Earlier this week, Microsoft consolidated its mobile-phone initiatives under the Windows phone brand. The company also introduced three phones with the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system and announced an application store.
The upgraded operating system is being used in three phones initially: The HTC Pure from AT&T, the HTC Imagio from Verizon Wireless, and the Samsung Intrepid from Sprint, which will be available on Oct. 11. Microsoft said there may be as many as 30 Windows phones -- i.e., phones driven by Windows Mobile 6.5 -- by the end of this year.
The new operating system is seen by many observers as a stopgap before the release of Windows Mobile 7.0.
With the upgrade from 6.1 to 6.5, the primary features of the Windows Mobile family remain intact, such as the ability to work seamlessly with Windows applications like Microsoft Office and Outlook, according to Sean Westcott, IT administrator for Fairfax, Va.-based construction engineering firm McDonough Bolyard Peck and author of the book Digitally Daunted.
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