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CeBIT 2006 coverage: Toshiba will release Windows Mobile phones March 05, 2006 [General] | By Edward J. R. Japanese corporations are late with releasing of Windows Mobile phones - the only Japanese company making such phone is Sharp, but only for Japanese market - and it uses Japanese cellular standards and thus is not usable outside of USA. 
Another giant Japanese corporation - Toshiba will release Windows Mobile phones and it is very likely that they will presented already at CeBIT 2006 (that starts merely in 4 days - this week): According to the article from German press (that is covering in-depth everything related to CeBIT - as usual) Toshiba is considering to enter smartphone market. Toshiba is already producing very sophisticated mobile phones, also for European market (for Vodafone for example), also for UMTS networks. The power of these phones is very big and they have top notch specifications but they lack possibility to run native (non-Java) third party applications, so having smartphone operating system is becoming vital. It is true that Toshiba has not yet decided which operating system will be selected: Symbian or Windows Mobile, but it is very logical that Toshiba will select Windows Mobile. Linux is rather not considered because all Linux smartphones nowadays can run only Java programs (managed code, but not native applications). While most new announcements with regard to mobile phone industry took place already at 3GSM 2006, it may well be that CeBIT 2006 will bring some surprises and some new Windows Mobile phones from Toshiba may be one of them. After all Toshiba was making very good Pocket PC PDA devices, so progression from PDA to PDA phones would be natural and very similar to this what happened with Fujitsu-Siemens (and previously with HP). In other words: companies from personal computer industry are jumping on the smartphone bandwagon... although in case of Toshiba it would not be first adventure in mobile phone industry - they already made very good mobile phones! Original source of the story: article from Computerwoche (in German).  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
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