The great news today, October 6th, is the official announcement of Windows Phones and Windows Mobile 6.5. HTC is one of the leading partners of Microsoft and was present at the local Windows Mobile 6.5 launch event in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Paul Willen has covered the local announcement of the HTC HD2 in the article: “HTC HD2 locally announced by Mark Moons (HTC Benelux)”
In addition to this announcement there was other news as well. While on the Mobile World Congress 2009 it was already announced that HTC Touch Diamond2 and the HTC Touch Pro2 would receive a Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade. The announcement from back then is confirmed today, with the cool addition that the HTC Snap will also get a Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade as well.
In addition my good friend Paul Willen asked the clever question if HTC Sense (which is fully widgetized on the HTC HD2) would also become available on other devices as well with the upgrade. However the HTC Sense interface will only be available on the HTC HD2, and this could be a missed chance for HTC to broaden their Sense userinterface. What do you think ?
Summarizing the Windows Mobile 6.5 portfolio of HTC devices:
- HTC Snap (upgrade);
- HTC Touch Diamond 2 (upgrade);
- HTC Touch Pro 2 (upgrade);
- HTC Touch 2 (pre-installed);
- HTC HD2 (pre-installed);
Finally I’m really happy to see that a large set of devices (already on the market) will receive an upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5. My compliments for HTC !
UPDATE:
Bellow you can find the official links to the Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM upgrades for HTC Snap and HTC Touch Pro2 on the HTC support website:
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