It looks like the Asus Eee phone could ditch Android for Windows Mobile 6.5 – find out how we know after the break.
We put on our Sherlock Holmes deerstalkers for a bit of detective work at Mobile World Congress this week, and we came across a few telling signs that the long awaited Asus Eee phone could be powered by Windows Mobile 6.5 instead of Android, as many people have been predicting.
How do we know? Reports have been popping up that the newly formed Garmin-Asus partnership would be in charge of the Eee phone, and lo – who should crop up in the list of Windows Mobile 6.5 adopters yesterday but Garmin-Asus.
The upshot: unless Garmin-Asus is omitting to tell us something very important about its new nuvifone models, the Eee phone could be one of the next handsets to tote Windows Mobile 6.5, after rival Taiwanese tech company HTC‘s line up.
Asus isn’t saying anything of course – nobody in the company other than Asus’s CEO seems willing to admit the Eee phone even exists – but it certainly seems feasible: Asus has been making a gradual move away from Linux on the Eee PC range to Windows XP models. We’ll be keeping a magnifying glass over this one so stay tuned for more details.
Out TBC | £TBC | Garmin-Asus
