!!
I have upgraded my exec to AKU 3.2 and it works a treat, I seem to have lost task manager but gained other apps such as usb hdd option, I've had no hick ups yet.
mark,
can you give me rough guide of how you did this?
Thanks
No further AKUs for O2 customers then...?????????
poussin69 said:
Univerval is EOL so not shure we will see an official AKU3 ROM
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Oh no, was there an official announcement I've missed?!!
EastExpert said:
Oh no, was there an official announcement I've missed?!!
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You did not miss an announcment, you just missed the obvious signs. The MDA Pro is dropped from T-Mobile's catalog, the Qtek 9000 is increasingly difficult to come by. The Universal device is around a year old. That's ancient for a PDA. It's successor has not been announced yet, but rumours are already to be heard ...
Manufacturers just rarely announce this kind of thing in order to make sure that old stocks can be sold.
MarkJL said:
I have upgraded my exec to AKU 3.2 and it works a treat, I seem to have lost task manager but gained other apps such as usb hdd option, I've had no hick ups yet.
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How do you go about connecting a Mass Storage Device to the Univesal on AKu 3.2? Do i need any special cable or something?
Keen to know, before I even upgrade to it.
So where to now..... I like the VGA, I like the keyboard and I can live with the other problems to have the first 2????
So where do we go from here. Don't know about anyone else but I like the format of the XDA EXEC ie keyboard and VGA etc and can put up with the faults...........
Anyone in the know as to what would be considered an upgrade?
omega_ said:
How do you go about connecting a Mass Storage Device to the Univesal on AKu 3.2? Do i need any special cable or something?
Keen to know, before I even upgrade to it.
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There is no way to directly connect a HDD to the Uni. It doesn't support USB hosting.
There is a topic of someone who says they have a Wi-Fi caddy connecting to the device and using it that way:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=280193
wait a second!
I e-mailed O2 to ask whether they are planning to release any new ROMS and got the following response:
"Thank you for your email.
At the moment we don’t have any information on whether or not a ROM version with the AKU3 will be available for the XDA Exec. We are usually advised of a new ROM for the XDA series 4-6 weeks prior to their release but we haven’t heard anything yet. As the XDA Exec hasn’t reached the end of its life cycle there should be a new ROM versions released.
If you have any further queries please contact us."
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Sounds as if the Universal isn't EOL after all. Do you think it's Microsoft holding the process up or HTC?
Mach
YEAH!
Sweet, I agree and disagree (yes and no)
Yes (agree) XDA EXEC is a year old ..... but
there is nothing like it on the market still .... No (disagree)
Is there life in the old dog yet???????????????????
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Sweet, I agree and disagree (yes and no)
Yes (agree) XDA EXEC is a year old ..... but
there is nothing like it on the market still .... No (disagree)
Is there life in the old dog yet???????????????????
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so what the best thing on the market now. and dont say dell x51v. its crap
Could the XDA Flame be the replacment that we are all looking for??
"The Xda Flame encapsulates everything the O2 brand stands for - innovation and performance in a sleek, beautiful, desirable package. The Xda Flame breaks technology barriers by being the first dual processor PDA-phone, incorporating the powerful NVIDIA GoForce GPU for sublime screen graphics, movie playback, photo viewing, and gaming performance, on top of a 520MHz Intel processor chip. A large 3.6' VGA touchscreen and a host of multimedia features ensure that customers stay productive and are entertained while on the go."
http://msmobiles.com/news.php/5846.html on MSmobiles to see a quick review of the power of smartphone crossbow WM6 (or 5.2?)!
MS understands the power of keyboard-enabled smartphones and WM6 will be the next step.
An usable calculator, office with document editing, windows live, enhanced messenger, graphic (they enable the power of new smartphone graphic resolution 320x240 or 240x320).
I believe this will be winning next smartphone philosopy: isn't Windows Mobile with something less anymore, is a strong alternative to bridge between phones an PDA and more for less, much more than a simple phone for less money than a PDA! (hey man, early in the morning I'm a good CopyWriter too)
crud, wrong thread.
Anyone now when its coming availeble for smartphone?
I dont get it?????????????????
How can a wizard which has a slower processor already have a leaked version of wm6 but the dash (htc Ecalibur) faster processor does not whats the deal!!!
Wizard and dash both have 200 MHz OMAP 850 processor's. the version that is leaked is a pocket Pc addition, there hasnt been a smartphone addition leaked yet.
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Wizard and dash both have 200 MHz OMAP 850 processor's. the version that is leaked is a pocket Pc addition, there hasnt been a smartphone addition leaked yet.
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but we all know the dash runs faster than the mda.......i own both i would know.
I have the Dash (running the S620 FW) and the K-Jam running Crossbow.
The K-Jam runs faster than the Dash now. I can't imagine what Crossbow will do for the Dash...
-Mc
but we all know the dash runs faster than the mda.......i own both i would know.
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I own both aswell and yes it does promarily due to the OS on the dash not being as labor intensive as the full blown pocket pc version
for the ones that have wm6 on there wizrd why not extract the schemes and homescreens and share them with us to put on the dash since it is the same size screen!
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for the ones that have wm6 on there wizrd why not extract the schemes and homescreens and share them with us to put on the dash since it is the same size screen!
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thats like saying you can take the icons and wallpaper from windows vista, put it on xp and its suddenly vista....
leoiden said:
for the ones that have wm6 on there wizrd why not extract the schemes and homescreens and share them with us to put on the dash since it is the same size screen!
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Homescreens are done totally different on the smartphone then they are on PocketPC.
Also, the title of this thread is misleading and should be changed. It implies that you have a version and you plan on releasing it soon.
DanITman said:
Also, the title of this thread is misleading and should be changed. It implies that you have a version and you plan on releasing it soon.
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No it doesn't.
swivel said:
No it doesn't.
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yes it does
i have to agree, i thought it meant somebody had it or was going to release it soon, not that its possible and could happen
I KNOW OF SOMEONE THAT DID POST A COMMENT ON ANOTHER FORUM OF TESTING THE WM6 ROM ON EXCALIBUR,he or it claimed it would be leaked soon but that was posted in december, maybe if we all pm that member bug him a little he might give in to tell us where or when we can find the leaked version that will work with excalibur! anyways here is the posted comment from that forum
Newbie
Join Date: Nov 2006
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I have an RUU update for the Dash with WM6, we're releasing it to a few partners to do closed beta testing. Expect the ROM update to be leaked very soon.
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heres the link to site
leoiden said:
I KNOW OF SOMEONE THAT DID POST A COMMENT ON ANOTHER FORUM OF TESTING THE WM6 ROM ON EXCALIBUR,he or it claimed it would be leaked soon but that was posted in december, maybe if we all pm that member bug him a little he might give in to tell us where or when we can find the leaked version that will work with excalibur! anyways here is the posted comment from that forum
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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I have an RUU update for the Dash with WM6, we're releasing it to a few partners to do closed beta testing. Expect the ROM update to be leaked very soon.
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http://forum.brighthand.com/showthread.php?t=231848
SO hang on, will Crossbow be compatible with the Dash? Are you sure you'll be able to download Crossbow onto the Dash?
.PoNeH said:
SO hang on, will Crossbow be compatible with the Dash? Are you sure you'll be able to download Crossbow onto the Dash?
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As far as being compaitable it should be able to handle it. I can't see why not. Will the release be official? That's hard to tell. That would involve T-Mobile or HTC buying an upgrade for the Dash from MS and then releasing it to the public.
I bet that the Cavalier, which is the replacement of the dash scheduled to be released 2Q 2007 will have WM6
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I bet that the Cavalier, which is the replacement of the dash scheduled to be released 2Q 2007 will have WM6
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I think that has already been confirmed. But the fate of the Caviler is still up in the aire
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2007/01/16/unboxing-htc-cavalier/
Official email from dopod
Hi Chris,
Yes, I was informed that we will be releasing WM6 for the 838pro in about 4 weeks time. This however is test ROM code – we will need to get it tested by Mobile Operators. Testing could take upto another 4 weeks time. Dopod expects to release WM6 for 838pro in about 2 months time from now. The WM6 will have all the fixes built into the new AKU.
Thanks.
Kind regards,
Romiyaz Romino Wahab
Customer Service Engineer
Dopod International (Australia New Zealand) Pty Ltd
ABN 48 119 011 639
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walshieau said:
Official email from dopod
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Wish I-Mate would do the same
Well HTC here in Italy didn't yet realesed a rom update for the TyTN (WM5!!)....aaahhhhaaah
This is good news. Im happy playing around with my Imate, but my employer gives senior managers company dopods... with any luck, a WM6 upgrade will force our IT folk to deploy Activesync 4.5 across the work computers, meaning i can go to WM6 (currently stuck on aku3.3 wm5 because cant sync WM6 on work pc's with activesync 4.1)
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This is good news. Im happy playing around with my Imate, but my employer gives senior managers company dopods... with any luck, a WM6 upgrade will force our IT folk to deploy Activesync 4.5 across the work computers, meaning i can go to WM6 (currently stuck on aku3.3 wm5 because cant sync WM6 on work pc's with activesync 4.1)
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Ask your IT ppl to install activesync 4.5 for you.
walshieau said:
Official email from dopod [...]
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Very nice! Looking forward to cooked WM6 ROMs based on officially released ones...
trashcan said:
Ask your IT ppl to install activesync 4.5 for you.
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They're not keen on deploying it to 500 odd machines for one user at the moment (especially me, i am but a mere pleb here)... especially considering i think AS4.5 is still labelled as beta. But if a few senior execs start making similar requests, guarantee it'll be deployed immediately.
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They're not keen on deploying it to 500 odd machines for one user at the moment (especially me, i am but a mere pleb here)... especially considering i think AS4.5 is still labelled as beta. But if a few senior execs start making similar requests, guarantee it'll be deployed immediately.
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I think trashcan meant an individual install, not a deployment. And AS4.5 is no longer beta: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/activesync/activesync45.mspx
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I think trashcan meant an individual install, not a deployment. And AS4.5 is no longer beta: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/activesync/activesync45.mspx
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Ah, good news about AS4.5!!
Thing with my employer is... well... its a commonwealth government agency (i believe the term in your neck of the woods would be "federal" not commonwealth) and as such, there's a lot of beaurocracy and a lot of nay-sayers.
Basically someone at my level has little/no chance of getting a specialised item of software installed
thanx walshieau, good news !
Windows Mobile 6.1 to be released on 1 April
(I Read Bink.nu daily so thats where I got the news from, Bink is truly the most credible MS news man in all of the Land)
Pocket-lint has learnt from sources close to the matter that Microsoft will announce the much-rumoured refresh to its mobile phone operating system, Windows Mobile, on 1 April 2008.
An improvement over Windows Mobile 6 released in February 2007 the new version, unsurprisingly named 6.1, will be a stop-gap measure to keep both consumers and industry happy until the launch of Windows Mobile 7.
Leaked screenshots of 6.1 have already done the rounds in the blogosphere, and show the system has been simplified with the screens displaying less mess than the Vista-inspired version 6.
Source: Bink.nu
1 April.
Hmmmmm.
Not to sound cynical but.........1 April.......
I am an ADMIN and I handle frontpage news at theHotfix.net so I do my research i have my sources and OBVIOUSLY I use other news sources, this seems legit, its NOT offical from MS, but a credible source from within MS says thats the date, I dunno, I posted it on my SITE
Hmm. So what do they know about the hard reset issue that nobody else does? April 1?
April 1st release date. Could be a foolish day!!
nicknowsky said:
Windows Mobile 6.1 to be released on 1 April
(I Read Bink.nu daily so thats where I got the news from, Bink is truly the most credible MS news man in all of the Land)
Pocket-lint has learnt from sources close to the matter that Microsoft will announce the much-rumoured refresh to its mobile phone operating system, Windows Mobile, on 1 April 2008.
An improvement over Windows Mobile 6 released in February 2007 the new version, unsurprisingly named 6.1, will be a stop-gap measure to keep both consumers and industry happy until the launch of Windows Mobile 7.
Leaked screenshots of 6.1 have already done the rounds in the blogosphere, and show the system has been simplified with the screens displaying less mess than the Vista-inspired version 6.
Source: Bink.nu
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Yeap, but it is the Smartphone edition.. doesn't work for us yet...
I read about it two days ago. I think the article was on www.forteplace.com or something like that.
THE Original SOURCE that Bink used as his news source was POCKET LINT
here is the article http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/13612/14636/windows-mobile-61-coming-april.phtml
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April 1st release date. Could be a foolish day!!
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ha ha i didnt think about that, you're quick on draw Spartan
Moto Q9 running it here. I see 6.1's already been integrated into a Hermes rom?
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Moto Q9 running it here. I see 6.1's already been integrated into a Hermes rom?
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Yeah, I'm a bit confused by this "news". I've been running 6.1 for a while now (thanks to this forum), but for a while now if you bought a tytn2 from orange it'd come with 6.1. So in what way was it not already released a while back?
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..... for a while now if you bought a tytn2 from orange it'd come with 6.1.
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thats not true, all the tytn2 6.1 version are from leak roms.....there is no "official" 6.1 release yet,. but then again, if we really cared about official, we wont be here in xda devs would we
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thats not true, all the tytn2 6.1 version are from leak roms.....there is no "official" 6.1 release yet
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It is true, please don't call me a liar just because you haven't seen what I'm talking about. Maybe Orange are shipping leaked ROMs on their phones, or maybe they are a leak themselves. My brother has one, purchased direct from orange as an upgrade over a month ago, that came with 6.1 on it.
WM6.1 > HTC Hermes100/AT&T8525
Considering how bad my HTC/AT&T experience has been, I may bail out before HTC makes WM6.1 available for the AT&T 8525.
It took them nine months to come out with WM6 for my device.
LouMessina said:
Considering how bad my HTC/AT&T experience has been, I may bail out before HTC makes WM6.1 available for the AT&T 8525.
It took them nine months to come out with WM6 for my device.
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I'm a loyal AT&T/Cingular user for years, but im just getting into the PDA section of AT&T so far I like my 8525, but my fav thing is the WiFi, that all I need and use, aside from the occasional phone cal, I just took advantage of a near NEW 8525 for $100 on craigslist last weekend
I don't know why anyone is interested in the official WM6.1. I've had cooked versions of this for months. Same thing happened when WM6.0 was officially released. I tried it out and it was crap compared to the cooked versions.
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I don't know why anyone is interested in the official WM6.1. I've had cooked versions of this for months. Same thing happened when WM6.0 was officially released. I tried it out and it was crap compared to the cooked versions.
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So why not share one that doesn't hard reset every 5 minutes?
Currently using Schaps WM6.1 Beta which doesn't hard reset every 5 mins, and chances are Official release will require a lot of reseting anyhow
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I see 6.1's already been integrated into a Hermes rom?
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No it hasn't.
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I don't know why anyone is interested in the official WM6.1. I've had cooked versions of this for months. Same thing happened when WM6.0 was officially released. I tried it out and it was crap compared to the cooked versions.
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Some of us see so many different versions out there and aren't sure which one to use.
I find my official 6.0 adequate, I'm not even sure what I'd look for in a 6.1.
I'd also want it to be completely stable.
Check it out:
http://www.msteched.com/online/view.aspx?tid=5471dd4c-9d1f-47c8-85df-c3bf5bfe678c
I was 100% sure that there would't be any official wm6.5 update(maybe it still won't be any) but this sure gives us some hope.
Well, this was just Microsoft's demo, nothing else, unfortunately. The availability of WM 6.5 for "old" Touch Diamond and Pro isn't Microsoft's decision - they would sell it to anyone, of course - it's a decision of HTC. And as far as we know, HTC is not interested in releasing official WM 6.5 ROMs for their previous-generation devices. On the other hand - we have XDA Dev...
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Well, this was just Microsoft's demo, nothing else, unfortunately. The availability of WM 6.5 for "old" Touch Diamond and Pro isn't Microsoft's decision - they would sell it to anyone, of course - it's a decision of HTC. And as far as we know, HTC is not interested in releasing official WM 6.5 ROMs for their previous-generation devices. On the other hand - we have XDA Dev...
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Yep, i know all that but it still would be nice.
As far as i know, till now there were only wvga wm6.5 presentations. This is the first official vga one.
when will we know?
What's quite amusing is it looks really similar to udKs WM6.5 ROM
l3v5y said:
What's quite amusing is it looks really similar to udKs WM6.5 ROM
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How so?> To me it looked like any 6.5 with ms theme.
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How so?> To me it looked like any 6.5 with ms theme.
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It means either udk achieved official looking 6.5 well, or MS are using udks ROMs.
The general appearance, and the occasional quirk I've found in udks ROMs appeared in the video...
To the OP, thats a Fuze in the video. Top right hand corner says AT&T. Diamond not available for purchase on att.
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To the OP, thats a Fuze in the video. Top right hand corner says AT&T. Diamond not available for purchase on att.
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Yep, noticed that even before i posted but it seems to me that fuze has more rounded corners. (Maybe a Diamond witn wm6.5 on at&t like sprint diamond that jus came out ).