Windows Mobile 6.5 has appeared on a Chinese smartphone, some months before the first such devices were meant to be on the market. Sadly, the phone is about as unofficial as it gets.
Windows Mobile 6.5 was debuted to developers at the Tech-Ed event earlier this week, but actual Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets aren’t meant to be on the market until September-ish. Despite this, website Cloned In China spotted what looks a lot like a touchscreen handset running the new and improved WinMo on sale in China.
The phone appears to be a straight knock-off of the HTC Touch Viva although Cloned In China reckon it is based on the HUAWEI HiSilicon K3 platform.
Windows 6.5 ROM files can be found floating around the murkier depths of the Internet and given the somewhat lax attitude to intellectual property rights in China (unofficially, at least) in some ways it is surprising that it took this long for a bogus device to appear.
The Phone has a 3.2 megapixel camera, WiFi, and a 2.8-inch QVGA display and runs on a 480MHz processor – which handles Windows Mobile 6.5 quite well, apparently. If you absolutely can’t wait to give Windows Mobile 6.5 a try, get thee to Guangdong Province with 1,099 yuan (about £100) in your pocket before Microsoft’s lawyers sort out their flight details.
Available now | £100ish | Cloned In China via WMPowerUser
