Looks like a new stopgap version of Windows Mobile 6 will be released before we see a full-blown version of Windows Mobile 7. Read on for more WinMo news…
According to Taiwan’s DigiTimes – a regular source for the latest WinMo gossip – Microsoft will be talking up Windows Mobile 7 at next month’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona after all, but only in terms of when it’ll be available.
And that date is believed to be September – or for manufacturers, anyway: if the first handsets running the full-blooded new OS sneak in before in end of 2010, it won’t be by much.
To be fair to Microsoft, promised back in November that it would make an announcement regarding WinMo7’s release at the MIX 2010 conference in March. Ignoring all the speculation since, this news (if true) would see it actually beating that prediction by a month.
In the meantime, the stop-gap Windows Mobile 6.6 “Maldives” rumours have been cemented – or partly so, anyway – by Garmin-Asus’ announcement of their collaborative Nuvifone M10 (pictured) for the Taiwanese market.
Apart from being an interesting mashup of the former’s GPS skills and the latter’s hardware, it’s also listed as running Windows Mobile 6.5.3, which it names the aforementioned Maldives.
With the M10 pencilled in for a February release over in Taiwan, it’s likely that the difference is simply in the numbering, and that this is indeed the WinMo refresh Microsoft will give us at MWC.
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