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HTC today announced that something great has happened for you since HTC is no longer holding its ROM updates behind an e-Club registration wall. As of Thursday, just like on HTC's US site, you will be able to visit the support section for any of HTC's unlocked Windows Mobile smartphone and UMPC models and see a link to downloads, including ROMs. For sure, these ROMs can be used with original HTC devices only and will not work with carrier branded versions (out of the box) but many of us has experienced the frustration of not being able to register a phone properly on the HTC e-Club, and therefore have been denied a ROM update. Actually HTC listened to all our complaints and opened the download to everybody.

Samsung Singapore just made its first ROM update for the SGH-i900 Omnia Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional smartphone available which can now be downloaded from the web.
This self-service ROM update (no more service center returns) should include new functionalities like new widgets for Samsung's custom Today screen and a brand-new Hanyu Pinyin text input method for typing in Chinese characters as well as several bug fixes. Other changes and enhancements are unknown yet because Samsung doesn't published a detailed change-log.

While the Samsung SGH-i900 Omnia was initially released in "modern black" (chrome front with black battery cover), Singaporean can soon select between black and white. As CNet Asia's Crave blog reported on Monday, Samsung Singapore will introduce a white version (with a slightly different structure) this weekend. Looks like Samsung is continuing re-releasing current devices with new colors, like before with AT&T's BlackJack II refresh.
Furthermore, CNet Asia reports that Samsung Singapore will also release a ROM upgrade in Singapore later this month, which includes new widgets for the custom Home screen and a brand-new Hanyu Pinyin text input method for typing in Chinese characters.

Not too much is known yet about Motorola's latest Windows Mobile project but The Boy Genius Report received information about an upcoming Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard (non-touchscreen) device which might follows the Motorola Moto Q. Code-named "Alexander", at least the screen indicates that it is a Standard smartphone, the smartphone features a slide-out QWERTY thumb-keyboard, a massive 5 - 8 megapixel camera, NVIDIA chip the handle 3D graphics and a aGPS receiver. However, no word yet about the used/supported WWAN technology or frequencies: