Windows App Testing: History of Windows Mobile and its version -Part 4

Windows Mobile 5

Windows Mobile was released on 9^th Dec 2005 under the code name “Magneto”. Microsoft offered a mainstream support for WM 5 through Oct 12, 2010 and extended their support through 13th Oct 2015.

It used the .NET compact framework 1.0 SP3. It also included the MS exchange server “Push” functionality. All the WM 5 devices supported Direct Push.

Feature:

• Microsoft Office mobile which includes (PowerPoint, excel with graphing capability, Word mobile ability to insert tables and graphics
• Windows media player 10
• Blue tooth support
• QWERTY keyboard support
• GPS
• Battery life

Windows Mobile 6

Windows mobile 6 was released on 12^th Feb 2007.

It has come in three different versions.

•  Windows Mobile 6 Standard for “Smart phones (Phones without touch screens)
•  Windows Mobile 6 Professional for Pocket PCs with phone functionality
•  Windows Mobile 6 classic for Pocket PCs without cellular radios.

WM6 was powered by windows CE 5. Windows mobile 6 was meant to be similar in design of Windows Vista.  Enterprise users’ business environment was targeted in large number.

Feature:

• Support for Office 2007 document formats (pptx, docx, xlsx)
• OneNote Mobile
• HTML E-Mail  support in  outlook Mobile
• Serve search on Microsoft Exchange 2007
• Out of Office replies with Microsoft Exchange 2007
• Search ability for contacts in a Exchange Server Address Book
• Developers and users access to MS SQL Server 2005 compact edition
• Storage and retrieval of information. 
• MS SQL Server 2005 compact edition
• Supports were added to IE Mobile.
• Storage Card Encryption
• Customer Feedback option
• Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) support for select operators

Windows Mobile 6.1

Windows Mobile 6.1 was released on 1^st April, 2008. It was a minor upgrade of Windows 6 which includes performance enhancements, Home screen featuring horizontal tiles. It was not supported in the professional editions.

Feature:

• Threaded SMS
• Full page zooming in Internet Explorer
• 'Domain Enroll' were also added
• Automatic links for telephone numbers in Tasks and Appointments
• Improved bandwidth efficiency in its push-email protocol "Active sync" of "up to 40%"
• Considerably improved battery life in many devices.

Windows Mobile 6.5

Windows mobile 6.5 was released on 11^th may 2009. It was not the part of windows mobile road map and was released after the release of Windows 7.

Feature

• Revamped GUI
• Microsoft's Zune player with vertically scrollable labels (called 'Titanium')
• WM6.5 also includes the new Internet Explorer Mobile 6 browser, with improved interface
• Skybox", "Skyline", "Sky Market”, icon based soft buttons (rather than text based)
• Updated contacts app
• Native support for a-GPS improved threaded text messaging
• Performance improvement
• Native support for multi-touch
• Touchable tiles replaced soft keys
• Drag-and-drop start menu icons
• Improved memory management and gesture smoothing.
• Additional features include threaded email and Office Mobile 2010.

The work on a major Windows Mobile update begun in 2004 under the codename "Photon", but the work have moved slowly and the project was ultimately cancelled. In 2008, Microsoft reorganized the Windows Mobile group and started working on a new mobile operating system. The product was to be released in 2009 as Windows Phone.

New OS was developed and the name Windows Mobile was renamed as Windows Phone. MS released the OS under the version Windows 7.

– Referred from WIKI