Windows Mobile 6

Windows Mobile is a compact operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on the Microsoft Win32 API. Devices which run Windows Mobile include Pocket PCs, Smartphones, and Portable Media Centers. It is designed to be somewhat similar to desktop versions of Windows.

Windows Mobile 6

Windows Mobile 6, formerly codenamed Crossbow is the latest version of Windows Mobile platform and has been released on February 12, 2007 at the 3GSM World Congress 2007. It comes in three different versions: Windows Mobile 6 Standard for Smartphones (phones without touchscreens), Windows Mobile 6 Professional for PDAs with phone functionality (Pocket PC Phone Edition), and Windows Mobile 6 Classic for plain PDAs without cellular radios.

Windows Mobile 6 is powered by Windows CE 5.0 (version 5.2) and is strongly linked to Windows Live and Exchange 2007 products

Summary of Specs and New Features in Windows Mobile 6:

• Supports 800x480 (WVGA) resolution.
• Operating System Live Update
• Improved Remote Desktop access
• VoIP (Internet calling) support with AEC (Acoustic Echo Cancelling) and MSRT Audio Codec
• Windows Live for Windows Mobile.
• Customer Feedback option.
• Microsoft Bluetooth Stack greatly improved.
• Storage Card Encryption - Windows Mobile 6-based Pocket PC and Smartphone devices support encryption of data stored in external removable storage cards.
• Smartfilter to search faster through emails, contacts, songs, files, etc.
• Improved Internet Sharing to easily setup your device as a Laptop Modem.
• Outlook Mobile now supports viewing HTML email.
• Ability to search for contacts in an Exchange Server Address Book.
• Support for AJAX, JavaScript and XMLDOM on Internet Explorer Mobile
• Set Out of Office Replies from the device (requires Microsoft Exchange 2007).
• Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) support for selected Operators (like BT in the UK).
• Server Search to Search your entire Exchange mailbox from the device (requires Exchange 2007).
• .NET Compact Framework v2 SP2 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition pre-installed in ROM.
• Office Mobile 2007 was announced in June 2007 and will be launched in Q3 2007. It will provide support for Office 2007 file formats and will be released as a free update for WM5 and WM6, but will ship pre-installed in ROM for all WM6 devices launched after that date.
  

Windows Mobile 6 Standard was first offered on the Orange's SPV E650.
Windows Mobile 6 Professional was first offered on the O2's Xda Terra.

Source : wikipedia