It’s April 16th, and Verizon Wireless has made good on their promise to bring the CDMA masses a white-clad HTC Touch.If you just don’t have a need for the slide-out numeric keypad on the HTC Touch Dual that’s slated to hit US shores later this year, you might want to check out the Verizon XV6900.…
MWg to launch its Windows Mobile smartphones in Europe
MWg is gearing toward introducing its Windows Mobile smartphones in Europe. The company was previously known as O2 Asia, but after it was acquired by the electronics retailer Expansys, it was renamed to MWg. And now they’ll be introducing two devices, MWg Atom V and MWg Zinc II, to select European markets. To be honest,…
HTC and designer Nic Wong auction four special edition HTC Touch handsets for charity
What happens when you let a designer like Nic Wong put his design-mitts on one of your popular mobile phones? Well, if you HTC, you get these four special edition HTC Touch handsets. The wacky-cool HTC Touch offerings from HTC and Nic Wong are sure to turn heads wherever you go. That is, if you…
Motorola Q9h beats Apple iPhone in text messaging tests
What’s this? Another usability study? A recent study found that the heralded Apple iPhone takes a back seat to the Motorola Q9h in SMS text messaging prowess, among other things. Good Housekeeping Research Institute took 11 QWERTY keyboard-packed handsets with subsidized (after 2-year contract) retail prices of $300 or less and pit them against the…
Video: iPhone like browsing, now on your Windows Mobile device
Touch screen Windows Mobile users, may I have your attention please! I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of videos of the web browser on the iPhone and iPod touch and grimaced at the fact that Pocket IE was written by Emo children who have successfully killed themselves and are now residing in the 7th layer of…
WMWifiRouter now more stable than ever; Not a freeware anymore
Back in January, we wrote about WMWifiRouter, a neat application for Windows Mobile devices that allows users to turn their smartphones into WiFi routers. Naturally, it’s advisable to use a 3G/HSDPA connection, otherwise WiFi enabled devices around you won’t experience true mobile broadband speeds. Now Morose Media, the folks behind the application, decided to move…
AppToDate makes sure your Windows Mobile device runs latest application version
Here’s a neat software for all Windows Mobile users out there. Thanks to AppToDate you can easily — you guessed that correctly — keep your mobile applications up to date. The idea behind the project is simple. Many users crave for the latest version of their mobile apps and AppToDate is there to check for…
HKC enters the Windows Mobile smartphone market with launch of two dual-SIM devices
Hong Kong based HKC (no it’s not a typo) launched the world’s first Windows Mobile smartphone with two SIM card slots, allowing savvy users to make and receive phone calls on two networks while doing their usual “Exchange thing.” Two models were announced — W1000 which is equipped with one GSM and one CDMA SIM…
The new Internet Explorer Mobile for Windows Mobile 6.1 – desktop browsing from Windows Mobile
It was hard standing idly by, snapping a few pictures, while everyone else was busy taking video of Microsoft’s demonstration of the next-generation Internet Explorer Mobile for Windows Mobile 6.1. Not having a video camera on hand was hard, but not being able to show you readers what Microsoft had in store for Internet Explorer…
Microsoft makes Windows Live available for Windows Mobile
Microsoft loves to confuse the hell out of mobile enthusiasts with their multitude of mobile services. If it isn’t Windows Live, it’s Live Search, or it could be non-application Live Search web search. Windows Live is the brand name under which Microsoft is developing its web services and application. A unified “Live” web service platform…