Posts Tagged ‘Windows Mobile’

Handango’s Champions

October 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Mobile games and apps portal Handango announced the winners of their 2009 Champion Awards last week. They have been announced for the platforms Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile;

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Adobe Extends Flash (Nearly) Everywhere

October 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | 1 Comment »

At their developer conference today, Adobe will be announcing that it's Flash Player will be inserted in a range of mobile browsers. It outlined plans for all devices except iPhone OS (what's new on that?).

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Windows Marketplace to Launch on 6.x in November

October 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | 1 Comment »

Microsoft has announced that users of Windows 6.0 and 6.1 will be enjoying the launch of Windows Marketplace sooner then expected. They will see it enabled along November.

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Ballmer “We screwed up with Windows Mobile”

September 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has acknowledged that Microsoft has failed with their strategy on Winodws Mobile. Toward investors he admitted that Windows Phone (Mobile 7) should have been out there already.

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Graphics Booster for HTC Phones Revealed

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Dutch developer ChainFire has released version 1.2 of it's GfxBoost tool for HTC smartphones. Though the app does cash in on CPU resources, it manages to boost the quality of 2D graphics.

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Samsung to Open Their App Store next Month

September 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

On Oktober 14th, Samsung will finally be opening up their App Store on which they have been accepting submissions since July. The store will not be serving the total Samsung consumer base though.

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Acer Plans App Store

August 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Acer has only just joined the smartphone market and already it is announcing that it will be releasing an App Store for it's Windows Mobile and probably even upcoming Android devices.

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Microsoft Claims WindowsPhone.nl

August 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | 1 Comment »

It seems the branding Windows Mobile to Windows Phone has already been started by Microsoft as the Redwood giant has started a claim for WindowsPhone.nl, a domain owned by a hobbyist.

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MS Publishes iPhone Porting Study

August 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

In the hope to transfer the App Store success to Windows Mobile, Microsoft released a case study about how an iPhone app can be ported to a suite of various Windows Mobile 6.5 devices.

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Microsoft Considers Rebranding Windows Mobile

July 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Though it is far from official, there are a lot of rumours flying around on the web about Microsoft's plans to possibly rebrand Windows Mobile 6.5 to Windows Phone.