Windows Mobile Louisville

I was cleaning out some stuff in my desk drawers and happened upon one of my old Compaq Pocket PC’s - a 3900 to be exact.  Pulling the unit out of the drawer, I was shocked at how enormous the thing was in my hand, particularly now that I am a Mogul owner! I remember the device feeling totally normal in my hand back in 2002, but as you can see from these comparison photos,  the Mogul is simply dwarfed by the 3900!

The devices have certainly come a long way!  So much smaller, and capable of so much more!  What will a Windows Mobile device look like in 2014, 6 more years from now?!!

The official Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM update for Sprint’s Mogul and Touch has been leaked out early.  Yes, this is the official ROM that will soon be available on both HTC and Sprint’s sites.  I have installed the update for my Mogul and it went very smoothly.  I’m going to post details in the forum about the links, how it went and how I restored my data.

Read this post from back in April to refresh your memory on features of Windows Mobile 6.1.

The ol’ servers at HTC are a-hummin’ today, because the long anticipated ROM update for the Mogul is here!  Here is a story about it on Yahoo, though you probably don’t care about reading that if you have a Mogul!  Instead, you’re going to want to go here for the download.

Mind you, their servers are literally getting slammed, and the file is 60MB in size, so it might take a while.

Enjoy!  Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some downloading to do!  :)

UPDATE: Here is a mirror site, which downloads a lot faster.  I downloaded the file successfully from there.

I am a Sprint Mogul owner, like a lot of us in the Windows Mobile Louisville group. Ever since I bought the device last September, I’d been hearing that the Mogul had a built-in GPS chip, and was eager to find out if and when it was going to be used.  In November 2007, HTC posted on their website that it really did have a GPS chip, and that we should see a new ROM for the Mogul in Q1 of 2008.

“HTC is currently developing a separate ROM update which enables the EV-DO Rev. A and GPS capabilities that are already built into the Mogul hardware. Sprint and HTC plan to make this software ROM available in early 1Q 2008. Please bookmark this page for easy reference.”
(Posted November 29, 2007)

Q1 ends in less than three weeks and we still haven’t seen hide or hair of a ROM from Sprint or HTC.  We have seen an unofficial leaked ROM that enabled the GPS chip and also gave the Mogul Rev A.  Since then, there’ve been lots of rumors of when the real ROM will be released.  This post on PPCGeeks claims that the official ROM (3.35.651.2) will be released on the HTC site on Monday March 10th.  By all appearances, the post looks and sounds very plausible and has a lot of info that seems to make sense to me, so I am sitting here with my fingers crossed hoping it really is true and Monday I will have a Mogul with working GPS and Rev A speeds! - Ian

It looks like HTC is finally admitting, and addressing, the poor video drivers in devices such as the Tilt, the Touch and the Mogul.  They say that the video acceleration will be supported in the future, and will be included in software upgrades for current devices.  Could this be the reason for the delay of the updated ROM for the Mogul?!

No timeframe has been given for this supposed update.  Here is a quote from HTC: (more…)