{"id":367610,"date":"2010-02-26T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5481415"},"modified":"2010-02-26T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:30:00","slug":"windows-phone-starter-windows-mobile-sucks-slightly-more-than-6-5-sorry-classic-windows-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/367610","title":{"rendered":"Windows Phone Starter: Windows Mobile Sucks-Slightly-More-Than-6.5 (Sorry, Classic) [Windows Phone]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/wp7swpclassic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_wp7swpclassic.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>Microsoft&#8217;s not being real forthcoming about what <em>exactly<\/em> <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #windowsphone\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/windowsphone\/\">Windows Phone<\/a> Starter is. But! It seems to be a <em>very<\/em> mildly stripped version of Windows Mobile 6.5 (<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5474268\/windows-mobile-65-to-be-renamed-windows-phone-classic-instead-of-disliked-immensely\">officially aka &#8220;Windows Phone Classic&#8221;<\/a>) for developing countries, much <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5145366\/all-the-flavors-of-windows-7-explained\">like Windows Starter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft wouldn&#8217;t specifically elaborate on what&#8217;s missing from 6.5 in Starter 6&mdash;just saying it comes in two versions, with Office Mobile 2010 and without&mdash;but it&#8217;s possible, given the language they used that it won&#8217;t be available for 3G phones. (I know, WTF?) Luckily, it&#8217;s nothing most people will have to worry about. Just stick with Win7 Phone, and pretend like all this version craziness doesn&#8217;t even exist. That&#8217;s one of the bright sides of <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #windowsphone7\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/windowsphone7\/\">Windows Phone 7<\/a>&mdash;there&#8217;s just one. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=5392&#038;tag=col1;post-5392\">All About Microsoft<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunwired.net\/?item=confirmed-windows-phone-6-5-isn-t-dead-at-all-it-will-also-continues-as-windows-phone-starter-edition&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed:+theunwired+(the::unwired+-+where+mobility+meets+wireless\">Unwired<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/02\/26\/confirmed-windows-mobile-6-5-to-become-windows-phone-starter-ed\/\">Engadget<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=2f78e894ad6359c2e1991372d9be85c8&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=2f78e894ad6359c2e1991372d9be85c8&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=IQD5hDsqqOA:qn-pE9IFmwY:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=IQD5hDsqqOA:qn-pE9IFmwY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=IQD5hDsqqOA:qn-pE9IFmwY:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=IQD5hDsqqOA:qn-pE9IFmwY:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=IQD5hDsqqOA:qn-pE9IFmwY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=IQD5hDsqqOA:qn-pE9IFmwY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/IQD5hDsqqOA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s not being real forthcoming about what exactly Windows Phone Starter is. But! It seems to be a very mildly stripped version of Windows Mobile 6.5 (officially aka &#8220;Windows Phone Classic&#8221;) for developing countries, much like Windows Starter. Microsoft wouldn&#8217;t specifically elaborate on what&#8217;s missing from 6.5 in Starter 6&mdash;just saying it comes in two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367610","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\/1718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}