Tuesday, September 18, 2007
HTC Licenses Smith Micro's Device Management Solution
Posted by Pete Paxton in "Smartphone News" @ 09:00 AM
http://www.theunwired.net/?item=ota-htc-licenses-smith-micro-s-device-management-solution
"Smith Micro Software, Inc. announced today a global licensing agreement with HTC to preload and distribute the Insignia Mobile Device Management client on the next generation of HTC smartphones for consumers and business users worldwide. While Windows Mobile 6 has a native solution for providing ROM updates over the air, for some reason HTC prefers to use Smith Micro's Insignia Open Management Client solution instead, which also provides firmware updates on mobile phones already in the hands of users. The Insignia Mobile Device Management client supports file updates, compressed image updates and multiple sequential updates all in one package and is backed by a broad range of integrity checks to ensure the process is secure and 100 % fault tolerant, even during power outages."Interesting article. HTC wants to be in control of updating your device via ROM updates over the air. So I wonder how this is going to work? Hopefully HTC and Microsoft will know what the other is doing. There are so many cooks in the kitchen these days. My Dash is made by HTC but I have to go to Tmobile for the latest ROM that I thought I would be updating over the air through Microsoft. Who do you think should be in control of updating the ROM on your device? Should it be the manufacturer like HTC, the OS maker like Microsoft, or the network provider like Tmobile?
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