Did you happen to catch the live broadcast of the Engadget show last night with fellow Windows Mobile enthusiast Ryan Block of gdgt.com? We were there as well, but just to watch. It was nice to see that when the Dell Lightning Windows Phone 7 picture appeared, the whole audience cheered. In fact, all of the members of the round table discussion felt that Dell’s accidental leak of that phone was extremely good for them …
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The First Mobile Office with Games, Music, and Movies
Over on Engadget, Michael Gartenberg says Happy 10th Birthday to the Pocket PC; the first mobile device that combined a mobile office with the ability to play games, music, movies and even eBooks. Gartenberg was quoted in the original press release and actually attended the April 19th, 2000 Grand Central event that launched the first 4 Pocket PCs of the time. Back then of course, Microsoft had its targets set on the old Palm OS …
Continue readingSteve Jobs Hates Task Managers?
Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanan recently wrote about many of the problems he sees in Apple’s new iPhone OS 4. Most of them are the primary new features, like the new task manager. He finds it just as easy to jump back to the home screen with a single press of the home button than to have to double press it and flick through just one row of application icons. The row of active tasks also seems …
Continue readingSell Your Windows Phone Apps for Free
If you’re a student that is! DreamSpark has just partnered with Windows Marketplace for Mobile so you not only get the same tools the professional developers and designers have, but now you can sell your mobile applications and make money! DreamSpark helps students get started by waiving the $99 registration fee for the Windows Marketplace for Mobile! Click here for more information. Originally published on Pocketnow on April 23, 2010. More Deals articles from the …
Continue readingThrowback: Being Able to Read Your Screen Outdoors
Back in the old days, around the turn of the century, did you know that people actually had portable computers with screens that were visible in direct sunlight? Back in the year 2000, Compaq released the extremely innovative iPAQ H3600 (manufactured by HTC). This device had a transflective screen with side-lighting. Most screens these days are backlit, but with the transflective screen on the iPAQ, the light from the sides within the bezel would illuminate …
Continue readingDell Lightning Windows Phone 7 Leak
Wow Wow Wow! Engadget has a leak of the Dell Lightning Windows Phone 7! The renders on these slides look slick as hell, but they’re no match for the spec sheet, which looks even better: 1GHz QSD8250 Snapdragon processor, WVGA 4.1-inch OLED display, AT&T and T-Mobile 3G, five megapixel autofocus camera, 1GB of flash with 512MB RAM plus 8GB of storage on a MicroSD card (non-user-replaceable, we’re assuming), GPS, accelerometer, compass, FM radio, and full …
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