Could the battlefield for the smartphone wars get any more crowded? Apparently, it can—as Microsoft has so brazenly proven once again. The company that most recently tried to beat Google at its own game with Bing! is now out to take the Google phone and the iPhone down in one fell swoop with Windows Phone 7.
This past week was the Mobile World Congress, the annual event where pretty much everything mobile for the next year gets introduced. For Micorosft it was the new mobile OS, the successor to WinMo6 and WinMo6.5, Windows Phone 7.
Apparently in contrast to the clunky and overstuffed earlier WinMo attempts to pack a PC into a handheld device, Windows Phone 7 honed its efforts on two prime areas: a hip interface concentrating on games, photos, messaging, and music, and a suite of business and productivity features, like mobile Outlook email and Office.
In addition to Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7, Nokia and Intel announced the merging of Nokia’s Maemo OS with Intel’s Moblin OS to create the MeeGo mobile OS.
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