(image found on sify website)Microsoft, is back in the mobile market again unveiling a new OS for its mobile devices. Windows Mobile 6.5 is being announced as the new OS to rival the Google G series and Apple iPhone Mobile Devices. The updated Mobile OS expected out later on this year offers several new exciting features for consumers to use. A new interface with a dashboard like effect with such options as new texts, emails, calendar appointments and missed calls venue. The new OS will also offer improved touch screen capabilities for end use.
"Another key feature is the Windows Marketplace for Mobile, an online service that allows users to search and download software applications to their handsets. The service is similar to Apple's popular App Store for iPhone users. "
Also, "Microsoft also announced that South Korea's LG Electronics, world's third-largest mobile handset maker, has agreed to make Windows the primary operating system for its smartphones and will tenfold increase the number of its products using the Windows system from 2008 to 2009.
The agreement may result in more than 50 new LG phones running Windows system in the coming years, Microsoft said.
According to the company, mobile operator Orange and handset maker HTC also make further commitments to use Microsoft's latest Mobile operating system in their new products.
Touch Diamond 2 and Touch Pro 2, the two new phones launched by HTC, will be upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5, Microsoft said."
So it looks like Microsoft is coming back to the mobile market to offer a competitive advantage for users of Windows Mobile over other vendors mobile devices with "a mobile application store and a mobile data synchronization service. "Microsoft gains momentum in mobile push (sify.com)
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