Posted by Michael Bettiol on Jul 3, 2009 3:04 pm
Filed in 1xRTT, BlackBerry, CDMA, EV-DO, HTC, Handsets, News, RIM, Telus, Windows Mobile
It’s been a while since we talked about these devices coming to TELUS, but the BlackBerry Tour, HTC Snap and Touch Pro2 are front and center in our minds today, having just popped up in a new Best Buy Mobile flyer. TELUS has yet to officially announce the two HTC handsets (the Tour popped up [...]
Folks who scooped up the HTC Ozone from Verizon Wireless or the HTC Snap from Sprint may be pleased to learn that an official upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5 may be in your future. According to documents published on the Bluetooth Special Interest Group’s website, a Windows Mobile 6.5 variant of the HTC Cedar, codename [...]
Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Jun 29, 2009 9:43 am
Filed in 1xRTT, AT&T, CDMA, EDGE, EV-DO, GPRS, GSM, HSDPA, HTC, Handsets, Motorola, Retail, Verizon, Windows Mobile
Two new low cost handsets are now available for your budget-minded buying pleasure. This weekend AT&T debuted its teen and tween texting machine, the Motorola Karma QA1. The quad-band EDGE/dual-band HSDPA handset features a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 2.5-inch QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera, aGPS, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, 3.5mm headphone jack, microSDHC expansion and, most [...]
Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Jun 28, 2009 2:00 pm
Filed in Software, Windows Mobile
We’re getting closer, WinMo fans. Mozilla has just released the second Alpha build of its highly, highly anticipated mobile version of Firefox. Still dubbed Fennec for the time being, Windows Mobile users who aren’t infatuated with Skyfire can now head over to Mozilla’s website and download the official Alpha 2 version of the browser. This [...]
Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Jun 27, 2009 12:32 pm
Filed in HTC, Handsets, Rumors, Windows Mobile
Sure TouchFLO 3D 2.5 is looking pretty amazing, but the future of HTC’s WinMo UI may be headed elsewhere. Despite the muddled availability of the new HTC Sense UI on Android devices, it appears as if its presence on Windows Mobile devices at some point in the future is a bit more cut and dry:
The [...]
Posted by Michael Bettiol on Jun 27, 2009 8:44 am
Filed in HTC, News, Software, Windows Mobile
HTC’s TouchFLO 3D UI manages to make Windows Mobile hip but after HTC unveiled its Sense UI for the Hero, we’re sure that more than few of the WinMo faithful were tempted to switch over to Android to get in on all of the new hotness. But to the fanboys who dare not think of [...]
One of our T-Mobile ninjas gave us a heads up about some business events that T-Mobile will be holding in July. T-Mobile reps will apparently be on hand in seven cities to show off the HTC Dash 3G and Touch Pro2, two devices T-Mobile is hoping will strike a chord with both business users and [...]
Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Jun 25, 2009 10:26 am
Filed in 1xRTT, CDMA, EDGE, EV-DO, GPRS, GSM, HTC, Handsets, Verizon, Windows Mobile
No surprises with this one as our leaked spy shots, release date, pricing details and specifications were all spot on. Today, Verizon Wireless made all that we already knew about the HTC Ozone official. Those looking for a basic Windows Mobile phone with a QWERTY keyboard will only have to shell out a meager $49.99 [...]
Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Jun 24, 2009 1:08 pm
Filed in Handsets, Samsung, Verizon, Windows Mobile
Thus far, Verizon Wireless has made good on 66 percent of its promise to unlock GPS on its latest Windows Mobile handsets. First we had an update for the HTC Touch Pro and today we have an update for the Samsung Saga. Left behind and still waiting for GPS freedom, for the time being, [...]
Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Jun 23, 2009 9:17 am
Filed in HTC, Handsets, Windows Mobile
A new image of an HTC-branded Windows Mobile handset has surfaced. The source of the image claims it is a rendering of the HTC Firestone, a handset that was included in HTC’s leaked 2009 lineup, and adds the following specifications:
GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900, UMTS 900/2100, HSDPA
Windows Mobile 6.5
3.6-inch WVGA touchscreen transflective TFT display, 65536 colors (boo)
600Mhz Qualcomm [...]
Know this right now, NTT DoCoMo subscribers… We hate you. Ok fine, we don’t really hate you at all — we’re just insanely jealous right now because the Japanese carrier just launched the Toshiba TG01. Sure NTT DoCoMo tried its best to minimize jealousy by renaming this screamer of a WinMo handset “T-01A”, but to [...]
Posted by Michael Bettiol on Jun 22, 2009 8:01 am
Filed in 1xRTT, CDMA, EDGE, EV-DO, Exclusives, GPRS, GSM, HTC, Handsets, Verizon, Windows Mobile
We’ve already given the world its first peek and Verizon’s upcoming HTC Ozone, nailed down its scheduled availability of June 29th/July 13th and pegged its pricing at $49.99 after MIR, but we’re not done yet because two of our VZW ninjas just hit us up with the complete spec list for the device — and [...]
Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Jun 21, 2009 12:03 pm
Filed in Windows Mobile
Touted as an espionage tool but more closely resembling spyware is a new application, Phone Creeper, written by xda-developer member chetstriker. Once installed on a Windows Mobile 5, 6.1 or 6.5 handset with .NET CF 3.5, the software tool can be used to:
secretly and remotely read incoming / outgoing sms
secretly and remotely delete incoming [...]
