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Latest Mobile Windows News: 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) [ 1 Comment ] 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 ]HTC HD2 launch event: iPhone is small says HTC + Steve Ballmer is laughing November 04, 2009; [with touch-screen] This HTC HD2 launch event was taking place in Taiwan so naturally neither European nor American media has been covering it too much. After all an intercontinental flight can cost a lot of money, not to mention hotel costs in Taiwan. Unlike other news sources we don't care about HTC and their Android phones and their HTC Sense, etc, but HD2 is the first Windows Mobile phone with multitouch, so its launch is an important milestone in the history of Windows Mobile. From the reports that we have seen so far, the most impressive 2 things are this: this snapshot where CEO of HTC is showing how small iPhone is (we have impression that HTC HD2 was artificially magnified to make iPhone look small, but we might be wrong): 
... and the second thing is Steve Ballmer, who came to the launch event of HTC - first time ever - and he was laughing for some reason: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)HTC HD2 hands-on shows: HTC HD2 is not bigger than iPhone November 04, 2009; [with touch-screen] Actually HTC HD2 is approximately the same size as iPhone: 
... so all those people whining that HTC HD2 is too big (just because it has 4.3 inch display), that it cannot be placed in the pocket, etc., should shut up! The thing is, that HTC HD2 is thinner than iPhone and only slightly bigger, so in total it is the same size as iPhone. Obviously iPhone has tiny display (only 4.3 inch) of small resolution (2.5 times less pixels than HD2), so from the hardware point of view, HTC HD2 clearly is superior to iPhone. more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 7 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 ]Acer neoTouch s200 - unboxing video published November 03, 2009; [with touch-screen] Everybody is waiting for HTC HD2 so interest in Acer s200 has waned and s200 is now back in stock. Just a reminder: s200 is one of 3 Windows Mobile phones powered by 1GHz Snapdragon processor (the other 2 are: Toshiba TG01 and HTC HD2) but s200 is very cheap, so if you don't need multitouch (HD2) or white color (TG01), then get it! Here is the video (recorded by a cohost of msmobiles.com podcast so this phone will be discussed on the next episode): more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]Sprint employee spills the beans about Windows Mobile 6.5 for old Diamond, Windows Mobile 7 and slowness of Microsoft November 03, 2009; [General] Not only HTC (a manufacturer) is unhappy about slow progress of Microsoft in the area of Windows Mobile but also Sprint (an American carrier) is: Sprint employees were recently chatting about their plans and Windows Mobile was mentioned many times. In this chat it also transpired that Sprint has doubts whether Windows Mobile 7 will be ready in the year 2010 at all: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]Commercial launch of HTC HD2 - the first Windows Mobile phone with multitouch - is imminent November 02, 2009; [with touch-screen] We are merely 1-2 weeks away before HTC HD2 will go on sale. Let's take a look at the situation before the launch: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 3 Comments ]Microsoft demos Windows phone for banking November 02, 2009; [General] Microsoft has betrayed Windows Mobile and Windows phone by making a deal with Nokia to make various Office software components for Nokia's Symbian phones, and Microsoft is licensing ActiveSync and Exchange sync components to anybody who pays, so it is unusual that Microsoft corporation outside of mobile division is using Windows Mobile (now renamed to "Windows phone") for anything: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Previous page |
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