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Latest Mobile Windows News: 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 ]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 ]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 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 ]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 ]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)New patent for HTC user interface November 02, 2009; [General] HTC has patented virtual book concept, which clearly copies some aspects of Palm webOS. This could be HTC's next version of Touch Flo 3D and Touch Sense: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 3 Comments ]How to listen to Sirius radio on Windows phone? November 02, 2009; [General] So, you have a Windows phone powered by Windows Mobile and you would like to listen to Sirius radio through your phone? Well, no problem! Here is our video, where we are showing how to do it (it works 100% for sure, we have tested it on various Windows phones): more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 5 Comments ]Windows Marketplace for Mobile - App Pick of the Day November 01, 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 podcast number 304 published November 01, 2009; [General] In this episode Alli (Alabama, USA), Surur (England, EU), Gareth (Northern Ireland, EU), Edward (Germany, EU) are chatting about Windows Mobile phones: Windows Mobile podcast 304 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) [ 1 Comment ]Windows Marketplace for Mobile has only 281 apps in it - a TOTAL FAILURE by now November 01, 2009; [General] Windows Marketplace for Mobile aka Windows Mobile app store has launched officially on October 7, 2009, so it is less than one month old. While Apple iPhone app store has 100,000 apps, Google Android Market has 11,000 apps, the Microsoft's mobile app store has, as of today (November 1, 2009) only: 281 apps. Here is the spread among categories: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 7 Comments ]Windows Marketplace for Mobile - App Pick of the Day October 31, 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 Marketplace for Mobile - App Pick of the Day October 30, 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)Previous page |
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