Windows Mobile Smartphone is a

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running the

Windows Mobile Standard Windows Mobile is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and personal digital assistants. Its origin dated back to Windows CE in 1996, though Windows Mobile itself first appeared in 2000 as Pock ...

operating system. The hardware specifications for the devices is known as "Windows Mobile Standard".

History

The Windows Mobile OS was born out of a brief partnership between

Sendo Sendo was a British manufacturer and supplier of mobile phones founded in 1998 and based in Birmingham. The company went into administration in June 2005 and its technology was bought by Motorola. The company specialised in low-cost handsets aim ...

, a British telecommunications manufacturer and

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. The contract provided for source code published by Microsoft, to enable Sendo to create the then-name Windows Pocket PC OS for their products. Microsoft withheld major blocks of the code, passing the work to Taiwanese electronics company

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, and enabling them to create the

HTC Canary HTC Canary is a smartphone released in November 2002 in Europe and China by the providers Orange and China Mobile, respectively. It was notable for being the first smartphone to run Windows Mobile Windows Mobile is a discontinued family of mob ...

, based on the Smartphone/WM Standard OS.

Description

Windows Mobile Smartphones were introduced with the

Pocket PC 2002 Pocket PC 2002, originally codenamed "Merlin", was a member of the Windows Mobile family of mobile operating systems, released on October 4, 2001. Like Pocket PC 2000, it was based on Windows CE 3.0. Although mainly targeted for (QVGA) Pocket ...

operating system for

Pocket PC A Pocket PC (P/PC, PPC) is a class of personal digital assistant (PDA) that runs the Windows Mobile or Windows Embedded Compact operating system that has some of the abilities of modern desktop PCs. The name was introduced by Microsoft in 200 ...

s. Although in the broad sense of the term "Smartphone", both Pocket PC phones and Microsoft branded Smartphones each fit into this category, Microsoft's use of the term "Smartphone" includes only more specific hardware devices that differ from Pocket PC phones. Such Smartphones were originally designed without

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s, intended to be operated more efficiently with only one hand, and typically had lower

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s than Pocket PCs. Microsoft's focus for the Smartphone platform was to create a device that functioned well as a phone and data device in a more integrated manner.Mobile Phones, Smartphone - Software Features Overview
Microsoft. Retrieved 6 September 2007 from the

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Products

The following is a partial list of Windows Mobile Smartphones. *

Sendo Z100 Sendo Z100 is a Tri-band phone by Sendo, designed in 2002 and never launched as Sendo sued Microsoft. Background After Microsoft bought shares of Sendo, they started together to develop the new devices operating system called Stinger. Microso ...

T-Mobile T-Mobile is the brand name used by some of the mobile communications subsidiaries of the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG in the Czech Republic ( T-Mobile Czech Republic), Poland ( T-Mobile Polska), the United States ( T-Mob ...

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References

{{reflist Smartphones Windows Mobile devices