{"id":28,"date":"2006-09-06T22:46:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T08:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/06\/windows-mobile-2003-support-lifecycle\/"},"modified":"2006-09-06T22:46:44","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T08:46:44","slug":"windows-mobile-2003-support-lifecycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/06\/windows-mobile-2003-support-lifecycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Mobile 2003 Support Lifecycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Jason Langridge has a brief blog item about the support life cycle for Windows Mobile 2003 devices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jasonlan\/archive\/2006\/09\/06\/742675.aspx\">Windows Mobile Support Lifecycle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He says that official mainstream support for Windows Mobile 2003 ends in mid-2009. Of course, as Jason points out in his blog, everything really depends on the hardware manufacturer. Case in point: HP released the popular iPaq 2215 in 2003. It was a feature rich device in a nice small form factor. However, HP never provided an upgrade path from Windows Mobile 2003 to 2003 Second Edition (let alone Windows Mobile 5).<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/h18007.www1.hp.com\/support\/files\/HandheldiPAQ\/us\/locate\/105_5722.html\">software and drivers downloads page for the iPaq 2210\/2215<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0 there were three patches\/utilities released for it in 2005 and nothing in 2006. So, it is pretty safe to say that this particular model had about 2.5 years of firmware support (mid-2003 to end-of-2005).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Jason Langridge has a brief blog item about the support life cycle for Windows Mobile 2003 devices. Windows Mobile Support Lifecycle He says that official mainstream support for Windows Mobile 2003 ends in mid-2009. Of course, as Jason points out in his blog, everything really depends on the hardware manufacturer. Case in point: HP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices","category-windows-mobile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}