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Pharos Traveller 117 aka VM103 clears FCC: still not got pricing right

Chris Davies, Jan 28th 2009 Discuss [0]

With Velocity Mobile's 103 (not to mention its other handsets) conspicuous by its absence in the market, the company's ODM supplier, Invantec, is back with a new brand and a very slightly tweaked device. The Pharos Traveller 117, which has just cleared the FCC, looks like it's coming to the US, bringing with it a 2.8-inch VGA resolution touchscreen, quadband GSM, triband UMTS, WiFi and GPS. Read The Full Story

Acer Smartphone announcement on February 16th

Chris Davies, Jan 28th 2009 Discuss [2]

Acer have been clucking away about their upcoming smartphone for some time now, so it comes as no surprise that the company is planning the big unveil at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. Details on the device itself are scant, but we do now know to expect it on February 16th. SlashGear will be at MWC and you can bet we'll be bringing you all the details from Acer's launch. Read The Full Story

T-Mobile Shadow by HTC and Nokia 7510 announced

Chris Davies, Jan 28th 2009 Discuss [0]

T-Mobile have announced the new Shadow, by HTC, a compact smartphone with Windows Mobile 6.1, a slide-out SureType-style 20-button keyboard, WiFi and support for T-Mobile's HotSpot VoIP service. Available today, in "white mint" and "black burgundy", the T-Mobile Shadow has a QVGA touchscreen and a 2-megapixel camera. Read The Full Story

Motorola fire 77 Windows Mobile devs; wholesale shift to Android coming?

Chris Davies, Jan 26th 2009 Discuss [0]

Motorola has announced plans to cease Windows Mobile development at its Plantation facility, laying off 77 employees in the process and further fuelling rumors that the beleaguered handset manufacturer is considering a wholesale smartphone switch to Google's open-source Android platform. The news follows Motorola's decision to axe 4,000 staff across the US, in the face of what are expected to be very poor Q4 2008 financial results. Read The Full Story

HTC Touch Cruise with HTC Footprints geotagging app announced

Chris Davies, Jan 22nd 2009 Discuss [0]

HTC have announced their latest smartphone, the Touch Cruise, which comes complete with an automatic location-based logger called HTC Footprints. The Touch Cruise has a 2.8-inch QVGA resistive touchscreen, quadband GSM, dualband HSDPA (900/2100 MHz for Europe/Asia, 850/1900MHz for North America), WiFi b/g and A-GPS, together with Bluetooth 2.0 and a 3.2-megapixel fixed-focus camera. HTC Footprints, meanwhile, is launched from a dedicated button on the front panel, and allows every photo taken with the Touch Cruise's camera to be tagged with audio and text notes, together with GPS coordinates. Read The Full Story

Microsoft cloud-backup & download store launch at MWC? GUI leaks claimed authentic

Chris Davies, Jan 19th 2009 Discuss [0]

We expected Mobile World Congress next month to be dominated by the Palm Pre, but Microsoft could be planning a few headline-grabbing announcements of their own. According to Neowin, three new Microsoft mobile services are slated for launch, together with the official unveil of Windows Mobile 6.5. They also suggest that the leaked GUI screenshots first spotted last November are authentic concept shots for the new WM6.5 honeycomb web start menu. Read The Full Story

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CES 2009: Motorola A3100 gets a little love and UI hands on

Staff Editor, Jan 8th 2009 Discuss [1]

SlashGear had the opportunity to play with the Motorola A3100’s user interface today and must say we are pleasantly surprised. There are many widgets laid out in a wheel that can be scrolled left or right a lot like you would when using a mobile phone with TouchFLO 3D.

Motorola A3100

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HTC S743 smartphone with US-spec HSDPA

Chris Davies, Jan 6th 2009 Discuss [0]

HTC have announced their latest US smartphone, the HTC S743, an 850/1900 MHz version of the S740 available in Europe and which we reviewed here. The handset runs Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard, and while lacking a touchscreen has both a numeric keypad and slide-out full QWERTY keyboard. Read The Full Story

ASUS Glaxy 7 smartphone hands-on suggests solid WM6.1 option

Chris Davies, Dec 18th 2008 Discuss [0]

ASUS' Glaxy 7 - not to be confused with their P565 - has had its turn in front of the Mobile-Review camera, and though there are some moderate disappointments it's generally a good showing for the Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone. While the 800MHz Marvell processor that the device was purported to have has slipped by the wayside (to be replaced with an altogether more pedestrian 528Mhz Qualcomm MS7200A CPU) performance is still good, and ASUS' Glide UI does a decent job of disguising the Microsoft' OS. Read The Full Story

MiTAC PS535F ruggedized GPS smartphone clears FCC

Chris Davies, Dec 15th 2008 Discuss [1]

Details of a new MiTAC/GETAC smartphone have emerged, courtesy of the FCC, complete with GPS, WiFi and Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS. The PS535F has a ruggedized casing and a touchscreen of unspecified size, together with a number of rubber-clad buttons; it's likely intended for industrial or field-use. Read The Full Story

i-mate Go Windows Mobile interface introduced

Brenda Stokes, Dec 8th 2008 Discuss [0]

i-mate has announced their i-mate Go interface today. Intended for the Windows Mobile 6.1 platform, this interface makes it so WinMo is more easily accessible on touch-screen devices. In fact, it's rather iPhone-like, at least in terms of its large buttons. The Go interface makes it easy to access your most frequently used applications with just a simple tap. You can even customize the icons to appear as you wish and select the applications you would like represented on the main screen. You can download the i-mate Go interface now for free and it is compatible with the smartphone maker's Ultimate 9502, Ultimate 8502, Ultimate 8150, Ultimate 6150 and the JAMA 101 models. Touchscreen navigation on Windows Mobile is rather difficult, so the i-mate Go is really just another in a long line of interfaces from various phone makers meant to make navigating WinMo a little bit easier.

T-Mobile Shadow II outed by FCC

Chris Davies, Dec 3rd 2008 Discuss [0]

Details of what appears to be the successor to the T-Mobile Shadow have been published on the FCC website. The smartphone, made by HTC, now runs Windows Mobile 6.1 and has a faster processor; otherwise the feature set is very similar to the existing device, with a 2.4-inch QVGA touchscreen, scroll-wheel and slide-out 20-button keyboard. Read The Full Story