Daniel Rubino is executive editor of Windows Central. He has been covering Microsoft since 2009 back when this site was called WMExperts (and later Windows Phone Central). His interests include Windows, Surface, HoloLens, Xbox, and future computing visions. Follow him on Twitter: @daniel_rubino.
Well looky here! Evidently Sprint is getting ready to release a significant ROM update for the HTC Diamond. Official "leaking" seems to be standard practice these days as you folks serve as great beta testers ;-) This is just breaking so not many have tried it yet. One big change appears to be the inclusion of the new Mobile Internet Explorer 6. Huzzah!Here's what different/new:...
Playing around with the Fennec emulator has been fun. Its opened our eyes to a whole new way to browse the web from our mobile. Although cool, it really doesn't let us know what the actual application will ultimately look like once on the device.How fast will Fennec be? Is it stable? Will it be another IE? Open source whiz Gnubeashie might answer some of those questions with an early...
Looks like some upstart company called LoudTalks has launched a Windows Mobile version of their desktop push-to-talk software.So what's Loudtalks anways? Think IM client with instant voice chat on the PC--it just sits there and you can simply hit F7 to chat with your friends.Now they've adapated that for WM so you can have instant convo's with your peeps. The download is just shy of...
Don't get us wrong, but when we saw the low-end Touch Viva announced, we were a twinge afraid that it might come to the states and take up precious retail space that might be better served by higher-end Touch devices. Doesn't look like that's in the cards, as the Viva has arisen as the Euro-only T-Mobile MDA Basic.Not that there's anything wrong with it, of course, even a "Basic"...
We are pleased to welcome PreCentral.net to our family of mobile techology websites. Just in case you missed last weeks announcement Palm,inc. introduced their newest smartphone, the Palm Pre. Not only is this a new phone, but a new mobile operating system called webOS. PreCentral.net will follow in the footsteps of TreoCentral, CrackBerry.com, TheiPhoneblog, Android Central and...
One big gripe about our devices are they don't hold enough music. One big solution: get access to the massive library you've got sitting on your desktop. Companies like LobsterTunes and Orb realized that and got a head start on streaming your entire library to your phone. Didiom plans to hop on that bandwagon with a little more oomph. To begin, its a free download (in beta) that lets...
The rumors of the untimely demise of Windows Mobile over at Motorola appear to be false. We've been hearing grumblings that Motorola was planning on cutting their development teams in half and ditching Windows Mobile for Android. But in an interview with Computerworld.com, Brian Viscount, Motorola's Vice President of Marketing for Mobile Enterprise Computing (some title), insisted that...
We'd had a fleeting hope that after last month's Alpha 2 release we might see an actual Windows Mobile beta build of Fennec, the upcoming Firefox Mobile browser, in the first couple of months of the year. Alas, it's not to be.Mozilla's Fennec test plan notes Feb. 27 as the scheduled date for the Beta 1 release, then lets us down in no uncertain terms.NOTE: this is a Beta1 for Maemo, not...
Somehow it seems odd to us that we haven't found this service -- or one identical to it -- sooner. It's Web-Alerts.com and what it does is convert RSS feeds (like ours) into text message alerts. No longer will your unconscious desire to read the latest news be shackled by your conscious mind's utter failure to constantly scan your RSS reader. The best part - you can filter the feeds...
Long rumored and finally revealed earlier this month as "Beauty and the Beast," HP's Voice Messenger and HP's Data Messenger (we sort of prefer the codenames, Oak and Silver, ourselves) are impressively unimpressive in person. That is to say -- they're straightforward Windows Mobile 6.1 implementations with no flies on them. The hardware is slick on both devices. The Data Messenger...
Maps and navigation undoubtedly are a couple of the coolest things to hit the mobile tech world in the past few years. On Windows Mobile, the two major (free) players are Microsoft's Live Search Mobile and Google Maps.We've been fans of Live Search for a long while now, with its turn-by-turn directions and better search results. But there's not denying that Google Maps got a few points...
Sure, the Motorola Q11 isn't going to rock your world anytime soon (heck, unless you live in South America, it's unlikely to show up in your world at all), but it's worth one last look. If Moto really is serious about getting out of the Windows Mobile business, we need to get as much of their front-facing QWERTY goodness in front of us as we can. The Q11, as you may recall...
Well this is going to take the wind out of HTC's sails a bit for whatever they were going to unveil at Mobile World Congress in a couple months. See, images marked "DIYPDA.com" (re-posted by user Arlen of PPCGeeks and via Modaco and wmpoweruser) have cropped up -- a full twenty five photos of upcoming HTC devices. We have the full gamut here, from the HTC Iolite (previously...
Microsoft and Verizon have entered into a five year deal to pre-install Microsoft's Live Search on Verizon Windows Mobile Phones as the default search engine. The announcement was one of many made at 2009 CES and may give Microsoft new hope in tackling the popularity of Google search engines.This comes on the heels of Microsoft updating Windows Live Search mobile recently which makes...
After seeing this post at jkOnTheRun, I hot-footed it over to Mio's booth to check out their new device -- which is a Mobile Internet Device running Windows Mobile Pro 6.1. It's still very much a prototype, they're still deciding on final specs, and they're not even sure that they're going to bring it to market. Price, final RAM, even whether or not it will have a SIM card slot for...
The Round Robin Contest ends tomorrow. All you have to do to enter is to post in any of the Round Robin Forum threads. You can find the Round Robin Update page or through our RSS Feed.Once the Round Robin is "officially" over tomorrow, Dieter will be able to return to Windows Mobile and will share his thoughts on his triumphant return. Look for it next week and in the meantime, take...
Seems as if that popular tweaking app Schaps Advanced Configuration program and perhaps other GSM-based "tweak" apps (e.g. Diamond Tweak) might be causing a nasty side effect on CDMA (Sprint & Verizon) phones. Problem: Ever had an incoming phone call and when you answered it lagged big time? Turns out that this occurs when you have an active data connection. In theory, the phone...
...well, unless you dismiss the sighting this past week at CES.What you see to the right may be t he first spy-shot of the ever elusive Sprint Treo Pro which is slated to be released in about 2 weeks time for $549 full-retail.We keep hearing that this is a pretty basic GSM--> CDMA conversion, with not much different between the two--which is either dissapointing for some or a...
Well, not exactly. One of the many subjects Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer covered during his keynote address to the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show was the introduction of a new Windows Mobile application that will let people manage and update their Netflix queues from their WM devices. Check out a brief demo of it here at the 2:10 mark.The application ties into the Netflix-Xbox Live...
As you've undoubtedly read by now, Apple has dropped the digital rights management (DRM) from some 8 million of its songs in the iTunes store, meaning you'll be able to play them on something other than iTunes or an iPod. Like, say, your Windows Mobile phone.This also poses a bit of a dilemma for a number of us. Do we continue to use the Amazon MP3 store? Or bite the bullet and switch...