Mozilla's officially abandoning development of Firefox Mobile for Windows Mobile in the wake of the shiny—er, matte—future of Windows Phone 7. Which they're not latching onto, either, because there's no native SDK.
Verizon's Mobile Remote is an app for Windows Mobile and Android (though for the time being, just the Imagio and Droid) which lets you control your FiOS box locally over Wi-Fi, and share photos from your smartphone. While Verizon's promo video implies that it's a makeshift solution—"if you can't find your remote"—from…
Love that Skyfire can play any Flash videos, and optimize websites to load incredibly fast, but hate that it kind of looks like ass in the process? So does Skyfire! Which is why they've released version 1.5 for Windows Mobile.
Windows Mobile 6.5's dirtiest secret is that all the good bits—the Marketplace, My Phone—work on all 6.x phones. Marketplace for 6.0 and 6.1 is officially slated for December, but with a dead-simple trick, you can download it now.
According to a developer on XDA, the already slack copy protection for Windows Marketplace is a complete joke—with a "hunch" and five minutes, he was able to get around it, creating unlimited copies of paid apps.
You name it, we've got it: Sexy search tools! Google Voice! Upstart app stores! Maps, with stuff on them! Radio! Emulators, from the future! Fresh new browsers! It's all in a day's month's work for Windows Mobile.
The last few app store launches we've seen were plagued by the same problem: a dearth of stuff that's at all new, or that anyone, you know, wants. Microsoft's novel idea to avoid this same problem? Port some iPhone apps!
Microsoft's now accepting app submissions for the Windows Mobile Marketplace, so they can begin the grand process of certification, which should "normally take about 10 business days." Best part for devs is that they can actually monitor their apps' progress.
Step up your messaging, have fun with physics, watch some weird TV, find your car, call your friends, later incriminate said friends—it's all in a day's month's work for Windows Mobile.
Skype's finally dropped a brand new version of their app for Windows Mobile. Three dawt oh brings file sharing and SMS texting, for free. Weeeeeeeee. [Skype via jkontherun]
Good news if you're a Windows Mobile user and were feeling left out the Mozilla's Fennec mobile browser party. Today's Alpha 2 release should now work with most devices using the Windows Mobile 6 platform. (Support had initially been limited to the HTC Touch Pro and some other "VGA phones".)
In yet another one of our new mobile app roundups, we've taken a reckless swan dive into the vast, burbling ocean of Windows Mobile software. Mozilla's Fennec browser goes for a test run, VLC gets a remote, and more.
Cnet has a runthrough of the first official Facebook app for Windows Mobile—developed by Microsoft with Facebook—whose defining feature might be that it makes no real attempt to mimic the look and feel of Facebook.
You can now download Windows Mobile's first usable Facebook app, ripped from the latest WinMo 6.5 builds by the kindly Microsoft connoisseurs at XDA.
For the legions of helpless Windows Mobile users, the Pre is just the latest in an endless, corrosive barrage of ego-draining next-gen phones. But living with Windows Mobile doesn't have to be so bad.
