Windows Mobile 6.1 finally announced

4 months have passed since The Boy Genius broke the news about Windows Mobile 6.1, today Microsoft finally announced the official release of the OS’s new minor version. As I told you yesterday the funny thing is that it is already unofficially available for some devices

(Images courtesy of www.engadgetmobile.com)

You can read the official press release here

The biggest claim for the new version is that “the new Internet Explorer Mobile Brings the Quality of Desktop Web Browsing to Phones” and the way they plan to do it is by incorporating Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight plug-ins out of the box as well as some other new features to compete against mobile versions of Opera, Safari and Netfront.

Further more, two mayor manufacturers (Sony Ericsson and HTC) announced their own GUI layers that will sit atop Windows Mobile 6.1, SE’s is called XPERIA Panels and HTC is codenamed “Manila”.