Sony Ericsson will offer its first handsets running on Windows Mobile software later this year, Microsoft announced today.One Of the big five cellphone manufacturers, that leaves only Nokia, the market leader, in declining to put the Windows phone operating system in its lineup. Nokia relies on software from Symbian, of which it is the dominant owner.
The first piece of news out of the annual Mobile World Congress here, where some 60,000 people are expected through Thursday, signaled that the show's focus this year would be less on the styling of handsets and more on how they work.
The Windows Mobile software will be built into Sony-Ericsson's X1, the first in its new Xperia premium line of qwerty-keyboard multimedia phones that will be available in the second half of this year.
Handset makers and network operators are still choosing sides in the software slugfest - usually more than one.
While Sony Ericsson's move gives Microsoft's system a welcome endorsement, Windows still trails in the overall standings. And the fight over which system runs the most cellphones will get even fiercer this year, with the early success of Apple's new iPhone and with Google about to show off its Android mobile software.
Among the software systems powering "smartphones," which typically can browse the Internet and receive e-mail, Symbian led globally last year, with 67 percent market share. It was followed by Microsoft with 13 percent and Research In Motion, which makes the BlackBerry phone, at 10 percent, according to a report last week from Canalys, a market research firm.
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