A sneak peek at future of Windows Mobile
April 24, 2006 [General] | By Edward J. R.
By now it was only known that Windows Mobile Photon will unite both MS Smartphone and Pocket PC into one platform. Now more information is available like availability of fully customizable user interface in the Photon, and release dates: 2008 for commercial launch of Windows Mobile Photon (probably to be called Windows Mobile 6.0) devices and 2007 for commercial launch of Windows Mobile Crossbow (major upgrade to Windows Mobile 5.0).
In a Microsoft's presentaion about .NET Compact Framework one can notice the following:
“Photon” (Q4 ‘07)
- New, Flexible Shell
- Modular Containers
- “Yamazaki” CE kernel
- Q1/Q2 ’08 Marketing Launch
“Crossbow” (Q4 ‘06)
- Great mobile messaging
- Advanced Business and Enterprise propositions
- Strengthened phone experience
- Faster, easier application development and distribution
- Q1/Q2 ‘07 Marketing Launch
To read more click here (the person who originally discovered this information). A link to a a web cache of Microsoft's presentation from where above quotes come from, is here.
Conclusion: it is nice to see clear dates of commercial launches of next 2 major versions of Windows Mobile, although obviously these dates may be moving yet. The "Windows Mobile 6.0" name is also not certain and "Live Mobile" can't be excluded. One is for sure though: Windows Mobile 5.0 is here to stay at least till 2008, so no need to wait for the Photon! --- if you plan to buy new phone, then Windows Mobile 5.0 still is a good choice nowadays.
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