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 …
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Throwback: 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 …
Continue readingWinMoSquare Finally Functional
A new build of the sole Windows Mobile Foursquare client called WinMoSquare was released to testers yesterday and it finally works. The original Alpha build was the only version that was capable of semi-accurately finding your location. Subsequent builds would not come even close to your location without first going outside and waiting for a full GPS fix. Usually, the locations were about 2 towns away from where you actually were. Luckily this version adds …
Continue readingCheap Battery for the HD2
You’ve got your new HTC HD2 and it’s awesome! You use it all day. Only problem is that battery doesn’t last so long when you’re watching Transformers movies on repeat. You certainly don’t want to look like a sucker who has to ask the waiter at a restaurant if you can plug in your phone charger for a while. Luckily your HD2 has a user-replacable battery. Official HTC replacement batteries tend to be in the …
Continue readingT-Mobile HTC HD2
INTRODUCTION The European HD2 was pretty popular. It was the first Windows Phone with a capacitive multitouch screen, and it had the largest screen on the market. T-Mobile’s version adds a few hardware and software enhancements along with some great value-added bundles and a fantastic price to make the HD2 a top selling phone in the U.S. Heck, for the first few weeks since its release, HTC can’t make enough! Everytime T-Mobile gets a fresh …
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