“In a rather surprising move” suggests the tuaw.com, it seems that the media is pretty taken in with the iPhone smartness. What exactly has happened?

1. Smartphone & Pocket PC, the publishers of the top Windows Mobile monthly magazine have made a sudden announcement stating that they are suspending the publication of the WinMo:

After 11 years, we will be publishing a final 2008 issue of Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine and then suspend publication!

2. They will be launching a quarterly iPhone -oriented magazine, titled Smartphone magazine’s iPhone Life. The initial plan is to continue it till at least 2010:

You can purchase a subscription at a special $25 price for all issues through 2010 – at minimum four each year plus premier issue while supplies last.

The iPhone quarterly will be published both on and off-line.

The reason, as their publisher Hal Goldstein states in his blog, is that the advertising support from the WinMo manufacturers, cellular carriers and developers have recorded a sudden drop.

Weird, given that there were just about a tiny number of 20 million WinMo devices were sold during Microsoft’s last fiscal year.