March 2010 is when Microsoft will announce their plans for Windows Mobile 7. This date has been confirmed by Microsoft Office Vice President Kurt Delbene as he told Neowin.com. This correlates with our earlier post that WM 7 will be RTM in March 2010. Also, in light of Microsoft using the Office Mobile 7 Mock Up on their website, this shows that nothing can stay leak free forever.

Found via WMPoweruser.com

In what appears as another nod towards confirming how Windows Mobile 7 will look like when it is released next year, Microsoft has posted the Office Mobile 7 UI concept that we reported on a few weeks back on their main Office website as a screen shot of Office Mobile 2010. The image can be found on this page, although we are unsure how much longer it will be up. Huge tip of the hat to Stephen Chapman who originally reported this on his site, MSFTKitchen.com.

This is yet another confirmation that this will indeed be the layout of Windows Mobile 7 when it is released. Only time will tell as we get closer to the scheduled release.

Below is how it looks on their site.

The rumor mills are still going around that Windows Mobile 7 will hit manufacturers in Q1 2010 and will be ready for an official launch in Q3 2010, according to Taiwanese ZDNet.

Hopefully once it hits ODM’s we’ll start seeing leaks like we have with WM6.5.  Of course, if this is also true, then what exactly are these “WM6.5.1″ leaks we’ve seen if WM7 is supposed to be a completely new core, according to Microsoft?

Only time will tell!

Source: ZDNet via the::unwired

While we’ve heard rumors of Zune integration coming to Windows Mobile, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has confirmed it, stating that it will be coming in the next version of Windows. There’s no confirmation as to exactly what features will be included, but this could be what it takes for WinMo to catch up to the iPhone and Android.

The next question is whether we have to wait until WM7 of if we’ll see it in the WM6.5.1 (community branded title) branch. While WM6.5 has been released, Microsoft is clearly working on an upgrade to it already, as seen in our community and XDA with the newest leaked WM6.5 builds with more finger-friendly features. Only time will tell.

Source: Endgadget via IntoMobile

Is Windows Mobile 7 right around the corner? It would seem so after Stephen Chapman, owner of Microsoft Kitchen, came across some documents that indicate an updated RTM of

April 2010. If this is true, the general population will most likely have to wait until September-October of 2010 to have WM 7 on their phones.

I see September-October as the window of release because of the various carrier customizations that take place, along with the manufacturer’s making sure the software runs correctly on the given hardware. Also, seeing that Microsoft itself realizes that WM 6.5, a minor/moderate update to WM 6.1, won’t be released for several months later, what can we expect for WM 7, an update to the Windows Mobile architecture that is expected to be huge?

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Your crack PPCGeeks News Staff has recently uncovered the following information regarding a new device named Qilin. This will be released in China on Dopod only. Check out the details below:

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