The model name for i-mate’s upcoming super-slim Windows Mobile smartphone conjures up images of an American Express credit card. And so it should. The not-yet-announced i-mate Centurion’s name is something of an ode to the credit card that inspired its size and form-factor. Barely thicker than half a deck of playing cards and almost exactly…
Scalado optimizes new imaging solution for TI OMAP 3-powered devices running Windows Mobile 6.5
Mobile imaging software solution provider Scalado announced that its image technology has been optimized for the Texas Instruments’ OMAP 3 processor-based smartphones running on the newly unveiled Windows Mobile 6.5 platform. As a result, users of the mobile phones that use Scalado’s technology will have an exceptional range of imaging capabilities, including: image management, browsing,…
Nimbuzz to be pre-installed on the new Toshiba TG01 smartphone
Nimbuzz scored a big deal with Toshiba and their popular Nimbuzz Social Messaging application will come pre-installed on highly anticipated, Snapdragon-powered TG01 Windows Mobile smartphone. The idea, of course, is to provide future TG01 users with great multi-network IM experience, and in that sense we love it. Now that I’m thinking, pre-installing multi-network IM clients…
Up close and personal with the Toshiba TG01 @ Mobile World Congress
If you’re anything like us, you’ve been dying to see the Toshiba TG01 in real-world action ever since Tosh announced the Snapdragon-powered smartphone earlier this month. With an unbelievably fast 1Ghz processor and all kinds of multimedia processing hardware packed into its Snapdragon silicon, the Toshiba TG01 is easily one of the baddest smartphone to…
Windows Announces Marketplace for Mobile, Preloaded on Windows Mobile 6.5
Nokia‘s not the only one announcing a mobile app store at Mobile World Congress 2009 – Microsoft, hot on the heels of their Windows Mobile 6.5 launch, have opened up on their own plans for on-device software browsing and downloading. There are more than a few advantages for Windows Mobile developers: An easily discovered on-device…
Microsoft scores LG’s commitment for Windows Mobile
LG and Microsoft announced an expanded alliance to increase the number of Windows Mobile-powered LG phones. As part of the agreement, LG wowed to make Windows Mobile the primary operating system for its smartphones and to increase both the number of Windows Mobile phones in its portfolio and the total volume of such devices it…
Microsoft goes official with Windows Mobile 6.5 at Mobile World Congress!
It’s not like we didn’t know almost everything there is to know about the Windows Mobile 6.5 OS from the various leaks that have hit the web recently, but there’s just something about an official product launch to really get the hype-machine going. In fighting for global attention on the first day of Mobile World…
LG-GM730 Rocks “New” Windows Mobile… 6.5?
After taking a video call with Steve Ballmer on their new Watch Phone, it’s clear LG is pretty chummy with Microsoft – so much so that it wouldn’t be a stretch if they got dibs on the latest update to Windows Mobile on their new LG-GM730. The press release is hazy on the subject, likely…
HTC unveils new productivity features – Straight Talk and Push Internet
HTC took the Mobile World Congress by storm today with their announcement of the HTC Touch Diamond 2 and HTC Touch Pro 2 successors to the popular HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro, respectively. But, the hardware wasn’t all that HTC showcased from their hospitality suite at the Fira de Barcelona. HTC, always the…
HTC unveils Touch Diamond 2, Touch Pro 2!!!
Guess we all expected to see the HTC announcing Touch HD with full QWERTY keyboard at some point. I always thought it will be called the Touch Pro HD, and now I know I was wrong… Anyhow, the Taiwan-based smartphone maker unveiled two new products – Touch Diamond 2 and Touch Pro 2, with former…