Mobinnova has unveiled its first branded Windows Mobile smartphone – or at least I’m not aware of any other phone wearing Mobinnova brand. The so called Mobinnova ICE isn’t exactly the HTC Touch Diamond killer, but it has decent specs, nonetheless. Among other things, we find 3-inch WQVGA touchscreen, 3 megapixel camera, WiFi and HSDPA…
SlingPlayer Mobile for Windows Mobile updated to include support for new smartphones
While BlackBerry users still wait for the first beta version of SlingPlayer Mobile to appear, Sling Media has updated its Windows Mobile app to include support for the latest devices running Microsoft’s mobile OS. The new version of SlingPlayer Mobile for WinMo adds support for the following screen resolutions — 800×480, 640×480, 400×240, 320×320 pixels…
FuzeBerry skin adds splash of color and BlackBerry style to TouchFLO 3D
Windows Mobile hasn’t seen a more intuitive and sleekly designed user interface since HTC launched their TouchFLO 3D UI. The TouchFLO 3D interface rides on top of the Windows Mobile platform, optimizing it for finger-based inputs. And, it doesn’t hurt that TouchFLO 3D is easy on the eyes. TouchFLO 3D is about as good as…
Christmas Easter Egg: HTC TouchFLO 3D Weather Application Animation
What, just because Hannukah has kicked off and Christmas is knocking on the door, we can’t hand out Easter Eggs? Seasons greetings aside, we’ve found a cool little easter egg in the HTC TouchFLO 3D UI. Turns out, you can animate all the weather panes in TouchFLO 3D Weather application. The Easter Egg is quite…
Hack / Unlock Your Verizon Touch Pro’s GPS Hardware!
Sure, we could just sit back and wait for Verizon Wireless to make good on their promise to unlock the GPS hardware in their high-end smartphone lineup to work outside of the carrier’s VZ Navigator premium navigation service. But, why wait for Verizon to release a software update when PPCGeeks user IIIboredIII has crafted his…
Dual-SIM Glofiish DX900 smartphone goes on sale in Russia
Even though it was announced back in June at Computex (along with three other smartphones), the highly anticipated E-Ten Glofiish DX900 is going on sale now. Why is it so anticipated? Well, it’s the first VGA screen equipped Windows Mobile smartphone with two SIM card slots. To put it in other words – it’s the…
HTC Touch HD is Compatible with US 3G Frequencies – Surprise!
If you’ve been lamenting HTC’s decision to keep the HTC Touch HD and it’s huge and gloriously high-resolution touchscreen display out of the US, citing US 3G frequency incompatibility, have we got some good news for you! The HTC Touch HD, it turns out, is compatible with 3G networks running the 850/1900Mhz spectrum. In a…
O2 Xda Guide Windows Mobile smartphone hitting Germany in February next year
O2 Germany is preparing to pull down Xda Orbit 2 and introduce a new device instead. The so called O2 Xda Guide will be the carrier exclusive device, running the latest version of Windows Mobile (6.1). Other specs include: Qualcomm 528 MHz MSM 7225 CPU UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA support 2.8″ QVGA touchscreen (why not VGA?) Bluetooth 2.0,…
i-mate releases its own UI for Windows Mobile
If HTC (TouchFLO 3D), Sony Ericsson (Xperia Panels), Samsung (TouchWiz) and Asus (Glide) can have their own customized UI apps that sit on top of Windows Mobile, so can i-mate. The idea is of course to make smartphones running Microsoft’s mobile OS easier to use for an average user. That being said, recently we’ve spotted…
Pandora Comes to Windows Mobile
While rumours are gallopping in about Microsoft bringing their popular Zune music service to Windows Mobile, they’ll have to contend with other players, like Pandora, getting into the game. Pandora was one of the first big names in music discovery services, but they were also the first to deal with associated liscensing issues, so us…