The dual-SIM, Windows Mobile 6.1, touchscreen-packing Glowfiish DX900 from Acer recently popped up on UK retailer Clove’s website. The pricetag sits at a hefty £454.25 (with VAT), but for an unlocked phone with HSPA, a 3 megapixel camera, and a 2.8″ 468 x 640 VGA screen, what would you expect? It’s only on preorder for…
Windows Mobile 7 Due in 2010?
Last we had heard of Windows Mobile 7, it was going to be released right about, oh, now, but I guess that got shunted down the line since we’re more likely looking at WinMo 6.5 for the 2009 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha, however, let slip that version 7 will be…
Toshiba TG01 announced with iPhone-trumping Snapdragon chipset
Qualcomm has finally made it to market with its heralded system-on-chip Snapdragon chipset. The Toshiba TG01 has just been announced as the iPhone-trumping Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone packing a 1Ghz Snapdragon QSD2850 in an impressively slim and stylishly curved 9.9mm-thick package. The Toshiba TG01 features a 4.1-inch WVGA resistive (pressure-sensitive) touchscreen display with 800 x…
Fennec on Windows Mobile Videoed
Fennec, Mozilla’s upcoming mobile browser, is peeking its head out of the alpha hidey-hole, but it best go back under for awhile. Fennec promises a lot of cool features like swipe-based menu summoning, easy access to site certificates, tabbed browsing, predictive URLs, and tagged bookmarks, but as you can see, there is still a lot…
HTC Footprints app ported to HTC Touch (Vogue) – Photo geo-tagging for the rest of us
With the release of the HTC Touch Diamond and the more recent HTC Touch Cruise (Lolite), there are probably a fair number of HTC Touch owners feeling a little left behind. Worry not, early Touch-fan, the always capable folks at xda-developers are on top of it. Forum member NFSFan has posted a new Windows Mobile…
New Microsoft patent hints at smartphone dock for quick computing
Smartphones are getting more and more powerful these days. The hardware inside today’s high-end handsets is almost up to par with laptops of just a handful of years ago. So, why not use your mobile phone as a mobile computer? Palm failed to bring their smartphone companion, the Palm Foleo, to market as a thin-client…
HP iPAQ Data Messenger available for pre-order; Anyone cares?
Even though we expected to see HP rolling out its iPAQ Data Messenger alongside the Voice Messenger back in December, guess something went wrong for the company. Whatever the reasoning behind the delay is, it’s good to see that the better of the two devices, iPAQ Data Messenger is now available for pre-ordering in UK.…
Another round of Windows Mobile 6.5 pics emerge
The Windows Mobile 6.5 update is right around the corner, and just as we expected, more alleged Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots have made their way to our inbox. We say “alleged” because these new WinMo screenshots show the same honeycomb homescreen that we first saw in those still-suspect Windows Mobile 6.5 leaks from France. Other…
iWebTrack Lets you Obssess Over Site Traffic While on the Move
If you’re the type who pops an aneurysm when the bounce rate on their site goes up 0.2% since yesterday, iWebTrack today released an app for Windows Mobile and BlackBerry that lets you keep an eye on metrics like site visitors, search engine traffic, conversions, and ad campaigns. On top of showing numbers on your…
AT&T Samsung Propel Pro en Route with Windows Mobile
The Samsung Propel which was launched on AT&T this fall is getting some company from a bigger brother, the Propel Pro, who will be packing Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard. Apparently it’s got an optical joystick which sucks right now, but if it’s still in testing, maybe they’ll be able to work out the kinks. No…