16GB Athena coming soon

[mcwtrekkie]

...apparently...

http://www.pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=4961

[crazy cat]

This are realy briliant news!

Im 100% sure now, that we will have Wm 6.1 for our x7500´s.

[mcwtrekkie]

That also excited me .. although I'm a little in the dark about what the advantages of 6.1 are? Is it just an update, or does it have a any new features/things to actually get excited about?

[kdskamal]

Please do away with those magnets and addin a microphone. Also, I want them to use the flash disk instead of HDD

[Shiva]

I have no doubt that will be WM7 for Athena)

[crazy cat]

That also excited me .. although I'm a little in the dark about what the advantages of 6.1 are? Is it just an update, or does it have a any new features/things to actually get excited about?

A new User Interface, and some new better features - but no infos from that for now, i think.

I have no doubt that will be WM7 for Athena)
Why are you so sure?
When the infos i heard about Wm7 are trough, then we wont be able to use Mulit-Touch, Shake-feature and more :-(

[Shiva]

All this functions is based on built-in camera :)

[crazy cat]

All this functions is based on built-in camera :)

But not multi-touch...or am i wrong?

Hope here are some german devs, who will share a german WM6.1 and then a german WM7 :D

[c0mput0r]

OOO man i hope that the 16gb version will be flash or something solidstate and that it will be a drop in replacement so that we will be able to get in on that sweet action.

[crazy cat]

OOO man i hope that the 16gb version will be flash or something solidstate and that it will be a drop in replacement so that we will be able to get in on that sweet action.

No,sorry.
Its HDD again:
T-Mobile Germany today unveiled the T-Mobile MDA Ameo 16 GB, the follower of the earlier released MDA Ameo, T-Mobile's version of the HTC Athena.
While the device design stays the same - more or less (except some keyboard rearrangements as T-Mobile Germany said in its press release) - the Ameo 16 GB gets a doubled hard disk drive, featuring 16 GB, compared to the original MDA Ameo/HTC Athena and T-Mobile Germany accidentally confirmed that the new Ameo will run with Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional:

[crazy cat]

I have red the offical prerelease of the news and I have found intresting sentence:
das Betriebssystem Office Mobile 6.1, das Office 2007-Dateiformate unterstützt. Nutzer können Word- und Excel-Dateien aus Office 2007 am Ameo 16 GB betrachten und bearbeiten. Weitere Merkmale von Office Mobile 6.1 sind die Möglichkeit, Dateien aus ZIP-Ordnern zu öffnen und anzuzeigen, und die verbesserte Darstellung von Diagrammen in Excel Mobile.

First TM say: OS Office Mobile 6.1

Then only Office 6.1

Does TMob maybe mean the 16gb Ameo will have WM6 with Office 6.1?
http://www.t-mobile.de/unternehmen/presse/pressemitteilungen/1,12219,19839-_,00.html
bye

[mcwtrekkie]

Nice to know we'll have the 6.1 rom to play with soon enough. (Or rather .. I'll let others play with it and add all the goodies into some custom ROM :P - rom cooking is well beyond me, I wouldn't know where to start, despite an interest to :@)

An updated version of the keyboard was mentioned too - that isthe key layout is redesigned, but still nothing of it being backlit or anything else terribly fancy

The hard drive upgrade sounds nice, but a bit o a bugger for those of use with the current model, as far as I'm aware, it's not the easiest thing to get ahold of the current hitachi drives, let alone a 16gb version. Plus, even with the service manual, the athena is a b*tch to open

Just my 2 cents

[crazy cat]

I realy think, its not WM6.1 its WM6.0 :(

you can read here (german):
http://www.golem.de/0801/57109.html

Im Ameo 16 GB kommt nun Windows Mobile 6.0 zum Einsatz. Neben den üblichen PIM-Applikationen zur Adress-, Termin- und Aufgabenverwaltung gibt es die Mobile-Varianten von Word, Excel und PowerPoint in den aktuellen Versionen. Dadurch lassen sich auch Dateien aus Office 2007 damit bearbeiten. Zudem liegen ein E-Mail-Client, der Internet Explorer Mobile und der Windows Media Player Mobile bei.

[mcwtrekkie]

Oh snap!

Perhaps the linked article was confusing it with Office 6.1?


Maybe we wont get WM6.1 for our Athena :(

[crazy cat]

Oh snap!

Perhaps the linked article was confusing it with Office 6.1?


Maybe we wont get WM6.1 for our Athena :(

I think also. But here are enough devs, who will made WM6.1 for x7500, i hope.

[eaglesteve]

I think also. But here are enough devs, who will made WM6.1 for x7500, i hope.

I thought wm6.1 is only for non touchscreen, no? Never saw anything about wm6.1 indicating it's for touchscreen.

[crazy cat]

I thought wm6.1 is only for non touchscreen, no? Never saw anything about wm6.1 indicating it's for touchscreen.

No!
I heared its for Toch and non Toch pdas. But there will no be a non-phone version. Thats my info

[Madhadder]

WM6.1 and WM7 will be released in the same 3 versions as WM6.

Standard: Smartphones (Without Touchscreens)
Professional: Pocket PC's with Phone and Touchscreens
Classic: Pocket PC's / PDA (No Phone, With Touchscreen)

[crazy cat]

WM6.1 and WM7 will be released in the same 3 versions as WM6.

Are you sure? I have got an info, that Micr. plans to have only 2 version for Wm7: "Smarthone" - without touchscreen and "Smartphone Pocket Pc" with touchscreens. But no WM7 for non-phone-pda´s. This is a strategy from Micr. for get the marked back against the iPhone.

Thats the info i have.

[keithwwalker]

I will upgrade when they put in a 64GB SSD, and do away with the stupid magnet keyboard (stick with the graffiti text input, or copy the Apple phone keyboard).

One other thing, video drivers to take advantage of the screen real estate!!!

Keith Walker