Keepin’ it real fake: Verizon-branded Droid X ditches Android for Windows Mobile 6.5 (video)
No matter how many we see, we never cease to be amazed by some of the KIRFs out there. Take this Droid X, for instance, which doesn't even bother with a name like "Motorolo Foid X," and even goes so far as to include some legitimate-looking Verizon branding to back up its nearly spot-on appearance
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, check-it-out, engadget, kicker, kirf, motorolo-foid, result, verizon, windows-mobile, windowsmobile6.5
Keepin’ it real fake: EVO 4G Shanzai edition
Shameless isn't even the word for it. While some companies try to get away with calling themselves Nokla or BlockBerry , these Chinese KIRFers have no qualms about copying HTC's EVO 4G in its entirety (externally, anyhow). Yes, that includes the Sprint insignia and the promise of 4G, both of which are, of course, amusingly untrue.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: camera, chinese, gravy, htc, imitator, insignia, jobs, kirf, Paste, result, rides-the-winmo, shanzai, sprint, windowsmobile6.5
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
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
Bing turn-by-turn navigation for Windows Mobile gets taken for a test drive
Microsoft certainly added all the right features to its Bing navigation app for Windows Mobile , but does it actually deliver the goods in real world use? It does according to the folks at PocketNow , who have put the app through its paces and kindly provided a quick demo video of it running on an HTC HD2. While there's nothing too shocking or surprising, it looks like the voice input works well, and the turn-by-turn directions seem to be at least up to par with your average navigation device -- it even has a few nice touches like being able to tap on the screen to repeat the instructions.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: bing navigation, entry, gps, hd2, htc, instructions, keenan, kindly-provided, like-the-voice, paces, video, windowsmobile6.5, world
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
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
HTC HD2 and Windows Phone 7 Series: Just tell us no, Microsoft
Dear Microsoft, We've had it up here with these shenanigans. You're jerking us around, and we're sick of it.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: bar, editorial, microsoft, much-the-best, plea, result, sameness, Season, windows, windows-mobile, windowsmobile, windowsmobile6.5, windowsphone7
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