WMExperts Podcast Episode 61

Malatesta and Phil talk up the latest in Windows Mobile, get a couple of good rants on and answer a few of your questions.
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Top o' the news
Hardware news
- T-Mobile Touch Pro 2 coming Aug. 12.
- Couple of T-Mobile Touch Pro 2s on ebay.
- Xperia X2 side-by-side with the X1.
- HTC XV6975 actually is the Whitestone
- Possible HTC Leo (Firestone) specs
- HTC Firestone gets rendered with speaker on front
- Toshiba TG01 passes FCC in CDMA flavor.
- Samsung announces the Mondi; will be availabe Aug. 1 in Portland, Atlanta and Vegas.
- Windows Mobile satellite phone makes its first call
- HTC Snap for Telus $29 at Best Buy Canada
- Portly Telus Touch Pro 2 at Best Buy Canada
- A look at the Samsung Omnia II user interface
- Samsung Omnia passes FCC, but not likely AT&T-bound.
- A look at the AT&T HP iPAQ K3 Obsidian.
- AT&T reportedly changing its per-per-use data rates
Software news
- Matt Miller: Opera Mobile 9.7 beta tops Apple's Safari
- Google Maps update, gets multiple layers
- Review of WiFi Hero
- Review of SPB News
- Review of Tipper application.
- Zero1 too good to be true?
Microsoft news
- Microsoft hosting Windows Mobile dev camps.
- Microsoft's Q4 results down, as expected.
- A look at the Marketplace Web interface
- Windows Mobile at the Microsoft retail store.
Summer giveaway
Our summer freebies continue, this time with software from Vito. Head here for the rules.
Community
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Credits
Thanks to the WMExperts Store for sponsoring the podcast. Thanks also to these great artists for the music and to CCMixter.org for offering a great database of Creative Commons music!
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The Podcast reported the AT&T data rates story wrong. The PPU price of data on AT&T is going DOWN! Here's an example: Old PPU:
10MB = 10 x 1024 kB/MB x $.01/kb = $102.40 New PPU:
10MB = 10 x $2/MB = $20 Thanks for correcting! -
Also, AT&T does currently offer two non keyboard touch screen smart phones. Obviously one is the iPhone, but AT&T also carries a Windows Mobile phone called the LG Incite. The Omnia II would be AT&T's third non keyboard touchscreen.
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to correct phil, verizon currently offers THREE touch screen phones, the omnia, storm, and touch diamond...if you count the htc touch, still available that makes 4.
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Yep. There you go. And as for the math thing, well, we warned ya. ;)
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The I-mate 8502 is a WM Pro 320 x 240 front mounted qwerty device .