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Today, DigiTimes is reporting news given to them from a Taiwanese handset maker. The news is Microsoft is working on a two pronged strategy to combat Apple’s iPhone OS on the high end and Android on the low end. The news seems to be in line with what we’ve heard before, but the timeline gets extended way out into the future.
Google offers their Android for free hoping to get mass adoption. According to the report, Microsoft will use its Windows Mobile 6.5 with a touch upgrade coming in February 2010 at a lower price to battle Android. This seems to indicate Windows 6.5 will launch this fall but in a non-touch form. It is questionable if further upgrades will be offered to the new low-end product.
Windows Mobile 7, which according to DigiTimes, will carry the hopes of Windows team aiming to compete with iPhones. DigiTimes says we won’t see 7 until Q4 of 2010. From what we’ve seen so far, the UI has been retooled to appear more Zune-like, exciting the Zune army.
If the DigiTimes’ info is accurate, that means no WinMo 7 phones until 2011. That’s a long time to wait and a long time to predict how and what Apple, Android, and even webOS will change the landscape by then. If you consider it will have been 4 years (roughly) since the intro of the iPhone, that’s a mighty long development cycle, even for Microsoft.
For those of us who’ve been waiting for something better since the release of Windows Mobile 6, it is a long time coming with no end in sight.
Read [DigiTimes]
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I have to raise few basic questions to Microsoft… Why Microsoft has to keep two platforms alive at the same time to compete against two different players rather than to kill the previous one? Why can’t they put their resources at one place rather than to channel it in different platforms?
on August 19, 2009 at 03:41 PM - LINKKrishna, fair question. I’ll do you one more, what has come of the Danger acquisition? Was that really just for back end stuff?
Seems like a lot of lost opportunities. 2010 is a ways off, we’re sure to see an update from Apple plus who knows how many more iterations of Android.
on August 20, 2009 at 03:15 PM - LINK