Updated SPB Mobile Shell Coming to the SE Aspen

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If you saw our earlier post about the Sony Ericsson announcement of the “Aspen” qwerty-board Windows Mobile 6.5.3 phone, you may have noticed something interesting on the screen. First of all, that bottom bar looks pretty good! At first I thought it might be a special theme. Turns out, that looks a lot like a new version of SPB Mobile Shell, and it most likely is. Obviously you can expect a nice update to take …

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Foursquare App Coming to Windows Mobile

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Are you tired of your friends on FourSquare getting badges for going out drinking or becoming mayors of places they frequent? Foursquare is such a pain to use on the mobile website version since there isn’t a native Windows Mobile app. Luckily, Anand Iyer has decided to make one. WinMoSquare is currently in development and for now you can see some screenshots here. The software is currently being developed for touch screen devices and requires …

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Awesome Windows Phone Ad Hits YouTube

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Here’s a great little Windows Phone Superstar music video for the Korean market (not Japanese). You have to see it to believe it! Looks like Korean Windows Phones have more application people in tights than we do in North America. UPDATE: Turns out this is a parody of the Korean girl group T-ara’s “Bo Peep Bo Peep” song. (via WMPU) Originally published on Pocketnow on January 29, 2010. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow …

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XNA Game Studio 3.2 to Support Windows Mobile 7

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One of our readers mentioned that the next version of XNA Game Studio for Xbox will support Windows Mobile 7. XNA game developers have been looking for Windows Mobile support for a while now. When we heard rumors of Xbox Live coming to Windows Mobile 7, we kind of thought it would just be something simple like game card sharing and score tracking. On the other hand, back in March of 2004, Microsoft had a …

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Zune Desktop Software Update Reveals Drivers for Phone Syncing

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Last night, the Zune service went through some maintenance and an update of the Zune desktop software was required to connect today. iStartedSomething.com has discovered some new driver entries for three “Phone” hardware IDs. Some speculate that these represent Microsoft branded Zune Phones, perhaps built by the team aquired during the Danger aquisition. However, they could also simply represent 3 new Windows Mobile phones that happen to include Zune syncing support. If you want to …

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