Windows Mobile 6.5 not eligible for Windows Phone 7 Series OS

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The recent announcement by Microsoft that Windows Mobile 6.5 devices cannot be upgraded to Windows Phone 7 Series has made all the recent buyers of Windows Mobile 6.5 devices like HTC’s HD2, regret their purchase. It has been made cleared by the company employees that the minimum hardware requirements for the new Windows Phone 7 Series operating system is not met by Windows Mobile 6.5 devices.

According to Natasha Kwan, General Manager for Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business in the Asia-Pacific region, the phone doesn’t have the required three face buttons (it has five) and according to Tony Wilkinson, Business Operations Director for Microsoft Australia, it lacks certain other hardware components.

The lack of HD2′s hardware components reflects a bigger gap between WinMo 6.5 and Windows Phone 7 devices. Windows Phone 7 Series will require heavy-duty 3D graphics hardware that doesn’t exist in any WinMo 6.5 device yet.
Microsoft has set the bar high for 7 Series devices because of the fact that the HD2 runs a powerful 1Ghz processor and still didn’t make the cut.