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MobileViews Mini-Podcast 6: Skype 3.0 Beta for Windows Mobile Sound Check
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Skype just released Skype 3.0 Beta for Windows Mobile. I tested it on an HTC TyTn (touch screen) running Windows Mobile 6 to check the sound quality. You can listen to a brief sample I recorded in the podcast embedded here.

– 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.
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March 24, 2009
Microsoft Backstage at MED Blog: Top 5 Windows Mobile Twitter Apps
The Microsoft MSDN Backstage at MED blog IDs the…

Top 5 Windows Mobile Twitter Apps

Actually, as the blog admits, these are the only five Twitter apps (plus a homescreen plugin) for WiMo they know of (me too for that matter). The apps are:

1. TinyTwitter
2. Pocketwit
3. Twobile
4. CETwit
5. Twitula

…and the home screen plugin

– Twit Today
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March 22, 2009
Windows Mobile 6.5 Honeycomb Interface Loses Its Outlines.
Note: This video requires Microsoft Silverlight to be installed on your PC or Mac

According to ars technica…

Feedback causes changes to Windows Mobile 6.5 honeycomb UI

But, hmm, it looks like the only change is that the outlines around the icons in the Windows Mobile 6.5 honeycomb menu has been removed. That’s a start, I guess. But, I think the whole honeycomb design should go. A simple easy to navigate straight row-column matrix would be much better and allow more icons per screen.
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March 22, 2009
Widgets for Windows Mobile 6.5
My friend Ed Hansberry wrote an interesting item for Information Week…

What’s New For Developers In Windows Mobile 6.5? Widgets!

Microsoft’s Widgets for Windows Mobile 6.5 looks a lot like Nokia’s S60 Webkits and Palm’s webOS for their upcoming Pre. All provide the ability for web developers to use their skills to develop mobile apps.
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March 19, 2009
Nokia & Windows Mobile Flagship Smartphone Products?
This is a rebuttal to my MobileDevicesToday.com blogging partner’s comment that Nokia and Windows Mobile does not have flagship products.

Nokia has both current & future flagship phones. Their current flagship phone is the N96 although I’ve noted Nokia product experts (I don’t consider myself one of those) sometimes note they prefer the older N95. Their soon-to-be released N97 (with QWERTY keyboard) will be their 2009 flagship product when it is released in a few months. Microsoft Windows Mobile doesn’t have a flagship product because they do not make phones. For Microsoft to designate one of their many manufacturer’s models as a “flagship” model would alienate their other hardware partners. That said, there are several Windows Mobile smartphones such as the HTC Touch Pro, Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, or Pantech Matrix Pro that might be considered flagships.

Originally posted as a comment by Todd Ogasawara on mediabistro.com: MobileDevicesToday using Disqus.
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March 11, 2009
Windows Mobile MVPs & Microsoft Team Rock Out at the MVP 2009 Summit
Microsoft MVPs Helio (singing) and Rocko (in the giant beaver costume) rock out with Microsoft’s Constance (cat) and John (octopus) in Seattle’s Experience Music Project (EMP) during the Microsoft MVP Summit 2009 party on Tuesday night (March 3). A good mobile time was had by all. 🙂
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March 5, 2009