Tag: windows mobile
Earlier this week we heard about the new i-Mate Ultimate range - a group of high-end phones with different form factors to suit your needs. We i-Mate 5150 but mobilmania.sk have managed to grab a look at the bigger i-Mate 7150, with Windows Mobile 6, ...
Remember that un-named BenQ-Siemens phone we saw earlier this week ? Well, it's called the BenQ-Siemens E72 and it'll run Windows Mobile 6 Standard (Smartphone) and has triband GPRS/EDGE connectivity. You can also expect a TI OMAP 1030 CPU running at ...
Following "4.5 Beta 2", which has been around for a few months, Microsoft have now release ActiveSync 4.5. If you want your Windows Mobile and PC to get hooked up you'll need this (or Windows Mobile Device Center if you're Vista'd). The changes in Act...
Rememeber that Toshiba G900 we mentioned earlier this week ? Well, as we stated earlier it's got W-VGA screen, which means an excellent resolution, and AkihabaraNews.com have bagged some photos of the QWERTY-slider in action. Running Windows Mobile 6...
Arne over at the theUnwired is down at 3GSM and has managed to get a hands-on with the Orange SPV E650 / HTC s710. This is one phone we're really looking forward to - the combination of both QWERTY and numeric keyboard sounds like a winner plus it …
Have you tried our forum yet ? If not, give it a bash, there's stacks of people all ready to help out and we never sell or distribute your email address! Pickett has just posted this item because he's managed to get his grubby mitts on an Orange …
This whole Windows Mobile 6 thing is great, but you may be feeling a little lost with details, features and extras being mentioned all over the web. Wouldn't it be great if there was some sort of video, say about 9 minutes and 16 seconds long, that wo...
At this time of year you will no doubt have seen many people driving along with TomTom satnav units stuck to their windscreens. It's all very nice but it can be a little expensive, so imagine my surprise when the guys at smart2go said, "Hey, we do a …
Last week we ran a story showing a video battle between Windows Mobile and the iPhone. In the end Windows Mobile was declared the winner, but wait - what was that funky widget thing ? It looked almost as if Yahoo! widgets or Vista had fell onto a …
One device missing from the HTC Press Release but now showing as "new" on their site here is the HTC P3400. It's got a fairly standard spec for those who "just want a PDA thing". Windows Mobile 5.0 is at the helm and you'll find a 2 megapixel …
The commercial arm of HTC here in Europe have today announced the launch of three new handsets. They will be familiar but welcome additions for regular readers - the HTC X7500 (Advantage), HTC S710 and the HTC P3350. All of these handsets will be avai...
Viewing Office documents on Windows Mobile Smartphones is easy - you just use ClearVue right? Sure, but what if you want to edit those documents? Ooooo... tricky.. Documents To Go is the first and only mobile office editor for Windows Mobile 5.0 Smar...
Hey, this is a fun day isn't it? Windows Mobile handsets everywhere ! Now Microsoft themselves are keen to add the icing on the cake with the launch of Windows Mobile Live. It brings Live Mail, Live Search, Space and Live Messenger and should be appea...
Earlier today we heard the official launch of Windows Mobile 6. In the press release an "Orange SPV E650 Smartphone" was mentioned. Hmm.. What was this mystery handset? Well, we pointed our fat finger straight at the HTC Vox. Further evidence to suppo...
Just to keep you updated on the whole Orange SPV M700 situation we've had word from our reporter Dan Watson who states that there are about 400 of these phones due to arrive in Orange Retail shops this week. Dan says... "There are over 300 stores, so ...
Here's the i-Mate JAQ 4 alongside one of their new "Ultimate" handsets - the i-Mate Ultimate 5150. First up, the i-Mate JAQ 4, which comes with Microsoft Windows Mobile 6, GPS and get quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and WiFi 802.11b/g connectivity. It also pa...
i-Mate have been busy boys. Not only are they promising a Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for their JAQ3 device, but they've also found time to give a little colour to their Motorola SLVR-esque handsets. A choice of blue, pink and red SPL handsets will soon ...
Meet the new HP iPAQ 500 Series Voice Messenger Windows Mobile phone (yes, that is a long name isn't it?). Featuring Windows Mobile 6 and a massive 6 hours of continuous talk time, this phone also promotes hands-free operation with more than 20 voice ...
This Smartphone has just popped up over at SmartphoneThoughts.com. To be honest we're not quite sure what this is and there's very little information at present as BenQ-Siemens seemed to have done a fantastic job keeping it under wraps. The black peb...
The second of Toshiba's recently announced phones is the Portégé G900. It has a classic Pocket PC-style form factor with a full QWERTY slider similar to devices from HTC. This handset, unlike the G500, gets the full Windows Mobile 6 treatment and sh...
Toshiba have now officially announced their two new Windows Mobile handsets. The first one is called the Toshiba Portégé G500 and has a slide-down numeric keypad. Toshiba have crammed in stacks of goodies including fingerprint technology to protect ...
So it's official - Windows Mobile 6 has been announced. Wait, what's that buried in the press release? "In Europe, Orange plans to deliver the SPV E650 smartphone from HTC, and in Japan, SoftBank Mobile Corp. will offer new devices from Toshiba and ...
To most people the idea of "push email" is quickly dismissed when they read the weighty Microsoft documentation about it. I've had so many people tell me... "Why isn't it as quick to setup as the BlackBerry my mate has? I don't want to setup an Exchan...
The next version of Windows Mobile is coming and you've probably seen more leaks than a broken pipe. Here it is, we've got screenshots of the new OS plus information ahead of the 3GSM conference. Why announce this so early ? Well, a certain French pub...
Mike Shire has just emailed to remind me of an excellent piece of software called True Connect. We last covered this when it was at version 1.1, however it's now at version 2.0 and 2.1 is right around the corner to provide text messaging integration w...
We're getting to like HTC, their viral advertisements are a little mental and we're now totally converted when it comes to the new HTC X7500. It is, as Megachip and CD-ROM say, a lot smaller than we thought. Here they are during their mission steal an...
Astarware.com have announced their new game, Hammer Heads. You'll probably have already played this game for real in the local arcade. You know the sort of thing - the gnomes pop up and up bash them on the head as quick as you can. Available now for t...
We've got more hot news about the upcoming Orange SPV M700 handset. We can now pretty much confirm that the SPV M700 does have GPS on the latest ROM and AKU3 is included. Orange SatNav runs on it and AGPS is on too, although the network doesn't suppor...
Remember the story we did yesterday on the upcoming Orange SPV E600 (aka the HTC Excalibur) ? We exclusively revealed that Orange will be picking up this handset and offering it very soon in Europe. Well, now we can go one better with an exclusive pic...
Yet more information coming in about future Orange handsets. I've just received a second email confirming that the Orange SPV M700 will have satnav at launch on Orange UK and will come with a new trial called Orange Maps. Also, the HTC S310 we told yo...
Having a Windows Mobile Phone can be confusing enough. If your mates ask you, "What phone do you have?", you'll usually end up saying something like, "It's an Orange SPV C600 Smartphone" Their eyes will probably glaze over and you'll spend the next 10...
A lot of people have recently done stories about Google Maps Mobile so I thought I'd give it a try. I installed it by browsing to www.google.com/gmm on my Windows Mobile phone and installing the CAB. It's so simple to use and there's a bag of options ...
Last night I was chatting with a mate about what software he had installed on his QTek 9000 (which, by the way, looks to have been removed by
We've been waiting a while for the this new 3G Windows Mobile handset. We've done story after story after story after story about the Orange SPV M700, pictured right. Finally, though, it's moved from the "coming soon" section of Orange catalogues to t...
Orange recently launched the SPV C100 in Romania. It's an Orange branded version of the HTC Oxygen. Here it is with all the Orange gubbins. OK, now forget all that, because things have gone a little weird. The commercial arm of HTC sell this the HTC S...
If you're lucky enough to have a decent enough graphics card, plenty of memory and a copy of Windows Vista then you'll know that the whole ActiveSync experience has changed. With Vista your mobile device is recognised the minute you plug it into the U...
The Orange SPV M700 has now popped up on the "Coming Soon" section of their site. The suspense is palpable, and we've been hounding it since September. The old "will it, won't it have GPS" rumours seem to have been settled now (we think), as the specs...
More shots of the interesting HTC Vox can be seen here at moblog.com.sg. Besides the fantastic pairing of numeric and slide-out keyboard it's also got Windows Mobile 6 on board, complete with Office Mobile, Windows Live, PDF viewers and more. Designed...
Although I'm back in the UK my head isn't entirely sure where I am, so I figured that I'd check out GPSGate.com. It's a GPS mapping portal which lets friends share their live location with other personally approved "buddies". The GPSGate people say it...
The T-Mobile Dash has been available in the USA for quite a while now, so it's good to see that it'll soon be available back in Europe as the T-Mobile MDA Mail. Made by HTC, it's known as the HTC Excalibur and comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, …
