{"id":3766,"date":"2009-02-08T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/rss\/2009\/02\/08\/windows-mobile-smartphone-now-windows-phone\/"},"modified":"2009-02-08T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T16:15:00","slug":"windows-mobile-smartphone-now-%e2%80%98windows-phone%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=3766","title":{"rendered":"Windows Mobile Smartphone now  \u2018Windows Phone\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/rss\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/windows-phone2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"windows_phone2\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/rss\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/windows-phone2-thumb.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a> The Windows Mobile OS may not be getting a name change in the near future, but according to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20090206PD207.html\">article at Digitimes<\/a>, Microsoft is planning to change the way it talks about and markets Windows Mobile-powered smartphones.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u201cGoing forward, Windows Mobile-based handsets will be promoted simply as Windows phones without specifying an OS version number,\u201d the author writes, citing Taiwanese market sources.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">If true, tongue-tying device names like <em>Toshiba TG01 Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Smartphone<\/em> would be shortened to <em>Toshiba TG01 Windows Phone<\/em>.&#160; <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">There\u2019s certainly an argument to be made for Microsoft taking a close look at its naming scheme, even beyond the \u201cWindows Phone\u201d change, but the purported change is a nice start. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Microsoft may make the new naming official at next week\u2019s MWC, where the company is also widely expected to take the wraps off of Windows Mobile 6.5.&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Windows Mobile OS may not be getting a name change in the near future, but according to a recent article at Digitimes, Microsoft is planning to change the way it talks about and markets Windows Mobile-powered smartphones.<br \/>\n\u201cGoing forward, Windows Mobile-based handsets will be promoted simply as Windows phones without specifying an OS version [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=3766\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}