Samsung SGH-i600 Windows Mobile 6 ROM upgrade available
Posted by Dusan on Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 at 8:47 am under Samsung, Windows Mobile, Devices
European owners of the Samsung SGH-i600 smartphones can now upgrade their devices with the latest version of the Windows Mobile OS. But, it’s not just Windows Mobile 6 that will appear on your i600 — the ROM update will also include the new version of Office Mobile which supports Office 2007 XML-based file formats, as well as Windows Live and Windows Live Messenger.
Unfortunately, at the moment, the upgrade is available only for users in Netherlands and Russia, with other localized versions (France, Germany, Italy and UK) to follow soon. Also on the bad side is the fact that in order to update your smartphone with Windows Mobile 6, you’ll need a PC with Windows XP and ActiveSync 4.x. So if you’ve already installed Vista, check out your colleague’s PC - he may still have the XP running on his machine.
At the end, we need to warn you NOT to try updating your Blackjack — even though the Samsung i600 is known as the European Blackjack, the radio parts in the two devices are different (i.e. BlackJack excludes WiFi and the front video calling camera). Finally, our source - the::unwired got the word that the upcoming i600s will be sold with Windows Mobile 6 pre-installed!
August 1st, 2007 at 9:41 am
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August 29th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
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October 10th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
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October 10th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
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January 31st, 2008 at 8:32 am
any idea when the update will be available for the south african public??
February 23rd, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Samsung SA told me on Friday that the upgrade can be performed by Samsung service centres. No idea how much that will be. Why can’t Samsung adopt a common policy internationally?
July 5th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
i have a i600 phone, but i dont know how to upgarde the phone. my phone version is i600UXXGG2. can anyone pls help me hoe to upgrade my phone.
July 15th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
[…] Unfortunately, South East Asians won’t have the convenient online update-access that the European set […]
August 17th, 2008 at 7:46 am
I bought a Samsung i600(in 2008),recently and cannot download any applications,concerning games,windows office and such.I did not even got a proper manual for my phone which cost me alot,taking other phones into account.Can someone plz,plz help me verify this problem?
August 20th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I recently upgrade my SGH-I600 Samsung to WM6 only to find out that my windows vista machine does not recognize the SGH-I600 device. Also, when I power it on, it dislays Windows Mobile (WM6) and then vibrates for 8-9 secs and then automatically switches off. Is there anythiny I can do to fix this porblem?
Model: SGH-I600
FCC ID: A3LSGHI600
SSN:i600GSMH