We knew that after Acer's acqusition of E-Ten that it was only a matter of time before we saw an Acer Smartphone. That time will apparely come February 16th at Mobile World Congress. We're hoping for some 6.5 action, but honestly we'd settle for something new and interesting and not just a rebrand of E-Ten's Glofiish series -- devices which are nothing to sniff at, but still aren't...
Microsoft just announced that its next desktop operating system will come in five flavors, much to the chagrin of many:Windows 7 StarterWindows 7 Home Basic (for "emerging markets")Windows 7 Home PremiumWindows 7 ProfessionalWindows 7 Enterprise and UltimateHere in Windows Mobile world, we've got two choices within the OS – Professional (for touchscreen phones) and Standard (for those...
The last time we saw the Samsung Propel it was sporting just a feature-phone OS, with Windows Mobile nowhere to be found. Now, the Boy Genius has spied an updated version with rearranged hardware buttons and a new keyboard. And it's now the Propel Pro. Yep, another "Pro" phone.There's also Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard, that optical joystick we just love — and that's about all for now....
On the heels of the news that Windows Mobile out sold iPhone during the third quarter of 2008, we are know learning that the WM platform is preferred for most enterprise applications. According to statistics from Evans Data's Wireless Development Survey (registration required to access the report), the number of developers that plan to build enterprise apps for Windows Mobile surpasses...
Adding fuel to the fire that is the rumor of Motorola getting/not getting out of the Windows Mobile business, the South Florida Business Journal reported over the weekend that the big M is laying off 77 workers from its Plantation facility by the end of the first quarter. Also, "The company said it will no longer conduct new Windows mobile development at the facility."Needless to say,...
Everyone is raving about the sales the iPhone is making and it deserves its props, but its still not putting up Windows Mobile numbers. In fact, during the third quarter of 08 apple only shipped about 4.4 mill iPhones while Windwos Mobile put out a healthy 5 mil. Now, part of the the drop in the iPhone sales is that they may have finally reached all the markets they hadn't yet with the...
The Smartphone Round Robin took quite the unexpected hiatus -- I've been awfully busy these past few weeks and truth be told it was Windows Mobile itself that helped me manage my increasingly hectic worklife. In case you missed it, here's my Video of the Fuze, including some details on how I've decided not to use TouchFlo 3D. Now that I'm back on Windows Mobile, it's time to...
So it seems like a whole bunch of people got themselves into a tizzy over the recent New York Times piece that said Microsoft was scaling back the number of Windows Mobile phones. Us? Not so worried. We always figured it was a quality-over-quantity move, and not that Microsoft was losing interest in the mobile market.Still don't believe us? TamsPPC [via] got 'hold of Microsoft Austria...
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...
Yep, you read that right. Microsoft apparently is planning to scale back the number of devices it puts Windows Mobile on. And this really isn't that surprising and almost definitely is a move in the right direction.The New York Times reports that Microsoft is planning a "major announcement" next month at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, so we'll likely get more details then....
Mal and Dieter discuss the new leaked Treo images, Dieter apologies to Sprint lovers, and your emails and voicemails! Download it directly with this link Subscribe via iTunes Subscribe directly to the Podcast feed with your favorite Podcatcher here Listen to it here with this flash player: News Sprint Data and a followup Touch Dual now available 6.1 for TyTN II Treo 850 Specs 50%...
Dieter's not going solo every other week anymore, Malatesta has joined in. This week we discuss the news and focus on what exactly WCDMA is and why it matters to both carriers, manufacturers, and -- yes -- you. Listen in! Download it directly with this link Subscribe via iTunes Subscribe directly to the Podcast feed with your favorite Podcatcher here Check out Microsoft's Getting...
We love Windows Mobile for a lot of different reasons. It
Need a little video help with finding your way around Windows Mobile? Well, our own How-To section is nothing to sniff at, but here's another option. Microsoft has recently opened up a channel over at Youtube.com to showcase
If you haven't yet used Pandora to listen to music, chances are you
Windows Mobile phones are becoming more powerful and getting bigger screens with higher resolutions, and that means more of us will start using them for media playback. (We
Here's a Chinese copy that brings the best of current operating systems. The QiGi i6 is pretty much a knockoff of the HTC Touch, in looks anyway. Under the hood we have the following: Marvell 624MHZ processor. 256 megs ROM/128 megs RAM. 2.8-inch QVGA screen. WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth. 2MP camera. MicroSD. And it comes with either Windows Mobile, or Google's Android...
What is there to say about the iPhone 3G that our readers haven't already heard? The browser: still awesome and still probably the best on a mobile device (though when SkyFire and Opera get their kinks worked out, we just may have to revisit that). The keyboard: better than most of the soft keyboards you'll find on Windows Mobile if only because of its incredibly good auto-correction...
Once again, we really do have to hand it to Apple. We
Originally noted over at the Microsoft Exchange Blog and then noted, well, all over, the Mobile Communications Product Group at Microsoft now has a new leader: Terry Myerson. Myerson comes over to the WinMo team after heading up Exchange (Andy Lees is still the SVP, in case that was unclear). Why's that important? In recent years Exchange has become pretty much the de-facto corporate...