According to Reuters and others: Microsoft Corp expects global unit sales of its Windows Mobile software for cellphones to grow at least 50 percent per year in fiscal years 2008 and 2009 as demand for smartphones rises rapidly. “Fifty percent growth is the minimum,” Eddie Wu, the software company’s managing director of OEM embedded devices Asia, told Reuters on the sidelines of a news conference on Tuesday. He said Microsoft expects to sell 20 million …
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Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.Fediverse Profile
How to Fix the TouchFLO Bug in the new TyTN II’s Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM
For some, HTC’s recent release of the new Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM upgrade has caused more problems than it solves. One of the bugs in the new ROM is with the TouchFLO feature. The problem is that when you put your finger on the screen and drag, it actually performs both the scrolling function and activates the thing that you put your finger on. So, you might get both some scrolling and a context-sensitive menu. …
Continue readingWhy We Love the Windows Mobile Start Menu
The Windows Mobile Start menu gets a lot of flack sometimes. It’s always up there in the top left corner of your screen taking up space. There’s even speculation of it being removed from Windows Mobile 7, at least in its Windows Mobile Professional/Pocket PC form. If this is true, I believe it will be a very unwise decision and I’ll tell you why. Read on… Originally published on Pocketnow on May 23, 2008. More …
Continue readingOfficial Windows Mobile 6.1 update for Kaiser leaks out
The official Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM upgrade for the HTC TyTN II has been leaked over at MoDaCo: in the next couple of days the file ‘RUU_Kaiser_HTC_WWE_3.28.405.0_radio_ sign_25.83.40.02_1.65.16.25_Ship.exe’ that you can find here will also become available via official channels! The update is for HTC TyTN II devices, and will be followed later by a AT&T branded update. The update adds Windows Mobile 6.1 with improvements such as the ‘Getting Started’ wizard, Threaded SMS and …
Continue readingA Windows Mobile User Gone BlackBerry (8820)
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Continue readingBig Design Challenges for Windows Mobile
There have been rumors that Microsoft is planning to fold all of the various current versions of Windows Mobile into one in the future. The advantage to this would be that developers only have to create programs for one platform, users would only have to learn one platform, and it would increase the level of consistency in Windows Mobile thus also increasing the sense of intuitiveness across a variety of Windows Mobile devices. The problem …
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