HTC Says Free Upgrade to WM6 Possible for Keyboarded Devices
 

No need to post the same information twice :wink:

http://www.ppcgeeks.com/ms-gives-fre...ers-t3293.html

Direct link: http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/in...n=expand,13678

Nice to think about, but CDMA is often a different beast entirely from GSM devices, which enjoy a more standard setup between carriers.

The keyboard thing is odd. I have no idea why that would make a difference in whether a device deserves a WM6 update or not--maybe it's that all of HTC's recent PPCs have keyboards--just a wild guess.

promising, but I'll believe it when I see it. :?

i read that wm6 will have a carrier indepent windows update like that of windows xp and vista. its about time, maybe now we will get the latest aku instead of sprint charging you 700 dollars for the 2.6 aku as that is the latest aku out for sprint on the ip-830.... sprint i bet will find someway to block this...

Where Sprint finds a way to block, we find a way to unblock. ;)

Also, if it's free to all, we'll likely see a sooner WM6 RTM leak. :)

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.

But, I could be wrong, it could come out tomorrow as a leak!

I was stoked about getting to 3.5 AKU - can't tell you how much I look forward to WM6! The e-mail search feature is key for me. I'm starting prep of my new Exchange 2007 server although I won't implement it until the end of March (waiting for patches and some software compatability).

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.

Speed, customised roms have more built in goodies than the regular rom (freeware or software that you would normally have to install), applications and icons from newer builds of wm5. Simply saying, close to differences between win 98 and Xp, or xp and vista. Try any one of them, if you dont like, you can revert back to the original carriers rom by downloading it from the link below. enjoy
http://www.utstar.com/pcd/Downloads.aspx