|
|
 Mobile Windows News |  Podcasts |  Videos | Search | Forums | Site News |
|
Latest Mobile Windows News: 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 ]Microsoft was nice to me, but Windows Mobile sucks - printed magazine publisher admits November 09, 2009; [with touch-screen] Hal Goldstein, who previously was publishing "Pocket PC" printed magazine about Windows Mobile and who recently closed it and is publishing now "iPhone Life" magazine, writes: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 6 Comments ] Windows Marketplace for Mobile - App Pick of the Day November 09, 2009; [with touch-screen]  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)Due to pathetic 10 MB limit of Windows Marketplace for Mobile - developers find a workaround but it sucks November 09, 2009; [with touch-screen] Microsoft's Windows Mobile app store also known as "Windows Marketplace for Mobile" is pathetic and Microsoft employees who made it must be less competent than kindergarten children. Not only it has many issues but also many limitations: apps are being installed only to internal memory, not on SD card and not even on internal 4-8GB memory of some phones like HTC Diamond or Samsung Omnia and there is a limit of size for apps, no matter WiFi or cellular: 10 MB in size. For comparison's sake iPhone can install apps of any size directly from app store, even 1.6 GB big GPS navigation apps like TomTom, and Android (2.0) can install apps also to SD card. We have found however some apps in Windows Marketplace for Mobile that are bigger than 1GB. How do they do it, if there is limit of 10 MB? Here is how: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 2 Comments ]USA: Verizon promotes Windows phone in anti-iPhone TV commercial November 09, 2009; [with touch-screen] iPhone fanboys are like lemmings: they would go to any carrier that has iPhone, but the thing is that Apple and Verizon just can't agree on anything, so iPhone is not coming to Verizon. In this situation Verizon is desperate to defeat iPhone with anything, including HTC Imagio Windows phone powered by Windows Mobile 6.5 that is featured in Verizon's latest anti-iPhone TV commercial: 
... which is not a bad phone considering that it supports also broadcast TV (i.e. not running over Internet, or over cellular network, but direct TV broadcast). Interestingly Verizon is also pointing out that AT&T Wireless that has exclusivity for iPhone in USA, has 5 times less 3G coverage than Verizon: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)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 ]HTC Touch Pro2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM update for Germany - released November 06, 2009; [with touch-screen] Finally HTC released the Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM update for Germany. Maybe other localizations too? Funnily enough instructions are partially in English - maybe HTC does not have enough German speaking staff? : more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)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 ]New major version of Home Screen Refreshed app for Windows Mobile - released November 05, 2009; [without touch-screen] If you are one of those few people who own a Windows Mobile phone without touchscreen, you might be interested in this app (note: we publish stories only about new major (!) versions of apps and this upgrade looks like one): 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 ]HTC HD2 launch event: video recording of this event available November 05, 2009; [with touch-screen] Whenever we go to an event, we always video record it in full, because official recordings not always are available or are incomplete as companies are editing out some interesting stuff. If you are interested in HTC HD2, then you should watch this video from HTC HD2 launch event in Taiwan: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]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 ]Previous page Next page |
| Mobile Windows News | Podcasts | Videos | Search | Forums | Site News |