02-11-2004, 11:30 PM
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Samsung i700 To Get WM2003 Upgrade
Samsung has finally made it official on their developer webpage: "An update to Windows Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition 2003 will be available at Verizon Wireless retail store locations in early 2004."
There's no details, and no more specific timeframe, but it's a positive sign. OK, guys, I'm waiting... 
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02-12-2004, 12:58 AM
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Well AMEN! Its about time!
I've been on pdaphonehome.com a lot recently, and was gaining support for an open letter to Verizon regarding delivery of the upgrade.
Janak, is Phone Edition on a different life cycle than PPC OS? I thought both WM2003 and WM2003 PE were released at the same time? Is this true; or was WM2003 PE just released a few months ago?
I've heard some people say that PE was released AFTER WM2003, and I can SWEAR that I thought they were both released at the same time. Even if they weren't tho, I still think that the Phone Edition updates are slow in coming to market. Especially when the MDA2/XDA2/ iMate PPC PE has been available for quite some time...
The T-Mobile update is nowhere to be seen, and the AT&T update was just released. What's up with the slow updates? Can you give us any real insight into why this is taking so long?
Thanks!
Kind Regards,
Christopher Spera
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02-12-2004, 01:05 AM
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Executive Editor
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Originally Posted by Chris Spera
Janak, is Phone Edition on a different life cycle than PPC OS? I thought both WM2003 and WM2003 PE were released at the same time? Is this true; or was WM2003 PE just released a few months ago?
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The Phone Edition is always released later in the cycle because it has more bits and takes longer - I'm not sure what the exact delay factor is, but it's historically always been a few months at least.
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02-12-2004, 01:22 AM
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Magi
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
it has more bits
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:worried: That sounds like a dangerously technical term...
:mrgreen:
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02-12-2004, 01:49 AM
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Magi
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
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Originally Posted by Chris Spera
Janak, is Phone Edition on a different life cycle than PPC OS? I thought both WM2003 and WM2003 PE were released at the same time? Is this true; or was WM2003 PE just released a few months ago?
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The Phone Edition is always released later in the cycle because it has more bits and takes longer - I'm not sure what the exact delay factor is, but it's historically always been a few months at least. |
Plus, as you know, like its big brother, the standard Pocket PC version the update comes from the OEM, and it seems that the carriers and phone manufactures don't give Pocket PC Phone Edition devices the same priority as say the latest phone seen on American Idol. 
Any bets as to when Telus will have it? I seem to remember hearing something like March but I could be wrong. That sounds far to quick.
Dave
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02-12-2004, 04:42 AM
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Thinker
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Chris,
This will be for all the nay sayers who said it wouldn't happen. At least they admit it now.
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02-12-2004, 06:03 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jan 2004
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The PPC and PPC PE both release at the same time
Sometimes there might be a few days variance, but nothing significant.
Keep in mind that marrying anything with a GSM or CDMA radio module is a significant amount of work for the OEM.
Plus, carriers do a lot of additional testing once they get devices from the OEM.
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02-12-2004, 06:29 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Originally Posted by Surgical Snack
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
it has more bits
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:worried: That sounds like a dangerously technical term...
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Microsoft uses it internally to represent the software code inside a device. For example: "Do you have the 3.0 bits in your Smartphone yet?"
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02-12-2004, 07:00 AM
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Ah, another reason for the two device platform :mrgreen: Dumb phone and smart PPC (both with Bluetooth of course) = No long wait for Mr. Programmer Dude to check all those bits.
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02-12-2004, 03:01 PM
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Magi
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This is a bit much. Sorry, there I go again, off topic.
Dave
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