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Here is the latest scoop on Windows Mobile:

Market share grows
Reuters reports that Microsoft sold 20 million WM powered devices in this fiscal year(ending in June) - 2x as much as sold last year. Additionaly, Reuters claims analysts stating that Microsoft earns 8-15$ per sold device(which I consider too low - my sources speak of values around 50$).

New screenshots
The Boy Genius Report managed to get their claws on yet another Motorola Q9 running WM 6.1. Here is a quick list of new features:

• Support for AT&T’s Video Share
• New thumbnail browsing
• New Albums feature
• Send to your space (upload to your Windows Live account)
• Updated camera UI
• Updated home screen (more music and multimedia features)
• TV out

WM 6.1 comes on April the 1st
The folks at Pocket-lint claim that version 6.1 of Windows Mobile will ship on the 1st of April. Even though I am not sure if this is true(could be linkbait/an early April’s fools joke); WM6.1 has been running for quite some time….

The folks at BrightHand’s have managed to get their hands on a RedFly somehow - and now bring along their(thorough) review of the device.

Ed Hardy generally was happy with the device, but disliked the bad video performance. He was not able to get TCPMP or Windows Media Player to play back movies on the RedFly’s screen - even though the developer promises improvements, I doubt the viability of these plans…

He concludes as following:

If you’re a Windows Mobile smartphone user looking for a small laptop to help you with tasks like email and web browsing when you’re on the road, and you want to save yourself the hassle of dealing with Windows, then the Celio Redfly is right up your alley.

But the device has a few limitations that keep it from being a good choice for many hard core smartphone users. In short, the Redfly is a useful device for getting work done, but it’s a little weak when it comes to fun.

Get the full scoop here:
http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=13909