For those of you who didn't join us Tuesday for the liveblog from Microsoft's launch of Windows Mobile 6.5, here's Robbie Bach's keynote, in its entirety.
We're live at the Steve Ballmer Keynote for CES 2009. What to expect? Could be anything, we're just hoping for more than Bill Gates' standard "kitchen of the future" fare.
You know what to do: click through!
Update: We're all finished up, click through to read our live blog archive and -- even better -- see images from the keynote!
We're live at CTIA 2008 in San Francisco and the Keynote is set to begin in about 10 minutes. On tap is Marco Boerries of Yahoo's "Connected Life Division," plus CEOs of T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon, plus the Chairman of Clearwire.
What to expect? We're hoping for new software from Yahoo (Yahoo Go 4.0 would be nice), maybe a mention of the Kickstart from T-Mobile, and perhaps a surprise or two from Verizon and Sprint -- i.e. it's be nice if Hesse talked up Windows Mobile this year instead of the silly Instinct.
Anyhow, it will be relatively low-key, but hit us up after the break for what news we can gather!
Updated: We've added a ton of photos to the liveblog, after the break. Don't forget - there's real live shots of the all new Blackjack II in red inside!
We're waiting for Steve Ballmer's keynote to start. We're expecting him to announce some server-side services for Windows Mobile to compete with the Blackberry Enterprise Server stuff - device management and whatnot. But you never know - this is, after all, a conference dedicated to “Wireless IT” and “Entertainment.” Dieter wants Slingbox capability built into Windows Media Center - but that's shooting the moon.
In any case, click through and get ready to hit that refresh button. We're starting up in 10.
Day two consisted of walking the show floor to see what we could see. Sadly, there's wasn't anything earth shattering. Here's the first bit of non-earth-shattering rumor confirmation: LG is indeed a new manufacturer of Windows Mobile phones. The proof is in the image on the right - a simple prototype of a WM6 device that we weren't allowed to touch. The casing: surely not what will finally come to be. In fact, pretty much all we've learned from this is that LG is capable of slapping together a WM prototype.
Whatever the final product is, let's hope it's as sexy as the Prada:
More images and CTIA news (including our thoughts on Microsoft's part of today's Keynote speech) after the jump.
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