Microsoft smart phone software enables a richer user experience for new data services that are optimized through 2.5G and 3G broadband wireless networks, including secure corporate and Web access, access to e-mail, and continually updated personal information manager (PIM) information. Following the success of its Mondo voice-enabled Pocket PC, Mitsubishi Electric plans to release smart phones running Microsoft’s smart phone platform under the Trium phone brand in late 2001 for GSM and GPRS networks.
Mitsubishi Electric chooses Microsoft software platform for 3G phones
3GSM World Congress and Internet World Wireless, Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Microsoft Corp. announced to the media that Mitsubishi Electric has licensed and plans to develop next-generation phones based on Microsoft's smart phone platform, currently code-named "Stinger."