Okay a light-hearted story to… wait, no, really, really annoying news to end the week on! For weeks, now, there have been rumours that Sony Ericsson would release a software update for the X1 Xperia, which would upgrade it to Windows Mobile 6.5. For weeks, I’ve been chomping at the bit at the thought of getting to upgrade my phone to the new version of the OS. Dead excited, I was. Well, now, according to Cnet, Sony Ericsson have issued a statement about the rumoured update of the X1 to WinMo 6.5.
Put simply, it ain’t happening, folks…
So, the question is, of course, why not? Well, logically, it can’t be because of the hardware. The Sony Ericsson X1 is running the exact same Qualcomm processor that the HTC Touch Diamond 2 runs, and that phone runs perfectly well on WinMo 6.5. Not only that, but enterprising WinMo modders have actually managed to get version 6.5 running on the X1, and it actually runs marginally faster than version 6.1.
So, it’s a bit of a head-scratcher as to why there isn’t going to be an official update. Well, unless of course you factor in the possibility of it being a business decision, based on something other than the hardware of the actual phone.
But why would they do that? What other phone have they got coming out that it could… possibly… compete… Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, of course. Silly of me. The Sony Ericsson X2’s on sale soon, isn’t it? And it runs on Windows Mobile 6.5, doesn’t it? And if the X1 runs it, people might not upgrade to the X2, despite the X2 having a better camera and ager screen?
Ah. When put like that, it actually makes a bit of sense. I can see the business sense of that. I might not like it, particularly, but I can see the sense of it.
Ah well, looks like I’m stuck with WinMo 6.1 (’cos there’s no way I’m trying to flash the software… I will brick the phone if I do that), then, till I get my HTC HD2, next year. Good job I still love my X1, otherwise I’d have been really upset.
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