RSSCingular Users to Get Windows Mobile 6 Upgrade
By Nate Mook | Published March 27, 2007, 12:18 PM
At the CTIA Wireless tradeshow this week, Microsoft announced that AT&T (formerly Cingular) will be providing Windows Mobile 6 as a free upgrade to current customers using the Samsung Blackjack, HTC 8525, or Palm Treo 750. T-Mobile previously said it would offer a free upgrade as well.
Windows Mobile 6 is the latest version of Microsoft's smartphone operating system that brings a number of new features to handsets. AT&T customers using the Treo 750 will gain HSDPA 3G capability with the upgrade, allowing for faster download speeds. Palm will provide the WM6 upgrade directly to Treo 750 customers in Europe and Asia.
I have the BlackJack, as an email device and MP3 player, it's great. As a phone, it sucks. Every single call gets dropped.
It's not Cingular, although they do have dropped calls like everyone else. My POS RAZR rarely ever drops calls, the BJ loses 9 out of 10.
I hope a firmware upgrade and a new O/S fixes this nice looking crappy phone.
I've only had the O/S lockup a couple times.
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|It's gotta be something else, or you just got a bum unit. I've yet to have a dropped call with my Blackjack in the 2+ weeks I've had it.
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|Not for the Q? Im sad....
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|I'm still waiting to hear if the Q will get it for Verizon. I hope so. WM6 is supposed to add a few things, such as Mobile Office. Who knows?
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|Woohoo! I JUST wrote to Cingular about this the other day! Can't wait to get that for my BlackJack!
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|Any idea if WM 6 will offer more flexible memory management? With the inability to run a lot of apps from the storage card without wacky errors, one runs out of memory very quickly.... Also, I assume the DST patch will be "baked in" to the ROM instead of taking up space as an installed app...?
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|WM5 = 5 crashes per day.
WM6 = 6 crashes per day?
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|Haven't had WM5 crash yet since I got my Blackjack two weeks ago.
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|My Cingular 8125 running WM5 has never crashed, ever. Maybe it's your phone.
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|Not that WM6 is much better but yay anyways. WM6 is much more restrictive than WM5.
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|ETA on this? Anyone?
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|Yay!
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|I'll second that...
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|My sources tell me mid to lat July - the OS image is to be delivered to Cingular (formally AT&T at the end of May)then ther will be 8 or so weeks of testing
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