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Thursday, December 28, 2006
Windows CE goes mass market
Windows For Basic Phones Is Ready -- But Who's Buying? presents a new application platform for mobile phones. Here's the complete press release from Intrinsyc: Intrinsyc Delivers Soleus™ Version 1.0
Soleus, developed by Intrinsyc, is based on Windows CE, and ships with numerous phone applications. Microsoft seems to have had some play in getting this done, but for the record, it's not a Microsoft offering. One can though guess that Microsoft is watching Intrinsyc closely.
From the earlier Cheap Phones To Get Windows: The operating system and core applications can fit onto phones with 16 MB of RAM and 16 MB of flash storage
That's OK.
Of course, Soleus-based phones also need to support Java ME / MIDP to be application compliant. I didn't find any information about that, but that should be up to the phone-maker to decide.
Soleus, developed by Intrinsyc, is based on Windows CE, and ships with numerous phone applications. Microsoft seems to have had some play in getting this done, but for the record, it's not a Microsoft offering. One can though guess that Microsoft is watching Intrinsyc closely.
From the earlier Cheap Phones To Get Windows: The operating system and core applications can fit onto phones with 16 MB of RAM and 16 MB of flash storage
That's OK.
Of course, Soleus-based phones also need to support Java ME / MIDP to be application compliant. I didn't find any information about that, but that should be up to the phone-maker to decide.
