Windows Mobile 6.1 to be Released on April 1st!

[stevew]

Just like every upgrade...........will my smartphone be one that get's it? Will my carrier even put out the upgrade? And oh boy I get to wipe everything off my phone to upggrade. What a deal.

[stevew]

Just like every upgrade...........will my smartphone be one that get's it? Will my carrier even put out the upgrade? And oh boy I get to wipe everything off my phone to upggrade. What a deal.

[Prosper]

Originally Posted by Mike Temporale

The 500v has a very cool interface. But it won't be exactly the same as 6.1.

Of course it won't - it's not WM500v *lol*

You better get the DLL for the 500v start menu as it has all those things included (message center, list of recently used programs, contact favourits, recently played music, recently opened pictures ...).
Only thing I'm missing is copy/paste (can be added with bunch of extra apps) and threaded SMS (can also be added).

About the so much praised homescreen - it's just one petty DLL. I think it will be available for all devices after a few weeks, just as with the Samsung Carousel homescreen and all those interface things.

So ... not sure if WM6.1 will be really as great as praised.

[alese]

I allready have WM6.1 on my HTC Trinity - via XDA Developers. It's the Professional version (Touchscreen) and it doesn't really look any different than WM6. But I do have to say it's faster and looks like it uses less memory and these are the only things worth anything to me.
As for the other improvements, well there is Task Manager and PIE has zoom function (but it's still lame) and SMS application is showing the conversation - nothing really exciting.

[Twain]

Does anyone know whether or not Samsung will be releasing an update to their sch-i760 phone with Windows Mobile 6.1?

I've been looking at that phone as a replacement for my Treo 700w, which is getting long in the tooth and I haven't heard any Treo rumors lately for 700w replacements. Ideally, an upgrade to the i760 would include WM 6.1, 128 MB of RAM, instant messaging capability (if it doesn't already have it), user accessible GPS, EVDO Rev. A (or whatever is the latest, fastest version) and a 2.0 or greater megapixel camera. I'm not asking for much!!

[zeke009]

Originally Posted by Tim Williamson

Just a heads-up, the T-Mobile Dash/HTC S620/Excalibur/Whatever Else It's Called will for sure support WM 6.1.

If you're right, you just made the 2nd best post in this thread!

The first best has to be the one announcing WM 6.1!!

[Rocco Augusto]

Originally Posted by ajwalker

I don't know Rocco.

I don't think even Microsoft would want the karma of releasing the upgrade to Windows Mobile on April Fool's Day. Even they would see the potential sarcasm and endless opportunities for anti-Microsoft / Windows Mobile jokes and negative PR from the Ivory Tower of Redmond.

I'm leaning (heavily at the moment) towards an early April Fool's Day prank.

(I (really) hope I'm wrong though, we've all been waiting for this long enough.)

There is no bad publicity!

I'm a little skeptical by this as well and sat on it for a few hours wondering if we should even post it. When I finally did decide to run with it I figured "Worse case scenario, no WM6.1 - best case scenario, we have something fun to play with very soon "

[Rocco Augusto]

Originally Posted by stevew

Just like every upgrade...........will my smartphone be one that get's it? Will my carrier even put out the upgrade? And oh boy I get to wipe everything off my phone to upggrade. What a deal.

Kind of makes you want to start a "How soon till I have to wipe my data again" club, doesn't it?

[Rocco Augusto]

Originally Posted by Prosper

So ... not sure if WM6.1 will be really as great as praised.

I have come to the conclusion that WM6.1 will be the Windows ME of it's day. Small tweaks here and there and a few pretty new features and icons to keep us happy until we can finally get Photon or WM7 or whatever new codename the Powers That Be from Redmond are nice enough to give us.