Its official now. The Operating System creating buzz around the world is just about to get unveiled. Being seen as the hope for the degrading Windows phone market, the Windows Mobile 7 will be featured in the events of Mobile World Congress (MWC).

The news is confirmed by Wall Street Journal. Steve Balmer will be meeting with reporters on this Monday, Feb 15 in the morning to talk about Windows phones, a spokesperson from MS said. The other rumors like a Zune-interface, software or hardware integration seem corrigible with more and more rumors doing the rounds recently.

Also in the news is the “Project Pink.” The Pink phone is considered as a descendent to Motorolo Sidekick. It is not speculated to arrive in the MWC. Everything is going to be crystal clear at MWC in Barcelona in a few hours away.

Via Wall Street Journal

While HTC Universal (codename of JasJar) is a pretty old device now, it has been spotted running Windows Mobile 7. Windows Mobile 7 is destined to be released in the Q3 and we can expect the first Windows Mobile 7 device sometime in Q4 2010.

This means that Windows Mobile 7 can run on pretty much any type of hardware out there.

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It is now clear by the following screenshot that Windows Mobile 7 won’t be the immediate successor of Windows Mobile 6.5. On a MSDN page, there is a mention of Windows Mobile 6.5.3 when widgets are being discussed about Windows Mobile.

[MSDN page]

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It seems Windows Mobile 6.5.1 and 7 are in the area of a minor conflict. Have a look at some of the screenshots below- where some are claiming them to be of Windows Mobile 7 and others name it as the descendent of 6.5, i.e, 6.5.1. Now that’s abstruse.

Whatever may be the reality, the screenshots shown can make you feel the next generation of the finger-friendly windows mobile.

Via WMExperts, pocketnow

Microsoft is soon going to make the Windows 7 official in few days from now, but what about Windows Mobile 7? Well, we have some tasty Windows Mobile 7 news for you all. Microsoft is going to release RTM release of Windows Mobile 7 in the month of April 2010. This means that to see the final version, we will need to wait till September or October of 2010 to see Windows Mobile 7 on our devices.

..and a couple of screenshots showing Windows Mobile 7’s concentration on use of gestures

Without a doubt, Microsoft itself must be feeling bad about the publicity they got after the release of Windows Mobile 6.5, which is a dot upgrade. We think that Microsoft has not made ANY substantial, improvements since Windows Mobile 5. Infact, Windows Mobile 6, also did not bring anything special to brag about. Let’s hope Windows Mobile 7 improves the condition of Windows Mobile as a OS.

[via microsoft kitchen and ppcgeeks]

credit: Sean VanSickle (via email)