Not long after spinning off from former corporate parent O2, Windows Mobile purveyor MWg is
moving out of its Asian comfort zone to attempt to sell its wares over in Europe with a splashy press conference to kick things off -- and if the aggressive roadmap they're pursuing for the next year or so holds true, they might just have a fighting chance at making a splash up there. First up are the official European intros of the
Atom V and Zinc II, HSDPA-equipped handsets that have been kicking around for a while now, but that's not even
close to the interesting part. Looking deeper into '08 reveals a handful of
HTC Diamond competitors, devices that are sporting a respectable 7.2Mbps down and 5.2Mbps up, and looking still deeper into the fourth quarter suggests that MWg intends to release its first Windows Mobile 7-powered device -- the Flame II -- with GPS, a 3.2 megapixel camera, and "multimedia features" on board. That seems a little far-fetched considering that 7 hasn't been officially shown off and 6.1 isn't even in broad distribution to users yet, but we appreciate MWg's motivation here. We also see a
Shift killer in the wings with Vista and a 3G data connection toward the end of the year, so all told, the future's looking bright for these cats if they can actually execute.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
aaron @ May 9th 2008 6:15PM
i could see them making a spash with windows mobile 7 at CES09... would be right up their alley to announce/show it off there.
JLH @ May 9th 2008 6:19PM
what? no iphone??
Abuzar @ May 9th 2008 7:44PM
No.
Reader @ May 9th 2008 8:40PM
You big funny man.
Johan S @ May 9th 2008 8:33PM
It's not totally inconceivable that WM7 will be released by the end of this year. It may have higher hardware requirements so that WM 6.1 devices can still have a role.
gm76 @ May 9th 2008 9:17PM
As a current O2 Flame user I rejoice at seeing the mention of the Flame II.
TareX @ May 10th 2008 4:44AM
that's weird. Mainly because you don't hint about the early release of a next-gen OS device when the last-gen devices haven't been out for a while yet... they've just given potential wm6.1 customers 1000 reasons to wait till Q4.
v.weird.
Kent @ May 27th 2008 3:10AM
O2 or MWg they all provide ugly Support
The Flame I ...released by O2 it got 2GB of Flash ROM but no WM6 upgrade. then MWg take over and still no WM6 upgrade.
the official WM5 still buggy as hell and never offer Patches.
Now they are about to release Flame II with WM7? i doubt everything about those 2 company. Poor Support.