Aaron Woodman, Director for Consumer Experiences for Windows Mobile, will be available the week of March 23rd to take questions on anything related to your consumer experiences with Windows phones. Post your questions over at the Facebook discussion board here.
Aaron may not be able to answer every question—and he won’t be giving away any deep trade secrets—but he has a wealth of fascinating knowledge to share so get your question posted there now.
We mentioned last week how Microsoft had dropped the honeycomb layout of the new program launcher in Windows Mobile 6.5. Well Brandon over at Pocketnow has flashed up his HTC Touch HD with a new build from xda-developers and sure enough the honeycomb has gone. Also worth mentioning is that the UI is starting to look a little more polished. Take a look for yourself after the break.
After nearly a year of availability around the world, AT&T is finally done with its pre-release testing and will begin selling the Nokia E71x this week. A Scheduled release date of March 24th puts America only one day away from the official carrier release of the best business device that has ever come out of Finland. The E71x is basically the same as the E71, and features GPS, HSDPA, a front facing qwerty keyboard in a slim and sexy package. At $200 dollars this is a little pricey, but if you are in the market for a business device and don’t want a Blackberry, this is the phone for you. Let’s just hope AT&T didn’t cripple all the great features.
Source: Boy Genius Report
Telefónica and Vodafone, two of the world’s largest telecommunications operators, today announce a wide-ranging strategic programme to share mobile network assets across selected European operations.
As part of the collaboration, Telefónica and Vodafone are actively exploring opportunities to cooperate in related areas such as the provision of transmission services.
Telefónica and Vodafone will use the agreements to aid the roll out of their respective networks, enhancing service quality for customers in the longer term. The agreements will also reduce the environmental impact of both companies’ roll out activities, due to the consolidation of existing sites and joint build of new sites.
Just spotted this story over at wmexperts and as this device was and still is for that matter my favourite Windows Mobile device it is worth sharing. The video is not the best quality and for some reason it is filmed with the phone on its side so its quite hard to watch. There is also a thread over at xda you can follow too, but you can see it for yourself after the break.
Sony Ericsson, the world’s 4th biggest handset maker, has reported a titanic sales decrease of almost 50% in just a few months. This is a bad thing, you see.
Reuters slapped a scary headline on this story, but it couldn’t really be described as sensational. As much a terrifying portent of electronics companies’ coming year as it is an indicator of the company’s especially sorry state, this announcement is particularly gruesome when you consider that, unlike Palm, they don’t even have an escape plan in place, or even a substantive Smartphone line—one of the few areas that is expected
[Via Gizmodo]
Google have released a new dedicated Youtube client for Windows Mobile and the S60 platform. While the YouTube blog only said that the new Windows Mobile client is available now, it had forgotten to mention that – at the moment – it’s only available in English for Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK and USA. Thanks to the language detection if you try to download the client from another country, the download page says that the download isn’t available for your smartphone. Nevertheless, instead of pointing Internet Explorer Mobile to http://m.youtube.com go to http://m.google.com/youtube/download?hl=en allows to download the YouTube client from anywhere. Furthermore it’s recommended to use Internet Explorer Mobile instead of Opera Mobile (if installed) to download the app.
[Source The Unwired]
Brandon over at Pocketnow has got his hands on a Mobinnova ICE and put it through it’s paces and kindly shared some videos of the hardware and software. In case you forgot, this is the Windows Mobile phone with the WQVGA touchscreen and a 96×96 OLED screen that acts as a D-Pad and system indicator. Take a look at the videos after the break and see what Brandon makes of this one.
O2 today announces that from April 3rd it will introduce a new 24 month tariff option for iPhone customers looking for added value in return for added commitment. Customers who sign up to the 24 month tariff can get the 8GB iPhone 3G for free at £34.26 per month and the 16GB iPhone 3G for free at £44.05 per month.
Customers who take out a 24 month contract will continue to receive all the benefits of an iPhone tariff, including visual voicemail, unlimited UK data and unlimited access to over 9,500 public Wi-Fi hotspots (provided by The Cloud and BT Openzone)*.
The 24 month iPhone 3G contract is only available at the £34.26 and £44.05 tariff points (see attached chart). The 18 month iPhone 3G tariffs remain unchanged. Visit www.o2.co.uk/iphone for full details of the 18 month tariff options.
“The iPhone has been hugely popular with over one million units sold in the UK,” said Peter Rampling, Marketing Director at Telefónica O2 UK. “This new 24 month tariff option will meet the demand of customers who are looking for added value in exchange for committing to a longer contract.”
The 24 month iPhone 3G tariff will be available through O2, Apple and Carphone Warehouse sales channels from 3rd April.
via Press Release
When Windows Mobile 6.5 was officially revealed last month at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2009 in Barcelona, it sported the honeycomb Start screen that users couldn’t quite agree on, even when early screenshots began to leak. Apparently, soon after Microsoft started dogfooding Windows Mobile 6.5 and related services internally last week, feedback coming from its employees started coming in, and it wasn’t very positive. This was apparently the final blow, because at MIX09 this week, it has come to light that Microsoft has acted on the negative comments and tweaked the honeycomb interface.
While the layout remains the same and the icons are in the exact same place, they have been enlarged and the actual honeycomb outline (hexagons around each icon) is gone. Furthermore, scrolling up or down no longer means going all the way to the top or all the way to the bottom: the second the finger leaves the screen, scrolling will stop.
The rather blurry screenshot above is actually two screencaps of a video which is filming Loke Uei Tan, Senior Technical Product Manager of the Mobile and Embedded Devices Group in Microsoft, as he uses the new interface during one of the 129 sessions at MIX09. This one was entitled "Windows Mobile 6.5 Overview," and before showing off the changes, Tan says in the video: "The middle screen is what we call the honeycomb interface. Well, this screenshot is a little bit old. We’ve got some feedback from the users that says ‘Hey, wait a minute, this honeycomb UI doesn’t work very well. Let’s change it a little bit.’ So I’ll show you what the new one looks like."
via ars technica
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