1940 upgradeable?

[dylanbj]

When the new OS comes out will the iPAQ 1940 be upgradeable?

Thanks

dylanbj

[Mike Temporale]

All PocketPC's have a flashabe ROM. The only question is if the vendor offers the upgrade. In the past Compaq / HP have been pretty good about upgrades. However they took a fairly long time to release some of the upgrades, and they never released one for the 1910.

Now Toshiba is another story... A lot of people are still upset about Toshiba leaving them out in the cold.

[Kowalski]

totally agree with blue rocket. and i ask the same question to myself. will we have the next os upgrades? better ask hp

[Janak Parekh]

I'd guess no, actually. First off, doesn't the 1940 have a 16MB ROM? Second, HP mentioned during the WM2003 launch that the 19xx series units were "personal" devices for which they wouldn't provide OS upgrades. I'd love to be proved wrong, but don't get the 1940 necessarily expecting an upgrade -- get it because it's a solid little device the way it is now. 8) If upgrading is of paramount importance to you, I'd look at the higher-end iPAQs (again, not guaranteed, but more likely to happen).

--janak

[Mike Temporale]

but don't get the 1940 necessarily expecting an upgrade

For that matter, don't buy any device expecting to get an upgrade. There is no guarante the manufacturer will supply one.

[the sneak]

It has a 64 mb rom

[Fishie]

It has a 64 mb rom

Nope thats RAM

[the sneak]

:oops: i'm a dummie

[cyclwestks]

1940's have a 32 MB ROM, 64 RAM.

[Kowalski]

finally someone posted the right values: 64 megs of ram and 32 megs of rom!
but when it comes to free rom space, 1945 uses a crippled version of os and has more free space.

[Janak Parekh]

1940's have a 32 MB ROM, 64 RAM.
Thanks for the heads-up. I knew, as Kowalski mentioned, that it runs WM2003 Pro, not Premium. I wonder what the basis for that decision was, then -- was it licensing fees?

--janak

[dylanbj]

There aren't many differences between pro and premium are there?