Crackberry.com has been covering the Jim Basille keynote where BlackBerry unveiled the new Pearl 8220, and “stated with the Pearl 8220 RIM was the first to crack the smartphone in a flip phone code.” I don’t know what the “flip phone code” is, but there have been numerous Windows Mobile and Palm OS flip smartphones available through out this century. Microsoft was the only one who actually branded their smartphone operating system as “Smartphone”. Take …
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Xperia X1 Will Be Revealed September 15th
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is one of the most highly anticipated smartphone devices of the year (and there have been many). A webcast has been scheduled for September 15th at 1pm GMT +1 time (7am EST here in New York) which will show the first live in-depth presentation of the Xperia X1. To join the webcast, visit this site on September 15th at 1pm GMT +1. Sony Ericsson is also unveiling a web-based alternative …
Continue readingMicrosoft’s Ad Campaign: Stupid or Genius?
Is the new Microsoft Commercial funny? What are they selling? Are they copying Apple? There are many critics out there bashing Microsoft’s new advertising campaign. Many people think it’s absolutely horrible, but could it be that it’s completely genius? In case you don’t know what we’re talking about, Microsoft has started a new ad campaign designed to increase awareness of Windows Vista, Windows Live, and Windows Mobile, which in my opinion is sorely needed. Take …
Continue readingWSJ Ignorance: Touch Diamond Edition
Katherine Boehret of the Wall Street Journal has “reviewed” the as yet unreleased Sprint version of the HTC Touch Diamond. Like Walt Mossberg, she often talks about the iPhone instead and doesn’t spend much time learning the actual merits of the phone nor giving much reasoning to support her opinions. For example: “Yet like the iPhone, it relies solely on an on-screen keyboard for all text entries. Even with the Diamond’s stylus, the keyboard felt …
Continue readingTake a Look at the Windows Mobile Live Mesh Client
IStartedSomething.com has a teaser image of the Live Mesh client for Windows Mobile which was demoed at Tech.Ed Australia. The rumor is that this will be available publicly in the coming months. In the broader picture syncing of data is just one of three components to the Live Mesh platform. They envision unified device management to remotely manage health, status, location and capability of devices; unified application deployment with synced configurations and settings for those …
Continue readingFOX Business Promotes Windows Mobile
FOX Business has some shocking news about the smartphone market. It turns out there are other phones out there other than the Apple iPhone. Last Thursday, Microsoft Mobile Communications Group Manager Scott Rockfield appeared with BusinessWeek writer Arik Hesseldahl to show off a variety of upcoming and existing Windows Mobile 6.1 devices in the six-minute segment. The segment also references some smartphone market share figures from Nielsen Mobile which show BlackBerry at number 1 with …
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