Windows Phone 6 Starter - simple and inexpensive analog Windows Phone 7

Microsoft plans to produce not only a full-format version of the operating system for mobile phones Windows Phone 7, but also its simplified version, which would be for the market in developing countries where large role played by low cost, rather than functionality. OS will be called Windows Phone 6 Starter and will remind the proposed variation of Microsoft operating systems for desktop Windows 7 and Windows 7 Starter Home. Different versions Windows Phone Starter will be the presence or absence of the program Office Mobile.

Covered under this operating system will not only Microsoft, but its development partners - companies MediaTek and BSquare. According to information provided by the representative of the corporation, supported by communications standards for Windows Phone 6 Starter will be somewhat different from those for Windows Phone 7 - expresses support for 2G (GSM), 2.5G (CDMA2000 xRTT, EDGE, GPRS), CDMA (Rev A, EV -DO Revision A) and TD-SCDMA. Third-generation networks and data transmission via HSPA will not be supported. The first samples of phones running Windows Phone 6 Starter should appear later this year, but it is too early to talk about specific dates.