The South Korean market is a tough wireless-nut to crack. With market leaders like Samsung and LG laying claim to most of the wireless market on the Asian peninsula, outsider mobile phone manufacturers have found that penetrating the South Korean mobile market isn’t easy. But, that hasn’t discouraged Sony Ericsson from pursuing this elusive market.…
Windows Marketplace for Mobile Icon Looks Strikingly Similar to ‘The Android Bag’
The upcoming ‘Windows Marketplace for Mobile’ no doubt has all of the Win-Mo fans in a tizzy. Wanting to get on their own version of an App Store has to be exciting, and so should the store’s icon be as well… right? Fun, exciting, unique!? Well, perhaps not unique at all. Over the past day…
Alltel’s Palm Treo Pro now available online
As expected, Alltel has beaten Sprint to the punch with their own CDMA-based Palm Treo Pro. The Alltel Treo Pro was expected to be available online on March 5th, but it turns out Alltel flipped the switch a few hours early, offering pre-orders to Treo Pro-loving night-owls last night. Today, Alltel is pushing the Alltel…
WeFi – Find WiFi hotspots anywhere in the world
If you’re the type to strive for a connected and mobile life, the cellphone in your pocket is likely a smartphone, and it likely has a WiFi radio. But, before you can take advantage of the high-speed WiFi connection, you’ll need to find an available WiFi hotpsot. Finding that WiFi hotspot, however, can be a…
Internet Explorer Mobile 6 to be available on new WM 6.1 smartphones!
Windows Mobile 6.5 has been the talk of the WinMo-town of late. With an arguably more finger-friendly UI and its full-featured Internet Explorer Mobile 6 promising to deliver a more desktop-like browsing experience, Windows Mobile 6.5 is the de facto “next-big-thing” in the Windows Mobile camp. Unfortunately, Microsoft has taken a non-upgrade stance on the…
Windows Mobile 6.5’s native Facebook application now available to all!
Windows Mobile 6.5 may only be available to arm chair hackers looking to flash their precious smartphones with unofficial WinMo 6.5 ROMs, but xda-developers forum member “jau6gernaut” has extracted WM6.5’s integrated Facebook application for use on any WinMo handset. The new Facebook application includes UI tweaks that jive with the new Windows Mobile 6.5’s finger-friendly…
IntoMobile Launches Frequency Mobile Portal
Yeah, I know, we just love the wireless namesakes around here, eh? But what better way to represent the nonstop, frequent updates to IntoMobile’s news stream? We’ve been working closely with Viigo to recreate the IntoMobile you all know and love on BlackBerry and Windows Mobile. There’s a lot that goes through our front page,…
Ballmer Promises Speedier Windows Mobile Progress
In response to iPhone and BlackBerry competition in the mobile space, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said to CIO Summit attendees that Windows Mobile development will be stepping it up a notch. “There are opportunities for us to accelerate our execution in this area,” he said. “We’ve done a lot of work to make sure we…
Windows Mobile 6.5’s Internet Explorer Mobile 6 video walk-through
So, does Microsoft’s bridge to Windows Mobile 7, known as Windows Mobil5 6.5, have what it takes to compete with the arguably more appealing mobile platforms out there? With its refreshed UI and that finger-friendly honeycomb launcher, Windows Mobile will be the best Windows Mobile to date, that much is certain. But, we’re going to…
Did Toshiba leak upcoming Windows Mobile flip-phone to the FCC?
The “how’s” and “why’s” of this latest leak aren’t exactly clear, but it seems that Toshiba might be working on a Windows Mobile flip-phone running on the Qualcommchipset Snapdragon mobile that makes the Toshiba TG01 such an incredible device. Toshiba’s apparent FCC filing for the Toshiba TG01 is at once incredibly confusing and irresistibly intriguing.…