Wish you had a nice polo shirt with the Windows Mobile logo? How about a hat, or even a stress ball? If you worked for Microsoft, you could just stroll on down to the Company Store and pick out your swag items of choice. But wait! It turns out you don’t have to be an employee to purchase cool Microsoft branded clothing and toys (but you do have to live in the USA or Canada.) …
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Palm Treo 500 Windows Phone for $95!
Expansys has a great deal on one nice device that will probaby prove to be quite a collector’s item. The Palm Treo 500 is a Windows Mobile Standard Edition device with a small QWERTY thumb keyboard and no touch screen. It’s got a 320×240 pixel screen, tri-band GSM, Bluetooth, 256MB memory, and a Micro SD card slot. Unfortunately it does not support ATT or T-Mobile US 3G bands, so you’ll be stuck on EDGE and …
Continue readingGorgeous Hulu App for Windows Phone 7
A company called Clarity Consulting is showing off an image of a very nice looking Hulu application for Windows Phone 7 to illustrate some of the things they can do. The image seems to be just a concept according to the website, but if it comes to real life later this year when Windows Phone 7 devices are released, it could be pretty awesome. Clarity Consulting’s Yelp app concept looks pretty nice, too. (via Ulmasov …
Continue readingEngadget Show Audience Loves Dell’s Windows Phone 7
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 …
Continue readingThe 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 …
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