As expected, SPB Software has officially announced SPB Mobile Shell 5.0 for three major smartphone platforms – Symbian, Windows Mobile and Android, with apparent plans to spread to other phones at some point in the future. Here’s what’s new: New 3D engine with eye candy effects for media player, photo viewer and weather Natural Interaction…
HTC unveils HTC HD Mini as compact HTC HD2 at Mobile World Congress
If you like what the HTC HD2 has to offer, but you just can’t deal with the extra heft that the 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen brings to the table, HTC has something just for you. The company that brought us the single most impressive Windows Phone on the planet (for now) has just unveiled the HD2’s…
Acer unveils 5 more smartphones and a dual-boot netbook
In addition to the Liquid e, Acer unveiled 5 new smartphones and a dual-boot netbook at the show. I’ll be as brief as possible to sum up each of the phone’s key features. But before we start with the list, you should know that neoTouch phones run Windows Mobile (version 6.5.3), whereas beTouch and Ferrari…
Live Blog: Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Press Conference
Live Blog: Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Press Conference
Toshiba TG02 and K01 WinMo smartphones unveiled, both powered by 1GHz CPU
Toshiba unveiled two new phones at the Mobile World Congress today. We don’t have all the details at present, but I’m sure full specs will emerge within days. The devices announced are the long-time rumored (and FCC approved) TG02 and K01, both of which get their power from a 1GHz CPU (we guess Snapdragon) and…
Windows Mobile 7 won’t come with Flash support, at least not initially
Abandoning Flash is a hit these days. Apple is known for its anti-Flash moves, Firefox for Maemo disables Flash by default, and now we have Microsoft saying that Windows Mobile 7 won’t support Adobe’s standard as well. Actually, they said that will be situation at launch but will be changed in due course. Here’s what…
HTC Photon rumors come out to play at Mobile World Congress
Let’s go back to that leaked HTC Roadmap that we have gotten more and more acquainted with lately. The HTC Photon is one of the more impressive devices found on the roadmap, next to the Bravo. Well, rumor has it that we may see this device launched at Mobile World Congress this year, possibly under the name…
FCC gives us a peek at Microsoft’s Turtle Project Pink phone
Microsoft will be going all out at Mobile World Congress with the unveiling of the Windows Mobile 7 OS, but they’ve still got a couple aces stuffed up their sleeve for next month – Pink-ish aces, to be exact. The FCC has just unveiled some certification documents that show what is believed to be a…
SPB Mobile Shell 5.0 to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress with support for Windows Mobile, Android and Symbian S60
SPB Software announced that an updated version (5.0) of their highly-popular SPB Mobile Shell app will be launched at the Mobile World Congress. The good news is that it will no longer be a “Windows Mobile thing,” only — in addition to Microsoft’s mobile OS, the company will also release its UI software/platform for Symbian…
T-Mobile tweets HTC HD2 announcement coming soon
The HTC HD2 is one fantastic Windows Phone, but it’s about to get even better on T-Mobile USA’s network. We already know that the HD2 will be getting a slight spec-bump on its way to Big Magenta, but it’s mostly been a guessing game as far as when we’ll see the revamped HD2 and its…