The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i is a budget friendly laptop that should handle basic computing …
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Windows Mobile Still Waxing the iPhone
As reported by eWeek, Windows for Devices, and others, Microsoft’s partners shipped 4.5 million Windows Mobile devices during the first quarter of 2008, up 1.8 million units year over year. Andy Lees, during his Windows Mobile Keynote from the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, cited IDG figures showing that Apple sold only 1.7 million iPhones during the same quarter. So in other words, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile sales INCREASED by more than the number of total iPhone …
Continue readingGravity Sensing GSEN Now Available for Accelerometer Enabled Devices
A couple days ago an API for the accelerometer on the HTC Touch Diamond was reverse engineered by the Windows Mobile community. Today, an application is now available that will enable tilt-sensitive orientation switching in all Windows Mobile applications! MSmobiles has a video demonstration of this new program: The program also allows you to specify which programs the automatic orientation rotation will function in, and of course you can disable it at any time. Another …
Continue readingLive Search Mobile with Weather Radar
This post is hopefully going to fall into the “fact following fiction” category. Live Search Mobile is one of the most indispensable Windows Mobile applications out there. It makes finding location based information so much easier than using a web browser. So in thinking about what else I still use an annoying web browser for, one of the major things was animated weather radar from Accuweather. Wouldn’t it be awesome to have a weather radar …
Continue readingAn iPhone app from Microsoft
Back in March, Microsoft mentioned to Fortune that they were evaluating the Apple iPhone SDK. Many people interpreted this as though Microsoft would be developing a version of Office for the iPhone. Now that the iPhone’s App store is opened, it’s pretty clear that most of the applications you might have been hoping for are not there. However, one nice movie searching application called Box Office is there and that happens to have been developed …
Continue readingYou call this an iPhone line?
The NY Times and Mobility Today have posted photos of the so-called iPhone 3G “line” at the 5th Avenue New York City Apple store. All I see are some empty chairs, a bunch of garbage cluttering up the sidewalk, and some people walking around on their lunch break. What happens if these guys come by? Originally published on Pocketnow on July 9, 2008. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingAn API for the Touch Diamond’s Accellerometer!
While HTC has not publicly released an application programing interface or software development kit for use with the accelerometer built into the new Touch Diamond, some members of the Windows Mobile community have figured it out and developed one for themselves. This means that any application or game developer can now make use of the tilt sensitivity features in the Touch Diamond. This is pretty exciting news as I’m sure you can imagine the possibilities. …
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