Yet Another "offical' AKU3 release rumor (verizon)

[Malatesta]

I will say this though: the 6600 was very limited in market share when it came out and there was little competition. Also, upgrading 2003SE devices to WM5 has always been more pain than it was worth and the platform was just done for by the time the 6700 was ready to come out.

In 2007, the WM world is very, very different from 2004-2005.

AKU updates (unheard of pre-WM5) are becoming more and more frequent and easy to enable as the code base has become more stabilized.

Case in point: Crossbow is widely reported to have a "Windows Update" function it much like our Desktop versions (how much will be updated remains to be seen), but this is the logical progression of the WM platform.

Now maybe this will or won't happen but with Engadget picking up on the story it does add some pressure to Verizon to deliver, which is also better than a few dorks on message boards quietly ruminating to themselves about it. Verizon has also been very aggressive on the PDA/smartphone front in comparison to Sprint and they have more money to throw around too.