Microsoft just keeps on cranking out mobile device operating systems. So far this year we’ve got the new Windows Mobile 6.5.3 (Professional & Standard Editions), Windows Phone 7, Windows Embedded Compact 7, KIN, and now Windows Embedded Handheld with Windows Embedded Handheld 7 coming next year. As you saw here earlier this week, it was unclear as to wether Windows Phone 7 means business or does not mean business. Microsoft must have read those articles …
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The EVO 4G is Basically a Technology Demo
David Pogue has a review of the HTC EVO 4G in the New York Times now and he is not impressed. Unfortunately he was seeing very poor battery life, and wasn’t able to visit any areas with 4G coverage. He had a lot of difficulty getting video calling to work, which is understandable since Sprint couldn’t even get it to work during their launch event. Even his collegue who had access to an area with …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 team: ‘I think about this really as a first release’
Ever wonder what it might be like to be part of the team tasked with developing Windows Phone 7? CNET’s Ina Fried was able to get a very intimate behind the scenes look at what’s going into the new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system and how Microsoft is planning to reverse their declining smartphone marketshare despite essentially inventing the category years ago. The first part of this Behind-the-Scenes look is available on CNET Originally …
Continue readingMotorola ES400 Announced with Windows Mobile 6.5.3
Today we see a new Enterprise Digital Assistant from Motorola running a customized version of Windows Mobile 6.5.3. This device is made by a division of Motorola created when aquiring Symbol and is designed to be extremely rugged and reliable. The ES400 runs on a 600-MHz ARM11 processor. It supports GSM HSPA, Sprint’s CDMA EVDO, and Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g – yes, that’s “a,” which is the relatively unusual high-speed Wi-Fi variant used by some large …
Continue readingHTC Desire Coming to the US
We just got an email from HTC’s PR firm that let us know the HTC Desire will be coming to the U.S.A. via regional operators. No news on when, who, or how much, but you can expect more news on this in August. It will feature the same 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and Android 2.1 with HTC Sense that has proven so popular on the international version of HTC Desire. Who wants to guess which …
Continue readingWelcome to the Future
Back about 7 years ago, the future was very bright. Especially in the Smartphone market. Windows Mobile 2003 was so powerful, it could do everything from play full color TV shows, movies, and sync music from your desktop… it could tell you which way to go as you drive to your destination, it could do real HTML web browsing, full wireless email, and personal information management. It could let you read eBooks and audiobooks, run …
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