Evolution of Windows Phone OS (2000 - 2017)

In the year 2000, Microsoft released Windows Pocket PC. This was the base framework that would result in Microsoft selling Windows Phones in the early to late 2010s. In this video you will see how Windows Phone has evolved from Pocket PC 2000 up to Windows 10 Mobile.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Windows Pocket PC 2000-2003
02:24 - Windows Mobile 5 - 6.5
06:24 - Windows Phone 7
07:53 - Windows Phone 8.x
10:32 - Windows 10 Mobile

Song: IZECOLD - Close (feat. Molly Ann) [Brooks Remix] [NCS Release]
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[francia]

The jump from 6.1 to 6.5 looks massive, the same as from 6.5 to 7

You should’ve covered some 6.5.3 builds too, they have an interesting design

[catchmeorigo]

i loved the fact that it had dark mode more than 10 years ago and that you could choose a accent color that would personalize the entire OS, i wish modern iOS and Android would do that too

[Windowslove]

The more I've seen Windows Phone recently, the more I realize Windows Phone was the 3rd party between Android and iOS we all needed. I wish it had stayed around longer!

[ctgdstudio]

Someone please return my Nokia Windows Mobile! It's so nostalgic 😄

[JackStavris]

You can really see the pre-iPhone UI of Windows Mobile 6, and then the post-iPhone UI of Windows Mobile 6.5. I remember 6.5 having a nice Zune-like home screen and a cool but weird Start menu, but it was just lipstick on a pig. Aside from the HTC HD2 which was actually good, WM 6.5 devices were utter crap in 2009/2010, resistive touch on most of them, a lot had third party UIs on them to hide the ancient Windows Mobile underpinnings like HTC TouchFlow (which became HTC Sense on Android). I think there was a prototype version of Windows Mobile 7 which planned on continuing the lineage of WM 6.5 but they scrapped it as it just wasn't going to be competitive.

Windows Phone 7 couldn't have come soon enough, and if it had come out in 2009 instead of 6.5 it might have actually had a chance at success. By late 2010 the market was already conceded to iOS and Android, and I get that I sound like a Monday morning quarterback using hindsight, but I remember even then thinking it even though I used Windows Phone for many years all the way through Windows 10 before I went to Android in 2016 and eventually back to iOS in 2018, as Windows 10 Mobile was just so lackluster even on the Lumia 950. It was just too late unfortunately as I still think Windows Phone 7 has aged really well in some areas, like the hubs for media and social were a brilliant idea, and the browser UI being on the bottom. Found it particularly funny when people praised Apple for giving Safari the UI on the bottom in iOS 15 yet I had it on my Windows Phone a decade prior.

[Gatsuilil]

your videos are fixed me, thank you friend.

[hieuquocnguyen]

Windows Mobile 5 is sooo nostalgic, I remember back when I was 2 years old and my mom had a MDA T-Mobile with WM5 installed in it

[techactivate]

How did you emulate Windows Mobile 6.x, and Pocket PC builds? I have no idea on how to do that, but if you know, please tell me.

[fergasol]

I love how they were named after "Pocket Pc"

[TheDeepShadow]

still have my HTC 7 Mozart, loved that phone and Windows Phone 7 was so great !

[IzzumiPoshaf]

I think, if there is Windows 11 Mobile (Windows Phone 11), it would similar with Android UI and Icons.

[IzzumiPoshaf]

Actually, these are the Comparisons between Windows Mobile and Windows Desktop (PC) :
- Pocket PC 2000 (Windows CE 3.0) : Based on Windows 2000
- Pocket PC 2002 (Windows CE 3.0) : Based on Windows XP
- Windows Mobile 2003 (Windows CE 4.0) : Based on Windows XP
- Windows Mobile 5 (CE 5.0) : Similar with Windows Longhorn [2005]
- Windows Mobile 6 (CE 5.2) : Between Longhorn and Vista [2007]
- Windows Mobile 6.1 (CE 5.2.xxxx) : Based on Windows Vista [2008]
- Windows Mobile 6.5 (CE 5.2.xxxx) : Based on Windows 7 [2009]
- Windows Phone 7 : Based on Windows 8 [2010]
- Windows Phone 8.x : Based on Windows 8/8.1 [2012-2013]
- Windows 10 Mobile : Based on Windows 10 (Desktop/PC) [2015-2017]

[Retropizzapaws]

There are older versions of Windows CE. I happen to have a Cassiopeia that has version 2.11 on ROM.

[tyc.miller]

No surprise that 6.0, 6.1, and 6.5 are my favorites to look at

[JuliaBosaja]

3:15 but date it says it’s 1 January 2001

[lucashallwas]

Man thats awsome, thank you for posting it. How did you emulated all these OSs?

[BeyondAbsoluteInfinity]

6.5 is like the predecessor to the zune, and zune is the predessor to all the windows 8 and above ui

[IzzumiPoshaf]

All Windows Phone Kernel OS Builds (From CE 3.0 / Pocket PC 2000 until Mobile 6.x) are equals to Windows 10 (Desktop) Builds, because the Range around 10xxx-19xxx.

[TiberiuStamate]

My Qtek 9000 is using Windows Mobile 5!

[ryanmajed]

"goodbye" is the shutdown for Windows Phone 8.