Vodafone Road-map leaked - reveals MANY new Windows Mobile phones !
January 06, 2008 [General] | By Edward J. R.
Vodafone is a mobile operator headquartered in UK and it has its most operations in Europe. Nowadays Vodafone operates 7.2 MB/s HSDPA networks across the Europe, so it is interesting to note that several of these new phones also support this speed.
The following models have been revealed in this leaked road-map (click on the model name or code name to see more info and pictures):
Palm Drucker:
- powered by Windows Mobile 6.1
- form factor: fixed QWERTY keyboard for single-handed usage + touch-screen display
- replacement for the Treo 750v
- 320x320 display (touch-screen)
- 2 megapixel camera
- GPS
- WiFi
- Bluetooth 2.0
- release date: July 2008
Palm Wanda:
- powered by Windows Mobile 6.1
- form factor: fixed QWERTY keyboard for single-handed usage + display without touch-screen
- replacement for the Treo 500v
- 320x240 display (no touch-screen)
- 2 megapixel camera
- GPS
- release date: September 2008
HP Oak:
- powered by Windows Mobile 6
- form factor: slide-out QWERTY keyboard + numeric keypad keys + touch-screen display
- WiFi
- GPS
- release date: September 2008
HP Silver:
- powered by Windows Mobile 6.1
- form factor: candy bar smartphone with numeric keypad and no touch-screen
- 320x240 display (no touch-screen)
- GPS
- WiFi
- release date: July 2008
See also: whole Windows Mobile roadmap of Vodafone
Conclusion: since Apple is not licensing its own operating system to 3rd party manufacturers and vendors, and since Linux-based Palm OS is being delayed, and Google Android is not ripe yet, we will see several new Windows Mobile phones in 2008. However the expected release dates of some of these Windows Mobile phones are disappointingly late - and thus seem to overlap with release of 3G iPhone and first Google Android phones, what may endanger their market chances... but both HP and Palm have failed to deliver any new appealing phones in 2007, so it is definitely a good news that at last they will start delivering - in 2008 (i.e. this year)!
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