During a press event to announce the launch of MWg in Europe, a roadmap from the device manufacturer seemed to indicated that Windows Mobile 7 might be available later this year. The company showed a roadmap listing several smartphones and handhelds and one of them indicated a Q4 release with Windows Mobile 7.
Windows Mobile 7 has largely been expected to be released in 2009. Could this be a mistake on the part of MWg? Very interesting...
(The image on the right is a reputed screenshot of W...read more
According to Bloomberg, US cell phone carrier Sprint may start selling assets to help improve a bad situation for the company. After losing more than 1 million customers last quarter things are looking down for Sprint. In fact, Sprint's quarterly net loss was $505 million.
Some options include selling of Nextel or finding a buyer for the company. They will also be closing Sprint stores and lowering prices.
Customers have been leaving Sprint for other carriers due to poor service. Have ...read more
Samsung's i780 has received some pretty nice words of praise from PDA247.
The i780 features a 320x320 screen which is new to Windows Mobile Devices. It features HSDPA, 2MP camera, Bluetooth, WiFi, FM radio, and GPS. It's only a triband GSM device but it does come with 128MB RAM.
Check out the Full Story link for the full review.
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The Motorola Q9c is finally available at Verizon Wireless. There have been rumors and delays on this one but it is finally available.
You can pick one up online for $199 with a two-year agreement. Verizon's web site also offers an additional $50 mail-in rebate.
In case you forgot about the Q9c, here's what Verizon has to say about it:
"The Motorola Q 9c operates on the Windows® Mobile 6 Standard OS and promises to make your life more manageable and productive. This elegantly slim smartphone...read more
HTC has announced another addition to their Touch line of smartphones. Built to compete directly with the iPhone, HTC's latest effort in the Windows Mobile phone department, is the Touch Diamond.
The Touch Diamond has Wi-Fi and GPS, and supports fast data speeds like 7.2Mbps HSDPA.
Other Features
2.8-inch touch screen, with four times the pixels of most phones.
Vibrant TouchFLO 3D user interface, responding perfectly to your finger gestures when scrolling through contacts, browsing th...read more
Palm has sent a letter out to their developer community confirming the existence of two new phones. The letter asks their launch developers to submit applications for participation in the launch of the new devices. The new devices, Zeppelin and Skywriter could come out later this year as the application deadline is May 30.
One of the devices is rumored to be a Centro-like Windows Mobile phone.
The picture that was included in the email is a mock up but surely Palm's phone will look more li...read more
According to WMExperts, Sprint will be releasing the Treo 800w on July 22. No word on where they got the information but it seems to fit the earlier leaked roadmaps for Sprint.
The Treo 800w will have some nice features like Threaded SMS, 320x320 resolution, EVDO rev. A, and GPS.
The Treo 800w has the layout similar to the Palm Centro. We still haven't been able to figure out why Palm would go back to a straight keyboard layout. The original Treo had a straight keyboard but Palm curved the...read more
If Handango can be believed, the Sony Xperia X1 is on its way. According to Handango's Content Partner Newsletter, the Sony Xperia X1 will launch in September of 2008. We can't wait!
"The Xperia X1 will launch in mid-September 2008 with the Handango InHand service on the device. This is a fantastic opportunity for all our Partners to sell their products directly through a dedicated on-device channel."...read more
Research in Motion has a planned BlackBerry service outage tonight for database upgrades. The outage will affect both BIS and BES Users. The planned BlackBerry outage will start a 2:00 a.m. EST May 3rd and last until 6:00 a.m. EST.
We've complained so many times about RIM's outages but I suppose this one is different. The outages are the reason we stick with mail via IMAP or POP rather than going through RIM's servers. When our BlackBerry is down, our Treo is always getting email. ...read more
One of our favorite software packages for Windows Mobile phones has just been updated. Spb Mobile Shell has now been updated to version 2.1. If you haven't picked up this software yet, get on over to the pdaBlast! Store and get yours today.
"Spb Mobile Shell introduces the next generation user interface while keeping all advantages of a Windows Mobile device. Spb Mobile Shell is the first program a Windows Mobile user needs to install. It dramatically improves the standard user interface an...read more
T-Mobile is preparing to ship its first cell phones based on Google's Android operating system this year. The release of the gPhone is expected to bring an "avalanche of innovation from users - and radical changes to what customers expect and demand."
Joe Sims, vice president and general manager of T-Mobile's broadband and new business division, said he had already seen prototypes of the company's Android-based phone and says he's "impressed." Sims also says they will have more than one produ...read more
TouchPal is an innovative soft keyboard on Windows Mobile platform, powered by T+ input technology.
Typing on TouchPal is pretty easy: you just need to tap and slide by your thumb. In most cases, you only need to tap tap tap and use the auto-word predition to input the right word. For precise input, you can slide left/right for a specfic letter, slide up for uppercase, slide down for a punctuation, or slide up and then down further for the symbol/number on top of each key.
Check out the video....read more
The iPAQ 900 was announced months ago but it has not yet hit the stores. It is currently in the FCC certification process which gives us hope, but does not necessarily mean it will hit the stores any time soon.
The iPAQ 900 features quadband GSM, triband HSDPA, 802.11 b/g WiFi, and Bluetooth 2.0. It runs Windows Mobile on a 520 MHz Marvell processor with 128 MB of RAM and 256 MB of ROM. It also includes a 3 megapixel camera.
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Rumors of a new Sprint Treo 800w have been around for a couple of years now. With the recent announcement of a new version of Windows Mobile (6.1) comes word that Sprint will release a Palm Treo 800w running the new Windows Mobile.
The new Treo is expected to have WiFi, Bluetooth and a 320x320 resolution. It is also expected to include GPS and a 2 megapixel camera.
No word on what the new Treo will cost but it is expected to be available before the end of summer....read more
