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New Windows Mobile 7 Screenshots Show Zune Integration, Decent UI

These purported Windows Mobile 7 screenshots shows the app Marketplace, an IM application and apparently, Zune integration, going with what Ballmy said about Zune as a service. Not too shabby, if these are real. [WMPoweruser] https://gizmodo.com/steve-ballmer-on-zunes-future-i-won-t-say-full-steam-5180712

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 27

Microsoft SkyBox 2.0 Will Let You Change Your Phone’s Ringtones, Backgrounds and Apps Remotely

Mary Jo Foley’s got the roadmap for Microsoft’s MobileMe-like Skybox service for mobile phones over the next year or so. Skybox 1.0 and 1.5 are standard syncing services, but 2.0 sounds incredible. Skybox 1.0 will go into beta later this month and be free, thanks to ads on its web port. As we’d heard earlier,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 3

Motorola CEO Says Windows Mobile 7’s Not Coming ‘Til 2010

To help lighten the mood a bit after revealing their fourth-quarter $3.6 billion bloodbath, Motoroloa CEO Sanjay Jha revealed that we likely won’t see Windows Mobile 7 until 2010 at the earliest. We’ve seen lots of Win-Mo 7 dates floated; most recently, the “early 2009” projection was more realistically hedged to the “second half” of…

Tech News John Mahoney Feb 3

Early Windows Mobile 6.5 Leak Hints at New Interface, Zune Integration

We took a look at the early Windows Mobile 6.5 build for the old HTC Blue Angel handset that was leaked yesterday. There’s not a whole lot to see yet, but here’s what matters: https://gizmodo.com/windows-mobile-6-5-may-launch-q3-2009-beta-roms-leaked-5136325 There is a new interface! Sort of! The typical 6.1 home screen is still present at times, but there appears…

Tech News John Herrman Jan 22

Fighting Reality, Microsoft Will Keep Charging for Windows Mobile

One of the reasons you’re going to see Android on a ton of phones—aside from Google’s juggernautical influence—isn’t because of its ass-beating potential, but because hardware makers don’t have to pay anything for it. They do have to pay for Windows Mobile, the other major free-floating smartphone OS, on the other hand, and Steve Ballmer…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 30

Windows Mobile 7 Delayed Half a Year

Microsoft has informed their investors that Windows Mobile 7, formerly slated for early 2009, would be pushed back for a release sometime in late (second half) 2009. Microsoft did not comment as to any specific reasons for the setback, but it’s hard to see the Android launch timing as a complete coincidence (though maybe it…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 23

Motorola Alexander Cellphone Spy Shot: It Doesn’t Look Like a Savior

It has been a few months since we first heard about the upcoming “Alexander” phone from Motorola-a release that was considered a do-or-die for the company. BGR has managed to snag a spy shot of the phone that clearly shows a Windows Mobile platform running (listed at 6.1 but may be 7) as opposed to…

Tech News Sean Fallon Aug 5

Windows Mobile 7 May Power Mini Laptops, Says Qualcomm

Qualcomm displayed a 3G, $299 mini-laptop today made by Inventec that is supposedly designed to run Windows Mobile 7 in the future (it runs Linux now). Windows Mobile 7, which supports Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset, will in turn make the company more competitive in the mini-laptop space processor that’s currently being dominated by Intel, AMD and…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 2

Rumor: MWg to Launch Windows Mobile 7 Device This Year

One fun rumor bopping around the phone sites is that MWg, the smartphone maker previously known as O2 Asia, will be rolling out a Windows Mobile 7 phone in the fourth quarter of 2008, specifically the Flame II shown above. That’s about a year earlier than we last heard. Everyone sounds skeptical, but you never…

Tech News Wilson Rothman May 11

Windows Mobile 7 Could Be Too Little Too Late, But Might Come On Microsoft Hardware

You may not remember this because the news came out during CES, but back in January there was a gigantic leak of Windows Mobile 7 details, including an Alaskan Senator’s dump truck full of images. Brandon from Pocket Now recently got to SEE Windows Mobile 7 at a Microsoft MVP event, and while he thinks…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 17

Windows Mobile 7 Details Leaked – Multi-touch, Motion Gestures

InsideMicrosoft just got a gigantic scoop of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 7, due to be released in 2009. This isn’t Windows Mobile 6.1—which we’ve seen leaks of recently—but the next full version of Windows Mobile that fixes a bunch of problems we’ve seen with the platform. The huge changes are multi-touch gestures (including flicking, swiping and…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 6

What’s Wrong With Windows Mobile and How WM7 and WM8 Are Going to Fix It

Click to viewWe just got the scoop from Microsoft on Windows Mobile 7 and Windows Mobile 8, the two upcoming platforms that will fix what is undeniably broken about the Windows Mobile platform to date. This was originally going to be a piece about how Microsoft had no idea what the consumer wanted, where I…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 14

Windows Mobile Successor Launching Early 2008

Shown at the Mobius Conference in Amsterdam, the next version of Windows Mobile will be “an update rather than an upgrade.” This means that it’s not Windows Mobile 7/Photon, which would be a huge leap in functionality, but more along the lines of the transition of WM5 to WM6. Most of the stuff The Unwired…

Gadgets Jason Chen Nov 29

New Windows Mobile 7 Screenshots Show Zune Integration, Decent UI

Microsoft SkyBox 2.0 Will Let You Change Your Phone’s Ringtones, Backgrounds and Apps Remotely

Motorola CEO Says Windows Mobile 7’s Not Coming ‘Til 2010

Early Windows Mobile 6.5 Leak Hints at New Interface, Zune Integration

Fighting Reality, Microsoft Will Keep Charging for Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile 7 Delayed Half a Year

Motorola Alexander Cellphone Spy Shot: It Doesn’t Look Like a Savior

Windows Mobile 7 May Power Mini Laptops, Says Qualcomm

Rumor: MWg to Launch Windows Mobile 7 Device This Year

Windows Mobile 7 Could Be Too Little Too Late, But Might Come On Microsoft Hardware

Windows Mobile 7 Details Leaked – Multi-touch, Motion Gestures

What’s Wrong With Windows Mobile and How WM7 and WM8 Are Going to Fix It

Windows Mobile Successor Launching Early 2008

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