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Originally Posted by starcastic
The two really are completely unrelated, doesnt have much to do with 'sense', not thta Sprint and sense always go in the same sentence anyway.
My TP2 was manufactured in AUGUST. Theres lots of lag time between manufacturing, assembling, flashing, packaging, consolidating, MONTHS on container ships and warehouses, customs clearance, unpacking and shipping smaller quantities to warehouses and distro centers and a lot of other steps before it trickles down to the consumer being able to walk into a store and buy an item.
Those people are completely separate from whomever develops and releases an upgrade for people who areleady have a previously-versioned handset, theres no reason to think they'd have timelines with any relation.
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While I appreciate what you are trying to say, it is irrelevant to no update for the Sprint Touch Pro 2. Here's why.
The OEM build date of the shipped Sprint ROM was July 17, 2009. This is almost three months ago and (I believe, on phone can't check the date) literally months after WinMo 6.5 was RTM. This means they have had at least 5 months to throw a ROM on the phones and debug. The Rhodium was announced in January. HTC has been slipping us betas of 6.5 long before it went RTM. It is safe to say that there has been ample time to QA a 6.5 ROM on the Rhodium with several updated builds since if allowed. The fact that the AT&T Tilt is in stores TODAY with 6.5 already on it solidifies this.
Another reason for no excuse is that the Sprint TP2 has been delayed at least TWICE for various reasons, marketing being the most obvious reason as to not conflict with the releases of the Pre and Snap. If you check EPST, we are using the fouth hardware revision of the RHOD400. One telling factor that at least one revision was a color scheme change for the keyboard, as early leaked pictures of the phone show a silver keyboard with orange letters.
This means that this phone has been delayed for non-technical reasons and they even had time to change their minds on color schemes, which also means they have had time to twiddle their thumbs or do something like oh, I don't know, perhaps tweak the hell out of a 6.5 ROM.
In my opinion, the fact that sources are saying an early 2010 update is inexcusable. I bought this device with every expectation of an update on 6.5 launch. If this report holds true, I will be calling retention and returning this phone for the Hero while at the same time having to persuade an angry customer of at least 10 years with three expired contracts why I shouldn't just outright drop them for repeatedly jerking me around on promises undelivered, attempting to force me into adding $30/mo plans for services I already have, and bait-and-switching me with rebate tiny-print unadvertised conditions.