10 years ago today, Microsoft unvieled the first Pocket PCs at an event in Grand Central, Manhattan. MVP Arne Hess has a brief history here. The Pocket PC would eventually grow on to be renamed Windows Mobile and now Windows Phones. Four new devices were announced during the event on April 19th of 2000. HP, Compaq, Casio and Symbol each were showing off devices. What’s interesting to note is that the Compaq H3600 announced was …
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Multi-Touch for Single-Touch Now Available
Remember when we reported about annadoul’s SDK development that would bring multi-touch features to single-touch resistive Windows Mobile screens? A new SDK is now available for this amazing feature. Windows Mobile and resistive touch screens do not natively support multi-touch but through this SDK, dual-finger navigation should be possible on any touchscreen device through its integration in an application. For more information, check out the thread on XDA-Developers as well as Windows Phone ME. Originally …
Continue readingKin’s Rosa Also Raps
If you’re curious about Rosa as she takes her journey with the new Kin phones, here’s something fun. She also raps! Take a look at her Salt n Peppa’ cover of “Let’s talk about Sex” on College Humor (if you dare). Microsoft has already had some issues with old people complaining about Kin’s “Sexting” features, so it’s good to see that the Kin social networking spokeswoman promotes responsible and safe picture messaging. Originally published on …
Continue readingKin’s Fan Count Growing Very Quickly
The new Kin phones and service were just announced a few days ago, but already the Kin Facebook page has over 30,000 fans. Earlier this morning it was around 24,000 fans. Of course, most of us smartphone power users don’t see much appeal in the Kin, but we said that about the original Danger Sidekick devices as well. Could these new phones actually be a hit despite the naysayers? Originally published on Pocketnow on April …
Continue readingHow to Speed Up HTC’s Twitter Tab
HTC’s Sense on the new T-Mobile HD2 has a few bugs that may make the device appear to freeze, or slow down considerably. Another one is the HTC Peep application for Twitter. The Twitter app works great for a while, but it doesn’t ever clear out old tweets from the database. So depending on how many people you’re following and how often they tweet, sooner or later, that twitter timeline is going to get very …
Continue readingMicrosoft Kin: Danger is My Middle Name
The new phones from Microsoft’s Project Pink have just been announced and they’re called the Kin One and Kin Two. If you missed the live stream announcement that just ended, check out the Kin website for more information, or the cache of Engadget’s live blog. The phones were demo’d by pocketnow.com alum, Derek Snyder, and they are directly targeted at the social crowd of users who love to share the lives. Robbie Bach calls this …
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