E-TEN M500 Receiving a Windows Mobile 5.0 Upgrade?

[Darius Wey]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://trans.voila.fr/ano?anolg=65544&anourl=http%3A//www.pocketpcparadise.com/index.php' target='_blank'>http://trans.voila.fr/ano?anolg=655...e.com/index.php</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20050611-M500.gif" /><br /><br />According to the folk at <a href="http://trans.voila.fr/ano?anolg=65544&anourl=http%3A//www.pocketpcparadise.com/index.php">Pocket PC Paradise</a>, PARTELEC (E-TEN's French distributor) has hinted at the release of a Windows Mobile 5.0 update for the E-TEN M500. It's an interesting move by E-TEN, who for the past couple of weeks has been pushing the M600 as their Windows Mobile 5.0 device of the future. Since E-TEN has not made an official announcement on this update, we're happy to tag this one as a rumour for now.

[Paragon]

Two or three members of The Howard Forums have received replies to email stating that the M500 would receieve a WM5.0 upgrade. It does actually look like it was built with an upgrade in mind since it had 128Mb ROM and 64MB RAM, like Dell's x50v

Dave

[Darius Wey]

Two or three members of The Howard Forums have received replies to email stating that the M500 would receieve a WM5.0 upgrade.

Ah! Thanks for the heads-up, Dave. I haven't visited Howard's site in a few days, so I'm glad someone's keeping track. :)

[Phillip Dyson]

Does anyone know if this phone ever received FCC approval. I've been eyeing the m600 as a possible next device but I don't know if I'll even be able to import it.