Feb 18
Major Chinese mobile phone manufacturer ZTE wasn’t on Microsoft’s initial list of partners for Windows Phone 7. But they’re making phones based on the new OS, said ZTE Europe CEO Lin Qiang.
“We have our Windows Phone 7 that we are going to launch in Q4 at the end of this year,” Qiang said.
Windows Phone 7 doesn’t mean Windows Mobile 6.5 is dead, according to Qiang. Like competitor HTC, ZTE sees a continuing role for Windows Mobile 6.5 in low-cost or smaller devices that don’t match up to Windows Phone 7’s high-end specs.
“We will develop 7 and 6.5 devices in parallel,” Qiang said. “The requirements of hardware are totally different.”
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