Confirmed: Windows Mobile 6.5 to become Windows Phone Starter Edition
Windows Phone 7 Series might have been the big news out of Mobile World Congress this year, but it looks like Windows Mobile 6.5 will live on as the basis of Windows Phone Starter Edition. We'd already heard some whispers to that effect, but now it's been confirmed by ZDNet 's Mary Jo Foley, who got some answers about the stripped-down mobile OS directly from Redmond.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: congress, microsoft, windows mobile 6, windows phone starter, windowsphone, winmo6, year, zdnet
Fonera SIMPL aims to ease 3G overload, give smartphones a better way to upload
If you've never heard of Fon , its mission is pretty simple: to equip the world with Fonera routers, and thus blanket the planet in WiFi that no one is scared to share. Over at Mobile World Congress this week, the company unveiled a new device that exploits the impending bandwidth crisis that operators all over the globe are attempting to deal with.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: congress, engadget, fonera simpl, impending, minute, over-at-mobile, result, showcase, wifi, wlan, world
Adéu, Barcelona: MWC 2010 draws to a close
For the industry, the press, and phone geeks alike, the GSMA's Mobile World Congress in the lovely Catalonian capital of Barcelona is the biggest event of the year -- and apart from a few unplanned power outages at Engadget's home base, an average nightly rest hovering around three hours, and unseasonably cold weather, 2010's gathering didn't disappoint. Let's take a quick look back at some of the highlights: Windows Phone 7 Series coverage Windows Phone 7 Series: that's the name Live from Microsoft's Windows Phone press event at MWC 2010 Windows Phone 7 Series hands-on and impressions (updated with video) Editorial: Engadget on Windows Phone 7 Series Windows Phone 7 Series: everything you ever wanted to know Liveblogs Live from Samsung's 2010 MWC press event Live from Sony Ericsson's MWC 2010 press conference Live from Nokia's (and Intel's) MWC 2010 press event Live from Microsoft's Windows Phone press event at MWC 2010 Live from HTC's MWC 2010 press event Live from Eric Schmidt's keynote at MWC 2010 Hands-ons Aava Mobile's Intel Moorestown prototype hands-on Acer Liquid e, beTouch E110 / E400, and neoTouch P300 / P400 hands-on Alcatel OT-980 with Android hands-on, we feel frugal just looking at it Bug Labs' BUGbase 2.0 prototype hands-on Chumby prototype with Marvell innards spotted at MWC 2010 Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M10 and A50 hands-on General Mobile's Touch Stone: how can something so wrong be so right?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, htc Tags: congress, e400, engadget, ericsson, htc, intel, microsoft, mobile, moorestown, motorola-quench, mwc, mwc2010, weather, world
Opera Mini on iPhone is fast, but why?
We came, we saw, and we're still scratching our heads over what Opera is up to with its Mobile World Congress demonstration of its Opera Mini browser running on the iPhone 3GS.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: congress, mobile, mobile-world-congress, mobileworldcongress, money, opera, opera-mini, performance, safari, speculation
Live from Eric Schmidt’s keynote at MWC 2010
We've just been ushered into the rather gigantic Auditorium 1 of Hall 5 at Mobile World Congress 2010 where we're awaiting none other than Google chief Eric Schmidt to take the stage. What's in store -- Buzz news?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: buzz, congress, ericschmidt, mobile, mwc, mwc 2010, schmidt
HTC HD mini launched at MWC
It seems mini versions of larger and pricier sets that still deliver the goods have become de rigeur amongst hardware manufacturers at MWC in 2010. Enter HTC's HD mini, a scaled down version of the beefy HTC HD2 with a 3.2-inch HVGA display for customers who want all the joys that device delivers without the need to actually use the beast itself -- or find somewhere to store it. The housing design is typical HTC beautiful, but in a very unique departure, the fasteners used to hold the device together are exposed and become part of its style
Categories: Mobile Phone, htc Tags: congress, design, hd mini, htc, mobile, Versions, windows mobile 6.5.3, winmo 6.5.3
Acer launches neoTouch P300 / P400, beTouch E110 / E400 smartphones
If you thought the (admittedly weak) Liquid e was all Acer had in store for Mobile World Congress, you'd be badly mistaken. We've got a foursome of other smartphones on tap, so we won't waste any time breaking 'em down. Up first is the neoTouch P300 and neoTouch P400, each of which ship with Windows Mobile 6.5.3
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: admittedly-weak, betouch e400, congress, indicator, may-bound-p400, message, mobile-world, mwc 2010, neotouch p400, neotouchp300, p300, smartphone, windows, windowsmobile
Windows Phone 7 Series is official, and Microsoft is playing to win
Windows Phone 7 Series.
Categories: Mobile Phone, htc Tags: barcelona, breaking-news, congress, holidays, microsoft, windows-mobile, windows-phone, windowsphone, zune
Engadget is live from MWC 2010!
That's right, we just arrived in Barcelona fattened up on airline food and as rested as 8 hours of recirculated oxygen consumed at a 30-degree incline can provide. Weary? No way, we're staring Mobile World Congress 2010 in the face, and if you're a smartphone nerd (and really, what modern gadget fan isn't?) then this is the event that will reveal our future handheld device purchases
Categories: Mobile Phone, htc Tags: airline, congress, debut, engadget, htc, incline, mobile, mwc 2010, nerd, press-events, sony, the-industry, windows-mobile
Intel to be part of Nokia’s MWC press conference — a new Booklet, or something more?
Well, this is interesting -- Intel just sent us an invitation to Nokia's press event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. We're told that the two companies will update us on the "latest developments" from their relatively new relationship , before Nokia launches into its solo presser directly afterwards. That could mean pretty much anything from a ho-hum Atom N450 refresh of the Booklet 3G to a fire-breathing Moorestown Maemo 5 phone , so we're obviously extremely curious to see what goes down -- our money is on the more conservative side of things, since we're thinking Intel just wants to have a presence at MWC, but we do love to be surprised.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: congress, intel, invitation, mobile-world, mwc, presence, presence-at-mwc, press-conference, something-more