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Windows Mobile to become Windows Phone?

Posted by Gil Bouhnick on February 7, 2009 – 2:48 am  Share
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Well well well, the MS friends are doing it again; renaming stuff…

Many of us are still using the name Pocket PC even though it’s Windows Mobile for quite a while, but now there are rumors that Microsoft will drop the mobile part and change it to Windows Phone.

[Rumors source]

I just hate it when they do it; SQL Compact was renamed to SQL Mobile, MS SMS was renamed to MSSCMDM [Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager] – the longest name in the history of software, but, I must say I like the sound of the new name: Windows Phone…

Windows Phone….

Windows Phone….

(oh, you can stop reading the post here, I’m just trying to practice the name…)

Windows Phone…

Windows Phone…

Windows Phone…

(Still here? I told you there’s nothing to read over here… it’s self practicing)

Windows Phone…

Windows Phone…

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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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  • Steve Mueller
    @MsLiberty:

    The PDA ended a long time ago, when more “smartphones” were being made than PPC’s.

    HP released two iPAQ PDAs running WM 6 not that long ago. While smart phones are more popular now, that doesn't mean the PDA is completely dead.

    Steve
  • Msliberty
    The PDA ended a long time ago, when more "smartphones" were being made than PPC's. I still call my Dell Axim a "Portable PC" and still impress people when I pull out my very mini computer, with most of the computer features I need on the road. It hurt the most when the magazine (now defunct) changed it's name to Smartphone Magazine. No need to call your personal pocket digital planner plus product (PPDPPP) anything, but lots of need to own and enjoy one. Still dreaming of the right WinMO Smartphone that costs a couple of hundred dollars rather than 4 or 8 hundred.
    msliberty
  • How should we call the non-phone PDA's, supposing they will still be built... Windows PDA? Windows Non-Phone? It's reasonably to think the WM 7 will run only in smartphones? Is it the end of the PDA?
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