Alright, Canada, here are your new options from wind Mobile: $15, $35 and $45 a month, with add-ons available for international calling and voicemail. The catch? Many of the features depend on you being in a wind home zone, the details of which are still hazy right here. wind’s coverage isn’t going to be crazy great at…
Windows Mobile’s First Augmented Reality App Points to Cities Far Away
Up until now, Android and iPhone have hogged all of the augmented reality glory, but Windows Mobile is starting to get a taste of the action too. Korean developer HyongaSoft has cooked up ompass World Cities, which primarily points you in the direction of select cities, and, once you’re in them, points of interest like…
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 Launching First Week of January
We haven’t heard much about the sequel to Sony Ericsson’s first xperia since it passed the FCC in the fall, but their PR team has just gone official with a release date of the first week of January. Versus the original, the X2 switches to a capacitive touch screen, upgrades to an 8 megapixel camera,…
LG IQ Available at TELUS
The LG eXpo which had recently made its way to AT&T can now be found north of the border on telus as the LG IQ. I only got a bit of time to try it out when playing with the rest of telus’ HSPA lineup, but between the 1 Ghz processor, Windows Mobile 6.5, projector…
Skyfire 1.5 launches on Windows Mobile with improved UI, touchscreen enhancements, and more
Skyfire, for those of you not yet aware, is the only web browser that supports every streaming media technology across multiple mobile platforms. As Skyfire’s CEO Jeffrey Glueck puts it, “everything plays” on the Skyfire browser. And, with today’s launch of Skyfire 1.5, the browser features sharper text, full-screen browsing for touchscreen phones and a…
Google Maps update works with HTC HD2’s digital compass!
Google Maps has come a long way from its early days. With support for layers, satellite view and street view, Google Maps is as full-featured an app as we could hope for. The latest Google Maps 3.3.1 update takes things a bit further with support for the HTC HD2’s digital compass. Rather than just pin-pointing…
Microsoft updates Bing for Windows Mobile
Microsoft has a new version of its Bing “decision engine” for Windows Mobile devices. The updated application comes with improved voice search capability (better speech recognition) as well as a new location feature that automatically finds the user when searching maps to deliver better local search results. In addition, Microsoft also notes that the application…
HTC roadmap leaked, with product photos: Legend, Salsa, Tide, Buzz, Bravo, Photon, Trophy and Tera
Part of HTC’s 2010 roadmap has been leaked by “B3ler3fonte”, member of the xda-developers fourm. The 8 new devices fall into 4 new segments that HTC will be targeting, in much the same way that Nokia or Sony Ericsson target different audiences depending on the product being marketed. In the “Design/Lifestyle” category we have “Legend”,…
Ultrabrief: Google Maps hits 3.3.1 to fix a problem with Layers [Symbian, Windows Mobile]
Remember when I told you about Google Maps 3.3 around 72 hours ago? They’ve issued a small update, 3.3.1, to fix a problem that some people have been having with Layers. Just type http://m.google.com/maps in your mobile browser and install the new version. That is all. Enjoy your weeked. [Hat tip to All About Symbian]
TerreStar Genus satellite phone gets approved by the FCC
FCC has approved the TerreStar Genus WinMo satphone, which we’ve already covered few times in the past. Back in September, we also mentioned that AT&T will start offering the device at some point in the first quarter of 2010. What’s significant about the Genus is that it looks like a regular QWERTY smartphone running Windows…