Verizon rolls out FiOS on Demand app for Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile
There's still no word on that promised, live TV-enabled iPad app , but Verizon has just rolled out its FiOS on Demand app for Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile 6.5, which will let you buy, rent and watch so-called Flex View movies right on your phone. As we'd heard earlier, the number of officially supported devices is somewhat limited to start with --- including the Droid X, Droid 2, and Storm 2, to name a couple -- but Verizon notes that the list is expanding, and to check back often.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, fios, fiosondemandapp, flexview, phone, result, verizon, windows mobile 6.5, windowsmobile
Kin skin for Windows Mobile 6.5 leads to more questions than answers
How would we like to replace the UI on our Windows Mobile 6.5 phone with the Kin UI? Well, we never really thought about it, we suppose...
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: carnage, cold, Distance, fri, kin, mobile, more-questions, rather-enjoy, safe, video, windows, windows mobile 6.5, windows-mobile, windowsmobile6.5, winmo 6.5
iPhone 4 vs. the smartphone elite: EVO 4G, N8, Pre Plus, and HD2
We know how the iPhone 4 sizes up against the aging 3GS -- but how does it fare against its fiercest competitors from all the major platforms? We wish we had some production Windows Phone 7 kit to check out here, but in the meantime, take a look at the results against the gruesome foursome of the EVO 4G , N8 , Pre Plus , and HD2 . You might be surprised by some of the results -- and sorry, RIM, you don't get to play until you bring some fresh, media-heavy hardware to the table.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: att, BlackBerry, foursome, ios4, iphone4, platforms, pre plus, smartphone, taleofthetape, the-results, webos, windows mobile 6.5, windowsmobile, windowsphone7, winmo6.5
LG Fathom VS750 review
Falling somewhere between the flash of the Chocolate and no-frills, no surprises industrial design of the recently launched Ally , LG has outed the Fathom (aka VS750 ) with little fanfare. Featuring a mercifully unadorned WinMo 6.5.3 (save for wallpaper, pictured above, designed by a certain Vera Wang), a 1GHz CPU, quad band GSM, and a handful of AC adapters for charging all over Europe and the UK, this is a device clearly meant to go global.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: chocolate, europe, feature, flash, friend-via, handful, lgvs750, wallpaper, will-it-capture, windows mobile 6.5, windows-mobile, windowsmobile6.5, windowsmobileclassic
Current T-Mobile customers having hard time upgrading to HTC HD2
First, the good news: T-Mobile's HD2 is in stock online and apparently at many corporate-owned retail locations.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: entry, htc, Locations, mobile, phone, result, stock-online, tactic, windows mobile 6.5, windows-mobile, windowsmobile6.5, winmo 6.5
Keepin’ it real fake: HTC HD, too
If you're going to rip off one of the more memorable Windows Mobile devices ever made, you'd think you'd want to at least clone its most notable feature -- but seriously, what do we know about the KIRF business? Yeah, well, this little number manufactured by a firm doing business as "iHTC" (no relation to HTC, we're sure) looks an awful lot like the HD2 , but lacks that all-important 4.3-inch display, instead trading down for a more pedestrian 3.6-inch unit
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: entry, hd2, kirf, the-meantime, these-puppies, windows mobile 6.5, windows-mobile, windowsmobile6.5
Samsung Exec launched for US Cellular, suggests WinMo ain’t dead yet
You probably won't hear Microsoft lauding this thing too much -- it's got bigger fish to fry at the moment -- but Samsung and US Cellular have just teamed up to launch the i225 Exec, a simple Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard-based smartphone with a portrait QWERTY keyboard. It's got a 2 megapixel camera and microSD expansion up to 32GB (assuming you can actually track down a 32GB SanDisk card ), but otherwise, this is about as straightforward and basic as a modern smartphone can get -- no frills, just straight-up touchscreen-free legacy WinMo action. It's available right now for $99.95 on a new two-year contract after $70 rebate
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget-mobile, entry, exec, jsp, microsoft, mobile, phones, qwerty, result, sch-i225, uscellular, windows mobile 6.5, winmo 6.5, wm6.5
Toshiba K01 goes official as IS02 in Japan
Talk about a globetrotter. Toshiba's K01 has made the journey from the American FCC to a Japanese carrier in the space of just one day. AU , part of the KDDI group and one of Japan's big three network operators, has picked up the phone and promptly renamed it the IS02
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: amoled, cutting, is02, its-brandmate, japan, journey, kddiau, official, toshiba, windows mobile 6.5, windowsmobile
VS750 confirms LG’s love for WinMo Classic, starts torrid new affair with Verizon
Sure, all the talk lately is about Windows Phone 7 Series and all the things it can and can't do . But, in the months between now and its release, companies still have to make money, and so LG has turned to Windows Mobile Classic 6.5 to drive its VS750
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: Adapters, europe, Love, qwerty, resistive, sports, vs750, windows mobile 6.5, windowsmobile, windowsmobileclassic, windowsmobileclassic6.5
Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 upgrades will be possible, up to OEMs to make them happen
Alright, keep your socks on here, this is as noncommittal a statement as Redmond can make on the matter, but when asked directly about the likelihood and possibility of Windows Mobile 6.5 phones being transitioned to the new hotness that is Windows Phone 7 Series , Microsoft's Alex Reeve had this to say: It's early days yet, and that's really for our hardware partners to think about. As the Director of the company's UK Mobile Business Group, he's well positioned to know what's going to happen after said early days, and it's encouraging to hear that at least Microsoft won't be putting up any barriers to that HD2 upgrade we're all dreaming about. After all, the Chassis 1 specs we keep hearing about tend to sound an awful lot like HTC's 1GHz Snapdragon-powered bad self, so let's keep our fingers crossed and our minds open
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: director, entry, Fingers, group, hotness, htc, mobile, mobile-business, windows, windows mobile 6.5, windows-phone, windowsmobile6.5, windowsphone7series