{"id":359,"date":"2008-09-24T17:38:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T17:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/09\/24\/windows-mobile-7-release-delayed.aspx"},"modified":"2008-09-24T17:38:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T17:38:10","slug":"windows-mobile-7-release-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Windows Mobile 7 release delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has informed some of its partners that it has had to delay Windows Mobile 7, a much anticipated update to its cell phone operating system. <\/p>\n<p>Although Microsoft has not publicly said when to expect Windows Mobile 7, partners who had expected to have a final release in their hands by early next year have been told now that it won&#8217;t be ready until the second half of next year, sources told CNET News.  <\/p>\n<p>The delay is a significant blow for the software maker, which has been counting on the next version of Windows Mobile to enable devices that better rival Apple&#8217;s iPhone. Among the features widely expected to be part of the release is advanced gesture recognition, perhaps along the lines of the iPhone, but possibly also using the camera as a means for reading gestures. Microsoft&#8217;s Tellme unit, which focuses on speech input, has also been working on Windows Mobile 7 features.  <\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-10048061-56.html\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-10048061-56.html\">http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-10048061-56.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has informed some of its partners that it has had to delay Windows Mobile 7, a much anticipated update to its cell phone operating system. Although Microsoft has not publicly said when to expect Windows Mobile 7, partners who had expected to have a final release in their hands by early next year have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}