{"id":180599,"date":"2010-01-14T14:36:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T19:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/14\/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february-release\/"},"modified":"2010-01-14T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T19:36:21","slug":"windows-mobile-6-6-aka-%e2%80%98not-windows-mobile-7%e2%80%b2-set-for-february-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/180599","title":{"rendered":"Windows Mobile 6.6 (aka \u2018not Windows Mobile 7\u2032) set for February release?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20100114PD216.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/microsoft-wm653-hands-on-ces-05-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The sometimes-believable, sometimes-not fellows over at <em>DigiTimes<\/em> are reporting today that Windows Mobile codename &#8220;Maldives&#8221; is going to break out as version 6.6 (a name we&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.engadget.com\/2009\/11\/10\/windows-mobile-7-reportedly-on-track-for-q1-2010-release-to-oems\/\">previously<\/a> heard associated with version 7) with native support for capacitive touchscreens next month &#8212; a launch window that would line up nicely with Mobile World Congress, where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/02\/16\/live-from-microsofts-mwc-press-conference\/\">6.5 was announced<\/a> a year prior. HTC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/HD2\/\">HD2<\/a> has already proven that it&#8217;s possible to cleanly support capacitive touch on a 6.x-based device, so it&#8217;s reasonable to think that this is legit &#8212; but what we don&#8217;t yet know is how this dovetails with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/09\/microsoft-windows-mobile-6-5-3-shown-off-very-very-quietly\/\">6.5.3<\/a>, whether they&#8217;re the same thing, and if Microsoft is doing this simply to buy itself a few precious extra months to bake <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/WinMo7\/\">WinMo 7<\/a> to a crispy, golden brown perfection. We&#8217;d already heard before that 6.x and 7 will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/08\/19\/windows-mobile-6-5-touch-interface-update-in-february-to-coexi\/\">have an opportunity to coexist<\/a> in the marketplace, so it&#8217;s entirely possible that 6.6 is the version that&#8217;ll carry that torch on the 6.x side of things &#8212; but if this gets announced alone without a mention of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/08\/windows-mobile-7-coming-to-mwc-in-february-not-just-evolutiona\/\">Robbie&#8217;s ground-up rewrite at MWC<\/a>, we&#8217;d wager there&#8217;ll be riots in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/14\/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february\/\">Windows Mobile 6.6 (aka &#8216;not Windows Mobile 7&#8242;) set for February release?<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:22:00 EST.  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