Unusually numerous and conflicting rumors.
Microsoft will introduce a new version of the operating system that until now have been called Windows Mobile. In practice, this is all that is confirmed on the matter.
Like Google's launch of the Nexus One, Microsoft keeps cards close - at least officially. Reputation for the flood has risen violently in recent days, and somewhere at Microsoft or partners, there are some who are talking. The unusual is that the anonymous statements that ever comes, is rather contradictory. 
Under the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this month went out and LG said that the company comes with Windows Mobile 7-based phones this fall. The company has since repeated the message. At the same time said a non-named representatives of a number of other mobile operators that Windows Mobile 7 is not coming until 2011.
LG will be entitled, and should the company, since it has said this publicly, you must have Windows Mobile 7 will be made available to mobile providers within a few months. It takes time to test and adapt the operating system, hardware, applications and user interfaces. With Windows Mobile 6.5 brought this about six months.
An unveiling of a feature complete version of Windows Mobile 7, should appear at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February.
But according to other sources, it is not Windows Mobile 7 to be unveiled in Barcelona, but version 6.6. This is primarily to provide platform support for capacitive touch screens.
Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, said during an analyst meeting for nearly two weeks ago on a question the timetable for Windows Mobile 7 that the company will have news to share about Windows Mobile in Barcelona. Since the question was all about Windows Mobile 7, many assumed that Bach also talked about this version in its response. But Bach did not mention the version number.
Microsoft has faced BetaNews underlined, in retrospect, that the company is not at all talked about Windows Mobile 7 during CES. This has come as a surprise to many, who was in the belief that it was version 7 of the mobile operating system that was the theme.
So it is still unclear when Windows Mobile 7 will be unveiled.
This week there have nevertheless been revealed information about how Windows Mobile 7 will be. These messages are as contradictory as the rumors about the schedule.
For example, Mobile Crunch announced yesterday that Windows Mobile 7 will have very little in common with the precursor. It should be based on the core from the media player Zune HD, in addition to Silverlight and. Net. It will not support normal background processing, multi-threaded processes or access to system resources. Existing applications for Windows Mobile will not work.
The user interface should be fairly identical to what the Zune HD. The focus should be in games and messages. Corporate Corrected functionality will be missing.
Also on the hardware side there should be strict guidelines from Microsoft, that hardware vendors must follow. The operating system will only support a single screen, and there are minimum requirements for processor speed and RAM size.
Application developers who have tipped Mobile Crunch will be very little satisfied with how the platform is now developing.
The operating system will come in a media-and a business edition. The latter is expected to come first and should be a slightly stripped version of the entertainment version.
In particular, the LG mobile Apollo, as shown in the article, has startling hardware, including a screen resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels and 1.3 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8650 processor. Certainly not this version clocks so high, but there are other Snapdragon models where this is possible.
Expect many many more rumors about the next Windows Mobile / Phone in the coming weeks. Microsoft is such a massive reputation flows entirely positive, as it was for Google, and so it often is for Apple, as long as the rumors are not so far from the truth. But if the actual product turns out to be far weaker than expected, the full launch is perceived as a negative experience for many and affect customers' desire to buy the product.
