"Official" WM5 updater for Samsung i730 leaked

This is just getting out of hand. After waiting a million billion years for Samsung to release their promised Windows Mobile 5.0 update from Windows Mobile 2003 for their SCH-i730, a few users managed to nab a build of the OS from a beta tester and have been humming along happily for the past couple of months. Now a forum user has found the download link to the "official" updater, and users hungering for legitimacy or who never updated in the first place are updating their i730s as we speak. Turns out the build is incredibly similar, slows down the phone just as much as before, and works fine when updating from 2003 and even the 5.0 rip (with a bit of tweaking on the latter). Seems another score for the i730 users, we just don't know why Verizon/Samsung won't just release the update already.

[Thanks, Jon]

[(Unverified) Posted May 20th 2006 1:45PM]

Give me link to legal updater, pleaaaase. You can do it via mail

[(Unverified) Posted May 20th 2006 5:10PM]

http://download.vzwshop.com/vzw/samsungos/Samsung_i730_WM5_Upgrade.exe

[(Unverified) Posted May 21st 2006 3:03PM]

You're better off with the "leaked" version. The only real difference is a prettier boot up screen and disabled tethering in the "official" version.

[(Unverified) Posted May 22nd 2006 6:56AM]

Verizon has pulled the update from their web site.

[(Unverified) Posted May 22nd 2006 2:15PM]

Nope it is still there, and so are the instructions on how to do it. Someone please get this for the i830!