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Category: Windows Mobile

Microsoft Windows Mobile Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, and Smartphone

  • Blast from the Podcast Past: Podcast 11 – Conversation with Evernote CEO Phil Libin

    Every now and then, I re-push an old-ish podcast that I think people might have missed and be interested in. I just listened to last week’s Net@Nite podcast #98 in which hosts Leo LaPorte and Amber MacArthur speak with Evernote CEO Phil Libin. I’m a huge fan of Evernote. I have Evernote clients installed on Windows, Mac OS X, Windows Mobile and the iPhone. And, its web interface gets used a lot by me too. So, if you missed it the first time around, I’ve embedded my conversation with Evernote CEO Phil Libin from earlier this year (January 30, 2009). You can find MobileViews.com Podcast (then called MobileAppsToday Podcast) #11 embedded above. You can also download it from the iTunes Store.

    – You can listen to the podcast right now from your web browser by using the embedded player above.
    – You can also subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or this RSS feed.
    – You can also point your smartphone’s browser at mobiletoday.podbean.com to listen to or download the MP3 file over the air to your phone.

  • T-Mobile Dash 3G Available on July 1?

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    Photo fragment courtesy of TmoNews

    If you look at the photo of the T-Mobile product information sheet on TmoNews…

    Visual Voicemail Coming!

    …you’ll note that the T-Mobile Dash 3G (which presumably replaces my personal favorite Windows Mobile non-touch screen smartphone – the T-Mobile Dash) has a launch date of July 1. I have to admit that I’m torn between buying the Dash 3G and the TouchPro2 (Windows Mobile touchscreen device). I guess I have a month or two before I need to make that decision.

  • Windows Live Hotmail Web Beta Up and Running

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    You wouldn’t think one Microsoft press release that is supposed to be about developers participating in their new app store would be so full of other news…

    Microsoft Gains Support for Next Generation of Windows® Phones

    But, it is… The same press release also mentioned that the beta version of the Windows Live Hotmail web site (note the return of the Hotmail branding!) is up and running at…

    m.mail.live.com

    You can see a screenshot of my boring Hotmail inbox above.

  • The Return of the Windows Mobile Theme Generator!

    It was interesting to read about the return of the theme generator for Windows Mobile buried near the end of the press release about developers involved with the launch of the new Windows Marketplace for Mobile…

    Microsoft Gains Support for Next Generation of Windows® Phones

    In addition, the new Theme Generator will provide people with yet another way to personalize their Windows® phone. The Theme Generator, available at http://www.windowsmobile.com later this year, will enable Windows® phone users to select pictures from their PC to set as background images, as well as choose colors to personalize their navigation bar, scroll bar and highlighted text. Once finished, their personal theme will be sent to their phone.

    Themes were one of the hot items when it first appeared for the Pocket PC years ago. In fact, I found it so much fun, I wrote a little Windows Mobile app to help people calculate how to properly crop or shrink a photo to fit in the Today screen and Start Menu drop-down.

  • Mostly Familiar Firms Signed up for Microsoft Windows Marketplace for Mobile

    It’s good to see a lot of familiar high quality Windows Mobile app developers signed up for the upcoming Windows Marketplace for Mobile (say that 5 times fast!). The press release…

    Microsoft Gains Support for Next Generation of Windows® Phones

    …is kind of hard on the eyes (at least mine). So, here’s an easier to read version of the list of initial developers signed up:

    AccuWeather.com
    The Associated Press
    CNBC
    Developer One Mobile Software
    EA Mobile
    Facebook
    Gameloft
    Glu Mobile
    Handmark
    Ilium Software Inc.
    Jeyo Inc.
    Kinoma
    LiteScape
    Magmic Games
    Melodis Corp.
    MySpace
    Namco Networks
    Netflix
    Pandora
    PhatWare Corp.
    Resco s.r.o.
    ShoZu Inc.
    Sling Media Inc.
    SBSH Mobile Software
    Spb Software
    Web Information Solutions Inc. (aka WebIS)
    Zagat Survey

  • Windows Mobile Marketplace News at CTIA This Week

    OK, I actually don’t know if the Windows Mobile Marketplace (or Windows Phone Marketplace or whatever it will be called) will actually be announced at CTIA this week. However, this blog post by Microsoft’s Loke Uei Tan…

    Oh and about the Marketplace thing…

    …which simply says…

    Good news coming soon. 🙂
    follow @wmdev for updates.

    …seems to indicate this is the case.