Microsoft prepares WinMoDevCamp events for WM developers
While being busy working with Nokia to bring Office Mobile to Symbian, Microsoft is also getting closer to launch Windows Mobile 6.5.
To lure as many developers as possible, the Redmond company has set up the Windows Mobile Developer Camp, which is a series of future “not-for-profit gatherings to develop applications for the upcoming release of [...]
Nokia, Microsoft sign deal to bring Office Mobile to Symbian smartphones
Nokia and Microsoft have just announced an agreement that will – as expected – bring Microsoft Office Mobile to Nokia’s Symbian smartphones.
Office Mobile (including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote) will be first available for the Nokia Eseries handsets (apparently starting 2010), with more S60 smartphones to get it afterwards.
The alliance will also see Nokia bringing [...]
Nokia, Microsoft to announce alliance tomorrow, possibly related to MS Office
Microsoft and Nokia aren’t exactly the best pals in the world, so it comes as a surprise the fact that, tomorrow, the two giant companies will be announcing some sort of alliance.
According to CNET, the deal is about Microsoft’s Office suite, which is might become available to Nokia’s Symbian smartphones.
Speculating a bit, Microsoft and Nokia [...]
Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23022 demoed on video
A new build of Windows Mobile 6.5 has been recently previewed on video, few days after several screenshots of its have appeared over at the xda-developers forum.
This Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23022 has some new features and it seems to be tweaked for use with capacitive touchscreen displays (hence those that don’t need a stylus).
For [...]
Microsoft confirms multi-touch, designates WM7 to high-end, while keeping WM 6.5 for mass market
If you into Windows Mobile devices, you’ve probably already seen the video walkthrough of the final build of Windows Mobile OS, posted by Inquirer.
While the new build, icons, UI tweaks and services like MyPhone and QR tags look nice, you may have missed the important bit of news that Microsoft rep let slip about future [...]
Windows Marketplace opens for submissions on July 27; WM 6.0 and 6.1 will be supported
July 27 is the date when Microsoft will open its Windows Marketplace for submissions in 29 countries – meaning that app developers will finally be able to present the apps that they’d like to be included in the Marketplace.
This will prepare Windows Marketplace for its launch – sometime in the fall of 2009, at the [...]
Microsoft selects agency to create ad campaign for the WM7 Pink phone
It looks like that rumored Microsoft Pink phone is a real device after all.
According to AdWeek, McCann’s T.A.G. ad agency was selected by Microsoft to create a marketing campaign for the Pink phone.
“Pink” is only a codename for the moment, but it’s said that the device behind this codename will feature Windows Mobile 7, high-end [...]
XPPhone hybrid device actually runs on Windows XP
A rather unknown company called In Technology Group (ITG) has just unveiled the XPPhone, a combination between a MID and a cell phone that runs on Windows XP.
Presented as a “pocketable mobile internet terminal”, the XPPhone has a generous 4.8 inch TFT touchscreen display with 800 x 480 pixels, and a sliding QWERTY keyboard.
The [...]
Windows Mobile 6.5 is now complete, “looks really good”
Microsoft has just announced, via its developers’ Twitter account, that Windows Mobile 6.5 is finally complete and every bit of it is functional.
According to the WM developers team, the 6.5 OS “looks really good” – and that’s not a surprise, since we’ve seen quite a few images of it.
Of course, we still have to wait [...]
No new Zune device in June after all
Earlier today, we’ve reported about a possible Zune device that would be released in June this year to compete with the iPhone and the Palm Pre.
The info was based on two twitter posts which turned out to come from an account that actually has nothing to do with Microsoft. Instead, it’s an account of an [...]