Palm gets official with Treo 750's WM6 upgrade -- in Australia

The good news is that the official Windows Mobile 6 Professional update for the Treo 750 is just around the corner; the bad news, though, is that you probably can't have it yet unless you're lucky enough to live in one particular corner of the world. Following countless incognito shots of WM6-sporting 750s in the wild, an imminent official announcement was pretty much a foregone conclusion -- though we admittedly never suspected Australia would be the first to get the hookup. Specifically, customers of the Australian branch of Hutchison 3 will be able to download the update free of charge starting mid-month, with "other customers" following on in September. Whether "other customers" includes AT&T is unclear, but we're keeping our fingers tightly crossed.

[Via istartedsomething]

[strider_mt2k @ Aug 7th 2007 10:59PM]

"...though we admittedly never suspected Australia would be the first to get the hookup..."

Whoa, easy there tiger.
Don't go expecting Palm to make sense THIS late in the game.

Best to just watch from safely outside of the debris field.

[ericdano @ Aug 7th 2007 11:44PM]

They still make Treos?

[michael @ Aug 8th 2007 12:10AM]

I thought WM6 had a more glossier look, and style?

And Engadget actually goes by a Microsoft lover's blog? Not that I have a prob. with it, I read it all the time. But Engadget? Wow. I'm just amazed that you guys actually go around those blogs.

[jcwacky @ Aug 8th 2007 7:21AM]

I agree, that theme to too flat to be WM6 unless they have simplified it but that would just be silly.

[Eugene @ Aug 8th 2007 12:50AM]

You know, what REALLY amazes me is that
a) Australia gets something first for a change and b) People are always so surprised when engadget posts microsoft news. I think the mac-haters are getting to your brain...

[Zach @ Aug 8th 2007 1:00AM]

I wish Cingular/AT&T would say something, anything about 8125/8525 upgrades to WM6.

[BigNerd @ Aug 8th 2007 1:08AM]

uhhh, most people(at least the kind of people who read engadget) have been running WM6 on their Treo's for the last couple of weeks!

@ ericdano

Yes they still make Treo's... LOL, I bet you have an iPhone, right?

[capagotks @ Aug 8th 2007 8:05AM]

AHHAHAHAHA! we get something first for once! oh wait, VISTA!

[Christopher Hawkins @ Aug 8th 2007 8:57AM]

Point and laugh, gentleman, point and laugh...

- One very happy Australian (they didn't forget about us for once!)

[PG @ Aug 8th 2007 9:59AM]

Less polished look is due to Treo's sucky screen resolution, it's only 240x240.

[wolwol @ Aug 8th 2007 11:22AM]

haha!
and i've just updated mine to the release version of wm6.0 on 750v!
yea!

[sketchy @ Aug 21st 2007 11:24PM]

Where do you get the release version of WM6 for the 750? I haven't heard a peep about this for a couple of weeks...

[wolwol @ Aug 22nd 2007 12:24AM]

I'm on RC3 already....the really really final release of the wm6 for treo 750v *that's what they said to me when releasing RC2*

[DesignerDude @ Aug 9th 2007 3:21AM]

Gosh, this is such an ugly duckling.