Future Windows Mobile handsets to be branded as Windows phone

Posted on Monday, February 09 2009 @ 0:35 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Taiwanese market sources claim Microsoft will instruct Windows Mobile phone makers to market these handsets as Windows phones:

Microsoft, which is planning to unveil its Windows Mobile 6.5 platform at the Mobile World Congress soon, has decided that, going forward, Windows Mobile-based handsets will be promoted simply as Windows phones without specifying an OS version number, according to market sources in Taiwan.

In additional news, Microsoft is expected to unveil a beta version of Windows Mobile 7.0 by the end of 2009 with plans to release the platform to device makers in April 2010, the sources indicated.

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