{"id":10749,"date":"2009-08-27T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2009\/08\/27\/sprint-verizon-to-launch-touch-pro-2-with-windows-mobile-6-1-wm6-5-to-follow\/"},"modified":"2009-08-27T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T15:36:00","slug":"sprint-verizon-to-launch-touch-pro-2-with-windows-mobile-61-wm65-to-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10749","title":{"rendered":"Sprint, Verizon to Launch Touch Pro 2 with Windows Mobile 6.1, WM6.5 to Follow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 2px 15px 5px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"Sprint &amp; Verizon Wireless HTC Touch Pro2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sprint &amp; Verizon Wireless HTC Touch Pro2\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tpro2_spver.jpg\" width=\"239\" height=\"243\" \/> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The fact that Sprint and Verizon will launch their respective versions of the HTC Touch Pro2 with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional isn\u2019t exactly hot news; but according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmexperts.com\/sprint-verizon-touch-pro-2-launch-wm61-us-cellular-goes-wm65\" >WMExperts<\/a>, each company\u2019s model already has a test version of Windows Mobile 6.5 ROMs under review, which \u2013 to us \u2013 was an interesting tidbit.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">HTC has touted the Windows Mobile 6.5 readiness of the Touch Pro2 and Touch Diamond2 since the two handsets were first announced earlier this year, but if the WMExperts story is true the OS upgrade is a certainty, not just an exercise in technical software compatibility.&#160; This is of import to many users who don\u2019t wish to invest in a device today that won\u2019t be issued an upgrade to the upcoming Microsoft mobile OS when it\u2019s released later this year.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">No word on availability of the upgrades at this time, or whether the companies will charge for them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/sprint_touch_pro2.htm\">Sprint HTC Touch Pro2<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/verizon_touch_pro2.htm\">Verizon Wireless HTC Touch Pro2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe fact that Sprint and Verizon will launch their respective versions of the HTC Touch Pro2 with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional isn\u2019t exactly hot news; but according to WMExperts, each company\u2019s model already has a test version of Windows Mobile 6.5 ROMs under review, which \u2013 to us \u2013 was an interesting tidbit.<br \/>\nHTC has [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10749\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}