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Digitimes is reporting on comments made by Benjamin Tan, senior director of the GCR Mobile Team Unit at Microsoft China to a group of Chinese reporters yesterday.

Mr. Tan says that more than 30 smartphones running Windows Mobile 6.5 will be appearing during the three months before the end of 2009. These handsets will be coming from over 15 vendors, including HTC, Acer, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, and HP.

Carriers supporting this bumper crop of phones will include AT&T, Sprint Nextel, Verizon Wireless, Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone, NTT DoCoMO, Softbank Mobile, SKT, Telstra and Telus.

Thirty devices in three months, that would work out to nearly three new smartphones a week running Windows Mobile 6.5, a new release every three days. Has any new version of a mobile OS ever been that heavily supported so quickly? Maybe Windows Mobile is not the Ottoman Empire of the mobile world after all?

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