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I hope so... very disappointed with 6.5.3 so far.
starting to be too late now, 7 should have come out when 6.5 did
7 should come out when it's done. Not sooner. Period.
:)
I thought the original rumour was that Blamer would show off WinMo 7 at MWC, not launch it? I don't think I even heard a MWC launch mentioned until this 6.6 stuff came up...
It seems quite obvious that 7 won't launch at MWC, but we might get to see it. It'll be v6.6 that'll launch then to tide vendors over for the summer.
I suspect that 6.6 will effectively be a "final" buld of 6.5.3, so the current "dev" tree that lots of us have been playing with that has the start menu/close button at the bottom, and probably with the new addtion of native capacative touch support.
Makes sense as it really does improve the finger friendlyness of WM by a long way, and is suitable to run on the vast majority of current and previous generation WM devices (HTC Touch or Diamond for example), wheras WM 7 will need slightly higher specifications to run smoothly.
What I keep hearing is that there will be more information on WM7 released at MWC, and I suspect it will be Q4 2010 before we see any production devices running it..more likely Q1 2011 in reality. Would place a bet that you'll be able to get your hands on it via XDA Dev towards the end of this year tho :)
Over on XDA, someone asked HTC about upgrading the HD2 to windows mobile 7 and they hinted it would be coming out in November and that it would be a free download:
Windows mobile 7
They should just give up on WinMo, it probably costs them more money than anything else. Nobody is impressed with their rubbish attempts at embedded.
All of my smartphones bar my old P910i have been WinMO based, they tie nicely in with my desktop OS and apps and my hotmail/live account, I can do my mileage on the phone in excel on the go and then connect to the exchange server at work to email it directly to the accounts lady that does expences and she can check it in her version of excel and pay me.
Works pretty well for me...
It's aimed primarily at business users, and it does a very good job for them (myself included) to be honest. No other platform has such tight Exchange Integration (especially with WM 6.5/ex 2010), and despite the market share RIM have in business with blackberry, that is largely legacy based I am certain - lets face it, they were the first to market with a reasonably good push email solution, and after a large company has invested the millions required for a BES setup they are not going to switch away from it, regardless of whether there are better solutions out there or not. They got there with the brand first, marketed well and thus have a good reputation..and in the US they are kings still.Quote:
Originally Posted by aidanjt
Home users will likely get on better with iPhoneOS or Symbian, but iPhoneOS is frankly rubbish for business use (great for home/multimedia though I agree!), and Symbian is still 5 years behind everyone else i'm afraid and is still the slowest/buggiest out there..just look at what Nokias NSeries has done to them..
Android is a reasonable competitior these days in terms of functionality if using HTC's apps to add in support for exchange/push email, but time will tell on that one..it may start to rise in popularity with the OEMs due to licencing costs (so much cheaper than WM), but the open source nature will ultimately cripple it mass market imo. Google still seem to be pushing android largely at the home market though so maybe it is not a real competitor again..though that said it does have excellent gmail g<service> intergration and Google have started to push their rebrandable gmail solution a lot more in the past few months..i've even started seeing google branded servers and special email boxes in datacenters these days..so they do seem to be heading more towards the business market. (good move by them really!)
Anyway if its not for you then fair enough, there are alternatives of course..but for IT professionals I still think that WM is the best out there. Not even started on how easy it is to develop and port applications to WM..ah the joys of having .NET compact framework ;)
Rumours over at engadget someone has an early build:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/17/e...ime-incompati/