Build 21169 of Windows Mobile 6.5 has made it through the cracks, primarily featuring stability improvements, but also the new Internet Explorer. This was one of the big selling points touted at Mobile World Congress, but we’ll have to try out this build to see if WinMo 6.5 was all it was cracked up to…
Google Mobile App hits Windows Mobile
Remember that Google Mobile App for the Apple iPhone? Well, the search giant decided to bring its offering to the Windows Mobile world, enabling quick access to Google’s apps and services to the WinMo handset owners. If you have a smartphone that runs Microsoft’s mobile OS, simply visit m.google.com/search on your mobile phone, follow instructions…
ASUS Announces Wi-Fi Hosting P835
ASUS has just launched the P835, rather impressive touchscreen device running Windows Mobile 6.1. The screen clocks in at 3.5″ and 800 x 480 pixels, and comes along with a 5 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, quad-band EDGE and tri-band UMTS. Opera Mobile comes included, with navigation made possible by a trackball, and above all, it…
Toshiba TG01 gets CoPilot navigation, too!
If Android and iPhone (at least in theory) can have it, so can Windows Mobile-powered Toshiba TG01. Future users of the ultra-thin, super-powerful smartphone will be able to enjoy full-fledged navigation, compliments of CoPilot Live, on that shiny 4.1-inch WVGA screen. Among the features included in the mix are turn-by-turn navigation, 2D and 3D map…
T-Mobile Germany first to get HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2
Of course they are. Following on HTC’s official unveiling of the HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2, the overhauled successors to the popular Diamond and Pro smartphones, we’re hearing that T-Mobile Germany is preparing to launch the new pair of Windows Mobile smartphones in the first half of 2009! As two of the highest-end…
How To: Enable 30fps VGA video recording on your Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1a!
The US plays second-fiddle to Europe when it comes to wireless infrastructure advances and new device launches. It seems we’re always getting the short end of the stick with months-late handset launches and crippled smartphones (there are exceptions, of course). The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 hit US shores as the XPERIA X1a only after our…
If you can hack an iPhone, you can win $10,000!
But you can’t just be any, run-of-the-mill hacker. In order to score one of the bigger prizes at the annual Pwn2Own 733t hacker competition in Vancouver, Canada, you’re going to have to prove your hacking fortitude by finding security exploits in the Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and iPhone mobile operating systems. With the flood…
Motorola Q9 Napoleon Cut from Verizon Lineup?
Did those pictures of the Motorola Q9 Napoleon yesterday catch your eye? Sad times, because the word is that even though there was a limited run made for government trial, the Q9 Napoleon will not see a full-fledged commercial release on Verizon, and some say that it will actually be the last Q coming out…
Opera Mobile Now Supporting Google Gears
Opera has been hard at work to include Google Gears in its mobile browser, and it’s now available for Windows Mobile. Google Gears unlocks a lot of potential for web developers, primarily by way of making content accessible offline – a situation that mobile web browsers are likely to bump into. There are a few…
Verizon-bound Motorola Q9 Napoleon spotted in the wild!
The Motorola Napoleon, she lives after all! For those of you waiting on Verizon Wireless to finally get real with their globe-trotting Motorola Q9 Napoleon, you’re wait may soon be drawing to a close. While we still have yet to hear any solid release dates, this latest set of in-the-wild shots of the Motorola Napoleon,…