Sprint's 6.5 upgrade for the tp2. New information

[Riley]

Noticed this article on Pocketnow.com. Looks like Sprint is late to the upgrade game, but may have good reason to do so. Good read: http://pocketnow.com/software-1/spri...l-enhancements

[CaliBoyPhillip]

Originally Posted by rileyd5

Noticed this article on Pocketnow.com. Looks like Sprint is late to the upgrade game, but may have good reason to do so. Good read: http://pocketnow.com/software-1/spri...l-enhancements

thanks =] its been posted a lot in the TP2 section but! thanks for actually someone posting it in this section... I can't wait for the update just to see what it brings.

[BooDaddy]

Looking forward to this. Maybe it will be the 6.6 Rom.

[TMartin]

Straight from "Find and update the software version on your HTC Touch Pro2" on www.sprint.com

Originally Posted by Sprint

** NOTE: Windows Mobile 6.5 Planned for HTC Touch Pro2 from Sprint
Sprint and HTC are currently developing a release of Windows Mobile 6.5 for the HTC Touch Pro2 that is expected to be available by end of first quarter, 2010. This upgrade will provide updates to the Windows Mobile platform, along with significant enhancements to the Touch Pro2 user interface to allow additional customization/personalization options and more integration with applications users access the most.

Go HERE to see for yourself.

[testacon]

Originally Posted by rileyd5

Noticed this article on Pocketnow.com. Looks like Sprint is late to the upgrade game, but may have good reason to do so. Good read: http://pocketnow.com/software-1/spri...l-enhancements

No offense but that's really not a good reason, but yes it's still an interesting read.

I think this just means that the other carriers will have their second update for the Touch Pro 2 by then. Sprint could have easily release this build now and the second one at a later date, this is Sprint's way of just sucking more in customer service, IMO. Ask for $600 for the phone NOW and then don't provide any support. Whenever their update is released it will probably still have the 11/17/09 build too on it. So by the time this comes around this phone will be probably be more then half way through it's lifespan.

How difficult can this possible be, people on this forum tinker with their phones in their FREE time, and make bigger contributions then that of the carriers and manufacture. How incompetent can Sprints testing department be? Must be nice telling your boss every week that you can't meet a deadline, can I have till the end of Q4 2009, then when that passes, the end of Q1 2010?

Perhaps this is why Sprints stock went from $17.23 in 2007 to a whooping $3.63 in Q1 2010. How much more failure can this company make, please spend less time on crappy advertising and more time on the technology.


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[Riley]

Originally Posted by testacon

No offense but that's really not a good reason, but yes it's still an interesting read.

I think this just means that the other carriers will have their second update for the Touch Pro 2 by then. Sprint could have easily release this build now and the second one at a later date, this is Sprint's way of just sucking more in customer service, IMO. Ask for $600 for the phone NOW and then don't provide any support. Whenever their update is released it will probably still have the 11/17/09 build too on it. So by the time this comes around this phone will be probably be more then half way through it's lifespan.

How difficult can this possible be, people on this forum tinker with their phones in their FREE time, and make bigger contributions then that of the carriers and manufacture. How incompetent can Sprints testing department be? Must be nice telling your boss every week that you can't meet a deadline, can I have till the end of Q4 2009, then when that passes, the end of Q1 2010?

Perhaps this is why Sprints stock went from $17.23 in 2007 to a whooping $3.63 in Q1 2010. How much more failure can this company make, please spend less time on crappy advertising and more time on the technology.
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Welcome to Sprint, the Bo-Bo's of wireless service were you can't actually get it now but later--much, much later.

Well, I respect your take on it. I just think there's but a ton of bad news lately and lots of threads to back that up especially since the weak ces press conference just a week or two ago. The 6.5 upgrade is interesting news but we are all one unlocked phone away from having 6.5 or 6.5.1-3 running so it's not a big deal to me. I do think Sprint is at a cross roads, but I prefer at this time to take the glass half filled approach and hope that this upgrade to the tp2 will sustain the device through the next year or so. At the very least, until a new wimax monster presents itself.

[imtjnotu]

i really wish carriers could just give us the vanilla rom instead of taking there sweet time to add crapp like sprint tv or sprint music....

[Dr.8820]

i echatted with a rep today about, i might as well been talking to a tree. they don't have a clue, and told him maybe this is the reason sprint loses customers; the people being paid to know and help don't know or can help. all i kept getting were apologies.

[tr0s]

not to get off topic but the echat csr's really don't know anything about their products. i did an echat in an attempt to see if they knew anything about upcoming phones, i asked about the price and release of the lotus elite (not that i care) and they just told me that they didn't have any information available since the phone hadn't been released. then it occured to me that i got the sprint premiere email and started quoting price and when the public release was and they basically told me that there was no way thati had that information. the three times that i have actually given the echat the benefit of the doubt they failed me, complete waste of time.

[Dr.8820]

you're right, but i don't think they should be working for a company and don't know anything about its products. i'm a painter, imagine if one of my customers asks about the different paint sheens and i said "i don't have that information". they would fire me!