{"id":337268,"date":"2010-02-18T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/689fc710b5418bafff9cb964e51754e7"},"modified":"2010-02-18T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T17:25:00","slug":"article-microsoft-changing-windows-mobile-6-5-to-windows-phone-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/337268","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: Microsoft changing Windows Mobile 6.5 to &#8216;Windows Phone Classic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/2\/94318-winmo-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Windows Mobile\" width=\"415\" height=\"195\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Word on the street is when Windows Phone 7 Series launches, Windows Mobile 6.5 will receive a name change to &#8220;Windows Phone Classic.&#8221;&nbsp; Contrary to what you may think, Windows Mobile 6.5 has no plans to leave  right after the launch of Windows Phone 7 Series &#8211; actually, it&#8217;ll be  staying around for a bit longer.&nbsp; It will, however, only be available to  enterprise and emerging markets.&nbsp; The strategy makes sense, given that (1) Microsoft probably wants to get &#8220;Windows Mobile&#8221; out of everyday vocabulary altogether, and (2) Windows Mobile 6.5 (or whatever you want to call it) will be around and available on several retail devices for quite a while.&nbsp; What&#8217;s more, since Windows Mobile 6.5 applications are  incompatible with Windows Phone 7 Series,  it also extends their shelf life a bit.<\/p>\n<p>So for those purchasing Windows Mobile 6.5-equipped devices in the coming months, don&#8217;t worry &#8211; you have a Classic on your hands.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/02\/17\/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-windows-mobile-65-gets-a-name-change\/\" >MobileCrunch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WhxKmsStVICVPTHNQM_HeVL5KAk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WhxKmsStVICVPTHNQM_HeVL5KAk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WhxKmsStVICVPTHNQM_HeVL5KAk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WhxKmsStVICVPTHNQM_HeVL5KAk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/AJ83ouy5H-A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word on the street is when Windows Phone 7 Series launches, Windows Mobile 6.5 will receive a name change to &#8220;Windows Phone Classic.&#8221;&nbsp; Contrary to what you may think, Windows Mobile 6.5 has no plans to leave right after the launch of Windows Phone 7 Series &#8211; actually, it&#8217;ll be staying around for a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337268","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\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}