The mix of phones in North America -- both new phones and existing phones updated for Windows Mobile 6.5 -- includes units by Hewlett-Packard, HTC, LG, Samsung and Toshiba and mobile operators AT ...

Design blueprints and information for the phones show details such as enhanced social networking features, 5-megapixel cameras and GPS.

But Windows Mobile 6.5 is unlikely to turn around that trend. AT&T, one operator that plans to sell new phones running the software, doesn’t expect the devices to attract new kinds of users.

Despite a report quoting a Microsoft executive saying that no current-generation phones will be upgradeable to the forthcoming Windows Mobile 7, the company refused to confirm those comments.

It took a year for Giga-Byte to follow in HTC’s footsteps, but the upcoming GSmart Windows Mobile smartphones will have a brand new UI on top of the standard WinMo affair. The interface is ...

An enthusiastic job posting on Microsoft’s careers site is asking for engineers to help realize their “dream” of frequent, free, “magical” and substantive updates for Windows Mobile phones.

Among other things, the company is expected to unveil Windows Mobile 6.1, the latest update for the operating system for mobile phones.

Sony Ericsson has primarily used the Symbian operating system to power its smart phones. Its Windows Mobile phone will have a touch screen with a slide-out keyboard and a camera.

Sony Ericsson and Microsoft will cooperate in making smartphones, with the first Sony Ericsson handset based on the Windows Mobile operating system on sale by the end of the year.

Future Windows Mobile 6.1 phones can use the upgraded browser, which also is designed to perform more functions of standard Web pages, but they won’t display the new user interface.

In addition to its own Silverlight multimedia technology, Microsoft will support Adobe’s competing Flash technology on Windows Mobile phones, the companies planned to announce on Monday.