Posts Tagged ‘Windows Mobile 6.1’
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, Features, HTC, T-Mobile, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
Followers, fans, and casual observers of HTC alike all know that when the company launches a new landscape QWERTY model, it’s a big deal. In fact, it’s more than a big deal — it’s a Big Deal. Many describe it as the ultimate smartphone form factor, the perfect execution of everything a modern handset is capable of doing — and realistically, no company has as much experience or know-how at making powerhouse landscape QWERTY sliders than HTC does.
That’s why droves of subscribers on virtually every carrier are on the edge of their seats awaiting the Touch Pro2’s release. Whether you love, hate, or feel nothing but pure, unadulterated ambivalence toward Windows Mobile, it’s hard to argue that the Pro2 isn’t a gorgeous smartphone at a distance, and T-Mobile USA’s gently-tweaked version is no exception. Unless you’re desperate for SLR-quality photography (which you’re frankly not going to get regardless of what phone you buy), the spec sheet reads like a dream — an expansive 3.6-inch WVGA display, full QWERTY, tilt-up display, all the 3G and WiFi you could ever want, and HTC’s latest and greatest build of TouchFLO 3D constantly working to make sure that WinMo cleans up nice — but is it true love or just lipstick on a pig? Let’s have a look.
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T-Mobile Touch Pro2 review originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: accessories, battery, edge, handson, HTC, network, review, touch-pro2, touchpro2, windows, Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile 6.1
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Verizon Wireless, Windows Mobile
We’ve been hearing about Verizon’s upcoming HTC Whitestone for a while now, and it looks like a new pic and specs for the upcoming dual-mode CDMA / GSM Touch Diamond2 variant have leaked out. Seems like a mixed bag — the revised case with a larger 3.6-inch WVGA display is impressive, but inside you’re looking at Windows Mobile 6.1 running on a 528MHz Qualcomm processor with 256MB of RAM, so you’ve certainly lived through this experience before. That’s pretty much the same case with the HTC Mega, which also leaked today: although it’ll ship with WinMo 6.5 and that hot new version of TouchFLO 2D, it’s a lower-end device with a 2.8-inch QVGA display, a three megapixel camera and yet another 528MHz Qualcomm proc with 256MB of RAM running the show. Oh, and just to round things out, there’s a pic of the Dopod-branded HTC Tachi, which probably means this one’s headed for China. Always nice to put a face to a name, though isn’t it? Pics of the Mega and Tachi at the read link.
Verizon’s HTC Whitestone leaks out, along with the HTC Mega and Tachi originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: HTC, htc mega, htc whitestone, htcmega, rumors, whitestone, Windows Mobile 6.1, windowsmobile6.1, windowsmobile6.5
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Alltel, Sprint, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA, Android
We’ve been asked not to reveal the URLs, but we can assure you we’ve seen this official support screen pictured above with our own two eyes, which means that the HTC Hero is all but confirmed in a juicy CDMA blend for Sprint. How (or if) that’ll affect the availability of the US 3G version unlocked or on any carrier is unclear, but given Hesse’s huffy language regarding Pre exclusivity, we wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve got this one locked down for a while as well. We’ve seen a similar support page for an Alltel-branded Snap, so if you’re still tied up in one of the carrier’s legacy divested markets and you’ve been pining after the Snap (and Ozone) on Sprint and Verizon, fear not — your own version is on the way. We’ll admit, if you had asked us a few months back what American carrier would get HTC’s highest-end Android phone to date, Sprint wouldn’t have been our first guess — but hey, good for them. If you can’t win the coverage battle against the Big Red juggernaut, may as well try to win the exclusive hardware battle, right?
[Thanks, Adam]
HTC support site reveals Hero for Sprint, Snap for Alltel originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: accessories, Alltel, browser, CDMA, hero, messaging, network, snap, Windows Mobile 6.1, windowsmobile, windowsmobile6.1, WinMo, wm6.1
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPA
At a glance, Samsung’s recently-announced Omnia Pro B7610 seems like a sweet hunk of Windows Mobile love — especially if you’re cross-shopping it with the Touch Pro2 — but is there more than meets the eye? GSMArena recently put a prerelease unit through its paces, and it’s not a perfect situation by any stretch; first off, apparently not very pretty in the flesh, owing in part to its girth and in part to the weird red battery cover. The resistive touchscreen isn’t great and the OLED display washes out in sunlight (as they typically do), but on the plus side, the QWERTY keyboard is said to be stellar and it seems that Sammy’s done a great job of completely concealing WinMo 6.1’s sad, sagging skin with TouchWiz. In the final analysis, the site concludes that the phone easily matches the high bar set by the Touch Pro2 — strong words considering HTC’s market dominance and the fact that we’re still looking at a prototype Omnia Pro here, so this should get even more interesting.
Samsung’s Omnia Pro B7610 previewed originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Telus Mobility, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, EV-DO, CDMA
If you’re willing to peddle off three years of the prime of your life… well then, Canadians, Best Buy has an offer you simply can’t refuse. Telus has yet to release its version of the HTC Snap on its own accord, but that’s not stopping the big box retailer from doing its thing — and at CAD $29.99 (about $27) on a three-year contract, we’d venture to say that’s quite a steal for a WinMo smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard and global roaming capability. Anyone lining up at the registers right now for this one?
[Via MobileSyrup]
Best Buy Canada now selling Telus’ HTC Snap for way cheap originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: accessories, Best Buy, browser, canada, messaging, network, snap, telus, telus-mobility, Windows Mobile 6.1, WinMo
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPA
We’d been holding out hope that T-Mobile’s version of the HTC Touch Pro2 would materialize for customers in the month of July, but that’s looking less and less likely now that we have some awfully real-looking documentation that claims otherwise. TmoNews has nabbed some sort of slide suggesting that HTC’s latest AWS-equipped superphone won’t hit retail until August 12 (with upgrades not kicking in until 10AM PT the same day, amusingly), so it seems like we’ve got over a month to wait yet. Meanwhile, the myTouch 3G will launch — not to say it’s a competitor, really, but it’ll certainly be attracting some attention that this phone could be getting otherwise. Being fashionably late to the party isn’t fun for anyone, is it?
T-Mobile’s Touch Pro2 looks destined for August launch originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
Filed under: Software, Samsung, Verizon Wireless, Windows Mobile
We still think that the Saga is one of the better portrait QWERTY WinMo phones currently on the market — the optical mouse is awesome and global roaming is a more-than-welcome capability — and it’s only gotten better with the release of an official update from Samsung. The new build features Microsoft’s latest Windows Mobile 6.1 AKU (1.5.1, if you’re curious) and adds the capability to send MMS messages when you’re roaming on GPRS, but most importantly, it unlocks GPS so that third-party applications can take advantage of it. This is a trend that Verizon’s been pursuing full-force this year, and needless to say, it’s a welcome one.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Verizon’s Samsung Saga gets updated with new AKU and unlocked GPS originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: Apple, games, i770, Verizon, vzw, Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile 6.1, windowsmobile6.1, winmo6.1
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
While we twiddle our thumbs and wait for the Dash 3G and the Touch Pro2 to make their fanfare-laden debuts on good ol’ Number Four (that’s our pet name for T-Mobile USA, of course), literature is starting to show up that should make the wait marginally more bearable by giving us a few pretty pictures to look at and words to read. There’s nothing Earth-shattering in here, but we see that the Dash 3G has 256MB of ROM and an impressive rated 8.3 days of standby time — we’ll believe that when we get that kind of performance ourselves — while the Touch Pro2 moves up to 512MB, keeps the 8.3 days of standby, and touts its unusual full-duplex speakerphone that dominates the rear of the device. If you do a lot of conference calling, you must be beside yourself right about now, eh?
T-Mobile’s HTC Touch Pro2 and Dash 3G get spec’d originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: culture, edge, HSDPA, messaging, podcasts, touch, touchpro2, Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile 6.1
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Windows Mobile
We’re actually surprised we didn’t make the connection earlier, but word on the street today is the the rumored Samsung Omnia Pro will actually be a renamed Louvre B7610, a set’s which been popping up a lot lately. Makes a lot of sense — the Louvre’s 3.5-inch WVGA AMOLED screen, 800MHz processor, and 5.1 megapixel camera match up nicely with the Omnia line. It’s running Windows Mobile 6.1 right now, but we wouldn’t be too surprised if the rumored August release date is held back to September or October to coincide with WinMo 6.5. One more pic after the break, couple more at the read links.
[Via Unwired View]
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Samsung Omnia Pro to be the Louvre B7610? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Vodafone, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPA
“Regular” customers still have a bit of a wait yet, but it seems that Vodafone has gone ahead and pulled the trigger on shipments of HTC’s Touch Pro2 to business customers — assuming a post on the carrier’s forums is legit. The phone’s not due to be released until July 12 for any old chap who wants to fork over the dough for one, though it’s not unusual at all for a carrier to offer hot new handsets to its prized B2B channel a little bit early. Windows Mobile 6.1 is still a bummer at this point, but you’ve got to give an enormous amount of love to the hardware — and the promise of an official upgrade to 6.5 in the not-too-distant future.
[Via CoolSmartPhone]
Vodafone UK apparently shipping Touch Pro2s to business customers originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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