{"id":194,"date":"2007-02-12T19:57:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T05:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/12\/microsoft-changes-windows-mobile-naming-scheme-again\/"},"modified":"2007-02-12T20:08:24","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T06:08:24","slug":"microsoft-changes-windows-mobile-naming-scheme-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/12\/microsoft-changes-windows-mobile-naming-scheme-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Changes Windows Mobile Naming Scheme (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with introducing Windows Mobile 6, Microsoft is once again changing the device naming scheme. The new device type names along with what we call them now are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Standard Edition == Smartphone<\/li>\n<li>Classic Edition == Pocket PC<\/li>\n<li>Professional Edition == Pocket PC Phone Edition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To make things even more interesting, the Standard Edition (Smartphone) includes a read-only (no editing) version of Office Mobile. Does all this really help differentiate the different Windows Mobile device types for the non-techie consumer (i.e., the vast majority of people buying these things)? I think not. My guess is that a common scene that will play out again and again are executives asking IT why they were given the obviously <em>inferior <\/em>Standard Edition instead of Professional Edition based solely on the naming scheme. This doesn&#8217;t help anyone and, in fact, may confuse even more people. Microsoft should have just renamed the phone-less Pocket PC to Pocket PC Standard Edition and left the other two names alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with introducing Windows Mobile 6, Microsoft is once again changing the device naming scheme. The new device type names along with what we call them now are: Standard Edition == Smartphone Classic Edition == Pocket PC Professional Edition == Pocket PC Phone Edition To make things even more interesting, the Standard Edition (Smartphone) includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,10,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices","category-pocket-pcphone-edition","category-smartphone","category-windows-mobile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-38","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}