Windows Media Player 10 Mobile is the latest version of the Windows Media Player for Pocket PCs and Windows Mobile Smartphones.  Site visitors often send e-mail requests for instructions on how to download and add Windows Media Player 10 Mobile to Pocket PCs that shipped with earlier versions of the player.

Unfortunately WMP10 Mobile is not available as a stand-alone download, nor can it be ordered as a software CD-ROM. Pocket PCs and Smartphones with WMP10 Mobile are those which shipped with the player installed or those with ROM updates which added the player.  The Dell Axim X51 Series Pocket PCs, for example, ship with Windows Media Player 10 mobile pre-installed.  Early HP iPAQ rx3000 Series Pocket PCs did not ship with WMP10 Mobile, but HP made ROM updates available which added the player.

If your Pocket PC or Windows Mobile Smartphone did not come with Windows Media Player 10 installed and a ROM update containing WMP10 Mobile is not available for your handheld, you cannot install the player.  There are alternative third-party audio and video players, however, which may serve as equal or superior replacements for Windows Media Player 10 Mobile. 

The Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6 operating systems each include Windows Media Player 10 Mobile as a standard part of its applications package.

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