Some of us are still trying to keep straight in our brains the difference between Windows Mobile Smartphone, Pocket PC, and Pocket PC Phone Edition devices, but with the impending arrival of Crossbow, that ship has apparently sailed. In the realm of new Windows releases, Vista has obviously been garnering th
e lion’s share of the attention, but Windows Mobile 5 is about to ride off into the mobile platform sunset in favor of Windows Mobile 6 — codenamed the aforementioned Crossbow — and the naming convention to differentiate between its various flavors is riding with it. Smartphone (read: phones without touchscreens) is rumored to be replaced by the slightly less colorful “Standard,” Pocket PC Phone Edition becomes “Professional,” and the plain ol’ Pocket PC becomes “Classic,” perhaps to reflect the fact that phoneless Pocket PCs have been all but shunned to niche markets in recent years. With all due respect to Microsoft and its hardware partners, they could call it “The Stopgap Version To Hold Us Over Until Photon” for all we care; let’s just get some product moving in the pipeline, eh?
January 30, 2007
Microsoft switches up names for Windows Mobile 6
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