Windows Phone 7 incompatible with Windows Mobile 6.x

If until now there were moments of confusion, in which Microsoft officials were left to interpret how the phones with Windows Mobile 6.x Phone should support upgrading to Windows 7, now head of Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business division said that Windows Phone 7 can not be installed on older Windows Mobile phones.


Windows Phone 7 incompatible with Windows Mobile 6.x

Case incompatibility is given by the construction and hardware requirements. For example, HTC HD2, although meets the hardware, doesn’t have dedicated keys to use the new system: back, home and search.

CES 2010 – Windows Mobile 6.5.3, caught in action (Video)

Editors from Phonescoop at CES 2010 have found a handset running Windows Mobile version 6.5.3, still unreleased. Here is the phone in action in the clip below, if you’re curious how it will look to update your WM 6.5:


CES 2010 – Windows Mobile 6.5.3, caught in action (Video)

It seems that the new OS running on a Toshiba TG01 smartphone, one of the first smartphones that have received updates from WM 6.1 to 6.5, few months ago.