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 …
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Take 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 …
Continue readingiPhone’s Enterprise Ready Security = Non Existent
The new iPhone 2.0 and iPhone 3G have been advertised as being enterprise ready and all, but it turns out there’s a major security flaw in the iPhone operating system. Check out this article on Gizmodo to see how easy it is to bypass the iPhone’s password protection. Windows Mobile’s security on the other hand is a lot more advanced. Originally published on Pocketnow on August 28, 2008. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow …
Continue readingRosario Uses Windows Mobile 10?
In the very beginning of the first episode of The Gemini Division, an online-only web television series produced by NBC, we see the main character, played by Rosario Dawson, using an ultra-thin widescreen Windows Mobile device to record and send her video messages to a friend via Windows Live Messenger. I’m not sure why she wasn’t using full duplex video calling. Perhaps her friend wasn’t online at the time and she had to send an …
Continue readingLocation Aware Web Pages Now Available Exclusively on Windows Mobile
Google has launched their new Gears Geolocation API which currently works exclusively on Windows Mobile devices. The Geolocation API allows web developers to access user device locations via GPS or cell ID tower locations. Don’t worry about stalkers, though: The privacy of users’ location information is extremely important. The first time your site calls the Geolocation API to request a user’s location, that user will be shown a permissions dialog where they can choose to …
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