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….
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I think its more MS EXPECTS to sell 20 million licenses by June.
Also $15 is realistic, because full-sized Windows sold to OEM’s costs about $50, so Windows Mobile should obviously be a lot cheaper. Also Symbian licenses cost about the same.
Hello,
I was reading article and was wondering if there is a way I can download the new WM for my pocket PC, I got it about 3 months ago and I was hoping I could get the new WM on it…
Ian
Hi Ian and Surur,
thank you so much for talking back!
Surur: Symbian is a KERNEL, not an OS. AFAIK; the GUI must be licenced seperately. However, cutting a long story short – my data is a bit old and comes from a small company, so it’s very well possible that the prices have fallen..
As for the updates: it completely depends on your device manufacturer and/or independant users hacking together something…
Best regards
Tam Hanna
With some testing, my opinion for WM6.1 is not so good, nothing new compared to other mobile OS updates, but it seems we need to wait WM7 to see some “shine”