Motorola and Sprint to sell Windows phone to businesses (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Motorola Inc (MOT.N) said on weekday that it would start a newborn sound supported on Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) code and that No. 3 U.S. ambulatory cause Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N) module delude the sound to joint customers.

While Motorola uses Google Inc's (GOOG.O) Android code for its consumer cellphones, it is sticking with Microsoft's profession for devices aimed at playing customers.

Motorola said at an circumstance to show the ES400 figure that the sound module go on understanding in Sept and module separate on Microsoft's Window's Mobile 6.5 software.

Microsoft, which has been losing discover to Android in the code mart for consumer phones, said it is thinking an upgraded edition of the Windows Mobile 6.5 code for businesses after this year.

This module be branded as Windows Embedded Handheld.

Motorola plans to raise the ES400 phones to the incoming version, a spokesman for the consort said without gift a timeline for the upgrade.

Next assemblage Microsoft module start a newborn edition of Windows Embedded Handheld supported on its Windows 7 software, according to Chief Executive Steve Ballmer who prefabricated a evidence via recording at the Motorola event.

(Reporting by Sinead Carew; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)

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