T-Mobile today announced Dash customers can upgrade to Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 via a free desktop download.

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Designed by HTC and available from T-Mobile, the T-Mobile Dash offers fast access to contacts; the ability to view and edit Microsoft Office documents; Web, email and messaging experiences; and access to Microsoft Windows Live for Windows Mobile - a set of Windows Live services - designed to work with Windows Mobile-powered devices.

The T-Mobile Dash provides access to personal and professional email, and all four major instant messaging providers - AOL, Yahoo!, Windows Live Messenger and ICQ. With the addition of Windows Mobile 6, customers have the ability to view email messages in their original rich HTML format with live links to Web sites, which means text and images are displayed as they would be on a PC, whether from a Web-based account such as Windows Live Hotmail or from other popular service providers.

Dash customers can enjoy Windows Live Messenger to chat with more than one person at a time; Windows Live Hotmail that is up-to-date and pushed directly to the device; contacts in a unified, presence-enabled list; Live Search to search the Web for news, local businesses and entertainment, directions, maps, images, and more; as well as Windows Live Spaces to access links to friends' spaces within contact cards and send photos directly to their space from their mobile device.

The T-Mobile Dash offers myFaves, a phone interface which features images of five people for unlimited national calling (excluding toll-free and 900 numbers). myFaves provides access to a straightforward communications menu for email, text and multimedia messaging with just one click.

The free Windows Mobile 6 upgrade will be available online to T-Mobile Dash customers at http://www.t-mobile.com/wmupgrade .

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