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Updated: Shifting Sands In Mobile Could Be A Boost For Microsoft And WP7

“We see a number of major vendors very seriously considering Windows Mobile as a core platform and therefore we are following their lead and examining it as well to complement our work in Android to date,” the company’s CEO, Frank Meehan, told GigaOm .

Although some of his reasoning could have to do with the worry that INQ will find it hard to compete against Google developing its own Android devices, it appears from the interview that it’s mostly because of licensing costs associated with Android. In contrast, he noted, “The advantages with Windows Mobile is that the legal issues and resulting costs seem to be much less.”

It would be interesting to see what INQ could do with the WP platform: it has been something of a trailblazer in the mobile world. INQ was one of the handset makers to include direct links to both Skype and Facebook on its devices: the Skype link first appeared on a BREW-based feature phone several years ago, while the Facebook links were on two of INQ’s Android devices.

To date, although INQ has won accolades for its innovations, none of its devices have been blockbusters from a sales point of view.

Still, it could be indicative of what other Android licensees might be planning ahead, and points to growing questions over whether free licenses are really all that cheap.

HTC, meanwhile, is planning an event on September 1 in London in which it promises to show “What’s next”. This is not a closed media event: HTC posted the invite on its UK Facebook page , so in theory, anyone can attend.

While HTC has not specified what the event is for, it is widely believed that it is being planned to showcase the company’s first phone using “Mango,” the newest iteration of the Windows Phone 7 that adds no less than 500 new features to the OS. (We’ve written more about it here and here .

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