31 Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones to be released in 2009

May 11, 2009 | By Surur

In an interview with the CarphoneWarehouse Magazine Windows Mobile product manager David Weeks revealed that 31 Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets will be released later this year, with 15-20 coming to UK.

Speaking on the launch of the T-Mobile G1 in UK, which sold 100 000 devices, David said:

“The Samsung Omnia alone sold more units in the same period and many hundreds of thousands of Windows Mobile devices were sold last year.”

“The G1 hasn’t affected our sales because people still perceive Windows handsets as business phones. When we launch 6.5, we will compete in the same area as the BlackBerry Storm and G1, so we will enter their market as a new player and win sales. We are not playing catch up with the Android market or iPhone.”

“We’re not worried about Android – Nokia and BlackBerry are probably more badly hit by it. We’re on forecast. 100,000 sales is very low considering the amount of marketing T-Mobile put into the advertisement of the G1. A high-end feature phone like the G1 would usually sell 500,000 units for the money they invested.”

Windows Mobile has been selling into the consumer space despite rather than because of Microsoft, with the OEM’s having to carry much of the burden of making the OS suitable for consumers rather than business. Windows Mobile 6.5 is set to change some of that, but the real consumer push is only expected to come with Windows Mobile 7, which is expected to feature such consumer essentials like a good media player.

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Tagged microsoft, uk, windows mobile, windows mobile 6.5

wreiad

This is good news.
aleis

also, isnt it cool that after a year the omnia is still one of the best windows mobile phones to come out!?
having 6.5 on my omnia makes ALL phones look cheap to me now.
could you imagine it being on a capacitive screen with amoled!
WOW!

Chris

Sorry, Aleis, I like the Omnia too, but most popular does NOT equal the best (maybe best advertised, maybe best looking of what’s easily available on popular carriers, etc). If popular equaled best, we’d all be looking at iPhones needless to say.

wreiad

But the Omnia is one of the best Windows phones available today. I think you took his comment out of context.

Leonick

Well thats good news, I am tired of my LG KS20 and how hard it is to get accessories for it were a pure hell to find a new handsfree for it :/

Anyway, good news, now I just hope that at least one of them will be a HTC device with a d-pad :p
Mat

Wait, Omnia the best? One of, maybe.. The Palm Treo Pro takes the cake.

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