Window Mobile

Operating systems for Pocket PCs and smartphones, developed by Microsoft Inc. include a family of Windows Mobile.  To supersede Windows Mobile, Microsoft announced the launch of Windows Phonein 2010; with new operating systems (OS) which is incompatible with Windows Mobile devices and software, and it result discontinuing Windows Mobile.

 

After the announcement of Windows Phone, 6.5.5 was the final version released of Windows Mobile. Devices that are designed for Windows Mobile is incompatible with Windows Phone, and software designed for Windows Mobile is incompatible with the new generation operating systems (OS), stated Microsoft.

The ability of navigating files similarly as Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT with support for many same files types, features such as multitasking includes the set of features that most of the versions of Windows Mobile include.

 To perform basic tasks, bundled with a set of applications, Windows Mobile comes a lot alike its desktop counterpart. Videos and music are played with Windows media player, and the default internet browser is Internet explorer mobile. Including Outlook Mobile as the default office suite, Windows Mobile has Microsoft Office Mobile. On compatible devices, internet sharing supported, which allows the phone to make its internet connection available for computers via USB and Bluetooth.

Most Windows Mobile devices come, Including Radio Interface Layer for mobile connectivity. The radio protocol stack used by the wireless modem hardware and the system interface between the CellCorelayer with the Window Mobile operating system (OS) is provided by RIL. This permits the OEMs integrating variety of modems into their equipment.

Despite the basic functionality remaining same, the user interface has change much between the versions. Information such as upcoming appointments, owner information, e-mails, messages, task and current date is displayed on the Today screen, which was later named Home Screen. Devices with cellular radio signal strength, audio volume, and current time is displayed at the taskbar. For touch screen user interfaces, Windows Mobile Apps are highly encouraged for optimizing.

At its first appearance as the Pocket PC 2000 operating system, Windows Mobile was based on Windows CE Kernel.Application suite developed with Microsoft Windows API was included in Windows Mobile initial release, and is designed to have feature and appearances slightly alike Windows’ desktop version.Microsoft imposed no restrictions for third party mobile app development for Windows Mobile. From Windows Marketplace for mobile, software applications were purchasable during the service’s life span.

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