A guy from UK who claims to be official "Orange phone trainer" (Orange is a mobile operator in UK) claims that Orange Academy both Microsoft trainer and Orange employees were claiming that ROM upgrade for Orange SPV M500 Pocket PC phone (also for C550 smartphone) is coming.
Read more at http://www.msmobiles.com/news.php/4420.html
May I be the first to call "bull****" on this story?
Thank you.
Total bull****.
msmobiles.com also says:
"Conclusions: this news story is too good to be true, but we publish it nonetheless. Please note that by now it has never happened that any HTC made phone (smartphone or Pocket PC phone) was being offered a ROM upgrade to major version (from Windows Mobile 2002 to Windows Mobile 2003 or from Windows Mobile 2003 to Windows Mobile 5.0) although E-Ten is offering upgrade to Windows Mobile 5.0 for their M500 Pocket PC phone. It has never happened by now (for HTC phones) so it is very unlikely that it will happen now. Anyway: HTC Magician is an extremely popular Pocket PC phone and if this news would be confirmed to be true, it would be real revolution for many thousands people."
Chances that it won't happen would be somewhere around 99%. This wm5 madness brings up its own fairy-tales. That's the way it goes with such things, unfortunately. :?
And I thought people had learned not to trust msmobiles.com's so called "Exclusives" by now!
topcat is raptorz2003x... or on the same path...
kraan73 said:
msmobiles.com also says:
"Conclusions: this news story is too good to be true, but we publish it nonetheless. Please note that by now it has never happened that any HTC made phone (smartphone or Pocket PC phone) was being offered a ROM upgrade to major version (from Windows Mobile 2002 to Windows Mobile 2003 or from Windows Mobile 2003 to Windows Mobile 5.0) [....]
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That is not fully true.
T-Mobile (Germany) has offical released an upgrade from PPC2002 tom WM2003 for the MDA I.....
Stefan
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Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition Out Now ......
...but only for the Toshiba e800. The download which is free is the Windows Mobile SE release for the e800.
Perhaps that means that there will be a release shortly for the XDA II (and hopefully it will be free).
Yes... we already know that! (see the search function for further reference).
And perhaps (with a big P) it will come for the XDA/XDA II.
But i´d rather guess it will come for XDA III first, and then maybe we will see and upgrade for the older XDA´s.
well windows CE 5 is also comming so i guess it could be the os for xda3
and normal 2003 came out for xda1 when it was much "older" then xda2 is now
of cause if going 2003SE mean that most of the programs we use today will have to be recompiled to be rotate aware then i'm not going to jump that wagon right away
hello,
i am looking for a software update..
pocket pc 2003 for O2 XDA II
i can't find any upgrade. where can i get one?
thanks,
htc magician wm2005 upgrade For T-mobile Explanation
Next Release:
No further release expected. This device is unable to be upgraded to Windows Mobile™ 5.0 operating system. The new MDA Compact II device will be a Microsoft Windows Mobile™ 5.0 device expected later this month.
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magician wm2005 coming soon
Hey what so happy about it? I think you misunderstood the statement.
they said, the new MDA Compact II is going to come out. and yes, its already came out, with the model name Charmer or Prophet (i forget )
so, still, no WM2005 for Magician.
Yep:
"This device is UNABLE TO BE UPGRADED to Windows Mobile 5.0".
I still think the producers are being lazy. There's no reason it should not support an Intel PXA272 base, because that's like the most common WM processor around, and its still in use too. Portable RAM, BT and Radio Stack technology hasn't changed a hell lot enough to not even have any driver support.
If this isn't forced obsolescence I don't know what is.
ya lor of course i tink its not because device not supported, but just simply : marketing and commercial issue
maybe they came out with new product and wont allow wm2005 for magician to avoid product cannibalism
I agree with you
it certainly supports wm2005
yes
it is launched with name charmer grey nad pink colour
g3 chipset
Hi to all of you Xda-developers.
got a bunch of wm smartphones, and i am very interesting in upgrading my samsung sgh-i607 "blackjack"
wich runs windows mobile 6 standard to windows mobile 6.1 profesional or better yet to windows mobile 6.5.
i though that it was impossible, but i downloaded an sussefully installed in my htc 2125 a 6.1 pro rom.
im not an expert, but i can do the flashing and that stuff.
is it possible? thanks
can we update our imate sp5m (tornado) to this Windows Phone 7 ?
is that compatible with this phone ?
gsmsikar said:
can we update our imate sp5m (tornado) to this Windows Phone 7 ?
is that compatible with this phone ?
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should not be forced because WM7 is not compatible for your device (HTC Tornado) and will only make it hard brick device
Short answer is simply: NO - Never. Look up the article in Wikipedia about Windows Mobile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone_7 - especially the HW requirements at the bottom.
HW Requirements are so much above the level that the Tornado can offer, and this is for ALL areas (except the number of buttons) that only devices that can get close to that (e.g. the HD2) have a chance to see WM7.
The same is true for Android in most areas btw. Despite there are some efforts to port that OS to old WM phones, I have not seen (and do not expect as well) any serious results.
The Tornado is such a nice all-day phone with a form factor that neither WM7 nor Android devices offer (except the X10-mini) that it will stay with me quite some time until selection of small phones increases.