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: Mobile Phone, htc 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: Mobile Phone, htc Tags: entry, hd2, kirf, the-meantime, these-puppies, windows mobile 6.5, windows-mobile, windowsmobile6.5
Switched On: Revamps in Motion
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On , a column about consumer technology.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: bbos6, BlackBerry, blackberryos6, iphone, open, phone, reputation, result, ross, switched on, webos, windows-mobile
Microsoft Kin: everything you ever wanted to know
For as long as Windows Mobile 6.x overstayed its welcome, Microsoft seems to be doing what it can to launch a full-out assault on the mobile battlefield -- first with Windows Phone 7 , and now less than a month later with Kin . As we were reminded ad nauseam at the unveiling, the pair of devices -- dubbed Kin One and Kin Two -- aren't for the tech enthusiasts in the crowd, but rather for a younger audience Microsoft is calling "generation upload." That's apparently a group whose life is focused around capturing memories and updating Facebook, without any care or concern whatsoever for apps. Will Microsoft's gamble for control of the feature phone market prove successful
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: facebook, kin, kin loop, kinstudio, long-as-windows, memories, microsoft, microsoft kin two, phone, shareing, windows, windows-mobile
Day in the Life: Kin-less
If you were near an internet display terminal yesterday, you might've tragically stumbled upon one of Microsoft's Kin promo videos. Sure, the product might be slightly condescending to its supposed target market, but the promotional videos are outright MTV-gone-bad, full of hipster shorthand and fake "reality" bits
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, facial, girlfriends, mementos, microsoftkin, product, target, windows-mobile
T-Mobile offering up to $350 off an HD2 in exchange for your iPhone, soul
HTC's HD2 is the hottest piece of WinMo of the moment, and ever since it got the nod for an (unofficial) update to Windows Phone 7 it's been looking all the more tasty. Now it's getting more affordable too -- if you happen to have an iPhone you're willing to give up. T-Mobile appears to be running a promotion at certain locations through May 19 that would give between $100 and $350 off of a new HD2 for anyone trading in a working handset.
Categories: Mobile Phone, htc Tags: affordable-too, engadget, entry, hd2, hottest, htc, iphone, snag-yourself, train, windows-mobile, windows-phone
Qi Smartbook U2000 gets WinMo 6.5 upgrade, retains its wide berth
When dealing with Chinese products that have yet to cross the pond (and are unlikely ever to), you spend a lot of time looking at translated docs, trying to figure out what the hell it is exactly they're trying to pitch to you.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cellphones, entry, its-successor, q1gi, qi smartbook, qismartbook, result, unlikely-ever, windows, windows-mobile, windowsmobile6.5
LookTel’s ‘artificial vision’ makes Windows Mobile useful to blind people (video)
There's a surprising abundance of tech geared toward helping out people with visual impairments, but you won't find too many smartphones populating that sphere of electronics. Aiming to reverse this trend, LookTel is in the Beta stage of developing so-called artificial vision software that combines a Windows Mobile handset with a PC BaseStation to provide object and text recognition, voice labeling, easy accessibility and remote assistance. It can be used, much like the Intel Reader , to scan text and read it back to you using OCR, and its camera allows it to identify objects based on pre-tagged images you've uploaded to your PC
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: allows-someone, blind, engadget, handicapped, handset, images, impairments, ocr, phone, provide-object, video, visual, voice-labeling, windows-mobile, windowsmobile
Entelligence: Mobile multitasking is mostly a myth
Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he'll explore where our industry is and where it's going -- on both micro and macro levels -- with the unique wit and insight only he can provide.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: coffee, engadget, handsets, mobile, platform, result, smartphones, windows phone 7 series, windows-mobile
Mozilla halts Firefox development for Windows Mobile, won’t offer it on Windows Phone 7 without NDK
Color us resolutely unsurprised at the news that devs are starting to abandon the Windows Mobile platform in favor of, well, longer-lived opportunities.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: architecture, awesome-browser, engadget, fennec, mozilla-firefox, native development kit, well-positioned, windows-mobile, windowsmobile