The Windows Telephone 7.0 working method and Windows Phone seven Series gadgets aren;t the one new (and newly named) pieces of Microsoft;s cellular portflio. There are actually other people nonetheless within the wings, some of that are still known only by their codenames.Phones operating the Windows Mobile 6.five and six.5.three running programs have been rechristened together with the “Classic” brand, according to istartedsomething blogger Long Zheng. So there will be Windows Phone Classic models out there for a year,
Office Ultimate 2007 Key, maybe two.Then there;s something known as Windows Cellular six Starter Edition that may be unveiled as early as February 16, according to Neowin.net.Update: Neowin was on the money. Just minutes after I posted this,
Office 2010 Home And Student Key, Neowin;s Tom Warren found and tweeted the link to the Windows Mobile 6 Starter Edition announcement from Bsquare.Like its PC counterpart, the cellular Starter sounds as though it is a stripped- down version of the working program aimed primarily at partners and users in emerging markets. (I;ll be curious to see how and if Windows Mobile six Starter is connected to Microsoft;s OneApp offering. OneApp, the product formerly codenamed Kojax/Kirana, is technology designed to enable feature phones (as opposed to smartphones) run applications like Facebook and Twitter.)Neowin is reporting that there will be one version of Windows Mobile 6 Starter that bundles in Office Cellular. I asked Microsoft officials whether this might be
Office 2010 Starter Edition or something else and was told Microsoft had nothing to say about Mobile Starter.Speaking of Office Mobile 2010, I;m going to be curious how and when Microsoft adapts it to run on Windows Phone seven units. Last I heard, Office Cellular 2010 was designed to run on Windows Cellular six.five (and, one particular would assume, six.5.three) phones. Given that it sounds like Windows Mobile 6.x apps won;t run on Windows Phone seven devices — according to informed speculation, not directly from Microsoft — I;m curious about Office Cellular 2010;s platform support.One particular other still-unannounced family of products are the Pink phones — the teen/twenty-something-targeted units that happen to be being made for Microsoft by Sharp but which may carry a Microsoft logo. As quite a few blogs reported over the past weekend,
Windows 7 Keygen, Sharp has filed plans with all the Federal Communication Commission for two Pink phones,
Office 2010 Professional Key, codenamed “Turtle” and “Pure.” Details of those filings will be made public right around the time of the CTIA wireless conference in late March.“Conflipper” has unearthed more info about the Pink phones and has been tweeting his findings. There are also CDMA versions of the Pink phones, Conflipper claims, codenamed “Lion” and “Pride.”1 reader who said he;s looked at some of the files for these Pink phones sent along this info:“Pure and Lion are the higher end units for these right now. HVGA display, CE OS6, Silverlight, and Brand new. I am looking at 561 *.dll files that make up the 100MB ROM. A lot of center around Zune inside the Registry.“Looks like Home screen has different feeds,
Genuine Office 2010,” the reader said. The Pink gadgets “will be provided with firmware updates OTA (over the air.”Microsoft officials nevertheless won;t say anything about Pink. (I tried asking again yesterday.) Last I heard, Microsoft was considering holding a separate event for a Pink unveiling some time in April.On a related note, here are a few Windows Phone 7 posts that I missed in my first pass of reading yesterday, but are worth a look if you haven;t seen them:Redmond Pie: Good chart comparing the iPhone (current version) to Windows Phone 7 products (what we know so far)Riagenic: Windows Cellular 7: The meh release (interesting critique from former Microsoft Rich Platform Product Manager Scott Barnes)