Motorola: Windows Mobile 7 coming in 2010

Motorola: Windows Mobile 7 coming in 2010

Sam Symons on 03 February 2009 - 20:38 · 13 comments & 4256 views

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Electronista is reporting that Microsoft's next Windows Mobile version, 7, will not be ready until 2010. The statement comes straight from Motorola chief Sanjay Jha, who mentioned this news in a company conference call, discussing Fall 2008 results.

Motorola has been focusing on Android more this year, and Jha explains that this is simply because "Android is more competitive" this year, but Motorola remains a Windows Mobile company.

This is interesting news as just yesterday, the Wall Street Journal had speculated that Motorola was giving up on Windows Mobile. Perhaps that is why Jha mentioned it.

Windows Mobile 6.5 is due out this year, and will bring a revamped interface and some http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/19/m...itor-next-month, fulfilling Microsoft's goal of having a new Windows Mobile every year.

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(3 replies) #1 LTD on 03 Feb 2009 - 20:59

Late to the game already, and then even later. But perhaps it's ok for WinMo to become competitive when MS feels like it. Let's hope consumers feel the same way.

#1.1 +Kirkburn on 03 Feb 2009 - 23:12

LTD said,

Late to the game already, and then even later. But perhaps it's ok for WinMo to become competitive when MS feels like it. Let's hope consumers feel the same way.

Wait, what?

#1.2 +techbeck on 04 Feb 2009 - 00:01

Love all your negativity you pose against MS and all you have is positivity towards Apple. You cannot say a good thing about MS and you cannot say a bad thing about Apple. Heck, I hate Macs with the fire of a thousand suns, but even I can say good things about them. If MS was such crap and garbage, then why are more people using MS products. At least you can copy/paste and run multiple apps with Windows Mobile....

But I have to say, your posts are entertaining and gets me thinking sometimes...so I guess it isnt all bad :-)

*goes back to search for a place free or arrogance*

#1.3 +Xerxes on 04 Feb 2009 - 03:50

LTD has a point but. MS are doing what they always do, they come into the market and dominate it and then they sit there twiddling their thumbs. WinMo has been around for sometime and it shows, while functionality wise it still up there with the best of them, the UI is much to be desired (leaving it up to 3rd party developers to make new front ends for it, to keep it looking modern). It has taken Apple to come in with the awesome iPhone OS to get MS to reassess their situation and do a serious rework of the OS to keep in the game.

Yes, I know there are plenty of WinMo devices out there but most of the ones I've seen have to rely on an addon front end to keep it looking slick, but underneath it's the same aging OS. I am not saying it's crap, just that MS needs to modernize it to keep it on top of it's game.

(1 reply) #2 peacemf on 03 Feb 2009 - 21:14

well palm is back , and we'll have to wait and see what happens with that....
i dont care for android, as nothing i use supports it......
dont like apple because of the usual restrictions....
blackberry isnt too bad, but we'll see.......

HOWEVER unless win mobile comes back soon and in a BIG way its likely we'll just go down one of those routes and never come back

#2.1 GP007 on 04 Feb 2009 - 02:03

Well, like you said yourself Palm is back. How long have they been out of the game? Yet just like that with the Palm Pre, everyone is taking notice again.

I'd wouldn't count MS out just yet. If they stick to the "new WinMo version every year" plan, then great.

(2 replies) #3 +bob21 on 03 Feb 2009 - 21:16

Late to the game ? Windows Mobile is in its sixth revision now its been out since 2001 .

Oh well as a Windows Mobile user i cant say i want much improved multitasking through a proper taskbar is what weve been asking for the last half a decade and have turned to third party software to provide oh and another thing id love the Software Input Panel to be disabled by default when the hardware keyboard is open .

What we have right now is fantastic .

#3.1 matthewf01 on 03 Feb 2009 - 21:26

Find yourself a little app called NullKB to disable the SIP on startup.

#3.2 +bob21 on 03 Feb 2009 - 21:42

Yeah i use NullKB but it would be nice if the pannel was completely disabled when the keybord was expanded and only enabled when the keybord is shut

#4 TommyT on 03 Feb 2009 - 22:40

I cant wait for windows mobile 6.5 , it looks awesome

#5 plexdude on 04 Feb 2009 - 03:20

What about some of us PDA users? I have a plain PDA, no phone functionality that came with Windows Mobile 6. Specifically, it's an HP iPAQ Classic 111. So far, it seems to me like smartphones are the only ones that will have available upgrade paths. As useless as my PDA was when I bought it, it's even more so knowing that there's no upgrade ability in it's future without some significant workarounds/hacks if they ever surface to see the light of day. Here's hoping that it wasn't that much of a waste of money. A new OS that has some useful functionality and ease of use to it would do miracles for this thing and might actually compel me to bust it out and use it for something other than GPS navigation in the rare instance that I travel to some unfamiliar territory.

#6 MarcoDigi on 04 Feb 2009 - 13:39

As a Windows Mobile fan, they've better come up with some damn good functionality to justify the 2010 release. (Though come to think of it, it isn't that long off after 6.5...)

#7 Quikboy on 05 Feb 2009 - 03:17

At least Motorola isn't being stupid to let go of WinMo - Despite how very non-consumer friendly it looks, it's still used in the business world, and with the right touches, can be marketed to regular consumers too.

Hopefully 6.5 and 7 don't disappoint too much.

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