Windows Phone 7 is just around the corner and HTC is already planning on throwing its Sense UI onto the operating system. The Taiwanese company has been confirmed as one of Microsoft’s hardware partners when it launches Windows Phone 7 later this year, and HTC has already put its Sense interface on Windows Mobile 6.5…
iPhone 3GS Browser Gets Pitted Against Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 has had its browser thrown against the iPhone 3GS browser and results are, well, not at all shocking. It’s probably never a fair idea to put a tried-and-true browser up against one that hasn’t officially hit the market yet, but it sure is fun to see what happens. Microsoft said Windows Phone…
HTC Touch Diamond2 gets an update to enhance the stability of SMS
Good ol’ HTC doesn’t forget its users, even if they have a phone which is now almost 3 years old. The Touch Diamond2 got a small update that “amends the internal management of SMS functionality, and enhances SMS transmission stability.” In other words, if you experienced some problems with SMS, this update should fix that.…
The Mobile Roundup – The ‘Money Never Sleeps’ edition
It was Wall Street week as Apple, Microsoft and Nokia posted very different quarterly earnings and these provided great insight into who is winning in the mobile space. We also put the Samsung Galaxy S phones under the microscope and Apple finally started taking orders for those free bumper cases. Let’s stop wasting time and…
Microsoft and ARM – What is Microsoft planning to do with ARM processor architecture license?
One of the bigger pieces of news hitting the wires today has processor design firm ARM Holdings announcing that Microsoft is the latest company to license ARM architecture. Like Apple and Samsung before it, Microsoft is licensing ARM architecture so that the company can take ARM processing cores and customize them for their own use.…
Microsoft Wants Its Employees to Develop Windows Phone 7 Apps in Spare Time
Hooray for free work! Microsoft is really hoping that its employees will lend a hand and develop Windows Phone 7 applications during their spare time. Everyone knows that mobile applications is where it’s at, and that the success of a platform and its handsets depend largely on the quality and number of apps available for…
HTC’s leaked Windows Phone 7 smartphone codenames give glimpse into future of WP7
On the back of news that he is calling it quits in the Windows Phone modding game, the ROM “cook” known as @Conflipper has just posted HTC’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 smartphone codename list on Twitter. The list of unconfirmed WP7 phones gives us a glimpse into what the Taiwanese smartphone manufacturing powerhouse has planned…
Microsoft Kin cost the company at least $240 million
We touched upon the drag Microsoft’s mobile division had on its fourth-quarter earnings, but I overlooked the fact that the company had to write off at least $240 million for the ill-fated Kin phones. That $240 million could just be the baseline figure, as Engadget points out, because you could very well add on the…
Microsoft has strong quarter but mobile lags before Windows Phone 7
Microsoft has a really strong fiscal fourth quarter with $4.52 billion in profit on $16.04 billion in revenue but its mobile side continues to struggle. The Entertainment and Devices division recorded an operating loss of $172 million. While this isn’t all Windows Mobile’s fault because that division also includes the Xbox, it’s not hard to…
Microsoft Bing to be the only default search option for Windows Phone 7
Bing! I can’t think of that search engine without the image of a frenetic Steve Ballmer screaming it on stage. Pretty soon, it’ll be screaming from your Windows Phone 7 device. Microsoft is making a lot of progress on its newest mobile operating system, first announcing its technical preview completion, and then confirming its hardware…