Sony Ericsson ties up with Microsoft for Windows Mobile devices

Microsoft has now won a veritable superfecta of licensing, landing deals with four of the top five phone manufacturers in the world to provide handsets based on Windows Mobile. The latest, announced today at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress, is Sony Ericsson -- a company heavily vested in Symbian by way of its UIQ division, so it's unclear how the licensing deal will ultimately affect UIQ-based offerings. Stay tuned for more on the deal and details on Sony Ericsson's WinMo-based hardware!

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 11th 2008 12:41AM]

Watch Microsoft abandon all those companies when in two years it comes out with the ZunePhone!