The Future Of Windows Mobile

Since iPhone and then Android came on the market

, Windows Mobile has been loosing its share. iPhone and Android managed to change the profile of smartphone users. If before one would generally associate smartphones with high-tech professionals and businessmen, due to its interface and many useful applications, iPhone became very popular with all kinds of users, especially with young people. Android is also catching up very quickly, it currently has the fastest growing user community in the US. What about Windows Mobile then? Will it survive this situation? In my opinion, it will. To substantiate this view, let us speak about two sides, the current situation with Windows Mobile and the future plans of Microsoft.

Many professionals still choose Windows Mobile because they prefer its simple straightforward interface to the overstuffed environment of iPhone and Android. Besides, Windows Mobile supports a very wide variety of different phone configurations, like phones with physical buttons, touch-screen phones, those that combine both physical buttons and touch-screen. iPhone does not offer that flexibility of choice and there are not many Android devices that have solid buttons. This is not just a matter of habit, when you have to type a lot, real solid buttons prove to be more convenient. The variety of different configurations of Windows Mobile phones is not limited to the keypad, apart from the standard "candy bar" configuration, there are flip phones, slider phones, vertical and horizontal layout and many other different features.

Of course the user interface is not the only strong side of Windows Mobile. Its main advantage lies in the best system compatibility with MS Windows. PCs running Microsoft Windows occupy by far the largest share of the computer market. And of course, as both systems come from the same origin, they have the best compatibility. And as MS Windows is most probably not going to loose its position as the most popular operating system for PCs, this advantage of Windows Mobile will always remain with it. One good example of what this gives to the user is using mobile phone as a wireless modem for laptop. This is very practical if one needs to use the Internet on the way.

Now let us turn to the future. Towards the end of 2010 Microsoft is expected to release Windows Mobile 7. For the first time in the history of this system, Microsoft completely did away with the old versions and designed the new one from scratch. And, according to the reports, the new interface seems to keep pace with the competitors in every sense. Its well developed but at the same time simple and plain structure appeals to many. Let us see what new technical capabilities this system will have. Not much is known so far but one very useful improvement concerns the update procedure. So, unlike the current situation, when in most cases one has to buy a new phone to get updated to the latest version of Windows Mobile, updates will be done online like in PCs.

In the end let us give one more example, which is not a part of Windows Mobile but which works only with that platform. Sprite Backup software available only for Windows Mobile, allows one to make a complete backup of the phone on the storage card. The backup file includes not only all user data but also a complete image of the system, including all installed programs. So, if anything goes wrong, one can just revert to the latest working condition by running the backup file. It is a self-extracting executable file which can be run directly from the memory card, so there is no need to use a PC. One can also transfer all user data and installed programs to a new phone. This is the most effective and practical way of data protection I've ever seen on mobile phones.

As you see, Windows Mobile still has a lot of advantages, at least for some specific categories of users. Of course, its competitors are tough but I think all existing platforms will find their users.

by: Leonid Sinichkin

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