Microsoft today confirmed the launch date for the latest Windows Mobile 6.5 or “Windows Phones”. The new software will be released on October 6th, 2009. Here is the official list of carriers and manufacturers around the world who will launch new smartphone using Windows Mobile 6.5 OS.
* In North America: Mobile operators AT&T, Bell Mobility, Sprint, TELUS and Verizon Wireless, and phone manufacturers HP, HTC Corp., LG Electronics, Samsung and Toshiba Corp.
* In Europe: Mobile operators Orange, Deutsche Telekom AG and Vodafone Group Plc, and phone manufacturers Acer, HTC, LG Electronics, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba.
* In Latin America: Mobile operator TIM Brazil, and phone manufacturers HTC, LG Electronics and Samsung
* In Asia Pacific: Mobile operators NTT DOCOMO Inc., SOFTBANK Mobile Corp., SK Telecom, Telstra and WILLCOM Inc., and phone manufacturers Acer Inc., HTC, LG Electronics, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba
[WindowsTeamBlog]
Nokia has signed an agreement with Microsoft to bring Microsoft Office Mobile to Nokia’s Symbian smartphones. This agreement will enable Microsoft to expand Office Mobile to Nokia smartphone owners worldwide and allow them to collaborate on Office documents from anywhere, as part of Microsoft’s strategy to provide the best productivity experience across the PC, phone and browser. For your info, Nokia is the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer with more than 200 million smartphone customers globally. Office Mobile (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote) will be first available for the Nokia E series smartphones in 2010. [Press Release]
Multiple unidentified industry sources has made an announcement concerning Microsoft’s plan to release a smartphone of its own. The phone itself is likely to be released sometime in the second half of 2009 with the goal of tightly integrating hardware and software. For now no other details are given, stay tuned for more updates. [Ubergizmo]
Microsoft’s Silverlight will be available soon on the Google Android G1 and the iPhone. For your info, Microsoft’s Silverlight has been in use on the Web by companies including NBC to stream video from this summer’s Olympic games and is Adobe Flash’s main contender in the multimedia rich browser plug-ins. Microsoft has also released version 2 of the Silverlight browser plug-in earlier this week. [Slashphone]
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