HTC Touch Pro2, Diamond2 and Snap will be eligible for Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade
Good news for owners of HTC’s latest bumper crop of Windows Mobile phones. Lars Christian Weisswange, the Regional Director of HTC for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, has reportedly confirmed that the HTC Touch Pro2, the Diamond2 and the HTC Snap will be upgradable to Windows Mobile 6.5 when the OS is officially released by Microsoft in early October. The ROM update will be free (yay!) and will feature the latest version of TouchFLO 3D, which reportedly borrows its look and feel from HTC’s Sense UI for Android. No details on when the ROM upgrade will be provided, which countries outside Germany, Austria and Switzerland are included or whether carrier involvement will influence availability. In the unfortunate event you can’t get your hands on an “official” Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM, there is always the xda developers forum,which has been providing WM 6.5 ROMs for several months now.
[Via wmpoweruser]
If you’re going to upgrade a ROM, I can’t understand why you wouldn’t use something from XDA.
This is awesome news. Even if it weren’t, a chef certainly would have cooked a custom winmo 6.5 ROM and make it eligible.
i was wondering since TP2 is coming out and WM6.5 is not out until Oct. i wasnt considering the TP2 because it had WM6.1. & being such a monster of a phone it was a shame it was running 6.1
Upgrade to 6.5 is quick and painless, thanks to XDA folks. Why wait?
Windows Mobile 7 Beta and Motorola Caesar.
http://motorolazine.biz/index.php?topic=549.0
According to an email I got from Sprint. The Touch Pro will also be getting the Wm 6.5 update. This is accurate as of yesterday.
I actually upgraded to NATF’s 6.5 ROM on my Touch Pro and decided to revert to 6.1. It’s nothing against NATF, its a great ROM, but I had all kinds of interface issues with old programs on 6.5. Forcing menus on old programs to conform to the new finger friendly interface was kind of a train wreck on some programs. For the in built apps things were ok but third party programs are going to need overhauls; and since some of my apps are 6 years old I don’t think they’re being updated anymore.
I’m hoping that when the official ROMs come out the issues are solved but I’m suspecting 6.5 will suffer the traditional Windows backwards compatibility curse (but this time there’s no “Compatibility Mode”).
Please, please, please tell me how to revert my TD2 to 6.1
Everything is screwed and spb backup will not fix!!
RUT ROH!!!! Here come all of the issues followed by all of the upgrades and patches and then followed by all of the negative press. And ultimately, by all of the iphonefanboy WinMo haters club!!!
My only worry, is that i buy a TP2, upgrade to Winmo 6.5 and WinMo 7 is Drastically different….if they wont be then il go ahead and deal wit 6.1 for a Month.
But i better see a noticable difference from 6.1 & 6.5 othawise that HERO gets the nod
Those that read these blogs are probably smart enough to already have (if they wanted) installed 6.5 on their HTC phones. I went 6.5 in May, smooth sailing. The builds are getting faster & smoother. The last 4 builds from RRE have been very stable. XDA is the way to go!
so… it says Snap will be upgradeable. Is this only for the unbranded Snap, or is my Dash 3G going to be upgradeable as well?
@Dannyboy
This story was about european models. HTC has said nothing OFFICIAL about american models. Hope this helps.
this is good news! I have the TP2 on tmobile and can’t wait for this upgrade!
so how hard is it to upgrade to 6.5? does it mess with your saved contacts and calendars, etc? (sorry…. this is going to be my first smartphone–tp2) Would i be better off waiting until Oct to buy it? I’m on Verizon… thanks
What is the difference between the offical windows mobile 6.5 and the one published by xda-developers?
If I have an unlocked T-Mo phone, will it lock it again once I upgrade to WinMo 6.5?
When you upgrade it does a HARD Reset which does erase the phone completely. You can back it up very easily to you PC(before you upgrade). It really is very simple to upgrade, just follow the instructions and you should be fine. Good luck
if I upgrade to the xda-version, would I still get the correct version in october? sorry bad english!
and do the newest version of TouchFlo 3D comes with it?
I have an Unlocked USA Version Touch Diamond and believe me I’ve tried to understand that web site but can’t unravel it’s complexities.
If you can direct me to the where and how, without me spending half a day searching for RUU’s that don’t work, I’ll be indebted to you for life.
Joe
does sombody know if HTC TyTn II will be upgradable to wm6.5?