T-mobile may be replacing the MDA with another new Windows Mobile smartphone featuring that familiar sliding qwerty keyboard. The T-mobile Wing could take the place of the older and bulkier MDA with some stylish Windows Mobile 6.0 action. The T-mobile Wing rocks that super-slick spring-loaded sliding-keyboard (had enoug hyphens yet?) that brought the HTC P4350…
Rogers boosts its smartphone offering with HTC Excalibur (S621)
Potential smartphone buyers in Canada have something to look for, as the country’s GSM carrier released the HTC Excalibur (S621) to its customers. The QWERTY-equipped smartphone runs Windows Mobile and promises to make its owners more productive. Interested? Grab it now for a $250 CDN ($213) on a three-year agreement. (via: Engadget)
O2 Ireland adds the XDA Orbit (HTC Artemis)
O2 users in the Ireland are about to get some Windows Mobile love, as the carrier introduced the XDA Orbit, aka HTC Artemis. The all-in-one device among other things packs an integrated GPS, a WiFi, and a 2 MP camera. Still the XDA Orbit will be released with Windows Mobile 5. I’m not sure why…
ZyXEL V660 smartphone announced
The maker of the broadband equipment, ZyXEL, jumped to the handset bandwagon with the announcement of the V660 smartphone. The quad-band GSM device runs Windows Mobile 5, has a candybar form factor, and among other things sports integrated WiFi, support for WPA/WPA2/TLS, and Bluetooth connectivity. Interesting thing about this device is that it will automatically…
The Digital Life: Top 5 FREE Pocket PC Software
So, you got a Pocket PC did you? But you say you spent all your cheese on that there smartphone? It’s all good, there’s plenty of free software out there. Actually, there’s too much free software out there – and not all are good. It’s a good thing you found this list of the Top…
2007 i-mate Product Roadmap – You Want It? We Got It!
Boy Genius got his hands on some disgruntled employees’ parting shot – i-mate’s 2007 product roadmap. It’s basically everything we’ve seen before, but it’s nice to finally put a timeline to the “Ultimate” series and the JAQ4. And, we get a peek at the round-edged “X series” lineup – rockin’ phones with names like “Fox”…
O2 Says XDA Zinc Is Canned, Pulled, Dropped, Kaput – To Be Replaced By HTC TyTn (?)
O2, European GSM operator, just went official with an announcement that the much lauded XDA Zinc will not be offered through their network. We all expected the Zinc to drop in January, and then expected it in March. And when we finally get news of it dropping on us, we find it’s been dropped from…
FCC Approves Samsung i760
Looks like the Samsung i760 has the green-light for a US release! The FCC recently approved the Windows Mobile 6.0 powered smartphone for CDMA duty on Verizon’s EV-DO network. There’s been a lot of coverage on this sliding-qwerty Pocket PC, and it’s nice to finally see this thing strapping up to hit US shores. A…
2010 Census Goes High Tech With Data-Only HTC ‘Census’ GPS Smartphone
Well folks, it looks like the U.S. Census Bureau is finally getting high-tech for their 2010 census. With $600 million poured into the Field Data Collection Automation (FDCA) project, half a million (500,000) field enumerators will be getting hooked up with a HTC Census smartphone. Armed with an EVDO data-only Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC,…
Developers, Microsoft wants your input for the future phone APIs
The Windows Mobile team would like to have a feedback from developers about the missing phone APIs. They are looking for answer to these questions: What are the things you wanted to programmatically do on the phone system, that you weren’t able to do? From the things that you were able to do, what were…