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Latest Mobile Windows News: T3 advertising agency gets big deal from Microsoft about Windows phone October 27, 2009; [with touch-screen] Windows Mobile app store is a total disaster by now and developers are earning close to nothing off this store... ... but at least somebody is earning money off Windows phones: advertising agencies... HTC Diamond2 gets official update to Windows Mobile 6.5 but old Diamond - no chance October 27, 2009; [with touch-screen] While even 2 years old iPhone 2G can be updated with latest software, HTC Diamond is out of luck. However if you have HTC Diamond2, that has exactly the same innards but only bigger display and better camera, then now you can get official Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade: Review of Samsung Intrepid from Sprint USA - published October 26, 2009; [with touch-screen] Samsung Intrepid has a lovely form factor - front facing QWERTY keyboard and touch-screen, combined with 3 megapixel aufofocus camera but unfortunately it is available for USA only, although it works both in CDMA (Sprint network in USA) and GSM/UMTS (abroad of USA). It's a pity that Samsung doesn't have a Windows Mobile 6.5 powered phone in this form factor in Europe... FREE mini web server for Windows Mobile released - ServersMan October 25, 2009; [with touch-screen] Developer of this web server app, writes: Microsoft practices nepotism in Windows Marketplace for Mobile October 23, 2009; [with touch-screen] Updated: Twikini explains the situation! See at the bottom of this news item! TouchTwit (see also our review of TouchTwit) is available now in Marketplace but Microsoft unfairly promotes Twikini despite the fact that Twikini has zero reviews, while TouchTwit has several reviews and most of them are positive! In other words: Microsoft is promoting and giving publicity to an inferior Twitter client!!! So, let's take a look how it looks like in the Windows Mobile app store of Microsoft called "Marketplace". On the first page of Marketplace one can see Twikini on top: Main Microsoft blogger criticizes Microsoft mobility and switches to iPhone! October 21, 2009; [with touch-screen] A guy who calls himself "mini-Microsoft" is a Microsoft employee who blogs anonymously about various things in Microsoft. He is de facto the best known Microsoft blogger and since he blogs anonymously he is usually the only Microsoft employee who speaks openly in public about Microsoft stuff. Acer launched mobile.acer.com - a micro-site devoted to their smartphones October 21, 2009; [with touch-screen] Currently this site covers Acer neoTouch (S200), Acer beTouch E100 and Acer beTouch E200, that all are powered by Windows Mobile 6.5, but Acer already pre-announces there Android-powered Acer Liquid smartphone... Screenshots of Windows Mobile 7 leaked October 21, 2009; [with touch-screen] Chuong from the site that leaked these screenshots, writes: Full review of Acer neoTouch S200 aka F1 published - from American perspective October 19, 2009; [with touch-screen] Acer S200 costs only 480 US dollars and offers support for one American 3G band (1900) so it is good offer also for USA. It has an incredibly fast Snapdragon processor running at 1GHz and is powered with Windows Mobile 6.5 right away, but unfortunately the build quality and phone call quality are not the best: What is the official price of HTC HD2? October 18, 2009; [with touch-screen] There is no doubt about it that HTC HD2, that is launching next month in several countries, is the best Windows Mobile phone in the world. However the question remains: how much does it cost? What is the official price? Palm lies about Windows Mobile October 17, 2009; [with touch-screen] Just recently Palm was a major maker of Windows Mobile phones, but now not only Palm has dumped Windows Mobile, but is also badmouthing it...
TouchTwit for Windows phone - review October 16, 2009; [with touch-screen] Here we are reviewing a client for Twitter that was designed for finger-friendly navigation. No need to use stylus with this one. After the initial launch you can add your Twitter accounts or create new ones: Windows phone TV commercial number 3 airing - icon midgets under the table October 15, 2009; [with touch-screen] Usually commercial are showing some unique selling points of given product, but Windows phone commercials are showing all the time the set of icons with programs like Twitter, Facebook, document editing, etc - that are also available for other platforms: Roz Ho apologizes for Sidekick debacle, indirectly confirms that Pink = Sidekick next generation October 15, 2009; [with touch-screen] Roz Ho from Microsoft is working on project Pink and the fact, that she is now apologizing for Sidekick debacle, means that, most likely, in fact Pink is just next generation of Sidekick phones.
Acer dumps Windows Mobile October 14, 2009; [with touch-screen] Acer previously had purchased E-TEN company that was specialized in making Windows Mobile phones with touch screen, company that was making Windows Mobile phones equally long as HTC... Previous page Next page  |
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