Internet Explorer Mobile 6 coming to China’s Samsung Omnia first
By Will Park on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 at 2:59 PM PST In Announcements, Applications, Windows Mobile
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) recently took some heat for their decision to make their revamped Internet Explorer Mobile 6 available only on new Windows Mobile handsets. With the promise of full-HTML web browsing and integrated Flash support, Internet Explorer Mobile 6 uses the desktop IE code-base to deliver a browsing experience more like that offered by Skyfire and Opera.
Today, we’re hearing confirmation that the new Pocket Internet Explorer 6 will first be available in China - on the Samsung Omnia. Scott Rockfeld, Microsoft’s director of Windows Mobile, mobile communications business, stated that Microsoft “want to have users in [emerging markets] get their first online experience with Windows Mobile. Our target is not to convert existing users of the competing phones like the iPhone or Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s Android. We want to grow faster than the market.”
So, there you have it. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Mobile 6 will bring the full-HTML rendering power of Internet Explorer 6 to Windows Mobile devices in China first.
A bad move for Microsoft?
[Via: WMPowerUser]
