Microsoft announces launch of Windows Mobile 6 in India

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Commenting on Windows Mobile leadership in the smart phone category Sumeet Gugnani, India Business Head, Windows Mobile and Mobility Solutions, Microsoft India said, "In a short span of over a year Windows Mobile has registered a 400 % growth which is a tremendous achievement for us. With industry's widest portfolio of form factors, powerful user friendly features, line of business applications for the enterprises and rich multimedia functionality, Windows Mobile has been well embraced by enterprises and consumers. Going forward the new enhanced Windows Mobile 6 coupled with a broader form factor portfolio available at multiple price points, will make Windows Mobile the platform of choice for customers."

Information Management Made Easier

Windows Mobile 6 addresses extensive user feedback and makes information management easier and more convenient through the following improvements:

·       Ease of viewing and editing of Office system documents. The new Office Mobile suite, built for all Windows Mobile powered devices, gives users a truly familiar and powerful experience with rich viewing and editing capabilities, without having to worry about the deletion of critical formatting and images.

·        E-mail management and setup with fewer clicks. Nine new one-click options have been added, including Reply All, setting a flag, moving a message to a subfolder, and, of course, Delete. Users can set an automatic out-of-office reply while on the road when using a Windows Mobile 6 powered device and Exchange Server 2007.

·        Synchronization with Windows Vista. Windows Vista™ and the Windows Mobile Device Center take the guesswork out of managing a device and swapping music, pictures, movies and Outlook information between PC and the device.

·        Smart calendar bar. This innovative new feature gives users the ability to understand at a glance the day or week ahead and quickly determine open time on their schedules. With Exchange Server 2007, they can see who is attending a meeting and forward or reply to meeting requests.

·         Web search, e-mail, instant messaging (IM) and blogging all together. Windows Live for Windows Mobile will provide customers with a rich set of services including Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, Live Search and Windows Live Spaces, uniquely designed to work with Windows Mobile software. Users can also find all their contacts in one unified list and see presence information on their Windows Live Messenger contacts.

·       Contacts with context. Call history is now placed where it belongs, in each individual contact card, so people spend less time searching and more time communicating.

The Best Platform for Business

Windows Mobile efficiently works with existing Microsoft business technology investments and offers users a familiar software experience, making it the smartest mobile solution for businesses to deploy:

·       Security options. The platform offers a variety of security options, giving IT departments ways to help secure a device, including new Exchange Server policies and certificate options, storage card encryption, and continued support for remote and local device wipe.

·       Protected content. Organizations using Information Rights Management (IRM) technology to help control the viewing, storing and printing of confidential information on PCs can now extend those capabilities to Windows Mobile 6 powered devices, a feature not available on any other mobile phone platform.

·       Line-of-business applications. Powerful, new mobile versions of the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft SQL Server™ are built into Windows Mobile 6, making it even easier to create and access sales tools, inventory tracking and many other applications from a Windows Mobile 6 powered smartphone.

·         Internet sharing. A new built-in application makes using a Windows Mobile 6 powered smartphone as a laptop's high-speed modem "one-click easy" with either a Bluetooth wireless or cable connection.

·        Communication alternatives. Windows Mobile 6 makes it easier for operators and device-makers to integrate a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) solution into devices they are building.

Windows Mobile provides people with more choice of operators and phone styles for nearly any business or personal need. In India Windows Mobile is available on a diverse range of 30 form factors including both stylus and PDA phones which is the widest range of smart phones available in the country. Hewett Packard (HP), Hi Tech Computers (HTC), O2, iMate and Motorola are Microsoft's device partners in India.

 

Microsoft Windows Mobile platform is the only mobile software platform to offer a 4 pronged value proposition to smartphone users : Office on the move (consumers can have access to their familiar MS office - Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Internet Explorer), Push Mail Messaging (increasing time & cost efficiency for the end user as device manufacturers do not need to pay for additional Middleware server), Line-of-business-applications (The .Net framework provides a platform which supports line-of-business applications like Sales force enablement, mobile CRM etc), and Multimedia functionality (camera, MP3, video recording) on available on a single device. 

 

Sourced From: Text 100 Public Relations Consultancy