As Microsoft always strives to be less sucky that the last thing that Microsoft did, Windows Mobile 6.5 is a movement in the right direction. Highlights include a friendly hardware start button, the honeycomb touch screen and app store:
Smartphones are the main growth area in the mobile industry, and Microsoft is in the beginning of [...]

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Yesterday Samsung launched their Application Marketplace, http://applications.samsungmobile.com/. Unlike Google, Apple and Blackberry, both Windows Mobile and Symbian’s application strategy is all over the map:
If you’re looking to start an application outlet, you need to be at the reins of the platform; if you don’t, you’re further segmenting an already messy market. With Samsung launching their [...]

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Microsoft entered 2009, midnight PST to be exact, with egg on their faces over failure of the Zune Media player to account for the Leap Second which ended 2008.
According to Zune owners from across the globe, thousands of Microsoft’s 30GB iPod imitators suddenly gave up the ghost at exactly midnight Pacific time last night.
“We’ve [...]

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Analyst firm Canalys has released the results of it’s Consumer Mobility Analysis Report and it is very good news for Apple, good news for RIM and Microsoft and bad news for Nokia:
The success of Apple and RIM, as well as fifth-placed HTC with its Windows Mobile devices, has eaten into Nokia’s share of [...]

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Windows Mobile was originally launched as Pocket PC in April 2000. It was born in an age when Microsoft was busy trying to tie everything to the Windows Desktop and cast a long shadow over every part of the IT industry. It was not long after that that the Windows wheels fell [...]

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