Comments on: UPDATE: No you can’t have it: Internet Explorer 6 Mobile will only come on new phones

By: cingeneer

cingeneer — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:52:03 +0000

Aura: Not only do I totally agree with your comments I have to tell you you have a delightful way with words. My son recently bought an extremely expensive very cool phone but it took him days to clean up the “crapware” that it was “buggered up” with. Works real well now.

By: SiteCharts

SiteCharts — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:26:59 +0000

Is MS stupid? They must be, They are trying their hardest to kill WinMo as a competitor to Android and the iPhone.

By: Mike Klein

Mike Klein — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:47:17 +0000

It would be cuh-razy if they actually let users get this via WM update, huh?

Shi%…I’ve had my 8525 for 2? years almost now and not a single damn update other than croatian fonts in the whole time.

So how do I deal with this stupidity? I’m not going to be upgrading my phone anytime soon…no more phone every 1-2 years. I’ll keep using my 8525 till the thing disentegrates.

I’m watching Android developments closely.

I want a phone which has a high enough cpu to allow me to skype w/bluetooth and in general do at least 2 tasks at once.

And my next UI won’t require a stylus.

I will buy any phone which in the browser will let me get Hulu, etc. Then I’m sold.

Throw in an external vga and high-res for tv hookup w/bt keyboard/etc….and I’m even more sold!!!

By: Aura

Aura — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:18:31 +0000

Doesn't this all boil down to the "subsidized" issue? If we all bought phones at fair market value from the manufacturers before the carriers had a chance to bugger them up with their crapware, then we might have devices more like our laptops onto which we could install whatever browser (and other software) floats our boat. I don't get my home handset from Ma Bell anymore and I have far more choices than I did back in those dark ages.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:18:29 +0000

Honestly its not that much of a big deal considering that Opera and Skyfire are much better than IE anyway, even with the updated version.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:08:14 +0000

This, and smart phones generally, seems pretty f-ing stupid. So one the windows side, the carriers decide everything. on the mac side, they decide everything (like no flash because it’ll compete with their app store).

Why don’t they just let you do what you want with your damn phone? Why can’t you just choose any combination of phone hardware + OS + carrier that you want?

Am I wrong, or is this request just too ‘unreasonable’?

By: PacoBell

PacoBell — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:39:59 +0000

All the more reason to find a nice cooked ROM now. Is this the ecosystem you wanted, Microsoft? Is it?

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:55:08 +0000

GoodThings, it is totally up to the carrier, not the h/w device. If they want you to have the update then you'll get it, otherwise no.

By: William C Bonner

William C Bonner — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:42:28 +0000

I don't understand how http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=246 exists, and posts some of the software that stays available, but It's the only reason that I've been happy with my year and a half old T-Mobile Dash. If I was limited to running the software that T-Mobile makes available, I'd think that the platform itself was terrible.

By: GoodThings2Life

GoodThings2Life — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:24:26 +0000

I'm sure that by "new phones" they'll mean "new models" like the Diamond, Touch Pro, Palm 800w, etc. that have faster processors and more memory.

By: Gavin Miller

Gavin Miller — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:30:38 +0000

Yep, that’s just a load of nonsense. Take the Dell Axim X50v PDA, a model that is still as powerful as any WinMo phone or PDA on the market yet is pushing 5 years old. IE6 would run great on such a device and there are many more similar devices out there. Grrr.

Thank goodness for XDA Developers and the work they do!