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What Will Be Left for Windows Mobile 7 When It Arrives?

Author: Kevin Burden, Vice President and Practice Director, Mobile Devices

Published: 06 Oct 2009

By Steve Ballmer’s own admission last month, Microsoft certainly did “screw up with Windows Mobile.” Microsoft was a serious player in the early days of the smartphone market. Back when PDAs vendors like HP and Compaq began adding cellular voice capabilities to their Pocket PCs and then the 2002 launch of the Orange SPV, the first device to use its smartphone profile, Microsoft appeared to be setting the bar ahead of Palm and Symbian, which were struggling with basic capabilities like color and running multiple applications simultaneously.

The full text of this Insight is available to subscribers of the Smartphones & Mobile Devices Research Service and the Cellular PC Modems Research Service and the Tablets, Netbooks & Mobile CE Research Service and the Device Accessories Research Service and the Device Accessories Research Theme.

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