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