Inquirer: Windows Mobile to be Rebranded "Windows Phone"
Inquirer: Windows Mobile to be Rebranded "Windows Phone"
Posted 07/30/2009 at 6:42am
| by Paul Lilly
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According to news and rumor site The Inquirer, Microsoft plans to rebrand its Windows Mobile operating system to Windows Phone. The name change "reflects the upcoming desktop operating system release where people away from their PC can have the same experience everywhere," Microsoft explains.
The Windows Phone branding will be applied to Windows Mobile 6.1, the upcoming 6.5 release, and also to the multitouch-capable WIndows Mobile 7, due out sometime in 2010. There's no word yet on when the new Windows Phone branding will be implemented, nor do we have much info on why Microsoft has decided to rebrand, other than to make it easier for consumers.
Windows Mobile 6.5 Windows Phone has already been sent to manufacturers and will include the ability to backup all SMS and email content to the Web, remote disabling of the handset, and the new Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
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WolfdaleX86
August 01, 2009 at 3:38pm
Could the name Windows Phone be analogous to Apple's iPhone OS...? You decide for yourself.
icebird
July 30, 2009 at 7:31am
Windows Mobile is more inclusive than Windows Phone... I don't get it MS, but whatever.
sotoa
July 31, 2009 at 5:47am
Now I'll have to say I have Windows Phone 6.1 on my phone? In 10 yrs, we won't even call these things phones, so why limit it to Windows PHONE? I like Mobile better.
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