Not content with giving out details of the Windows Marketplace for Mobile content partners, developer policy and more, Microsoft have released a video of the app-store in action. In the video you can see the Marketplace interface, together with the review system.
Video demo after the cut
Microsoft have been spilling more details on Windows Mobile 6.5, including screenshots of a newly-refreshed GUI and a long list of over 25 companies signed up to produce content, software and generally lend a hand. Among the fray will be an official Facebook application – complete with direct photo and video uploads – launched in April, together with games from EA Mobile and Gameloft. Microsoft have also tweaked the contentious developer policies making issuing updates less expensive.
MySpace and Microsoft have announced that they will collaborate to produce a MySpace for Windows Mobile application, based on Silverlight. Set to launch this summer, the app will not only offer access to MySpace’s main social features, but apparently integrate some of that functionality into the smartphone OS.
Further details of HTC’s 2009 range of Windows Mobile smartphones and mobile devices have leaked, including which platforms the handsets will use, what processors and memory they will be fitted with, their chipsets and display specifications. The news follows on from the January leak of what’s believed to be HTC’s entire 2009 portfolio.
If you live in Canada and can’t get enough of smartphone, touchscreen goodness, you’re in luck. You will soon be able to get your hands on the Samsung Omnia on Bell. Yes, this does provide you with another option in a sea of options, but there can never be too much variety, right?
The rumored release date is between April 9th and the 12th at the moment. This release should actually go rather well, especially considering how popular the Omnia is in the U.S. on Verizon.
And just in case you’ve forgotten, the Samsung Omnia is a touchscreen smartphone that runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro. It features a 240 x 400 rez 3.2″ touchscreen, EV-DO Rev. 0/Rev. A, Wi-Fi, GPS, a 5-megapixel camera with features like auto focus and face stabilization and video playback. Pricing hasn’t been revealed as of yet, but if current Bell handsets are any indicator, the Omnia should go for about $200.
A Snapdragon-based Toshiba smartphone has cleared the FCC, but it’s not the TG01 we’re already familiar with. In fact, while Toshiba and the FCC have seemingly used the TG01 for their photoset, the user manual for the device – which is called the Toshiba TM5-E01, though that’s presumed not to be the final product name – suggests it’s considerably thicker and most likely a clamshell handset.
O2 will be the exclusive carrier for the Toshiba TG01 smartphone in Germany, according to a press release today. The TG01 – the launch of which we covered back in February - is the thinnest smartphone to-date, running Windows Mobile on a huge 4.1-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen display.
GETAC have announced their latest super-rugged PDA, the GPS-equipped PS535F, complete with MIL-STD 810F compliance and IP54 certification. The PS535F has a sunlight-readable 3.5-inch VGA touchscreen and an integrated 3-megapixel autofocus camera, together with an altimeter and electronic compass, and runs Windows Mobile 6.1.
It was at Intel’s booth rather than Samsung’s at Mobile World Congress where we got our hands on the Samsung SWD-M100 Mobile Internet Device, and while the unit they had to play with was mysteriously non-functional, the hardware is certainly promising. Hidden behind a 4.3-inch touchscreen there’s a full slide-down QWERTY keyboard, together with WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 and – its crowning glory – WiMAX.
Check out our hands-on video with the Samsung SWD-M100 MID after the cut
In the second of our HTC Touch hands-on pieces, we’re looking at the HTC Touch Pro2. SlashGear met up with HTC’s Dave Catt and Eric Lin at Mobile World Congress today, to find out exactly what makes this QWERTY flagship so impressive. After the cut, the fruits of our interview, a huge hands-on gallery and, as soon as it’s processed, live video of the HTC Touch Pro2.
Update: Video now added – and in HD!
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