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Evil Magneto To Protect Windows Mobile Devices?

Posted by Gil Bouhnick on January 15, 2009 – 4:18 pm
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magnitto helmet

I saw this Mobile case today, which looks a like the Magneto helmet…

Magneto is a powerful mutant, with the ability to generate and control magnetism, Magneto, is the X-Men’s most prominent enemy.

Interesting to say that Magneto was also the codename of… (surprise surprise) Windows Mobile 5!

Ha. I bet you didn’t know that!

As written in Wikipedia:

Windows Mobile 5.0, originally codenamed “Magneto“,[7] was released at Microsoft’s Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference 2005 in Las Vegas, May 9–May 12, 2005. Microsoft plans to offer mainstream support for Windows Mobile 5 through October 12, 2010, and extended support through October 13, 2015.”

(I promise you will not read this one in any other mobile blog…)

(OK, maybe just in the Mobile Spoon…)

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Gil Bouhnick is a guest writer at MobilitySite and the owner of The Mobile Spoon. He is a Director of Mobile Solutions at ClickSoftware, running ClickSoftware's MobileFever, and constantly trying to examine new mobile trends and technologies.





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  • Hey, I'll take it. I'd love to play with Android to see what got the Phandroid phans' panties in a bunch people so excited.

    Steve
  • I can give you my T-Mobile G1 phone.
    You already know I don't do much with it... :-)
  • I knew that Magneto was the code name for some Windows Mobile release, but would have had to guess which one. So I'm going to say you lose the bet, Gil. What do I win? ;-)

    Steve
  • well, you used to be able to read it on mobilegadgetnews back in the day.... :-)
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