HTC Says Free Upgrade to WM6 Possible for Keyboarded Devices

[Sogarth]

Originally Posted by computercarl

I expect its gonna be about 2 months still. MS says they arent releasing the SDK for WM6 until May 1st. That will have an emulator with it, and I'm sure that the people in the know will copy thjose files out, and hopefully Helmi_C and others (like ImCoKeMaN when he gets back) will be nice enough to help us get them all in order to work on our poor lil 6700.

You sure about that date?

[computercarl]

Sweet. When I looked on the 1st, it had still said May 1st, and there was no link. They must have changed the date!!

[willysp]

Originally Posted by friguy3

so not really the right place to ask, might not be a right place anyway...but I am kind of new to the windows mobile arena, but somewhat tech savvy...what are the main big benefits from these upgraded ROMs that are out there (Saridnours AKU 3.5, Colonel's Custom 3.3 Rom, etc...)? Is this just a jacked up WM5 or are there real advances? thanks for the knowledge.

Stability and speed. 3.x is much faster than the stock ROM that came with my Sprint 6700, and gives me almost no freezes (BSOD).

[dzuchowski]

is it possible that sprint / micro$oft / HTC could take legal action again users who have unauthorized roms, claiming that they could in theory bring down the entire civilized world? i think sprint is able to tell what aku we have when we use evdo and also make a call, it woould seem real easy to send this info to the cell sites and to sprint.

[boe]

Originally Posted by dzuchowski

is it possible that sprint / micro$oft / HTC could take legal action again users who have unauthorized roms, claiming that they could in theory bring down the entire civilized world? i think sprint is able to tell what aku we have when we use evdo and also make a call, it woould seem real easy to send this info to the cell sites and to sprint.

That would be excellent publicity for Sprint. Yes your honor, this man was running an OS that we didn't authorize for his phone. Is that correct defendent? Yes your honor but the phone manufacturer is giving it away free. (judge) Can you explain why you don't want him to run the new OS on his phone? Certainly, your honor. How else can we get people to spend $500 on a 6800 when the only real improvement is a little more memory?

[schettj]

Originally Posted by dzuchowski

i think sprint is able to tell what aku we have when we use evdo and also make a call, it woould seem real easy to send this info to the cell sites and to sprint.

FUD

Sprint can't find it's backside with 2 hands and a flashlight. They sure don't send the AKU with every tcp/ip packet.

Nope. They have no way of knowing, nor should they care. It's your phone, you bought it, do whatever you want with it.

Back on topic, I would love to see

* WM6 for apache, quickly followed by
* Helmi rom kitched for WM6 for apache

That would be heaven indeed!

However, unless hell has frozen over, I'm banking on that not happening before summer, if ever. MS may push this hard if they're doing it for iPhone anti-PR, which is not a bad idea... but MS is the only one who could force the carriers to do this... otherwise they don't want us upgrading without buying a new handset.

[Elkay]

Ooops. Thought it was May 1. Thanks for the correction.