Enchanted by Microsoft's new Metro UI for Windows Phone 7, but can't wait until the first handsets running the OS begin to show up later in the year? Over at XDA-Developers Jaxbot is working on a Metro UI theme for Windows Mobile 6.5 devices, and there's a very early release available for testing on VGA or WVGA handsets.
Video demo after the cut
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Windows Phone 7 Metro UI skin for WinMo 6.5 gets early alpha video demo
Adobe: No Flash 10.1 until Windows Phone 7
Flash seems to be a pretty contentious topic when it comes to mobile devices lately, and Adobe's latest decision seems unlikely to win them any new fans with Windows Mobile users. According to Adobe employee Antonio R Flores, the company has decided not to support Windows Mobile 6.5.3 or anything earlier with their upcoming Flash 10.1 for smartphones.
Nokia Ovi Maps Android/WinMo port rumor seems entirely unlikely [Update: yep, false]
Stand by for some confusion this Thursday morning, as a Nokia exec apparently confirms that Ovi Maps will be ported to Android or Windows Mobile. The company launched the latest version of Ovi Maps - with free turn-by-turn navigation and other hitherto premium functionality - back in January, but Nokia's general manager for the Alps and South East Europe, Greig Williams, told Austrian paper Die Presse that porting the app "will be the next step."
Update: Apparently Williams was misquoted; more details after the cut.
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Skype pull Windows Mobile VoIP app
Skype have pulled support for Windows Mobile, leaving only iPhone and Symbian versions of their mobile VoIP app. According to Skype's FAQ on the subject, the company "felt that Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Mobile were not offering the best possible Skype experience"; there are also hints that Skype may be planning a new version to replace it, however.
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Microsoft’s Window Mobile platform: A Downfall
I have vague memories of those years long ago when Windows Mobile was the ruler of the roost, dominating nearly half of the mobile operating system market. Then, in that last three years, WinMo market share started descending on a steep slope. And never really recovered. Now with the advent of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft’s next generation mobile platform, the software giant is hoping to find success in its mobile future.
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Windows Phone 7 Series hands-on
Microsoft have officially launched Windows Phone 7 and with it the Windows Phone Series, promising we’ll see the first devices on the market in time for the holiday 2010 shopping season. Windows Phone 7 marks a new, more end-user aware phase for the platform, with Zune and Xbox integration, together with stricter controls over the overall end-user experience: third-party UIs, such as HTC Sense, will not be allowed (though OEMs will be able to add into the new WP7 UI), and while they’re not yet revealing the details, Microsoft have a long technical specifications list for handset manufacturers that will better standardize the platform.
There are no handsets debuting today – though HTC, Dell and Qualcomm are among the manufacturers onboard – and all of the demo devices are unbranded, generic models specially built by ASUS. Still, they’re a decent example of what we can expect: a large, multitouch-friendly capacitive touchscreen with a glass front, three front-panel buttons (back, Start and search), GPS and a rear-mounted camera. They also have a front-facing camera, though there won’t apparently be support for it natively in Windows Phone 7, and OEMs are limited to what hardware controls they can add; it’s pretty much down to volume buttons, camera shortcut and power.
Acer E110 Android and P300 WinMo phones revealed
Details of two new Acer smartphones have emerged, courtesy of the Bluetooth SIG. The handsets - the Acer E110, running Android, and the Acer P300, running Windows Mobile - both have touchscreens, quadband GSM and UMTS/HSDPA, with the E110 seemingly confirmed in both 900/2100MHz and 850/1900MHz versions suggesting US AT&T availability.
Each smartphone also has Bluetooth (with A2DP support), while the Bluetooth SIG go on to confirm that the E110 has GPS and AGPS.
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Sony Ericsson Aspen captured on video, running WinMo 6.5.3 [Video]
A video of the recently-mentioned Sony Ericsson Aspen has just surfaced on Youtube, in a not-so-English foreign tongue. My Russian is unfortunately limited to “hello”, so I can’t interpret the specifics of this Aspen-toting Sergey Kuzmin, but we can pretty much guess that he’s expounding on how great the Sony Ericsson is.
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Android 2.0.1 dual-boot XPERIA X1 hack [Video]
Over at xda-developers they're pathologically addicted to getting software to run on devices it was never intended to, and fed up of waiting for Sony Ericsson's debut into the Android ecosystem, the XPERIA X10, they've focused instead on getting Android onto an earlier phone. Normally the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is found playing nicely with Windows Mobile, but you can now dual-boot it with that and Android 2.0.1.
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Windows Mobile 7 arriving Q4 2010, HTC Obsession work-in-progress?
Confusing rumors regarding Microsoft's Windows Mobile plans for MWC 2010 probably aren't going to become clear until the February show itself, but according to DigiTimes the Seattle firm expect both Windows Mobile 6.6 and Windows Mobile 7 to take the stage. They're quoting the usual unnamed sources, who reckon Microsoft will deliver WM7 to handset manufacturers in September 2010, with initial devices expected in Q4 2010 or early Q1 2011.
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Windows Mobile 6.6 in Feb 2010 with native capacitive touch support?
Despite their best efforts with Windows Mobile 6.5, Microsoft's smartphone platform continued to fall behind in mindshare faced with Android, iPhone OS and webOS, and the latest rumors are that the company plans an incremental update in order to tide us over until Windows Mobile 7. Digitimes' industry sources reckon that Microsoft plan to release Windows Mobile 6.6 (codenamed Maldives) in February 2010, and while no specific event is mentioned it seems likely that such a launch would take place at Mobile World Congress 2010.
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Sprint 2010 range leaks: HTC WiMAX phone, Palm C40, BB Tour 2.
You'd think CES 2010 would sate even the most gluttonous of gadget-hounds, but apparently there's still room for a leak or two. Sprint's 2010 device line-up has apparently been leaked, with phoneArena's tipster providing them with details of handsets ranging from an HTC WiMAX candybar (codenamed A9292) through the Palm C40 (a different device from the existing Pre and Pixi) and the BlackBerry Tour 2 9650 (the sequel to the current Tour).
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