ROM Updated in Feb. Includes WM6.1 ?!

[answerman]

Seriously... the one feature I would care about isn't even mentioned. What is it? IMAP IDLE support.

<rant>
Every legitimate mailserver has supported IMAP IDLE for a couple of years now. You want true "push" email, plus an improvement in battery life? WM5 and WM6 Messaging are so woefully inefficient... it's silly to go through the whole send/receive process every time you want to check for new mail when all you have to do is send the mailserver a NOOP command every 10 minutes or so. One command vs. a 15-20 second process of checking all the folders etc. Then, the mailserver knows where you are and just pushes the mail to you. Let the mailserver do the work... not your phone!

FlexMail is the only WM mail client that supports IDLE, and it's buggy to say the least. Every single desktop client supports IDLE... I use Thunderbird on my laptop, with IMAP IDLE support enabled, and I get mail as soon as it's received by my mailserver.

And no, I don't want to forward my mail through some free service like Mail2Web... I shouldn't have to. I own a perfectly good mailserver and there is no reason I should have to forward my mail.

Microsoft has to understand that not everyone uses Exchange someday...
</ rant>

[Siflan]

With the way Sprint's goin' ...
They may end up cancellin' that update.
I read a report on Engadget[dot]com about them failin' in certain areas
and plan to cut 4,000 jobs and 125 retail stores
Not that this is anything new
But I've been with Sprint for 16 years, this year [Yeah, that's loyalty]
and I'm gettin' the itch to switch.
But I'll see what happens in the coming months.

Originally Posted by Siflan

But I've been with Sprint for 16 years, this year [Yeah, that's loyalty]

Impressive, but Sprint wasn't selling wireless services until 1995 (as Sprint Spectrum, a GSM PCS provider in the Baltimore/Washington Market)

[mstevens]

Originally Posted by answerman

Microsoft has to understand that not everyone uses Exchange someday...

I'm quite certain that they understand that. It's just that they don't care. More accurately, they'd like to box everyone in so they have to use Exchange.

[bedoig]

Originally Posted by AnthroMatt

Impressive, but Sprint wasn't selling wireless services until 1995 (as Sprint Spectrum, a GSM PCS provider in the Baltimore/Washington Market)

From Sprint's website:

"1993
Triple Play
Sprint – Becomes first major company to provide local, long distance and wireless services."

From Wikipedia:

"Sprint began offering wireless service under the name Sprint Spectrum in 1995 in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, it was the very first PCS-based wireless network in the Americas. Although the current Sprint PCS network utilizes CDMA, the Washington area network was based on GSM..."

So which one is correct? : )

Well they both are kinda correct...Sprint bought Centel (Illinois) and got their exisiting wireless network in 1993. I believe they then sold that wireless division a year or two later to focus on building their own PCS network, which was the GSM network I referenced above. So Sprint had wireless in 1993, but anyone that had them as Sprint back then would have been transferred to whomever they sold it to a couple years later, since Sprint had no network of their own to transition their existing customers to.

No matter which one is correct, neither have anything to do with the thread,

[specv]

Originally Posted by AnthroMatt

No matter which one is correct, neither have anything to do with the thread,

ultimately isnt that what happens with every thread?

[pg2k3]

"You're Derailing my Train!" LOL. Back to WinMo 6.1 and the Titan.

[donnatn]

I just hope that the new ROM is out by my birthday which is March 1st because I am selfish like that

I mean gee wiz it wouldn't be so bad if this phone wasn't originally advertised as having a GPS.

I really could have used that at CES. Las Vegas is confusing to this southern girl

I just wonder if sprint will actually support the aGPS? Don't their towers have to support it?

Oh....on another note....I was happily suprised to know that my home network in good ole Chattanooga is much faster than the Las Vegas one. Made me feel better about life

NEWay....if someone could elaborate on the aGPS question I would appreciate it.

donna

[itsall_cooool]

It was advertised as GPS capable, and it is capable, with external GPS