Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 8th Feb 2007 04:52 UTC
Windows "I have a huge list of all of the tweaks that have been done to the operating system but I'll save that for next week. Also, if you're wondering, you can expect Windows Mobile 6 devices in the marketplace worldwide by second quarter 2007." More here (screenshots). Betas of WinMob6 also had integrated VoIP support via SIP in them, but it doesn't seem that this was announced along the other features.
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RE[3]: Power usage
by Eugenia on Thu 8th Feb 2007 08:59 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Power usage"
Eugenia
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You can't just "install" a final release. It is not an OS that you can just install. Different models from different manufacturers use different, incompatible BIOSes and boot managers and hardware that drivers don't always exist in the default OS.

As long as there is not a leaked version of the OS for *your* model, you can't just install it.

The phone market is not the same as in the PCs. Phone manufacturers don't even try to be compatible BIOS/hardware-wise with their competitors, and that's why you need special builds for these models. This is not MS' fault, it's just how that market is.

Eventually, MS might decide to offer guidelines and hardware specifications so all PPC phones are fully compatible in the low-level code with each other, but honestly, I don't expect this to happen, because CARRIERS don't want this to happen. If every Joe User upgrades his phone and loses the branding and the specially-optimized/modified OS, this can only mean support headaches to the carrier, and trust me, they will fight really hard so you, the user, will never get generic OS upgrades.

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