Palm rolls out WM6 upgrade for Vodafone's Treo 750v
by Chris Ziegler 
posted Aug 29th 2007 at 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]
Filed under: Software, Palm, Vodafone, Windows Mobile
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Winston @ Aug 29th 2007 1:07PM
Waiting for this WM6 to drop is ridiculous. Yet another reason why I'll be leaving Treo for BB.
snader @ Aug 29th 2007 4:37PM
It says the upgrade works on 750v and 750. This should work on AT&T versions of the phone also
BigFella @ Aug 30th 2007 3:21AM
The "whatever reason" for the strange download process is due to new requirements from Microsoft.
Jazz @ Oct 23rd 2007 7:40AM
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)