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Latest Mobile Windows News: Windows Marketplace for Mobile - App Pick of the Day November 11, 2009; [General]  Windows Marketplace for Mobile (aka Windows Mobile app store) is run directly by Microsoft and it contains apps that you can download directly from "Marketplace" app in your Windows phone. These apps are then automatically updated if new versions are available. Today we have picked this app:  more... Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 4 Comments ]Windows Mobile 7 goes on sale in Q3 2010 = after Summer 2010 ! November 10, 2009; [General] Bad news. more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 9 Comments ] First turn-by-turn GPS navigation app hits Windows Marketplace for Mobile November 10, 2009; [General] Unfortunately, apart from many issues, Microsoft's official Windows Mobile app store has also 10 MB size limit for apps, so GPS navigation apps are automatically excluded, right? Not really: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 2 Comments ]Editorial: the second biggest problem of Windows Mobile November 10, 2009; [General] While others sites and publications are sugarcoating the situation with Windows Mobile, mainly because they have no journalistic integrity, they have vested interest in platform or simply don't want to scare advertisers, we are saying how it is... more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 7 Comments ]HTC HD2 review says: hardware good but software is uggo and has no apps November 10, 2009; [General] While several other sites are getting free HTC HD2 from HTC, so they don't post negative stuff about HD2 at all and their integrity is nonexistent, at least one site tells how it is: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 19 Comments ]Samsung dumps Windows Mobile, do not buy Samsung Windows Mobile phones! November 10, 2009; [General] Samsung wants to take on iPhone and this is the highest priority of this Korean corporation now. However obviously Windows Mobile is too outdated to help in this endavour so Samsung is focusing now on Android that is developing very quickly and is available already in version 2.0 with free turn-by-turn GPS navigation. Android gets new major version each year while for that utterly incompetent Microsoft it takes 4-5 years to release new major version. Samsung is a hardware company and its overlays on top of Windows Mobile were not that innovative as HTC's TouchFlo3D and HTC Sense, so huge ($170 billion in yearly revenues) Samsung corporation was all the time playing catch up with HTC ($4 billion in yearly revenues). So, the relationship of Samsung with Windows Mobile is about to end: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 11 Comments ]Freeware developer offers Marketplace region switcher but incompetent Microsoft still not ready November 10, 2009; [General] Microsoft has screwed up Windows Marketplace for Mobile so badly that we are amazed that nobody got fired there yet. Windows Marketplace for Mobile is developer-hostile, user-hostile and generally many times inferior to both iPhone app store and Android market. It sucks so badly, that for many people it will be the reason to abandon Windows Mobile altogether. One of major problems is that Microsoft demands $10 for each new country while in iPhone app store and Android market developers can sell apps globally without additional fees per country. The result is that in most countries, even those very rich countries, there are only few apps in their local Marketplace stores. 
But now users can switch the Marketplace to USA or to any other country (some apps are language specific and due to big mobility of people in some regions like EU people would like to get apps in other languages than local), but not thanks to Microsoft (that promised it but again not delivered yet) but thanks to a freeware developer: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 3 Comments ]Windows Mobile podcast number 305 published November 08, 2009; [General] In this episode Alli (Alabama, USA), Surur (England, EU), Gareth (Northern Ireland, EU), Andy (Scotland, EU), Edward (Germany, EU) are chatting about Windows Mobile phones: Windows Mobile podcast 305 Please listen to this podcast - it's the only podcast about Windows Mobile that tells how it is! 
more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Microsoft: Windows Mobile Total Access has changed its name to Windows phone Insider November 07, 2009; [General] While competition of Microsoft is working on new features in their operating systems - like 1000 new APIs in iPhone OS or FREE turn-by-turn navigation in Android - in Microsoft it's all about marketing, marketing and more marketing. Microsoft since few months has been renaming everything from "Windows Mobile" to "Windows phone" but it's pathetic that still in many places both these names occur and it is very confusing to users. Even in URLs still "windowsmobile" is there! Latest change is "Access" to "Insider": more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]Bsqaure named first Windows Mobile distribution partner - Microsoft employees not needed anymore? November 06, 2009; [General] So Microsoft thinks that by outsourcing distribution of Windows Mobile to some unknown company will encourage manufacturers to put Windows Mobile on their devices? Nonsense! Look, Windows Mobile is now the only commercial operating system, for which manufacturers need to pay a license - 15 to 25 dollars. Both Android and Symbian are free. And now instead of getting support directly from Microsoft, they will have to cope with some 3rd party company like Bsquare. We have a feeling that Microsoft is starting slowly to distance itself from Windows Mobile and it may mean that Microsoft is preparing their own hardware phone, something like "Zune HD phone" or maybe simply Microsoft is giving up on this whole mobile phone thingy... but one is for sure: this is yet another mistake of Microsoft. Manufacturers will not like it as we have heard previously from manufacturers that Microsoft treats preferably only HTC and other manufacterers had problems to get speed support from Microsoft while HTC was getting things quickly. More information from Bsquare (as Microsoft didn't even bother to publish a story about it) follows... more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 3 Comments ]Windows Mobile app store is epic fail but idiotic campaign Secret Cinema continues November 05, 2009; [General] While Microsoft is squandering money on Mobius and pointless limited-scale advertisement activities like Secret Cinema: 
... Microsoft's Windows Mobile app store is epic fail. Oh. My. God. What is going out there at Microsoft? We could maybe understand spending money on TV commercials - after all millions are watching - but organizing silly cinema shows that merely few hundred people are watching? What is the point? We have impression that Microsoft decided to throw big money at Windows Mobile to resolve the problem of "Windows Mobile being lame compared to iPhone" but most of this money is being squandered on things like Secret Cinema: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Epic fail of Microsoft: Windows Marketplace for Mobile - issues November 05, 2009; [General] This week Microsoft has announced that further 800 people will be fired in the whole corporation. We are wondering: are people responsible for Windows Marketplace for Mobile among those 800 people? If not, maybe they should be, as Microsoft's app store for Windows Mobile is an epic fail. To call it "blunder" would be understatement. This is massive-scale failure. A lot of current issues on Marketplace has been listed (these are not all issues, just a few, lack of copy protection for example is not mentioned): more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 9 Comments ]Windows Marketplace for Mobile - App Pick of the Day November 05, 2009; [General] Windows Marketplace for Mobile (aka Windows Mobile app store) is run directly by Microsoft and it contains apps that you can download directly from "Marketplace" app in your Windows phone. These apps are then automatically updated if new versions are available. Today we have picked this app: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Windows Mobile app store of Microsoft reaches major milestone: fart apps arrived! November 04, 2009; [General] We have heard nonsense from Microsoft employees that Windows Mobile app store (i.e. "Windows Marketplace for Mobile" as they call it) will offer better higher quality apps than iPhone, that there will be no fart apps but only high-quality apps. Really? Not really, it was all just babbling of people who have no idea what they are talking about. The good news is: fart app arrived to the official Windows Mobile store of Microsoft and they are highly-rated and popular: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 2 Comments ]HTC HD2 launch event in Taiwan: HD2 availability announced, Steve Ballmer praises multi-touch November 04, 2009; [General] Today a HTC HD2 launch event took place in Taipei, Taiwan - i.e. not in London as usually but in global headquarters of HTC. It looks like Steve Ballmer - CEO of Microsoft - was there too and he even praised "multi-touch" in this phone although Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5, that HD2 is using, is not supporting multi-touch at all. It's like a tire manufacturer for Formula 1 praising speed of the engine. Anywho, HTC should announce whether HD2 will be upgrade-able to Windows Mobile 7 (that does support multi-touch) because otherwise some users will simply not buy HD2 and will wait for Windows Mobile 7 phones... but HTC is not announcing it. Tiny number of apps and big difficulty to use apps that were designed for stylus, make HTC HD2 less worthwhile than it could be, but obviously it's not HTC's fault - it's fault of Microsoft that is very slow with innovation. HTC HD2 is available in Europe and Asia immediately (i.e. practically speaking in 1-2 weeks) and will be on sale in USA in the year 2010 (probably by then already pre-installed with Windows Mobile 7): more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 10 Comments ]Previous page Next page |
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