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Windows Mobile

This article is about the mobile phone platform from 2000 to 2013. Not to be confused with Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone, or Microsoft Mobile.

Windows Mobile
Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshot, showing the Today screen
DeveloperMicrosoft
Working stateDiscontinued
Initial release (2000-04-19) (2013-01-08)April 19, 2000 – January 8, 2013
(12 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 6 days)
Final release6.5.3 / February 2, 2010 (2010-02-02)
Final preview6.5.5
Marketing targetMobile devices
Update methodAdaptation kit upgrade
Kernel typeHybrid
Default
user interface		Graphical
LicenseProprietary software licensed to OEMs
Succeeded byWindows Phone
Official websitehttps://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/default.mspx
Support status
Unsupported

Windows Mobile is a discontinued mobile operating system developed by Microsoft for smartphones and personal digital assistants (PDA).[1] Designed to be the portable equivalent of the Windows desktop OS in the emerging mobile/portable area, the operating system is built on top of Windows CE (later known as Windows Embedded Compact) and was originally released as Pocket PC 2000.

Microsoft introduced the Pocket PC keyboard-less PDAs in 2000, with Pocket PC 2000 being the software. It was based on version 3.0 of Windows CE, the operating system originally developed for the Handheld PC in 1996.[2] The next versions were Pocket PC 2002 and Smartphone 2002, the latter of which would power a new category of keypad-based cell phone devices named Smartphone.[3] With the release of Windows Mobile 2003, the software was rebranded to a single "Windows Mobile" for both Pocket PCs and Smartphones, and to connect the brand with its desktop counterpart.[4][5] Support for SH-3 and MIPS processor architectures were dropped, focusing only on ARM.[5] In the next major release, Windows Mobile 5.0 in 2005, Microsoft unified the separate developments of Pocket PC and Smartphone software into a single Windows Mobile codebase.[6] Data could be synchronized with desktops using ActiveSync software, and later using Windows Mobile Device Center.

Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 were the next major releases, in 2007 and 2008 respectively, by which time the hardware devices were also solely under the Windows Mobile banner. Along with the final major release, Windows Mobile 6.5, the first to be designed for use without a stylus on touchscreens,[7] Microsoft also introduced the Windows Marketplace for Mobile for software distribution, for Windows Mobile 6.x devices. Following the success of newer mobile operating systems like iOS, Windows Mobile faded rapidly; in 2010, Microsoft announced the more modern and consumer-focused Windows Phone 7 as its replacement, and Windows Mobile has been deprecated since existing devices and software are incompatible with Windows Phone.[8][9][10]

  1. ^ Evers, Joris (January 6, 2005). "Microsoft to phase out Pocket PC, Smartphone brands | Hardware". InfoWorld. IDG. Retrieved July 14, 2011.
  2. ^ https://jingxinwang.forestry.wvu.edu/files/d/ef7172fc-ffbe-4698-ab92-03b55829f3ed/hpcwce.pdf
  3. ^ https://www.theregister.com/2002/03/19/ms_stinger_smartphones_finally_poised/
  4. ^ https://news.microsoft.com/2003/06/23/microsoft-announces-windows-mobile-a-strategic-addition-to-the-windows-brand-family/
  5. ^ a b "Pen Computing Magazine: Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC". www.pencomputing.com. Retrieved November 5, 2024.
  6. ^ https://www.crn.com/news/security/163100795/microsoft-launches-windows-mobile-5-0
  7. ^ Herrman, John (October 6, 2009). "Windows Mobile 6.5 Review: There's No Excuse For This". Gizmodo. Retrieved November 5, 2024.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference future was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Nicholas Kolakowski (March 15, 2010). "Microsoft Explains Windows Phone Lack of Compatibility". eWeek.
  10. ^ "Windows Phone: A New Kind of Phone (36:47 min. in)". Microsoft. June 13, 2010. Archived from the original on December 27, 2012. Retrieved September 9, 2010.

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