Sprint employee stated TP2 is getting WinMo7 (assumed to be false)

[subzero1313]

Uhhh didnt MS themselves say WinMo7 REQUIRES a 1GHz processor?

[subzero1313]

Originally Posted by Alksion

Haha, he was probably like, "yeah go down to your local best buy and you can pick it up right now".

Sprint employees know just as much about phones and software as my dad does, that is saying a lot.

hey hey, I resent that remark

[c0011j]

Originally Posted by subzero1313

Uhhh didnt MS themselves say WinMo7 REQUIRES a 1GHz processor?

Yeah... if I recall correctly no Winmobile phones right now can run WinMo7 according to the leaked specs.

[rafyrod]

i bet you the guy was, yeah yeah is out it came out oct 22.... lol

common sprint train your people a lil better....

[chronster]

what a idiot, everyone nows it's windows moble 8 that we are getting

[nunyabiziz]

Originally Posted by xenokira

I want to start out with this: Don't get your hopes up...the stuff below is just a write up of my experience at the Sprint Store today, that's all.

Short version Sprint employee that helped me today said TP2 would be getting WinMo7. I assume he either 1. Didn't know what he was talking about or 2. Got it confused with 6.5. Either way, pretty sure what he told me is incorrect.

Long version Earlier today I stopped in the Sprint Store today to swap out my girlfriend's BB Tour for a failing trackball (apparently they can't swap the part out anymore, they have to replace the whole phone for this model). Anyway, while waiting for the BB's to be swapped, I decided to ask if the employee that was helping me if he knew if/when a WinMo 6.5 ROM would drop for the TP2, I didn't really expect much of an answer, but thought I'd ask anyway.

His response was interesting--he said, "6.5? The next update you'll get is for Windows Mobile 7." I figured he didn't know what he was talking about, I just dropped it. As I recall, the chipset of this device doesn't even meet the minimum requirements for WinMo 7 that leaked a little while back. Anyway, the refurbed BB Tour works great :P


Just thought I'd report my story to you fine folks.

If you assumed it to be false then why start a thread about it?

[subzero1313]

Originally Posted by nunyabiziz

If you assumed it to be false then why start a thread about it?

to confirm it? Or because we needed the comic relief after the warzone its been here lately?

[nunyabiziz]

Originally Posted by subzero1313

to confirm it? Or because we needed the comic relief after the warzone its been here lately?

Second one was a good reason.

[my pants are tight]

I have a good friend that works on the Win mobile (smart phone) team at Microsoft. He doesn't use anything more exotic than a TP2 to test Win Mo 7. He actually thought my TP2 was quite responsive and fast.

At Microsoft, they use mules, any current PPC device on the market and test (WinMo7)the operating system for errors and bugs. The do get a few PPC models that are not on the market yet, provided (to test) by manufacturers, like Toshiba, Nokia and HTC among others. The operating systems Microsoft develops appear very different from what we get after HTC tweaks the OS in their own development.

HTC uses the underlying operating system (currently 6.1 Sprint & 6.5 with AT&T) and builds a shell on top of Windows Mobile. It is quite possible for the TP2 to run Win Mo 7 in the future, but highly unlikely on the TP2.

As for Sprint employees, I have learned over the years never to trust anything they say.

[c0011j]

Originally Posted by my pants are tight

As for Sprint employees, I have learned over the years never to trust anything they say.

Ahhhh.. cmon. Don't be too harsh.