Would WinMo even be relevant without HTC?

[grant516]

HTC manufactured the Palm Treo Pros.

HTC manufactured in the past all HP WinMo Phones- as well as anything branded with like Audiovox, UT Starcomm, XDA.... and quite a few more.

I'd say 75% of the phone devices out there use an HTC piece of hardware, and they have built up software to make the experience as good as one can possibly imagine for an Operating System that's main core is about 8 years old.

Since they are a fairly talented group I am sure they will do wonders and push forth the highest quality of Android Phones, and eventually- when they do pull support- will leave Windows Mobile in the dust.

[MordyT]

Simple answer - yes.

A while back there was a article on pocketnow? which talk about how many different uses winmo currently filled. from the ups man wqho has you sign (device powered by winmo) to the price scanner at the market, many things are powered by winmo. HTC has made it a common device. However, I had winmo back when it was an "elitist" device (about 7 years or more ago) and support was nill. And that is how winmo was designed - not to be used as a general user device. And this is most likely why is is now called windows phone - to separate it from winmo.

my .02