HP seems ready to develop their iPAQ smartphone line and adapt it for the consumer model. The Wall Street Journal reports that a future device is going to be very useful to both consumers and corporate users. The phone will apparently come with a touchscreen and a keypad and it will run on Windows Mobile 6.1.

There are no details about the future model. We don’t know the actual arrival date and how much it will cost. We’d like to have a picture for it too (the iPAQ above is a 500 series), and it looks we might get one soon. The new iPAQ might be available in Europe sometime within the next two months or so, while the rest of the world would get it soon after.

After announcing the Windows Cloud OS which will be reveled later this month, Steve Ballmer made another announcement which isn’t that surprising. He confirmed that the Zune will come with a Windows Mobile OS. Why didn’t Microsoft create the Zune like that from the beginning? That’s what surprises me.
(more…)

HTC is a hot cell phone manufacturer. Besides the HTC Touch Diamond which was a hit handset in various markets, the company has launched various equally good smartphones. Their most expected phones was the HTC Dream made for T-Mobile. You know, the Google phone or the G1.
(more…)

If Sony Ericsson is considering changing the Windows Mobile OS which it is currently using for their upcoming Xperia X1, that must mean only one thing: Sony Ericsson won’t split up just yet and they will continue to create smarter phones. (more…)

Isn’t this some good news? RIM surpasses Windows Mobile in market share for the second quarter of the year. RIM comes second after Symbian which dropped significantly from the same time last year. Amazingly Windows Mobile lost the second position although they have about the same market share they did last year.

BlackBerry is up to 17.4% from last year’s 8.9%. They have almost doubled their market share in a year. Apple went from 1% to almost 3% during the same period. The biggest looser seems to be Symbian which has lost about 10% from 65.6% to 57.1%.

I thought it was an HTC device too until I looked closer. It’s actually the 103 which is the newest Velocity Mobile smartphone.

And let’s check out the features first: (more…)

Asus seems ready for a new phone and it has unveiled the new P552W. And this is the first smartphone from Asus to ever use the Glide user interface which will get you lots of touchscreen action. But what’s inside you ask? Well besides the Windows Mobile 6.1 OS you’re going to find lots of features in it.

The Asus P552 will have:

• an 624MHz processor
• 256MB initial storage space
• 128MB RAM
• Tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900MHz)
• UMTS 2100MHz
• HSDPA
• Wi-Fi connectivity
• Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity
• GPS navigation
• a 2 megapixel camera
• a microSD memory card slot for more memory
• a choice of colors between black and white.

What it doesn’t have is a price and an availability days. But you were already suspecting that right?

Sprint seems finally ready to release the HTC Touch Diamond. The handset will arrive in mid September which means that in a couple of weeks you are going to see it in action. The rumored price is $549.99 but hopefully there are going to be discounted prices with plans.
(more…)

For those of you still stubborn enough to buy a Motorola smartphone when there are various other better choices out there AT&T has the new Motorola Q in Silver. Besides the change of color you will get the Windows Mobile 6.1 OS running under the hood. (more…)

Does anyone have a Motorola Q? Do you actually use it or do you keep it safe in a drawer? Well get it back really fast as the Q is going to get Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade from AT&T. It’s been also rumored that a new silver version of the Q9h is going to be available from AT&T soon. Pricing and availability aren’t clearly specified, but I guess we were expecting that!
(more…)

Is this the new Treo that Palm is getting ready for 2009? They have been plans for the upcoming year, but if they want to sell those phones they ordered, they need some good handsets.

This is the Treo Pro, supposed to work on Windows Mobile. So there’s no Palm OS for now. The flash presentation was taken down from Palm’s site leaving us wanting for more. We need specs, prices and launch date. In the mean time enjoy the screens!

via Gizmodo

Motorola Alexander might just be the handset we’ve all been waiting for. And by all I mean all 16 Motorola cell phone lovers out there. Besides the fact that it looks weird and all, the Alexander will hopefully get a Windows Mobile 6.1, a NVIDIA graphics card and a possible 8 megapixel camera. There’s also A-GPS and 3G connectivity.

No price and no official release date. Probably a Q4 launch date, but we’re yet to confirm it.
(more…)

Here’s a rather displeasing rumor following Steve’s Ballmer’s wet dream of developing a Zune Phone. Some sources claim that Nokia will carry Zune content. Why in the world would anything like that happen? Nokia is the leader of cell phone manufacturers across the world. They have a well established market share that’s growing each quarter. They have their own Symbian OS which not only will improve in the future but it’s also rumored to merge with Google’s Android.
(more…)

The FCC does it again. This time is the Velocity Mobile handset called 103. What a strange name isn’t it. Besides the photo here there aren’t many details offered just yet. The user manual of the 103 is rumored to have 67 pages which is quite a lot. That means this 103 knows business. We know so far that it’s a Windows Mobile powered device and we’re waiting to see what it will be able to do once it gets released. Oh and we don’t know that either. It could hit the US market at any time.

We’ve seen Opera 9.5 and Mozilla 3 roll out in the past month. We were really expecting for the mobile versions of these two great browsers. While Fennec from Mozilla will be available somewhere in September, Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta will be launched on July 15th. Simply go to the official site, download it and try it on your mobile.
(more…)

That’s right you heard me right, Nokia is finally buying Symbian out. It was something bound to happen. One of the top seller of regular and smart cell phones will completely own Symbian. And there’s a twist to this transaction too. Nokia is going to go open source on Symbian software.

The remaining 52% of Symbian will go down for about $410 million. Not too bad Nokia, not to bad! And now the fun part follows. After the transaction will be complete, Nokia, joined by none others than Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Japanese NTT DoCoMo will start a Coalition of the Willing-like foundation which will turn the software into a free, open source resource. The three different Symbian versions will be combined into one larger open platform.

According to Nokia, AT&T, LG Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC are also interested in joining. And probably more carriers and cell phone manufacturers will follow.

All in all this is a good and, I would say expected move from Nokia. With competition closing in on mobile OS, open sourcing Symbian seems like the smart thing to do. Good thing for them Android is taking too damn long to come out. Windows Mobile is however, a worthy adversary, and with LiMo’s Linux intentions we could witness a mobile OS revolution.

via AP

There’s no actual news on Windows Mobile 7 but rumors and speculations so far. Is HTC to release a Windows Mobile 7? According to Kevin Chen, their General Manager for MEA and CIS, HTC is planning a Windows Mobile 7 smartphone to arrive sometime in Q1 2009.
(more…)

Toshiba’s Protege G810 is all set to enter the touchscreen fray on June 20, 2008. Like the Omnia or the Touch Diamond, the G810 runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 with Toshiba’s homemade UI. You will find the same components such as aGPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, and microSD slot with a slightly smaller 2.8-inch touchscreen. Toshiba has also thrown in a middle-of-the-road 3-megapixel camera into the mix along with HSDPA/HSUPA support.

If Toshiba’s earlier announcement holds true, then the Protege G810 will first make an appearance in various European markets come June 20th.
(more…)

This definitely is a concept that I would put my money on becoming a reality. Designed by Eddie Goh, the Eclipse Intuit might be similar to one other touchscreen device we have come to know and love, but differs from that in every other aspect. As we can discern from the picture, it will run on Windows Mobile and has a slide-out touch keyboard with tactile feedback. It will also have a 5-megapixel camera and a pretty big touchscreen, but that’s not what caught our attention. Parts of the cell phone will be made with a chemical-based solar skin giving it the power to juice up on exposure to any kind of light. All this is not too far off and we can actually picture this thing working. Till then, take a gander at some more pictures…
(more…)

Is a new smartphone coming up from E-TEN? If we are to believe recent rumors, the DX900 from the glofiish series is the next dual-sim phone from E-TEN. It’s about to be released at Taiwan’s Computex in June.

What will the DX900 have for you? Well here it is:

• Windows Mobile OS,
• Samsung CPU at 533 MHz
• triband HSDPA,
• quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE,
• 3 megapixel autofocus cam,
• FM radio,
• 256MB of ROM,
• microSDHC memory expansion,
• GPS,
• motion sensor.

We’ll give you more details if this rumor materializes next month.

(more…)

In addition to warding off Microsoft’s advances towards a takeover, Yahoo seems to have got some work done on its Yahoo Go! with several improvements over the previous version 2.0 for the Windows Mobile platform, which was disappointing to say the least.

The application’s user interface has undergone a overhaul and there is now full support for widgets aimed at providing information on the go. There is now an integrated at-a-glance Yahoo screen and improved oneSearch feature along with a comely Web 2.0-like feel and navigation to the application. All the data is stored in a “cloud” for easy retrieval on any other web-enabled device and since this would mean heavy data transfers, it would help if you had an unlimited data plan.

Go ahead and snatch it here if you own a Windows Mobile-powered device. I have tested it on a HTC Touch and it doesn’t seem that bad.

Prior to its unveiling during the Mobile World Congress later this February, a review of the Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional has just surfaced. Here are the findings based on the review:

*It is based on Windows CE 5.2
*Internet Explorer has Zoom function
*SMS chat view mode is available
*One Note Mobile is now included in the Office Mobile, adding the ability to record voice, drawings, and textual notes
*New menu item: Managed programs
*A Task Manager is not available to create settings

Read the entire review (in Portuguese) of the Windows Mobile 6.1 and see more screenshots here.

(more…)

Remember the rumors for the new high-end mobile phone, the Samsung i900? Well, it’s rumor no more. MobiFrance reports that they’ve contacted Samsung France which in turn confirmed the Samsung i900 Windows Mobile phone. According to the report, the handset will be released on September, 2008. The wonderful people of MobiFrance even created a mock-up of i900, pasting a Windows Mobile screen on the F490. That’s not exactly how the i900 looks like, but you get the picture.

(more…)

Good news for everyone planning to buy the BlackJack for Valentine’s for only US$99. Today, Samsung has announced that the BlackJack handsets could be upgraded from Windows Mobile 5.0 to Windows Mobile 6.0. The update could be accomplished via a desktop download directly from Samsung. BlackJack is available in the US exclusively through AT&T. With the Windows Mobile 6.0, BlackJack users can now use Outlook Mobile as well as view PowerPoint documents and manage Word and Excel files via Office Mobile. BlackJack users can now also read HTML emails which Windows Mobile 6.0 supports. You can upgrade your BlackJack handset from Windows Mobile 5.0 to 6.0 by downloading the software here.

(more…)

When the first version of FunContact was released, it was marketed as the software to bring the iPhone experience to Windows Mobile-based phones. Using the software, scrolling your contacts list is as easy as sliding your over. You can also sort your contacts based on criteria and best of all, the software integrates with your standard contacts list. As of recent, Vito Technologies released version 2.0 of FunContact with the following added features:

*Slide finger to scroll contact list
*Instant access to favorites & call history
*Sort contacts by name or company
*Full integration with standard contacts

FunContact sells for USD$19.95 on ordinary days. However, they’re currently running a 25% off sale for the Holidays, so grab your chance while you still can.

(more…)