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New mobile phone to be presented in Barcelona

19 January 2010 22:48 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ziya Agazade â€“ APA. Ahead of next month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the rumor mill is swirling once again about Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 7 operating system and a possible Zune phone based on it.

The latest rumors center around a couple of stories that posted Monday on WMExperts and MobileCrunch. Financial analysts are also getting into the act with their own guesses.

The â€œWMExpertsâ€ story says there will be two Windows Mobile 7 OSes, one for businesses and one for consumers.

As the MobileCrunch story suggested, this phone will probably be a technical break with the past--it’ll almost definitely support Silverlight--and may not be backward-compatible with earlier Windows Mobile versions and apps. This will be Microsoft’s much-awaited parlay against the iPhone.