Windows mobile 6
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Notes on the forthcoming mobile operating system from Microsoft.
- Currently codenamed Crossbow
- Several different versions will be offered:
- Smartphone (read: phones without touchscreens) is rumored to be replaced by "Standard"
- Pocket PC Phone Edition becomes "Professional"
- Pocket PC becomes "Classic"
New Features
- Search through a greater number of e-mail messages on devices than Windows Mobile 5
- A remote user, even without administrator privileges, can wipe all Exchange Server-fed data from a device if it is lost or stolen.
- The OS lets users reply to meeting requests made in Microsoft Outlook in various ways from their mobile devices, another feature that Exchange enables on the back end. Currently, when a user receives a meeting request served up from Exchange on a device, the user can only reply by accepting or declining the invitation. With Windows Mobile 6, a user can send an e-mail reply to the sender of the request or forward the message to someone else from their device, he said.
- Windows Mobile 6 takes advantage of direct e-mail push technology available in Exchange 2007 to receive and send e-mail faster and more efficiently than Windows Mobile 5
- Support for viewing HTML email messages(from POP, IMAP or Exchange servers)
- Full integration with Windows Live
- New versions of Office Mobile that allows advanced editing while retaining formatting.
- Speed improvement for Internet Explorer Mobile
- Contact cards now have call history incorporated with the contact
- Support for over the air (OTA) software updates
- Support for encrypting removable memory
- The MSDN blog has an FAQ about the issues raised with card encryption here
- Support for the following resolutions:
- WVGA (800x480)
- 320x320
Devices with Windows Mobile
Microsoft hardware partners that will have new devices supporting Windows Mobile 6 this year include Toshiba Corp., Lenovo Group Ltd., LG Electronics Inc. and Samsung Electronics Ltd. There are 140 Windows Mobile phones available today, and more than 115 mobile operators support the platform worldwide.
NOTE: Microsoft has announced that T-Mobile will be the first carrier to receive Windows Mobile 6 devices, beginning at the second quarter of 2007. It is unknown at this time how long that exclusivity will hold.
March 27, 2007
Palm has announced that the Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for Treo 750 users will be free
RUMOR:
- Cingular will release Windows Mobile 6 as a free upgrade for their top 3 selling Windows Mobile 5 phones
- These would include:
- Treo 750
- BlackJack
- Cingular 8525
- See [Engadget Mobile's article] for more information.
- These would include:
February 12, 2007
These devices were announced over the weekend:
- T-Mobile is putting it on the Dash, "in the coming months"
- Orange's SPV E650 (HTC)
- Variuos devices by AT&T, Chunghwa, Sprint, Telefónica, and Verizon
- Various devices by Dopod, HP, LG, Moto, Palm, Samsung, SoftBank, Toshiba, and Vodafone
