HTC 8125 / 8100 / MDA (USA) / K-JAM / P4300 (Wizard)
What is AKU2?
I'm an MDA owner, and relatively gadget-savvy, but I keep seeing stuff about an AKU2 update on forums (as I try to fix all the buggy stuff that haunts me) and I don't know what it means.
It's like Service Pack 2 for XP, right?
Is it good? What does it fix? Where can I get it? Is it easy to install? Will it void my warranty? I'm so cold.
It's like Service Pack 2 for XP, right?
Is it good? What does it fix? Where can I get it? Is it easy to install? Will it void my warranty? I'm so cold.
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This is categorically NOT a Service Pack in any way, shape or form. AKU2 refers to a specific flash ROM image file that apparently has "fewer bugs" than many of the flash ROM images currently in use today.
HTC (in conjunction with Microsoft, of course) produces a base ROM image that they then provide to the various carriers/providers. Think of this base ROM image as the kind of thing that Microsoft sends out to Dell and HP and other PC manufacturers.
Those providers then take that image and customize it within the boundaries of whatever license they are granted (from HTC and/or Microsoft). That means customized desktops, customized apps, customized look and feel for the apps, any combination of the above and so on. So Cingular has the...
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HTC (in conjunction with Microsoft, of course) produces a base ROM image that they then provide to the various carriers/providers. Think of this base ROM image as the kind of thing that Microsoft sends out to Dell and HP and other PC manufacturers.
Those providers then take that image and customize it within the boundaries of whatever license they are granted (from HTC and/or Microsoft). That means customized desktops, customized apps, customized look and feel for the apps, any combination of the above and so on. So Cingular has the...
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Does anyone know when T-Mobile or HTC might make AKU2 available? I saw on the Windows Mobile website that T-Mobile in the Netherlands has MSFP (which is part of the AKU2 update). Also, push email is available on the Treo 700, so it should be another few months for the MDA, right? (I hope)....
Also, does anyone know of an Exchange hosting service for home users that offers push email? I looked at 4smartphone.net, but their support replied to me saying they don't currently offer push email (it synchs mail by polling the server and updating your device and the server through ActiveSync via Exchange). So, if anyone knows of a similar service that uses (or plans to provide) push email once the MSFP update is available, I would really like ...
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Also, does anyone know of an Exchange hosting service for home users that offers push email? I looked at 4smartphone.net, but their support replied to me saying they don't currently offer push email (it synchs mail by polling the server and updating your device and the server through ActiveSync via Exchange). So, if anyone knows of a similar service that uses (or plans to provide) push email once the MSFP update is available, I would really like ...
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