HTC HD Mini review
We had to exercise our neglected patience muscle with this one, but at long last we've gotten ahold of a real live HD Mini and put it through its paces. Equipped with the same processor, screen size and resolution as HTC's Legend , but running the HD2 's Windows Mobile 6.5.3 under a WinMo-specific Sense skin, the Mini is in many ways an amalgamation of its two better known cousins. You'll no doubt be aware that we weren't too displeased by either of those handsets, so what you must be wondering now is whether or not splicing them into one eminently pocketable package delivers an equally compelling device
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: better-known, hd2, htcsense, too-displeased, windows, windows-mobile, windowsmobile6.5.3, winmo 6.5
HTC HD mini with North American 3G gets FCC approval?
So, hear us out: this isn't a slam dunk by any stretch of the imagination, but we've good reason to believe that we're looking at the FCC ID label of the HTC HD mini variant designed to support North American 3G bands. The most obvious reason is the fact that the label is screaming yellow -- a perfect match for the chartreuse internals of the device that HTC was excited to show off at its MWC introduction a couple months back. What's more, this approval comes a few weeks after approval of the Euro-spec PB92100 with a similarly-designed label, which would've been the right time frame for a phone that's due to ship across Europe any day now.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: approval, att, chartreuse, eas, fcc, hd mini, result, windows mobile 6.5.3, windowsmobile6.5.3, wm6.5.3
T-Mobile goes official with HTC HD2 launch details: March 24th for $200
We've heard it all before , but it's always nice to get a modicum of legitimacy from a primary source. T-Mobile has now officially announced the release details for the HTC HD2 -- you know, that phone whose cool factor has dropped a few Mega Fonzies since we confirmed once and for all it wasn't getting a Windows Phone 7 upgrade
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: always-nice, entry, goes-official, hd2, htc, legitimacy, release, windows, windows-phone, windowsmobile6.5.3
Acer Liquid e, beTouch E110 / E400, and neoTouch P300 / P400 hands-on
Acer took MWC rather seriously this year with no fewer than five phone intros to its name spanning the range from Android to Windows Mobile 6.5.3 , so we went ahead and put our hands on all of them today. Starting at the bottom of the range, the lowly beTouch E110 is obviously designed to compete head-to-head with the likes of the HTC Tattoo -- in fact, it apes the Tattoo's design pretty closely in some respects. Unlike Acer's higher-end Android phones, the E110 uses a custom skin that seems pretty well-suited for its QVGA resolution, and it's still managing 3.6Mbps HSDPA in your choice of 900 / 2100 and 850 / 1900 flavors for different areas of the world.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: audiences, e400, htc, mwc2010, reasonable-way, result, touch-e110, windows-mobile, windowsmobile6.5.3
Garmin-Asus nuvifone M10 offers Windows Mobile 6.5.3 with an obsession for navigation
Garmin-Asus phones, they're like buses aren't they -- you wait for ages to get one, then two come along at the same time. Seeking to sate as many mobile OS appetites as possible, the partner company has quickly followed up its A50 Android handset with this here M10, sporting Microsoft's latest Windows Mobile build. As only the second WinMo 6.5.3 device around, the M10 is as up to date as you can get on the software front, though earlier word of a slightly dated 600MHz Qualcomm MSM 7227 CPU will douse some enthusiasm on the hardware side.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: asus, breakingnews, gps, mwc, mwc2010, nuvifone, result, smartphone, windowsmobile6.5.3
Garmin-Asus taking wraps off first Android gear, M10 WinMo phone at MWC
It might be happening a little later than they'd originally hoped , but Garmin -- through its partnership in Garmin-Asus -- should finally be unveiling some Android-based phones pretty shortly in an effort to kickstart the firm's weak showing thus far in the dog-eat-dog handset world. The VP of the mobile device business over at ASUS is talking up the joint venture's 2010 plans this week, saying that it'll show its first Android product at MWC next month with the hope of striking a pretty even balance between Android and WinMo shipments in the long term (no mention of the G60's proprietary platform, interestingly). What's more, they want to push a solid million units this year, and they'll be looking to reach that goal by building somewhere between 4 and 5 models -- at least one of which is likely destined for T-Mobile USA , as far as we can tell
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: asus, balance, device, device-business, entry, m10, mwc, proprietary, showing-the-m10, windows mobile 6.5.3, windows-mobile, windowsmobile, windowsmobile6.5.3, wraps
Windows Mobile 6.6 (aka ‘not Windows Mobile 7′) set for February release?
The sometimes-believable, sometimes-not fellows over at DigiTimes are reporting today that Windows Mobile codename "Maldives" is going to break out as version 6.6 (a name we'd previously heard associated with version 7) with native support for capacitive touchscreens next month -- a launch window that would line up nicely with Mobile World Congress, where 6.5 was announced a year prior. HTC's HD2 has already proven that it's possible to cleanly support capacitive touch on a 6.x-based device, so it's reasonable to think that this is legit -- but what we don't yet know is how this dovetails with 6.5.3 , whether they're the same thing, and if Microsoft is doing this simply to buy itself a few precious extra months to bake WinMo 7 to a crispy, golden brown perfection.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: cleanly-support, dovetails, entry, fellows, microsoft, mobile, mobile-world, the-marketplace, windows mobile 6.5.3, windows mobile 6.6, windows-mobile, windowsmobile6.5.3, winmo6.5.3, wm6.6, world