Crossbow in the wild (on a Hermes, no less)

After observing that Crossbow (the next version of Windows Mobile destined to find its way into handsets) appears to be little more than a moderate reskin of the Winodws Mobile 5 we all know and love, our excitement sorta tempered; instead, we started hunkering down for the real prize, Photon -- a major rewrite that's still a ways off yet. Even so, we can't help but feel a twinge of joy at seeing the beautified platform doing its thing on a Hermes in the wild, especially considering that the Hermes is basically a year old. If nothing else, it gives us hope that the lives of the handsets in all our pockets right now might be extended a bit. Don't get us wrong, we'll be compulsively upgrading our hardware ad infinitum right alongside many of our readers -- but we suspect a Hermes with Crossbow will resell for a touch more on eBay than a Hermes with old-skool 5.0, y'know?

[Via PDA247]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 8th 2006 7:52PM]

I can't be the only one who reads "herpes" when he reads "Hermes".

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 10th 2006 3:39AM]

Yay!! My 8525 isn't outdated already!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 9th 2006 12:56AM]

I think so...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 9th 2006 7:58AM]

Wow, an added feature from the looks of the picture, two different clocks on the same screen, one minute apart...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 9th 2006 2:57PM]

Hope they've added more features than a new skin on the today screen. Any word if crossbow includes office 2007 support?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 10th 2006 2:43PM]

> Any word if crossbow includes office 2007 support?

Yes, Office 2007 support will be built into Crossbow. Microsoft said so this week. And devices running the current version of Windows Mobile will get support for Office 2007, too.

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