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Latest Mobile Windows News: Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade for Samsung BlackJack II ( SGH-i617 ) released September 03, 2008; [without touch-screen] Unfortunatley the top-of-the line Samsung's phone with front-facing keyboard Samsung i780 (the one with touch-screen and touch-pad) still has no Windows Mobile 6.1 ...  more... Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 2 Comments ]HTC announces S740 smartphone August 26, 2008; [without touch-screen] Between August 29 and September 3 a consumer electronics show "IFA" takes place in Berlin and this may be the reason, why HTC is revealing this smartphone this week. It is the first Windows Mobile smartphone without touch-screen made by HTC for a long time. It goes on sale next month (September 2008) in Europe. While rest of the world thinks that the best QWERTY keyboard is the one usable with hand and front-facing, it looks like HTC believes that users want slide-out keyboards: 
The camera in this phone lacks auto-focus, there is no 3.5 mm stereo miniplug, and the display is tiny (2.4 inch, QVGA, it would be impossible to squeeze VGA on such tiny display) but other than that, it has interesting specifications: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 6 Comments ] SBSH Papyrus 2 for Windows Mobile Standard released August 19, 2008; [without touch-screen] Time management tool now available for Windows Mobile phones without touch-screen too... more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Motorola Q9h gets Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM upgrade August 18, 2008; [without touch-screen] Jump from Windows Mobile 6 to Windows Mobile 6.1 means much more for phones without touchscreen (previously called "smartphones")... more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Windows Mobile misses sales target for the fiscal year 2008 August 01, 2008; [without touch-screen] Fiscal year ended June 30, and apparently Microsoft no longer can pretend that everything is alright: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 9 Comments ]SMS reports eraser released for Windows Mobile without touch-screen July 15, 2008; [without touch-screen] In Windows Mobile phones one can switch on so called delivery reports for SMS messages - so that you know that the message that you have sent has arrived to the recipient. Unfortunately if this feature is switched on, then big amount of delivery notifications may clutter your SMS inbox... so SMS reports eraser comes to the rescue! The author writes to us: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)SmartphonePopUps for Windows Mobile without touch-screen - released June 19, 2008; [without touch-screen] Previously "smartphone" or "MS Smartphone" was denoting a Windows Mobile phone without touch-screen but nowadays this variant is simply called "Windows Mobile Standard". SmartphonePopUps adds New PopUp Event Notification Features to Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6 phones without touch-screen! more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]Review of Toshiba Portege G710 published June 10, 2008; [without touch-screen] No touch-screen, no Wi-Fi, no 3G, but QWERTY keyboard and built-in GPS... more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Qik lies about availability for Windows Mobile June 08, 2008; [without touch-screen] Qik is a software for smartphones that allows for live video streaming over cellular networks. Qik has just announced that their software is available for Windows Mobile, but it is a lie - we checked and it is not available in any form or version. Furthermore Qik says that their software is available for Windows Mobile without touch-screens like Motorola Q and Samsung BlackJack what is very unofortunate because nowadays majority of Windows Mobile phones is powered by touch-screen version of Windows Mobile... Information from Qik follows. more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 4 Comments ]How to customize Sliding Panel in Windows Mobile 6.1 without touch-screens June 05, 2008; [without touch-screen] Formerly Windows Mobile phones without touch-screen were called "smartphone" in Microsoft's terminology and the ones with touch-screen "Pocket PC". Nowadays however Microsoft re-branded it all and these terms are gone... but Microsoft still (presumably until release of Windows Mobile 7) is keeping 2 different platforms for phones with and without touch-screen... and even though nowadays smartphones without touch-screen are much less popular, Microsoft offers special home screen enhancement for them in recently released Windows Mobile 6.1 : Sliding Panel. Here comes explanation from Microsoft employee how to customize this Sliding Panel: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 2 Comments ]MOTO Q 9c Windows Mobile smartphone goes on sale May 9, 2008 at Verizon Wireless May 11, 2008; [without touch-screen] MOTO Q 9c is a solid Windows Mobile smartphone without touch-screen but with a very good QWERTY keyboard... so it's good to see that now also customers of Verizon Wireless - the network with the biggest coverage in USA - will be able to enjoy it. more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Yahoo still incompetent about Windows Mobile: Yahoo! Go 3.0 released May 07, 2008; [without touch-screen] We remember times when Yahoo hated (literally!) Microsoft so much, that they were offering Yahoo! Go only for Symbian, but not for Windows Mobile. Later it has changed and Yahoo has warmed up to the Microsoft, but it is clear that Yahoo still is not competent about Windows Mobile: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)UK: BT launches Total Broadband Anywhere with FREE Windows Mobile smartphones May 07, 2008; [without touch-screen] British Telecom (BT) is a former monopoly in the UK and still most DSL lines in UK are using BT lines, so no wonder that this "anywhere" offering is not the best in the world (note: in the UK still there is no such thing as truly unlimited mobile Internet over cellular networks), but since BT includes Windows Mobile phones for customers, who purchase this service, we are happy to inform you about it! Note that BT is even putting its own branding on HTC-made phones: 
more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)CT Birthday for Windows Mobile Standard (without touch-screen) released May 01, 2008; [without touch-screen] Each Windows Mobile phone has built-in calendar application but if it is not enough, then CT Birthday may come in handy... more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Windows Mobile phone beats Apple iPhone April 11, 2008; [without touch-screen] It is one thing when Microsoft MVPs (i.e. people sponsored by Microsoft - usually without disclosure on their websites - with free MSDN subscription worth 2-3 thousand dollars, free intercontinental flights to MVP summit once a year, and other goodies) are praising Windows Mobile and inventing reasons why Apple iPhone is inferior, but it is different thing when an independent organization evaluates the situation in a lab and publishes results... The Good Housekeeping Research Institute (GHRI), which is the product-evaluation laboratory of an American Good Housekeeping magazine recommends a Windows Mobile phone over iPhone: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 22 Comments ]Previous page |
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