Windows Mobile 7 RTM slated for April 2010, Office Mobile 7 in the works

Posted in News. Written by admin on October 9th, 2009

Windows Mobile 7 which was supposed to be launched this year, but was postponed to 2010 giving way for the debut of Windows Mobile 6.5, and from the looks of it, it might take a while before we see any Windows Mobile 7-enabled devices hit the scene.

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Stephen Chapman of Microsoft Kitchen uncovered documents outlining the RTM (release to manufacturing) of Microsoft’s next mobile OS iteration as Spring 2010 making it more unlikely for any Windows Mobile 7 devices to be unveiled early next year. The roll-out of Windows Mobile 7-powered devices was original scheduled for April 2010, but as we had previously reported, it has been moved to the 2H of 2010. This latest news serves to confirm this as it’s highly doubtful that manufacturers will be able to release these new devices in such a short amount of time given that they’ll still have to customize, tweak, and test the new OS on their respective hardware. With this new Windows Mobile 7 RTM date, we’ll probably see the first batch Windows Mobile 7 phones get launched around the third quarter period of next year .

It was also discovered that Microsoft is also preparing a Windows Office Mobile 7 suite as well. Details about it are pretty scarce at the moment and all we have to work on are the mock-up images featured in the PowerPoint slide above that clearly states that it’s meant for use on the Windows Mobile 7 platform. Rest assured, we’ll be reporting more on this once additional information is made available.

Thanks Sean for the heads up.
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