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I used to work at Sprint developing next-gen business mobility and security apps for eneterprises and interacted very often with "the phone guy" (wont mention his name) who decided all the next generation phones including the Mogul (at that time). I can tell you with a high degree of certainty that I wouldnt expect a Microsoft driver solution for the Mogul.

At Sprint, "the phone guy" spends his days (and nights) working with more vendors than we have fingers and toes. He doesnt have time to think backwards, and ultimately it is his decision to put pressure on his vendors for a solution, but only if his boss, and their boss, and their boss demand it. Otherwise, it distracts from the forward -looking momentum that all telecommunications companies must have to stay in business.

The product managers at Sprint care about the phone, because a phone, or line of phones are their babies. They tend to whine about these problems we complain about for us, but it does little good. Sprint is run by decisions from the top down. And the people at the top have no clue what is happening beneath them. (yes, my former angst) But as a rule, Sprint only cares about windows mobile from an enterprise/business user perspective. They make the bulk of the revenue on the WinMo phones from corporations/businesses ordering hundreds or thousands of phones.

That is starting to change, as with the popularity of the consumer focused Centro as a smart device, but it is a terrible strategy to develop backwards, and I highly doubt the phone guy would ask a software vendor to develop a driver for an outdated semiconductor chip, especially when they dont even have the designs/patents for them. I would love to be proved wrong. It may restore my faith in Sprint if they were able to pull this kind of muscle with a vendor whether it be Qualcomm or Microsoft.