Via: Engadget Mobile

According to a piece in Engadget Mobile today, the upcoming new Windows Mobile 6 – or Crossbow – will have some major changes to the naming convention for the various versions or flavors of it.

The rumored changes are:

• Smartphone version will become ‘Standard’
• Pocket PC version will be ‘Classic’
• Pocket PC Phone Edition will become ‘Professional’

I know some will say the new version titles are pretty drab and unimaginative, but I like them …. a lot.

I like them because I think by now there is so much ‘bleed over’ between terms like PDA and Pocket PC and Smartphone and all these sorts of devices, that losing the Pocket PC element within the version names is very worthwhile. 

Most of all though I like them because it is way past time that ‘Smartphone’ ceased to be in any way associated with an OS version, and can more happily (as it already is) be used as a generic for a whole genre of devices (and there’ll still be plenty to debate as far as defining exactly what makes one).

Particularly for novice users and buyers, dropping the Smartphone title should save a lot of confusion.  Bravo for boring, unexciting version names.

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