Windows Mobile 7 heading to manufacturers for testing

by Julian Prokaza
on Thu 12 Nov 2009 Comment

The launch of Windows Mobile 7 is still a year or so away, but Microsoft at least appears to be sticking to its timetable for the development of the new smartphone operating system.

According to a report by ZDNet Taiwan, Microsoft will ship an early version of Windows Mobile 7 to manufacturers at the beginning of 2010 so that they can start testing with their own hardware. This is part of Microsoft’s ‘Maldives’ program and feedback it gets it return may steer the development of the operating system before it finally appears next October. Oh, and as you might have guessed, we’ve stopped referring to Windows Mobile as ‘Windows Phone’ — it’s too confusing.

Very little information about Windows Mobile 7 has so far surfaced — we’ve seen a few purported screen shots that show a much cleaner user interface and there’s some evidence that it will incorporate similar momentum scrolling as the iPhone, but that’s about all we know (or think we know) so far.

[ ZDNet Taiwan]

Originally published on www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk, now incorporated into Broadband Genie

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