Palm rolls out WM6 upgrade for Vodafone's Treo 750v
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Aug 29th 2007 11:59AM
posted Aug 29th 2007 11:59AM
Still no love for AT&T customers just yet, but Palm's Treo 750 is slowly transforming from a Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC to a Windows Mobile 6 Professional device across the globe. Following an earlier Australian announcement, it now seems that the official upgrade is available to customers of the Vodafone variant -- the 750v, naturally -- in the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands. Even better, the free download flips the switch on HSDPA, but careful: it's one download per customer for whatever reason, so make sure you drop it on a hard drive that's not seconds away from crashing.[Via the::unwired]
Waiting for this WM6 to drop is ridiculous. Yet another reason why I'll be leaving Treo for BB.
It says the upgrade works on 750v and 750. This should work on AT&T versions of the phone also
The "whatever reason" for the strange download process is due to new requirements from Microsoft.
I have performed the upgrade on my Vodaphone Treo 750v and am now successfully running WM6.
Notes:
1. The upgrade software is available only to registered Palm customers. You can download the software only ONCE.
2. Had some problems during the install - my PC refused to recognise my device after the device rebooted. Was successful on the 5th time (I am a patient man after all..)
New Features:
1. Now I can send contacts as vCards - last time had to edit a contact and copy out and paste the mobile number into a SMS text message.
2. Overall perforance is much faster and less buggy. No more frequent soft resets or unplugging of battery.
3. Windows Word Mobile - faster handling of large text and Word docs (1 MB above). It makes for a more enjoyable experiece when reading ebooks or long reports.
4. Less hogging of internal memory. Feels like there's some sort of more efficient memory cache management running around somewhere.
Concern: My phone software version remains at 1.15-VFE (no change even after upgrade though the look and feel is WM6)