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Next Version of Windows Mobile for Smartphone to be Called Windows Mobile 6 Standard
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"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 the 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?"
According to the folks over at Pocketinfo.nl the next generation of Windows Mobile operating system software will dump the Pocket PC and Smartphone nomenclature in favour of a more simplified and main-stream naming convention. I love the new naming system, wish they had announced this when Windows Mobile 5.0 was launched. I am sure this will reduce the confusion around why Pocket PC Phone Edition is not a Smartphone and how the Smartphone with a capital 'S' is different from smartphone.  Glad that Microsoft is sorting out some of confusion before Apple decides to come out with iPhone vs. Windows Mobile advertisements on the TV. 
The new Windows Mobile product line up:
• Windows Mobile 6 Standard: non-touch screen PDA + phone devices; currently called Smartphone
• Windows Mobile 6 Professional: touch screen PDA + phone devices; currently called Pocket PC Phone Edition
• Windows Mobile 6 Classic: touch screen PDA only devices; currently called Pocket PC
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Posted by Darius Wey on Friday, February 16, 2007 @ 07:00 AM
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