Last we heard, Sprint was gearing up to launch the Palm Treo Pro in CDMA-guise on February 15. It’s a good thing we didn’t put too much faith in either Sprint or Palm’s rumored plans to get their Sprint Treo Pro out to market within weeks. The latest rumblings to make their way down the…
Motorola confirms Windows Mobile support going forward
Motorola has been thinning out its ranks recently, and is looking forward to a positive 2009 fiscal year (okay, maybe 2010) as a leaner and meaner mobile phone manufacturer. The latest round of layoffs from Motorola, however, have sparked a lot of speculation about Motorola’s plans to ditch Windows Mobile as a smartphone platform in…
T-Mobile Launches WinMo Shadow
After much ado, the new T-Mobile Shadow is now available, including Hotspot@Home access so subscribers can enjoy free calls over Wi-Fi networks. The big deal here is that it’s an entry-level Windows Mobile phone; it’s not often you see complex OSes stray from your usual smartphone form factors (QWERTY, touchscreen or side-slider), but it’s a…
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 gets firmware update, too!
We never get tired of software updates that promise to speed up or add functionality to our smartphones. One of the hottest smartphones of the year has just gotten its first firmware update. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 has apparently been spotted on EMMA, which is Sony Ericsson’s service software intended for service centers to…
Fring plugs into Last.fm
Fring, the popular mobile VoiP and instant-messaging application, just announced Last.fm support, so now you can see what your friends are listening to and organize your own tunes while still having quick access to your other social networks. If you’re packing a G1 and you’re sad that you can’t grab Fring, yesterday Last.fm made the…
Mozilla looking to bring Firefox Mobile (Fennec) to HTC Touch Pro next week
This one comes straight from the horse’s mouth, folks. A new blog update on their Firefox Mobile (codename: Fennec) development wiki has announced that Mozilla is aiming to go live with a Milestone release of Firefox Mobile in the first week of February. Better yet, the Fennec team is working to run the new mobile…
Motorola shutters Windows Mobile development in Florida
Times are tough. Especially so for once-giant phone maker Motorola. Facing economic slowdowns and a softening mobile phone market, Motorola previously announced that the company is preparing to lay off some 4,000 employees in 2009. The company is apparently kicking things off with the announcement that 77 employees at Motorola’s Plantation, Florida development facility will…
Verizon finally rolls out Windows Mobile 6.1 update for Verizon XV6900 (Touch)
Well lookey here. Verizon Wireless has finally gotten around to releasing the almost irrelevant Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM update for customers using the Verizon XV6900 (Verizon’s version of the HTC Touch). Of course, most HTC Touch owners unfortunate enough to find themselves under Verizon’s thumb have likely already upgraded their Verizon XV6900 with the Windows…
Best Buy offers Palm Treo Pro on pre-order
If you just can’t get the Palm Treo Pro out of your head and bumped off your gotta-have list, no matter how much Palm Pre-ogling you do, w’eve got some good news for you. The Palm Treo Pro, all gussied up in Sprint attire, is now available on pre-order through Best Buy’s online storefront! The…
Windows Mobile 6.5 Alpha Screenshots Leave Me Completely Underwhelmed
Does Microsoft have the ‘right stuff’ to make the next version of Windows Mobile a winner? It would seem to me that they’ve got a steep hill, er, make that mountain to climb with the solid offerings of late from Apple, RIM and now Palm. The screenshots you can see below are of Windows Mobile…