WM7 on Pro2

[imnuts]

By this time next year, there may be 4G devices out as well, if not then, surely in 2 years there will be, and I'd guess that whenever the 4G smartphones come out, they'll be WM7 capable/compatible, so I'll take my TP2 now and just upgrade to something better down the road.

[EGOvoruhk]

Originally Posted by conflipper

WM 6.5 End of Life is in February

Says who? Last I heard, 6.5 and 7 were going to be sold side by side. 6.5 being for lower end products, and 7 for high end

[Noir]

Originally Posted by EGOvoruhk

Says who? Last I heard, 6.5 and 7 were going to be sold side by side. 6.5 being for lower end products, and 7 for high end

I think con means with the release of wim 6.5.1 in february, then that may be the 6.5 EOL. Keep in mind we've had 6.5.1 for a few months so I think that statement is accurate.

Secondly, its con friggin flipper
he's the type of guy that dots his I's and crosses his T's when it comes to getting information, builds, packages from other devices (many of which have not been released)

For instance prior to anyone having knowledge "concrete" of manila 2.5, con had ported elements of it in his new rom as well as a myriad of other things. He's got great insight on the development of pocket pcs

But then, when you have someone like nochem on the case, it makes things very interesting for a few reasons. Even if these devices (while not legacy, but not ready for windows mobile 7) can have a BSP loaded to "trick" a wm 7 environment, our devices are still under equipped. It's not like apache jumping from wm 5 -> wm 6.

I will say this though. The development will be interesting. Good luck to nochem, this will be a nightmare and a half. Likewise good luck to con because it was the little things about this roms (physics of scrolling, meticulous attention to detail as well as pushing the envelope) that made his roms unbelievable.

Scary if those two got together on something

[conflipper]

I say that because 6.5.1 is due to be complete in November, from there MS is going to spend until February to do maintenance release, and then they are goign to dedicate all teams to WM7, leaving 6.5, only smaller updates to 6.5 will happen from there.

A lot like what happen with 6.5 and 6.1, some devices might sell 6.5 and others 6.1, but you will have more updates going to 6.5 vs 6.1, (official updates)

[gTen]

Personally I don't see Microsoft dumping WM 6.5 that fast...as they claimed it is meant for low budget devices and a lot of crave lately has been 100$ touch phones and the like. Once WM7 is done I can easily see WM6.5 being downgraded in a sense to run more efficiently and clean to support these lesser hardware.

Just like there is a crave for netbooks, I can see people wouldn't mind a week device selling for 25$-50$ with windows mobile.