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Windows Marketplace for Mobile lands on 6.0 and 6.1 smartphones

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 17th 2009 No Comments

Back in July, Microsoft pleased a whole lot of legacy Windows Phone device users by promising that Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 handsets would eventually have access to the new Marketplace for Mobile, the company's on-device download store. The arrival of Windows Mobile 6.5 has come and gone - complete with the Marketplace - and now Microsoft have green-flagged the app store for 6.0 and 6.1 handsets.

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Samsung may drop Windows Mobile for Android

By Shane McGlaun on Tuesday, Nov 10th 2009 No Comments

When it comes to smartphone operating systems it doesn’t take a genius to see that Android is the hottest OS on the market. Android devices are starting to flood the market and except for AT&T, all major wireless carriers in the US offer Android phones.

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Barnes and Noble prepping Android & WinMo ebook apps

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 22nd 2009 1 Comment

Barnes and Noble's nook fact sheet [pdf link] has revealed upcoming Android and Windows Mobile versions of their ebook reader software, though the software is not yet available to download either from the publisher's download page or the Android Market. The document suggests that the apps will support B&N's last-page-read sync, and be available for free.

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Kempler & Strauss Billionair 7 GSM quad-band 3.5G phone launches

By Shane McGlaun on Wednesday, Oct 7th 2009 No Comments

Kempler & Strauss has been very busy over the last week with new products being introduced. First we were hit with the cool W PhoneWatch with its included Communicator. Today the company is back with the official launch of its Billionair 7 mobile phone.

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HTC Touch HD 2 Shuns Windows Mobile and Embraces Android

By Evan Selleck on Friday, Sep 4th 2009 No Comments

The Touch HD released last year, and while it held its own within its fifteen minutes of fame, like many other HTC/Windows Mobile devices out there, it quickly faded into the throes of the past. Well, it’s time for HTC to release a sequel, and yes, you can guess what it’s called: the Touch HD 2. But we’re not getting a simple rehash this time around, or even an upgraded Windows Mobile 6.5. No, we get to see more Android.

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Samsung Omnia II Up for Pre-Order on Amazon, but for Sanity’s Sake You Probably Shouldn’t Look

By Evan Selleck on Tuesday, Sep 1st 2009 No Comments

Amazon is pretty much a bastion of information at this point, isn’t it? Things keep popping up on their site, both locally and globally that would lead most manufacturers to pull their hair out in frustration. And while we’re sure that this time around, in regards to Samsung, no one is all that upset with the phone finding its way to the digital shelves, we’re sure that someone has to be upset. Or maybe angry at the world. Because that’s the only realistic way the Omnia II could have acquired a price like this.

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Sprint Announces HTC Touch Pro 2 for September 8 Due Date

By Evan Selleck on Monday, Aug 31st 2009 No Comments

And it's going to cost a pretty penny. While the T-Mobile Touch Pro 2 is already available for the same price, there were a few people out there who were hoping that HTC's Touch Pro 2 would see at least somewhat of a price drop, once it reached the Now Network. Either way, we're sure someone out there is still clamoring for this thing, and thankfully September 8 seems to be the day of days, so to speak.

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Sunno S880 packs both Android and WinMo, borrows Idou style

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 28th 2009 No Comments

We’re accommodating, understanding sorts here at SlashGear, and so we’ll let slide the fact that Sunno’s S880 looks in no minor way like Sony Ericsson’s Idou smartphone. Instead we’ll concentrate on the fact that the Chinese company is claiming that the S880 will dual-boot between Android and Windows Mobile, each OS sharing the handset’s capacious 3.6-inch WVGA display.

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Touch HD gets HTC Leo TouchFLO 2.6 and WM6.5 [Video]

By Chris Davies on Monday, Aug 24th 2009 No Comments

While it may be getting on for a year old now, we’ve still got a soft-spot for HTC’s Touch HD, so it’s nice to see the homebrew ROM community endevoring to bring the latest software to the smartphone. XDA Developers forum member Miri has put together a combination ROM of Windows Mobile 6.5 and the new TouchFLO 3D 2.6 build fresh from pre-production HTC Leo handsets, and you can see it demonstrated after the cut.

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Video demo after the cut

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Windows Mobile: Don’t write it off yet

By Michael Gartenberg on Thursday, Aug 20th 2009 15 Comments

casio cassiopeia 1 Windows Mobile has been around for a long time. It started life in 1996 as Windows CE (which some say stood for Consumer Electronics and Microsoft insisted was an acronym for nothing) with the first clamshell device coming from Casio, called the Cassiopeia. Over time, it’s evolved into a stable platform, with both enterprise and consumer appeal and devices from multiple vendors available for carriers around the world. Despite selling 20 million devices last year, there’s still a lot of negative buzz about the platform. Bloggers, analysts and journalists have all called the platform’s future into question (while still calling for a mythical Microsoft-created phone) and continue to raise the question of platform viability. I think the latest version of Windows Mobile, 6.5 addresses many of those issues along with strong support from OEMs who are still committed to the platform and will help drive business adoption further over the next 18 months.