Some of us are still trying to keep straight in our brains the difference between Windows Mobile Smartphone, Pocket PC, and Pocket PC Phone Edition devices, but with the impending arrival of Crossbow, that ship has apparently sailed. In the realm of new Windows releases, Vista has obviously been garnering the lion's share of the attention, but Windows Mobile 5 is about to ride off into the mobile platform sunset in favor of Windows Mobile 6 -- codenamed the aforementioned Crossbow -- and the naming convention to differentiate between its various flavors is riding with it. Smartphone (read: phones without touchscreens) is rumored to be replaced by the slightly less colorful "Standard," Pocket PC Phone Edition becomes "Professional," and the plain ol' Pocket PC becomes "Classic," perhaps to reflect the fact that phoneless Pocket PCs have been all but shunned to niche markets in recent years. With all due respect to Microsoft and its hardware partners, they could call it "The Stopgap Version To Hold Us Over Until Photon" for all we care; let's just get some product moving in the pipeline, eh?

News source: Engadget


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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by paulOr on 31 Jan 2007 - 11:24
here here.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by bigflavor on 31 Jan 2007 - 13:07
Those definitions are wrong. I don't care if engadget has them "printed" like that or not.

A smart phone is not a phone with a touch screen. It is a phone with the smart phone software, usually NOT a touch screen (ie samsung i600).
The pocket PC phone edition (aka professional) is for phones with a touch screen (ie palm treo 600).

Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by RedHook on 31 Jan 2007 - 15:10
I have been running crossbow for a couple of weeks now...

http://www.xda-developers.com/

I actually downgraded to a 3.3 rom..much better
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Tammm on 31 Jan 2007 - 16:06
Looks nice, but no real compelling features from my point of view. Maybe upgraded live integration is nice, but thats about it imo.
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