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No iPhone competitor from Microsoft
In an interview this week as CES, Bill Gates stated that Microsoft will not be launching a device to compete with Apple's iPhone. Many have speculated that Microsoft would jump intothe music phone market just as it jumped into the music player market with the Zine to compete with the iPod. “In the so-called smart…
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The Shift Lives, Not Yet Released
From various news reports from the lucky people that were able to get passes to the 2008 CES Show in Vegas, we've been able to put together some information about the HTC Shift. It sounds like HTC wants to change the positioning of the shift away from a UMPC, since technicaly it is a mini…
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HTC S720 now the Verizon announces SMT5800
It seems like there's quite a bit of news coming out of CES of Vegas, but not much for HTC and their mobile partners. The only bit of news we were able to dig up is that Verizon has launched the HTC S720 as the Verizon SMT5800. Not sure what they had to add more…
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First images of Windows Mobile 7!
CES is in full swing this week in Vegas, but not all big news seems to make it there some times. It seems like new details on the new windows Mobile Operating System have surfaced, along with some great pictures of how Windows Mobile 7 will be changing its platform. Some of the highlights from…
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Alltel Picks up the HTC Touch
It was bound to happen again. After a few weeks of silence, another cell phone carrier has broken down and added the HTC Touch to their cell phone mix. Alltel has just announced they will be offering the CDMA version of the HTC Touch on their network. Rumor on the street is that Alltel will release…
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Hands on review of PointUI
After a day or so of using PointUI, it only seems fair to give the public a first assessment of the software. PointUI is by far one of the easiest and intuitive new user interface programs for Windows Mobile. At first glance, it does resemble the iPhone’s interface, but once you give into things you…
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Smartphone marketshare war of 2008: iPhone vs. Windows Mobile vs. BlackBerry
It seems like 2007 has been a year of great progress and setbacks for Windows Mobile devices. At the start of the year, Windows Mobile devices were in a solid second place in the smartphone market in the U.S. unfortunately things changed a little when Apple launched the iPhone half way through the year. With…