Phones with Windows Mobile 6.5 coming in October

Filed under: Cell Phones, Phone Software | By: Jamie Pert
Posted on: September 2, 2009 | No Comments

Phones with Windows Mobile 6.5 coming in October

With all of the growing competition with mobile phone Operating System’s Microsoft are hoping that Windows Mobile 6.5 will help claw back some lost market share, according to sources Microsoft’s latest mobile OS Windows Mobile 6.5 will launch worldwide October 6th.

Handsets running Windows Mobile 6.5 will now be marketed as a new brand of handsets known as Windows Phone, Windows Mobile general manager had this to say on the subject, “We know people want a phone for their whole life,” and “They just frankly want to do more. That’s why we’ve shifted.”.

Windows Mobile 6.5 is said to be a completely re-designed OS for handsets, and they will be hoping to pick up more enterprise users who are currently using BlackBerry handsets, however with Research in Motion always improving its going to be hard for Microsoft to convince customers that Windows Phone is the better way.

For full details check out Cnet’s article here.

Would you be tempted to choose a Windows Mobile 6.5 handset?

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