{"id":368768,"date":"2010-02-26T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/07d21522b2cb9dc6c5e50d8a6f75b1ff"},"modified":"2010-02-26T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T23:15:00","slug":"article-windows-mobile-6-5-to-be-called-windows-phone-starter-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/368768","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: Windows Mobile 6.5 to be called Windows Phone Starter Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/2\/95025-Screen_shot_2010-02-26_at_6.04.19_PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"67\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just when you thought Windows Mobile was being renamed to Windows Phone Classic, new information sheds light on a few additional name changes.<\/p>\n<p>According to information gathered by Mary Jo Foley of <em>ZDNet<\/em>, there will be two types of Windows Mobile 6.5: Windows Phone Starter Edition for emerging markets (think Windows 7 Starter Edition here), and Windows Phone Classic (unconfirmed, but it&#8217;s said to be the 6.5 you&#8217;re used to).&nbsp; Windows Phone Starter Edition will offer two types of versions (with all  of these versions, it gets confusing, I know): one with Office 2010,  and one without Office 2010.&nbsp; While Windows Phone Starter Edition was confirmed, the status of &#8220;Windows Phone Classic&#8221; is still up in the air.<\/p>\n<p>When Microsoft was asked what was stripped from the platform to merit &#8220;emerging market&#8221; status, HSDPA 3G was notoriously absent, while EVDO was listed.&nbsp; Could this be a standoff between GSM and CDMA, or a push to force Windows Phone 7 Series on everyone?<\/p>\n<p>Despite the name change, I&#8217;m going to stick with Windows Phone 7 Series, thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>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><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8DhBxKLN-PYTUVir5XDy3UrP5Vg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8DhBxKLN-PYTUVir5XDy3UrP5Vg\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8DhBxKLN-PYTUVir5XDy3UrP5Vg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8DhBxKLN-PYTUVir5XDy3UrP5Vg\/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\/ZDvqiXfo4IA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought Windows Mobile was being renamed to Windows Phone Classic, new information sheds light on a few additional name changes. According to information gathered by Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet, there will be two types of Windows Mobile 6.5: Windows Phone Starter Edition for emerging markets (think Windows 7 Starter Edition here), [&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-368768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368768","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=368768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}