T-Mobile Windows Mobile 6.5 Upgrades In Early January?

"The good news is that this isn't the 400th article this month talking about a potential Sprint/T-Mobile merger. The better news is that this rumor has a stronger chance of coming true than a Sprint/T-Mobile merger. One of my trusty ninjas hit me up tonight with information claiming that a Windows Mobile 6.5 update will see the light of day for the TouchPro2 and Dash 3G beginning January 6th, 2010"

It's a rumor reported by TMoNews, to be sure, however hopefully it's somewhat accurate. I mean when else will T-Mo finally get around to popping out the 6.5 updates for these two phones anyway? (Actually, if past track record is any indication, January 6th 2011 is probably just as likely). Hopefully though within a month us loyal T-mo users will have an official 6.5 upgrade - you know, the OS that was released on October 6 -- for those devices released in early and mid summer!

• Faster
• Marginally better reception
• Pretty stable (but no more so than 6.1)
• You can get to Marketplace, MyPhone etc. w/o hacks
• It doesn't seem to randomly forget WiFi access keys like 6.1 did
• HTC's UI goes deeper.

• "Start" now takes you to the MS honeycomb screen, rather than the HTC programs list. I'm not a fan of the honeycomb
• Access to the MS SIPs is gone if you leave HTCs UI installed. The only options are HTCs keyboards, so if you like Transcriber, or need a key, you're out of luck
• There are still no user assignable buttons: Despite what the setting seem to imply, setting the 'press and hold' on the 'answer' button does absolutely nothing.
• HTC's UI goes deeper - which means there are some things you can't get to.