All Vodafone Handsets to Use Windows Mobile, Linux, or Symbian

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All Vodafone Handsets to Use Windows Mobile, Linux, or Symbian

6:20 am on November 8, 2006 | Category: Business, Mobile Devices, Wireless, Cell Phones, Software

The world’s largest wireless provider, Vodafone, has announced plans to standardize all software used on its handsets, and has selected three mobile operating systems for all future devices, according to a report by Microsoft.

“Vodafone is the first to go into this direction, but there are others doing similar things and we will be talking about them in due course,” commented the software giant’s senior vice president of Mobile and Embedded Devices, Pieter Knook, after revealing that Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software platform was one of the three selected. The other two core operating systems selected by Vodafone are Symbian Series 60 and Linux.

The fact that Microsoft’s mobile OS was selected to do a lot to further the company’s ambitious sales targets in the wireless software market.

“We’ve said we expect to double sales of Windows Mobile handsets this year. We’re still relatively small. I see no reason why that momentum cannot continue beyond 2007,” Knook said, in an interview.