Oct 27

HTC HD2 fulfills its unboxing obligations on video

Posted in: HTC, smartphone, Today's Chili, unboxing, video, windows mobile 6.5, windows phone, WindowsMobile6.5, WindowsPhone

You’ve already seen the HD2 that HTC would have you see, but now it’s time to take the obligatory journey to the world of unboxings. Seen here in “not-yet-final” packaging, the WinMo 6.5-packin’ handset looks sexier than ever, even in that still-to-be-tweaked green box. Hop on past the break and mash play if you’re looking to get all sorts of jealous this morning.

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HTC HD2 fulfills its unboxing obligations on video originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 22

HTC’s HD2 continues to impress, reveals multi-touch web browsing

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HTC's HD2 continues to impress, reveals multi-touch web browsing

We’ve seen plenty about HTC’s hot HD2, gone hands-on and sized it up next to everyone’s most/least favorite smartphone, but there’s one thing we haven’t seen yet: multi-touch in IE. The video embedded below from Techblog.gr is in a language you may not quite understand, but certainly everyone can grok the snappy UI performance and the pinch zooming demonstrated at the 2:20 mark. It does look a wee bit unresponsive at this point, but HTC still has time to make things perfect before releasing it here — though to be honest we’d rather just have it now.

[Via WMPoweruser.com]

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HTC’s HD2 continues to impress, reveals multi-touch web browsing originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 20

Acer neoTouch S200 reviewed, not recommended

Posted in: cellphone, cellphones, phone, snapdragon, Today's Chili, Windows Mobile, windows mobile 6.5, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6.5

After what seemed like a full lifetime of waiting, Acer’s recently-launched neoTouch S200 is finally making its way into some reviewing hands. The fine young cannibals over at Phone Arena have just given it the head to toe treatment, and we have to say, we’re glad they’ve done the dirty work for us. This WinMo 6.5 handset, according to their impressions, seems to be a not fully baked affair — sluggishness and random crashing are both reported, as is a rather serious sounding call quality issue. The battery also seems to be inadequate for a workday, coming in at around five hours. Overall, the phone suffers from software optimization problems more than hardware issues. The one ray of light in all this is of course that 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, which can multitask and handle several things at once without flinching — but it’s rather hard to get pumped about it in the face of all that sadness. Hit the read link for the full, exhaustive review.

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Acer neoTouch S200 reviewed, not recommended originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 19

HTC Tilt2 now available on AT&T

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Those looking for a slightly more QWERTY-equipped WinMo 6.5 device for AT&T than the HTC Pure need look no further than its stablemate, the Tilt2, now that it’s officially available to all comers. The carrier’s second model to use Microsoft’s latest and greatest cut of Windows Mobile stays pretty true to its Touch Pro2 roots, offering an industrial-strength full duplex speakerphone, 3.2 megapixel cam, WVGA tilt-up display, and of course, that five-row QWERTY keyboard that makes banging out long emails and extended MMS tirades just a little more tolerable. Interest parties should come bearing gifts and plenty of cash, because it’ll run $349.99 on contract before a $50 mail-in rebate.

[Via PhoneDog]

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HTC Tilt2 now available on AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 14

HTC HD2 turns up in purported T-Mobile USA materials

Posted in: HTC, rumor, t-mobile, Today's Chili, Windows Mobile, windows mobile 6.5, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6.5

We’ve already had some indication that HTC’s take on Windows Mobile 6.5, the HD2, would be headed to T-Mobile UK, and heard straight from HTC itself that the phone would indeed be headed to the US in next year, but it looks like we may now have one more key piece of the puzzle. If that slide pictured above is authentic as it’s purported to be, it looks like the smartphone will be heading to none other than T-Mobile USA, and presumably sometime in that “early 2010” period HTC mentioned. Of course, this slide noticeably doesn’t make mention of Windows Mobile at all, so the phone in question could also conceivably be HTC’s rumored Android-based Dragon handset — or… not.

[Via Brighthand]

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HTC HD2 turns up in purported T-Mobile USA materials originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 14

Switched On: Microsoft’s touchy subjects

Posted in: column, Features, Microsoft, switched on, SwitchedOn, tablet pc, TabletPc, Today's Chili, touch, touchscreen, windows 7, Windows Mobile, windows mobile 6.5, windows phone, Windows7, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6.5, WindowsPhone, zune, zune hd, ZuneHd

Ross Rubin (@rossrubin) contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

As CEO of Microsoft, Bill Gates would often talk about his dream of “information at your fingertips.” The company he co-founded, though, is now taking literal steps toward that goal. By the end of the month, Microsoft will have released three new devices or platforms that embrace or extend touchscreen support — but the impact touch will have on each varies significantly by their legacy, usage, and manufacturers.

Windows has long had touchscreen support. Such support, in fact, was the basis of the Tablet Edition of Windows XP, and Tablet PCs were proclaimed to be the future of notebooks. Early iterations were larger and thicker keyboard-lacking slates much like the new Archos 9pctablet. But this was before rampant Web browsing, streaming video, casual games and electronic books — all of which now provide relevance for a new generation of touchscreen PCs as content-consumption devices.

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Switched On: Microsoft’s touchy subjects originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 13

HTC Touch Pro2 and Snap among first official WinMo 6.5 updates

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HTC promised way back at Mobile World Congress in February that the Touch Pro2 would be fully upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5 when the binaries went gold, and… well, here we are. Sure enough, they’re making good on the promise by rolling out official updates for both the Touch Pro2 and the Snap so far, though this is one of those situations where availability for your particular version of the phone is going to depend on carrier branding, locking, and the phase of the moon, among other things — so if the updates don’t work for you, you can wait for your carrier to get in gear or, you know, try your luck over with the always-helpful xda-developers to roll your own update.

[Via Smartphone Thoughts]

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HTC Touch Pro2 and Snap among first official WinMo 6.5 updates originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 11

Windows Phone commercial is confusing for a variety of reasons

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Okay, so we understand Microsoft is trying hard to rebrand Windows Mobile as Windows Phone with the launch of WinMo 6.5, but this commercial — labeled with AT&T logos in the US but also running unlabeled worldwide — doesn’t seem to do a good job of pointing out that Windows Phone is a platform and not a device. In fact, if we didn’t know better, we’d think that the HTC Pure is, in fact, the “Windows Phone” — even though the dude in the spot is holding a totally different generic device. See how that could be weird for people? It’s almost confusing enough to distract from the jubilant anthropomorphic app icons in tights. Video after the break.

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Windows Phone commercial is confusing for a variety of reasons originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 11

HTC’s HD2 gets sized up to the competition

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

We’ve already seen (and written) plenty on the HD2, and we’ve enjoyed our initial experiences with the device — but now someone has finally sized up the massive, Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone with its touchscreen contemporaries… and the differences are downright shocking. Just take a look at this beast next to Apple’s iPod touch (above) or the company’s own Hero — the displays on the older devices seem dwarfed by the HD2’s 4.3-inch, 800 x 480 WVGA screen. There are lots of other revealing pictures in the writeup, but it’s the side-by-side shots that seem most telling to us — this is certainly the direction we’re headed in for mobile devices. Hit the read link and take a full look for yourself.

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HTC’s HD2 gets sized up to the competition originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 10

Samsung’s WinMo 6.5-powered Armani smartphone gets previewed

Posted in: Fashion, pics, pictures, preview, qwerty, samsung, smartphone, steve ballmer, Today's Chili, Windows Mobile, windows mobile 6.5, windows phone, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6.5, WindowsPhone

Got a cool grand to drop on a Windows Phone? Oh, yeah? Then have a gander at Samsung’s latest fashion piece, the Armani-branded M7500. The cool cats over at PhoneArena managed to get their paws around a unit, and as predicted, they didn’t hesitate to bust out the camera and give us all a good look. They also took the chance to give us a brief overview of how the handset handled, calling it “bulky even for a WinMo smartphone,” though praising the high-res display and well-spaced keyboard. Feel free to hit the read link if you’re interested in more, but don’t be shocked to hear more than a little criticism.

[Via MobileTechWorld, thanks Arnaud]

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Samsung’s WinMo 6.5-powered Armani smartphone gets previewed originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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