[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] yarod_g14:
MAybe......

Have to quote here:

"Microsoft should try to get all WM6.5 users to upgrade to WP7 (discount for tradein or something?), then leave 6.5 dead."

This doesnt seem like sense to me - we have many many markets over the world that are only just catching on with tech that UK and some Euro/US users have had for years.

Some countries will be using old OMAP processors and Windows 6.5 for a few years yet, some countries dont even have this kind of tech avilable anywhere!

Well off users with 1 year old OMAP crap tech will want to update to this new Gen - we were all sold duffers with the last 2 generations:

Rhodium, touch pro 1 all the others slow unweidly devices.

I can vouch for this personally, having had HTC tech (1 every gen) since HTC Canary smartphone was released in 2003.

My HD2 is what I would call useable for day to day people. My Rhodium is just to slow and prone to freeze even with newest ROMS and software. IF I gave, for example, my Mum a Rhodium she would go mad - like dial up internet, very frustrating when you have seen faster she expects things to happen straight away.

However, if a non tech savy person (my mum) was to use my HD2 they would have much less trouble even though its running windows mobile 6.5 - the user experience is so much easier and more comfortable. They dont need windows mobile 7, they just need decent tech powering their device.

"WP7 is not an iPhone. "

I think many people would disagree, it seems MS have taken EVERY cue possible from the last few generations of iphone when putting together their plans for this round of Windows 7 phone series - we will see what happens when new Xbox and PC OS is released how much further they will go with integration in newer builds (hopefully lots further!)

"The N97 got flamed because of the pathetic Symbian OS. I don't see why people think 6.5 is still competent."

Not entirely. The N97 runs S60 V5 (now known as Symbian OS ^1 or something) this is a limiting OS BUT.....the hardware of the N97 is where the trouble is. They removed the 3d Chip, the phone doesnt have enough RAM, Keyboard sucks compared to my Rhodium.

Samsung released their I8910 which ran same OS but had Milestone/Iphone 3gs tech inside it. I had one and browsing with Opera 10 and media playback on it was AWESOME!

Other firmware features did let the phone down (samsungs fault)

Nokia made history with N95 and other similar devices.

Such amazing, perfect devices for their time, similar to Iphone.

Everyone thought that the N97 would pick up where the N95 left off but it couldnt as they were splitting their Os's from S60 V3 over to Symbian Foundation and also Maemo...meego etc..

It would take a couple of generations before things settled.

Its going to be the same for MS with their 7 Series phones....They will need to run both OS's along side each other for a long while yet given the size of this world and their market divergance.

Maybe MS will do a similar split?>

7 Series for Media/social networing whores

Some sort of return to windows CE for more advaced users?

Maybe I dont care as Android will take over Windows Mobile 6.5 perfectly for me :)

I would love to know where tech will be in 10 years time!

Folding multi OS devices that change shape and beam holographic style!

I think things are ramping up to change very quickly, OS shelf life is going to shrink as hardare jumps ahead of it with increasing leaps.

Exciting lol!