Windows Mobile 7-certified hardware now available

August 17, 2009 | By Surur

No, we are not talking about WM7-upgradable hardware unfortunately, but Long Zheng from the istartedsomething blog has noticed a Cambridge Silicon Radio 802.11nWIFI chip being certified for Windows Mobile 7, amongst other mobile OS’s.

With the ZuneHD being set for release very soon, this is also a significant indication that Windows Mobile 7 will be arriving much sooner that we expect.

For more read the istartedsomething post here.

Thanks wreiad for the tip.

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l3v5y

There are currently a few WM7 builds around (MS are developing both WM6.5.1 and WM7 at the same time, perhaps one will be for "low " end devices with WM7 being for higher end devices).

wreiad

Yeah that's what they said. They'll both coexist like xp and vista.

ishy

i still think wm7 is further off than most think. there have been close to no leaks thus far. if it was close..we'd be seeing something! right??

wreiad

I agree. Still waiting for someone to leak something :s

Craig

CE 6.1, not CE 7.0/Chelan. This is evidence that WM7 is being built on the 6.1.

Argenys

What are you basing that on?

l3v5y

WM6.1 is built on CE5, WM6.5 is on CE5.2.

Craig

Actually WM6.5, WM6.1, and WM6.0 are all built on CE5.2. WM5 was built on CE5.1. You can see this in the names of the ROMs available for each OS version (e.g. 5.2.3026 build 21054 for the most recent version of WM6.1).

What I was trying to say in my (poorly worded) post is that the device mentioned in the news post is certified for WM7 and CE6.1, but no mention is made of CE7.0. That doesn't prove anything, but suggests that WM7 is built on CE6.1.

Nothing wrong with that, by the way. It's a good, mature OS that corrects the key limitations of CE5.2.

Wishmaster89

Considering that at that time nobody knew a thing about CE7 and WM7 was something people talked about for about 2 years already I wouldn't consider this a sign that WM7 is not based on Chelan. It could be a typo they forgot to fix or even accidental NDA violation. Besides there were too many leaks and rumours suggesting that Chelan is the core of WM7.

Good news is that we'll know all details about WM7 in 5-6 months(if they don't postpone it again)

But for now probably only Da_G could clarify this
Craig

Anything could be a typo.

Where are all these “leaks and rumours” regarding WM7 on Chelan? The only information I’m aware of is Mary Jo Foley’s post that revealed the existence of Chelan (and Cashmere), and she specifically said it was unlikely that WM7 would use the CE7.0 platform.

Admittedly I’m reading a lot into this, but I’m guessing that Cashmere *will* be released, it will be called CE6.1, and that this is the framework used to build WM7. As you say, we’ll find out before too long… hopefully!

Craig

WM6, 6.1, and 6.5 are all based on CE5.2. WM5 was based on CE5.1. You can see this in the build IDs of the ROMs; for example, the newest WM6.5.1 build is "5.2.4075 build 23028" whereas a typical WM5 ROM was "5.1.195 Build 15698"

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