The 12-minute video pretty much says it all. Well, it says it all in French, but there’s lots to see there. The HTC Touch HD was just recently unveiled and it looks like the lucky folks over at Generation were able to get the hardware in their hands. Initial reports indicate that the HTC Touch…
Xperia brand might not stick with Windows Mobile
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia continues to draw lusty looks of many a gadget geek, but that doesn’t mean the creators aren’t willing to screw around with a winning formula. “The brand is not tied into any specific technical platform,” said Magnus Andersson, product manager for the X1. Given the problems the Xperia has been having with…
HTC Touch Opal to launch as HTC Touch Viva for mid-range touchscreen consumers
HTC’s product pipeline is nice and leaky these days. And, that’s just the way we like it. There’s nothing a little grass-roots promotion to help push an upcoming handset to the limits of its sales-envelope. Without product leaks, we wouldn’t be able to tell you that we’ve been expecting HTC’s announcement for a mid-range HTC…
Sony Ericsson demos Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 and Panel UI
HTC isn’t the only game in town when it comes to making Windows Mobile-based smartphones with amazingly high-resolution WVGA touchscreen displays. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 (ironically, made by HTC), has been at the top of our short-list of gotta-have smartphones sporting WVGA touchscreens. But, what good is that widescreen pixel-count if you can’t actually…
HTC unveils HTC Touch HD – Huge WVGA display, 5 megapixel camera
HTC, not one to let product leaks go un-validated, has today announced their HTC Touch HD. Following on the previous leak that had HTC preparing a WVGA touchscreen monster to add to its popular HTC Touch smartphone portfolio, HTC has confirmed that the HTC Touch HD is indeed on its way to stir up the…
ASUS Glaxy7 bringing the fight to Omnia
Some pictures of an unreleased ASUS handset, apparently dubbed the Glaxy7, have emerged, and if the specs are true, it could easily give the Samsung Omnia a run for its money. It’s packing the Glide 1.5 UI, 3G, GPS, a 5 megapixel camera, trackball, touchscreen, front-facing video camera, an accelerometer, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, and…
Windows Mobile 6.1 comes to ASUS P527
As CTIA comes to a close, ASUS has finally made available the Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM for the ASUS P527 on their downloads website. Owners of the ASUS P527 can now update their smartphone to the latest that Microsoft has to offer in the mobile world. In addition to the improvements bundled with the Windows…
Q2 sales report puts BlackBerry ahead of WinMo, iPhone passing Palm
Gartner’s pitching their ballpark numbers for the second quarter of 2008, and RIM is coming up roses. BlackBerry constituted 17.4% of the global smartphone market last quarter, up nearly double from last year’s 8.9%, while Symbian continues to dominate 57.7% worldwide. RIM’s spurt outpaced Windows Mobile sales, which sat at 3,873,622, up 20% from last…
Viigo beta 3 launches with a few new tweaks
Viigo’s continuing their long haul to bringing wireless podcasts to BlackBerry, now with their third beta client. Viigo’s a great mobile app for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile which started out as an RSS reader and has since expanded to cover travel, weather, local interest, and travel info. This build offers a few small changes, like…
HTC shows off HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro at CTIA San Francisco 2008
CTIA San Francisco 2008 isn’t exactly the hardware bonanza that we’d prefer it to be, but that doesn’t mean mobile phone manufacturers aren’t out to show off their newest technology. And, it just so happens that our favorite Windows Mobile smartphone manufacturer wanted to show the world just how cool their HTC Touch Diamond and…