purchasing new TP2 from Sprint(US) - any serial/revision to look for on phone or box?

vancomycin · #1 (**permalink**) 06-01-2010, 10:22 AM

Hey, are there any "newer/revised" editions of the TP2 since it first came out? I'm about to go pick one up from the Sprint Store, and I'd like to know if I should keep an eye out on the package/box labeling for anything in particular - i.e. a serial string / revision / letters / that might separate newer manufactured versions.

Or maybe something printed w/in the back of the actual phone itself would be better?

Other hardware devices have this at times, and I was wondering if this particular HTC TP2 went through such changes.... I couldn't find a good answer on this search query, so hopefully one of y'all might know. Thank you!

Oh, and should I expect the TP2 from Sprint to be preloaded with WinMo 6.5 or 6.1? I called a few stores and they gave me both answers.... obviously this was over the phone though

Cheers.

**Mojary** · #2 (**permalink**) 06-01-2010, 10:50 AM

idk...you might get 6.1. because when i got my phone replaced last week, i fired that bad boy up right when i opened the envelope and to my disappointment, the splash screen said 6.1. didn't get the mechanics of it not being preloaded with the 6.5 already.

vancomycin · #3 (**permalink**) 06-01-2010, 01:03 PM

Alright cool, so bottom line is; it'll most likely be WinMo 6.1 and there haven't been any hardware/software changes since its inception eh?

wildpig · #4 (**permalink**) 06-01-2010, 01:25 PM

if you can get access to phone before having to commit, dial ##778# and look @ built date and hopefully it should be within last two months. O/w not much else. Also if its a new recently made phone it should come w/ 6.5.

HTC doesn't publish official rev,but I firmly believe all tech com. make quiet changes to their product to fix problems so I do believe in later built dates

cuban4lf · #5 (**permalink**) 06-01-2010, 02:35 PM

if i was u id jus sit back a few more days n look on the site. pretty sure alot of these guys/girls will be putting there already updated pimped out romed tp2 up for sale !! i knw im thinking about it !!

cuban4lf · #6 (**permalink**) 06-01-2010, 02:44 PM

oh im sure there will be alot of us stayin on wm os. but i have seen alot of our reg tp2 guys/girls on the darkside !! i could safely say im either getting rid of either tp or tp2. but def not letting go of both !

**Dr.8820** · #7 (**permalink**) 06-01-2010, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by cuban4lf

oh im sure there will be alot of us stayin on wm os. but i have seen alot of our reg tp2 guys/girls on the darkside !! i could safely say im either getting rid of either tp or tp2. but def not letting go of both !

i know what you mean, i just know some folks here. they talked trash about winmo and the tp2 because a new, shiny toy is coming...they'll be the 1st complaining about their shiny, new toy.... just watch!

cuban4lf · #8 (**permalink**) 06-01-2010, 02:52 PM

u knw thats rite !! lmao. bad part is ill prob be one of them !!

edufur · #9 (**permalink**) 06-01-2010, 04:29 PM

I think that more than you think are making the move to Android. I stayed commited to WinMo for far too long and I boasted about how great it was vs. all the iPhone users I knew of. But when it came right down to it, in side-by-side, I experienced more technical difficulties than all the iPhone users. Don't get me wrong, I would never own an iPhone... because I think they are still too limiting and controlling. But, WinMo never paid attention to the fact that the user experience was important even if it meant giving up on some features. Android is the gap filler. It gives you the best of both... and I will finally be able to prove that to all the iPhone fanboys I work with once I get my EVO! Sorry, I don't think WinMo 7 is gonna beat Android... and again, this is coming from a WinMo fanboy of 4 years.

**Dr.8820** · #10 (**permalink**) 06-01-2010, 04:36 PM

too many advantages for me as a winmo user...not a fanboy at all, just like things to work. of course you have to hack these things to death, but what's the difference of being rooted? i have yet to see less than 90% of this community that hasn't rooted their android device because ecclair (2.1) wasn't doing it for them. here's something simple; we have a cannon camera which includes desktop software to upload your pictures to the pc. after doing that, i can sync either my tp2 or hd2 and instantly download the pics via wmp, can't do that with android! my wife has a samsung moment, i know!