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As with Windows Mobile 6.1, Windows Mobile 6.5 is going to come in the same two flavors: Mounds (Standard) and Almond Joy (Professional). (If you don’t get that analogy, Mounds and Almond Joy are the same candy bar, except Almond Joy has an almond in the center and Mounds doesn’t…) The main difference between the two is essentially touchability and the functionality that comes with it. Standard edition will run on phones without touchscreens and – you guessed it – Professional will run on phones with touch screens. While that certainly isn’t news, I was digging around the innanets last night and ran across a couple of devices from AnyData; a company that provides, “wireless solutions for a smarter world.” While the ASP-535D (see the link at the bottom of this post if you want to d/l the spec. sheet) was announced back in February to come with Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard installed, the following two models seem to be newer devices running Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard and Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional, respectively:

ASP-705W: Running Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard, refer to the following pictures for details:

ASP-735W: Running Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional, refer to the following pictures for details:

While there is a page on their website sporting all of that information, good luck finding it via their main portal (I had to use Google to stumble upon it). In addition to the white ASP-705W seen above, it appears a black model of the ASP-705W is floating around out there.

And just for the sake of adding to this list, here’s a random device I ran across purporting to run Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional (that looks like a proprietary UI on top of WinMo 6.1, if I’m not mistaking; feel free to correct me):

In conclusion, this post essentially just adds to the list of hardware vendors (beyond the obvious, like HTC, Sony, etc.) set to run the latest and greatest Microsoft mobile OS on their devices.

Resources:

ASP-535D PDF Document: Download Here
ASP-735W PDF Document: Download Here
ASP-705W PDF Document: Download Here
Skyworth PDF Document: Download Here

-Stephen

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