As reported by PC World, “Microsoft Windows Mobile 7, which is made for chips used in mobile phones, will be more laptop friendly than older versions of Windows Mobile, said Luis Pineda, senior vice president at Qualcomm, on the sidelines of a news conference in Taipei.” This news contrasts with our previous thoughts on Windows 7’s Ultra Mobile PC operating system potentially replacing Windows Mobile Professional. Now it sounds more like Windows Mobile 7 will …
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Android is Starting to Get Good
The Android Community website has posted some new live images and videos of the latest version of the Android operating system. Android seems to change it’s user interface drastically from build to build, but this one finally has something impressive to show, albeit potentially not very useful in real life. This device supports an internal compass that you can use with Google’s Street View on maps. Pointing the device in a different direction will rotate …
Continue readingWill UMPCs Replace Windows Mobile Professional?
We’ve seen Windows Mobile Standard get quite a significant upgrade in version 6.1, while Windows Mobile Pro only gained a few minor enhancements. The leaked Windows Mobile 7 screenshots seem to indicate the new OS will be primarily based on Windows Mobile Standard. Fans of Windows Mobile Pro’s flexibility and power may have some concerns about this. As seen in this post 4 years ago, we know that Microsoft had been working on a Today …
Continue readingMicrosoft Sees Windows Mobile unit sales up 50%
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 …
Continue readingHow 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 …
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