Friday, July 30, 2004
HP Information About SE Upgrade Policy, End-Of-Life For Existing iPAQs
Posted by Janak Parekh in "NEWS" @ 01:00 PM
Two useful articles have cropped up on the Web today that existing and future iPAQ owners should probably glance at:
- Dave's iPAQ has an update from HP regarding their Second Edition update policies. There's news about the iPAQ 6315 (it almost definitely won't have Second Edition), ROM sizes (SE is much larger than FE), what features HP provides instead of SE, and much, much more. One useful quote:
Quote: Will HP update the current shipping products in the future with new Windows Mobile releases?
HP cannot make assurances of future ROM image updates that provide enhancements to Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003. HP’s goal is to maintain a quality product release and provide resolutions to issues on existing ROM images while releasing new iPAQ products with the latest offerings from Microsoft. HP evaluates each release provided from Microsoft and determines the value and quality of that release before making the decision to invest in developing the enhancement of a ROM image for existing products. HP must also weigh the amount of development time required to complete a new release for handheld devices with the timing of future HP and Microsoft updates.
HP cannot make assurances of future ROM image updates that provide enhancements to Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003. HP’s goal is to maintain a quality product release and provide resolutions to issues on existing ROM images while releasing new iPAQ products with the latest offerings from Microsoft. HP evaluates each release provided from Microsoft and determines the value and quality of that release before making the decision to invest in developing the enhancement of a ROM image for existing products. HP must also weigh the amount of development time required to complete a new release for handheld devices with the timing of future HP and Microsoft updates.
- BargainPDA has useful information on end-of-life dates for existing iPAQs. Interestingly, the iPAQ 2215 is not scheduled to be discontinued until December 2005 -- latest amongst all existing models. 8O Is that a typo!?
