Sep 16

AT&T, Sprint, Verizon all signed up for WinMo 6.5 launches on October 6

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Microsoft is saying that three of the US’ big four carriers — AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon, to be specific — will be hitting the ground running with Windows Mobile 6.5 as part of its synchronized global launch on October 6. We’ve got to give Microsoft some credit on this one: launching a single device around the world on the same day is a feat in itself, but coordinating with countless manufacturers and carriers to get them to launch a bunch of different devices on the same day takes things to an entirely different level. Unfortunately, that’s about all we know; hardware hasn’t been unveiled, though we can safely guess that HTC will figure into the equation one way or another — and we wouldn’t be surprised to see something like LG’s 20-key GW600 finally bow. What’s everyone hoping to see out of these guys on day one?

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AT&T, Sprint, Verizon all signed up for WinMo 6.5 launches on October 6 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 02

Official: XPERIA X2 launching Q4, Windows Mobile 6.5 onboard (video)

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If you’ve been waiting with bated breath for some real news on the XPERIA X2, wait no longer. News has just broken that the re-styled, gutted refresh of Sony Ericsson’s popular (and expensive) X1 is due to hit “selected markets” in Q4. According to a post on SE’s Xperiancers blog, the company is in talks with various carries right now, and will be detailing the plans in the coming weeks. Additionally, the blog delivers some info on the device itself, calling out its 8.1 megapixel camera, inclusion of a standard 4GB microSD card, and 13 pre-loaded “panels” in its reworked Windows Mobile skin (which appears to have a new SDK for the forthcoming OS update). Oh, and speaking of Windows Mobile, it’ll be shipping with 6.5 onboard. To learn much, much more, check the two videos after the break. We’ll also be grabbing an up close and personal hands-on with the device in a few moments, so keep your inter-set tuned to the Engadget channel.

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Official: XPERIA X2 launching Q4, Windows Mobile 6.5 onboard (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 02

HTC Touch2 launching October 6th with Windows Mobile 6.5

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Hey, HTC — pull up a chair. Listen, we admire your tenacity and all, but did you realize that both Nokia World and IFA kicked off today? Cool, just making sure. Now that we’re past that, we’d like to introduce you (as in, the audience) to one of the world’s first “Windows phones,” the Touch2. Packing a full touchscreen and an all-too-familiar design (remember the HTC Mega?), this here smartphone will launch with Windows Mobile 6.5, the outfit’s TouchFLO interface, Microsoft Exchange support, a redesigned Internet Explorer Mobile and the new My Phone service to back up and sync photos, music, contacts and text messages for free from the Touch2 to the web. There’s no word on exact pricing and availability, but it’ll be available somewhere in this wide world October 6th, with broad availability in Europe and select Asian markets promised for early Q4.

[Via TechRadar]

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HTC Touch2 launching October 6th with Windows Mobile 6.5 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 23

HTC Mega materializes again, brings along spec list

Posted in: hspa, HTC, leak, leaks, rumor, rumors, Today's Chili, windows mobile 6.5, WindowsMobile6.5
HTC’s Mega certainly isn’t the most exciting of the company’s upcoming products to leak lately, but it’s looking likely that it’ll have one of the nicer price tags on it for a Window Mobile 6.5 device. Another screenshot has surfaced that matches up with one we saw earlier and shows off more of the sides and back. Along with it comes a new list of specs — not too shabby, but nothing too exciting, either. According to ai.rs blog, it has WCDMA/HSPA and quad-band GSM support, a 3.2 megapixel camera, microSD slot, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, AGPS, and still the 2.8-inch QVGA screen and 528MHz Qualcomm processor we heard about previously. If you’re already playing with the Mega’s TouchFLO 2D-infused ROM, consider this supplementary material for getting a more thorough idea of what the actual phone will look like when it does come out — whenever that is.

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HTC Mega materializes again, brings along spec list originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 20

Microsoft tells WinMo devs they’re beautiful, worth more than 99 cents

Posted in: Microsoft, Today's Chili, Windows Mobile, windows mobile 6.5, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6.5, winmo

For many (if not most) iPhone developers, the App Store’s overheated competition and bloated inventory have led to scorched-earth pricing that makes it virtually impossible to parlay mobile development into a valid for-profit business model without turning to subscriptions or in-app advertising. RIM’s tried to nip that behavior in the bud by capping the minimum sale price at $2.99, and it sounds like Microsoft feels the same way in light of the flowery, motivational language being thrown the way of developers at learning sessions ahead of the Marketplace’s launch. “I know, 99 cents is interesting — yes, consumers like to pay 99 cents for applications,” admits Microsoft’s Loke Uei, “but 99 cents, come on, I think your app is worth more than that.” You heard it straight from the horse’s mouth, people — your app is worth more than that. Ultimately, Uei says the goal is to set the bench higher by keeping low-quality apps out of the Marketplace, but to start out and beef up, they might consider taking all the crap they can get and worrying about stroking devs’ egos after the fact. If the store’s client app makes it easy enough to browse, search, and get to best-of-breed content, this point should be moot anyhow.

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Microsoft tells WinMo devs they’re beautiful, worth more than 99 cents originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 19

Windows Mobile 6.5 ‘touch interface’ update in February to coexist with WinMo 7?

Posted in: rumor, Today's Chili, Windows Mobile, windows mobile 6.5, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6.5, winmo

The evidence that Windows Mobile 6.5 could soon be moving beyond the stylus to gather finger-friendly, multi-touch, capacitive screens into its long, loving arms has been mounting with the leak of the HTC Leo ROM and TouchFlo 3D 2.6. Such a move would quickly put Microsoft back on track to compete with the iPhone and Android devices like the HTC Hero. Now DigiTimes, based on sourced information from Taiwanese handset makers, is reporting a “touch interface” version of Windows Mobile 6.5 set for release in February 2010 — an upgrade to the initial Windows Mobile 6.5 launch expected on October 1st. However, instead of phasing out Windows Mobile 6.5 with the Q4 2010 launch of Windows Mobile 7, DigiTimes asserts that Microsoft will lower the price of WinMo 6.5 to compete against open-source Android devices while positioning WinMo 7 to go head-to-head with the iPhone. In other words, Microsoft appears to be adopting a dual-platform mobile strategy like we’ve heard before, regardless of Steve Ballmer’s recent grandstanding against Google’s dual-platform approach.

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Windows Mobile 6.5 ‘touch interface’ update in February to coexist with WinMo 7? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 17

Latest HTC Leo render seemingly confirmed by leaked ROM

Posted in: HTC, leak, rom, Today's Chili, Windows Mobile, windows mobile 6.5, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6.5, winmo

Remember those weird “Pro.Three”-branded Leo renders that leaked a few days ago? The ones that seemed improbable at best? Well, a ROM appears to have dripped out of the HTC sieve recently that miraculously confirms those renders as having some basis in reality, thanks to an animated start sequence that matches up pretty tightly with the previous leak. We can’t confirm the Pro.Three name specifically from this, but if the Leo turns out to be the WinMo superphone everyone’s hoping it is, does the name really matter? Follow the break for a video of the ROM in action (on a Touch Diamond2, sadly — not a Leo).

[Via MobileTechWorld and pocketnow.com, thanks Casimir]

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Latest HTC Leo render seemingly confirmed by leaked ROM originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 14

HTC Leo rendered again — maybe by HTC, more likely by fans

Posted in: HTC, Today's Chili, Windows Mobile, windows mobile 6.5, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6.5, winmo

So here’s what we know about the Leo with some certainty: it’s going to be awesomely high-end. Other than that, though, the sky’s the limit; no spec is too wild, no physical design too outlandish until we actually get some official information (or at least some really solid leaks). We wouldn’t call these latest renders “solid” by any stretch — in fact, we’re willing to bet it’s the result of a daydreamer with some graphic design background — but we want to believe, especially since the front is basically consistent with what we’ve seen previously. Imagine a rounded-off Touch HD with WinMo 6.5, a 1GHz Snapdragon, and a 5 megapixel cam accompanied by two high-output LEDs. We love the stylish “Pro.Three” branding (and we guess we’re going to forgive the “lorem ipsum” gibberish beneath it since this is a rough, unbranded render), but there are a few holes in this story: for one, we still don’t know how this dovetails with Firestone; two, the Touch Pro2 just came out, so we’re not sure why they’d release a device with the conflicting “Pro.Three” name so soon thereafter, particularly in a different form factor; and three, this might make more sense as one of HTC’s inaugural WinMo 7 devices. Given the rumored pie-in-the-sky October availability date, we’ll get this sorted out soon enough.

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HTC Leo rendered again — maybe by HTC, more likely by fans originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 10

WinMo 6.5 build 23022 caught on video, in all its finger-friendly glory

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It’s been a hot minute since we first laid eyes on those WinMo screen grabs featuring big ol’ buttons at the bottom of the display — signaling, we hoped, an all-around effort to minimize stylus use in the mobile OS — and now we have a video for you that seems to further make the case. While WinMo 6.5 build 23022 is still pretty clumsy, those finger-friendly (well, at least, “finger-friendlier,” or maybe “not as finger-hostile”) buttons grace the bottom of the display, and there is an iPhone-esque magnifying glass option for zooming in on and editing text. Technical details for this build are available at the read link — but first, make sure you peep the thing in action at the break.

[Via SlashGear]

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WinMo 6.5 build 23022 caught on video, in all its finger-friendly glory originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 07

Verizon’s HTC Whitestone leaks out, along with the HTC Mega and Tachi

Posted in: HTC, leak, leaks, rumor, rumors, Today's Chili, verizon, Windows Mobile, windows mobile 6.5, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6.5, winmo

We’ve been hearing about Verizon’s upcoming HTC Whitestone for a while now, and it looks like a new pic and specs for the upcoming dual-mode CDMA / GSM Touch Diamond2 variant have leaked out. Seems like a mixed bag — the revised case with a larger 3.6-inch WVGA display is impressive, but inside you’re looking at Windows Mobile 6.1 running on a 528MHz Qualcomm processor with 256MB of RAM, so you’ve certainly lived through this experience before. That’s pretty much the same case with the HTC Mega, which also leaked today: although it’ll ship with WinMo 6.5 and that hot new version of TouchFLO 2D, it’s a lower-end device with a 2.8-inch QVGA display, a three megapixel camera and yet another 528MHz Qualcomm proc with 256MB of RAM running the show. Oh, and just to round things out, there’s a pic of the Dopod-branded HTC Tachi, which probably means this one’s headed for China. Always nice to put a face to a name, though isn’t it? Pics of the Mega and Tachi at the read link.

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Verizon’s HTC Whitestone leaks out, along with the HTC Mega and Tachi originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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