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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: