If you’re a member on Facebook, you can declare yourself to be fans of other people and now products. Log into Facebook and click here to show your love for Windows Mobile. Originally published on Pocketnow on March 19, 2008. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow archive.
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How to Design Mobile Software Like a Pro: Rule #1
I probably should have called this series “How to design mobile software like you know what you’re doing.” since we’ve seen many professional user interface designs fall completely on their faces. Rule Number 1 in Human Computer Interface design is consistency. If you look at a Windows Mobile Professional device, you see a Start menu in the upper left corner of the title bar. You’ll see a colored bottom bar with two text-labeled buttons on …
Continue reading42 Reasons You Still Don’t Want an iPhone
The recent announcement of a software development kit and the Microsoft Exchange Activesync support for the iPhone has raised the eyebrows of a few users who have remained hesitant from switching to the iPhone. Our own Brandon Miniman even exclaimed that now that the iPhone has Exchange support, various device form factors was the only reason left to stick to Windows Mobile. On the contrary, here are 42… EDIT, 55 reasons you still don’t want …
Continue readingHTC’s Diagonal Slider Design
Here’s an interesting patent from HTC for the design of a phone where the screen slides diagonally from the top to the middle in order to reveal a Qwerty keyboard. When “closed” only the numeric portion of the keyboard is visible. For more mock-ups, see The Unwired View Originally published on Pocketnow on March 18, 2008. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingFlashing Windows Mobile with Flash
As covered by Macworld: Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite, the Flash Player runtime for mobile devices, so that Windows Mobile phone users can view Flash content in the browser. Microsoft has also licensed the Adobe Reader LE software, so that Windows Mobile users will be able to view PDFs. The two companies hope to introduce Flash and PDF support on Windows Mobile devices by year’s end. While many device manufacturers already include PDF viewing …
Continue readingWhat is a Smartphone?
Here’s a video that answers important questions such as: What is a Smartphone? What is a Pocket PC? What is a Blackberry? What is a Treo? and What is an HTC device? Be sure to forward this to all of your friends who may have been living in caves for the past 10 years. Originally published on Pocketnow on March 16, 2008. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow archive.
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