In a recently leaked presentation featuring Nokia’s software and services plans for Year 2010, there is a mentioning of platform on which devices are to be built. There are four platforms mentioned, in which the most surprising is the “Windows”. Continue reading “Why Nokia is currently working on an Windows Mobile Phone?” »

Microsoft has updated PIM Outlook Mobile,  and the download is already available for communicators based on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and Standard. In the new version, which is quite expected, there are several new features and enhancements. For example, emails are now grouped in the form of conversations, so it they are now easier to view. At the same time, standard actions such as delete, move, and so on can also be performed. Another innovation is a function calendar Free / Busy Lookup.

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Today, Opera Software finally released the much awaited stable versions of Opera Mini 5 and Opera mobile 10. Though,  earlier these software’s  were in beta versions, there were already millions of people using it inspite of being them in developmental phase. Opera Mini 5 is built on Java sdk used for mobile phones and Opera Mobile utilizes sdk (software development kit), which are platform dependent namely Symbian s60 and windows mobile.

Opera Mini’s compression technology reduces the amount of data sent to the phone by up to 90 percent, resulting in lower costs on pay-per-MB data plans or when roaming. Opera keeps it simple with a sleekly designed user interface, regardless of the phone you are using, and with the same feature set, such as Speed Dial, tabs, and the password manager. Opera Link lets you synchronize your bookmarks, notes and Speed Dial between your computer and your mobile phone. Continue reading “Stable version of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 released” »

Well, guys at gizmodo were able to hook up with Microsoft’s upcoming rumored or almost confirmed phone called “Pink” code-named “pure”. They have posted a blurry shot, by the look of which it seems to carry a qwerty sliding form mechanism along with touchscreen input. They have rated the experience of touchscreen above other android handsets which I don’t personally belief. The phone is destined to be a offering from Verizon wireless. From the above shots, it is clear that this phone is neither carrying Windows Mobile 7 or Windows mobile 6.5, it seems to house a proprietary operating system.
There is not much known about other specifications, but going by things they aren’t very interesting either. With the launch of this phone, Microsoft is just looking to capture there lost share of users with their earlier flopped phone “sidekick” where failure of servers resulted loss in data of its users and a huge outrage was seen.

Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman showed the first Windows Mobile 7 powered mobile phone at The Engadget Show, he took out LG’s Windows Phone 7 Series pre-production prototype! mobile phone which is housed with the QWERTY slider and is the first time anyone has spotted it, though it was already known that the first Windows mobile 7 powered device is apparently built by LG, and while the hardware specifications were not revealed at the show.

Guys at engadget wrote “it’s just a hair thicker than an iPhone or Nexus One, there are dedicated hardware camera, volume, and power buttons in addition to the back, home, and search buttons dictated by Windows Phone 7 Series, and we noticed a five megapixel camera with a flash on the back, along with a headphone jack. Can’t say much apart from that right now, since things are so early and everything is subject to change, but things are certainly moving along”.

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Microsoft has finally announced the much awaited Windows Phone 7 operating system for mobile phones. They have also changed the name of their operating system to “Windows Phone” from “Windows Mobile”, the decision to do it was taken last year but was not fully implemented. The new nomenclature was done to avoid confusion in the mind of customers.

With Windows Phone 7 Series, Microsoft takes a fundamentally different approach to phone software. Smart design begins with a new, holistic design system that informs every aspect of the phone, from its visually appealing layout and motion to its function and hardware integration. On the Start screen, dynamically updated “live tiles” show users real-time content directly, breaking the mold of static icons that serve as an intermediate step on the way to an application. Create a tile of a friend, and the user gains a readable, up-to-date view of a friend’s latest pictures and posts, just by glancing at Start. Continue reading “Microsoft Announces Windows Phone 7 Series” »

In the past we have seen that after launching a mobile phone, no manufacturer seem to care about enhancing them, they do release firmware updates but they are generally targeted to fix minor bugs. This time though Samsung is making noises that it will update its latest line of windows mobile smartphones with version 6.5 as and when it will appear.  Continue reading “Samsung looking to upgrade os of major windows mobile phones to version 6.5” »

i-mate, maker of the Ultimate brand of smartphones, has recently announced it is launching the i-mate Go interface for its Windows Mobile 6.1-powered offerings. Based on the VITO Winterface, i-mate Go brings Windows Mobile users with touch-screen devices an iPhone-like interface, with large, square virtual buttons acting as shortcuts to launch popular applications. Users can customize the icons, selecting the most-often used applications to pop up on the main screen. Continue reading “imate Introduces Custom Windows Mobile Interface” »

Skyfire runs on most Windows Mobile 5 and 6 and Symbian S60 3rd edition phones.Skyfire can display almost any web based Flash or Silverlight video or animation. I had no trouble watching videos from Daily Motion, Vimeo, Veoh, Hulu uStream, fastcompany.tv, Blip.tv and of course YouTube using Skyfire. With a good3G connection or WiFi video playback is very smooth, with no stuttering or hangs at all. The latest Skyfire Beta is also very stable when streaming video. I spent about an hour watching videos on all the sites mentioned above with the longest clip being over 15 minutes long and Skyfire handled them all perfectly. This is a huge improvement over the first Skyfire S60 Beta five months ago which consistently crashed after 2 minutes of video streaming. The Skyfire team has done a great job of archiving faultless video playback and stability. Skyfire is absolutely the best Flash player I’ve ever used on my N95. I’m also a fan of the standalone player Mobitubia, but it’s limited to Flash 8 and its built in catalog and search functions only work with YouTube. Skyfire is a full-web browser. Using Google you can find and play almost any video on the web.Go here For Download

Opera Mini, the world’s most popular mobile phone Web Browser, has seen the first Beta release, of the 4.2 version, with this beta release focusing on giving the user a more personalised experience. By that, it offers many improvements on its predecessor, such as individual skins, improved support for video service sites, such as Youtube, as well as improvements for Opera Link – which enables users to synch data, such as bookmarks, notes, as well as previously visited Web sites, between Opera Mini, and the Desktop version of Opera. Opera claims twenty million individual users browse the Web on their mobile handset, with Opera Mini, which is quite the feat.
Download LINK – www.operamini.com/download/