{"id":326989,"date":"2010-02-16T11:15:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T16:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=13397"},"modified":"2010-02-16T11:15:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T16:15:01","slug":"30-more-windows-mobile-6-5-handsets-coming-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/326989","title":{"rendered":"30 more Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets coming this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13397\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13397\" height=\"61\" width=\"51\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/edward\/mwcpubpic\/323459b68837_CD49\/notdeadyet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"not dead yet\" border=\"0\" alt=\"not dead yet\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/edward\/mwcpubpic\/323459b68837_CD49\/notdeadyet_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a>So with the announcement of Windows Phone 7 series, is <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=windows-mobile-65\" >Windows Mobile 6.5<\/a> dead? It better not be, as Microsoft gas said in Barcelona that they expect 30 more Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets to ship globally , with 14 going to Asia in the next 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>They would add to the 30 million installed base of Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 handsets shipped so far. <\/p>\n<p>Some, notably <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5472100\/the-spectacular-maiming-of-windows-phone-65x\" >Gizmodo<\/a>, have said the announcement of Windows Phone 7 series Microsoft has \u201c<em>brutally kneecapped their existing phone software, effectively taking Microsoft out of mobile for the next six months<\/em>\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>I think however the biggest issue affecting sales of Windows Mobile has been the constant negative propaganda the OS has suffered from big gadget blogs, an ire one do not see directed to ancient operating system such as RIM\u2019s Blackberry OS for example. <\/p>\n<p>Now that the idea that Microsoft\u2019s mobile OS efforts are not relevant are no longer tenantable it should make for an interesting next 6-9 months.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>The simple solution for handset OEM\u2019s are of course simply to offer an upgrade path, something<em>&#160; <\/em>hope we will be seeing more off over the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile we expect to hear more about developments to the Windows Mobile 6.x platform soon also.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5472100\/the-spectacular-maiming-of-windows-phone-65x\" >CNET Asia here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13397&amp;linkname=30%20more%20Windows%20Mobile%206.5%20handsets%20coming%20this%20year\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So with the announcement of Windows Phone 7 series, is Windows Mobile 6.5 dead? It better not be, as Microsoft gas said in Barcelona that they expect 30 more Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets to ship globally , with 14 going to Asia in the next 6 months. They would add to the 30 million installed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}