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Originally Posted by Fritzly
Regretfully I see the usual issues: the upgrade is not available to customers; MS still place the buyers at the mercy of hardware manifacturers (they mak profit selling hardware, do not they?) therefore few lucky people will be able to upgrade exisiting devices. Even worse in the ancient and obsolete US market, the one still ruled by Carriers, the chances to see 6.1 available to users are even slimmer.
Finally it seems that these "enhancements" will not be available until the end of 2008;
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Fritzly: According to the press release, any recent Windows Mobile phone (shipped with Windows Mobile 6) will get the update, the list is available on a number of sites already.
Albeit, there is no news on
when this will happen but they have all commited (Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon) that it will happen during the second quarter.
New devices are the one cited as before the end of 2008.
Now,
if it will happen soon, is anyone's guess. But I didn't see anything in the update that should cause issue with what the carriers and OEMs have placed on the phones (I call it "homebrew").
Hopefully Microsoft has had a few discussions with CEOs of the carriers and *impressed* upon them how important this it to happen ASAP.
I'm hoping for (and expecting
) a speedy deployment.