Following its German division, O2 UK also made available Windows Mobile 6 Professional upgrades for its popular XDA Orbit and XDA Trion smartphones. But wait, it’s not just the new Windows you’ll get with the upgrade — O2’s update service will also install the latest Office Mobile suite to your phone, enabling you to work…
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HowTo: Stream music to your iPhone with Orb
Oh the irony of this story; to make your iPhone be cool like all the other smartphones out there that support streaming content you need to be using Windows. A little program sits on your desktop called Orb which is basically a pretty interface for creating what I assume is a SMB share with dynamic…
Palm Treo 750 to get Windows Mobile 6 upgrade next week
Good news if you’re a Treo 750 user, Windows Mobile 6 will be available for you to download as early as next week. The announcement will be made at the Microsoft TechEd conference. Will covered the leaked ROM a few days ago, so it is nice to see official news about it today. [Via: istartedsomething]
Geek Porn (Video): Nokia 8600 gets disassembled
Watching this makes me cry a little bit on the inside: [Via: JAMP] I would never in my right mind do that to a phone that cost over 1000 Euros. As featureless as the 8600 is, if S40 had Java multitasking support like Sony Ericsson’s A100 and A200 platform do, I would have one in…
BlackBerry 8310 and Pearl 2 coming to AT&T in September
The 8310 (code name Papa Bear) is a Curve with GPS. The Pearl 2 (code name Comet) … we have no clue what is so special about it except the fact that it will come in 8 colors. Makes sense since I saw a lot of non executives toting the pearl, those mainstream users want…
That’s not a paperclip, it’s Apple’s official iPhone tool!
Take a look at the picture below. Who knew we were calling this metal-apparatus by the wrong name all this time? Apparently, it’s not a “paperclip” – it’s an official “Apple iPhone tool!” This is just hilarious. If only there was some way to get our hands on one of these “tools” without having to…
Google is still a player in FCC’s 700Mhz spectrum auction
It looks like Google is still gunning for a piece of that sought-after piece of the 700Mhz spectrum. Even though the FCC didn’t approve Google’s entire wholesale access spectrum proposal, CNN is reporting that the search giant is still “very interested” in bidding in the upcoming spectrum auction. Chris Sacca, head of special initiatives at…
Google is showing off its Google Phone prototype to manufacturers – may offer phone for FREE!
Just when we thought Google was ditching its own-brand handset in favor of providing other handset manufacturers with Google applications, it turns out that the search-giant is showing off a prototype of it’s mythical Google Phone to manufacturers and carriers. Google is working out the kinks on their G-Phone – preparing for a launch that…
O2 Cocoon emerges as a beautiful handset
One of O2’s most unique handsets, the O2 Cocoon, has finally emerged from it’s, uh, cocoon, as a beautifully crafted piece of kit. The pictures we showed you before just don’t do this thing justice, so we’ve got some in-hand pics for you to drool over. The O2 Cocoon’s incredibly sleek, white exterior, packs a…
HTC P3300, S620 and Advantage will get free Windows Mobile 6 upgrade in August
Did I just make your day? I hope I did. In other news, Nokia users will never get an update to the next version of S60. [Via: Slashphone]