WM6 and Beta Testers

[jimeverett]

Well I have some news on WM6. I meet with two guys yesterday (2/13) at the Vista/Office launch here in Detroit, MI.
One of the guys was the local area Enterprise Rep from Microsoft Mobile Group and the other guy was the Global Account Manager from HTC out of Schaumburg, IL. Just for those that do not know this but should understand this fact. The PPC 6700 is made by HTC, not UTStarcom or Audiovox.

Now with that said, there will be no AKU released with the updates to WM6 or patches! In fact the version will be Windows Mobile 6 not 3.5 or 3.3. Now I did learn that WM6 did ship to vendors a few months ago (Well we all new that) and on Feb 13, 2007 the first phones with WM6 were shipped/released to the public overseas.

Now the word is from HTC is that Sprint will have the PPC 6800 in the stores end of May – first part of April here in the US. Not sure on the other carriers of when they plan to roll the unit out. Now for people that are having issues on Windows Vista with Sync. That is due to ship at the end of the month. The current sync with mobile devices in Windows Vista is a (Beta) that was sent out on ship/release day. So look for that update soon. Some people will that little to know problems and other will have issues. Just a FYI as well. The Dial Up Networking that everyone wants to work so bad will be fixed at that point. The issue is not just the phone and the drivers there, but also on the desktop systems as well. So for those people that are getting upset and find it not working that is why, It will soon.

On a Side note. My company is going to start offering technical support to PDA users via a remote software that we have built onto a ROM. No it is not vnc or anything like that. Also it will not allow you to connect to your desktop or PDA to PDA. But it does allow us (pdaTech.net) to remote and fix PDA’s OTA. Also we will be offering a software push service. More details to come soon.

At this time we are looking for 10 to 20 people that are willing to give the ROM a test run. What the ROM has:

Windows Voice Command
PPC-Hacks
RAR
Clean Temp
Task Manager
TCPMP
Windows Media (Crossbow Skinned)
psShutXP (Crossbow Skinned)
Crossbow Theme
Sprint Configuration (PRL 20225)

Also frees up 9MB and allows you to use the space of your ExtROM. We rename it to Extended Memory
Sorry we are working with the other Carries on the Ext Memory configurations. But for those willing to help out just PM me.

Jim Everett
pdaTech.net