[From Mike Harris] The smartphone landscape is changing rapidly so where does Windows Mobile fit into all of this? Well the
Guardian Newspaper takes a closer look. "Research In Motion (RIM) is already in motion: it has spent the past couple of years moving into the consumer market with hot new products such as the BlackBerry Bold and Storm. Nokia, the world's largest phonemaker, has targeted high-end users with the E71, N95 and N96 and similar phones. Nokia has also taken control of the Symbian smartphone operating system and is making that open source as well. Meanwhile, Microsoft has ... done not very much at all.
"We're very confident in our strategy, so I don't think we need a particular response," says Alex Reeve, who heads up the Windows Mobile business in the UK.
But while Microsoft sold 18m smartphone licences in the year to June, 2m short of its target, Apple says it sold 6.9m iPhones during the last quarter alone. "
The Guardian for the full read. Thanks to Mike for the heads up.