Archive for August, 2009

MetroPCS is getting a Windows Mobile phone!

MetroPCS has been around since 1994. Windows Mobile has been around in one form or another since 2000. You think at some point their paths would have crossed, right? Nope - not until now, at least.

Microsoft Aims Windows Mobile Guns At Apple, Google

Microsoft has apparently come up with a strategy for righting the ship in its struggling Windows Mobile business, although that ship won’t be ready to sail anytime soon.
In a Wednesday report, the Taiwan-based tech journal DigiTimes said Microsoft plans to use both Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Mobile 7 to compete with Google’s Android and [...]

Microsoft to encircle Google and Apple with Windows Mobile split

When a person says they like something, they might also add: “What’s not to like?”
When Steve Ballmer said he liked Microsoft’s Windows Mobile strategy a few years back, you had to ask “what strategy”?
Microsoft’s chief executive told CNBC-TV “I like our strategy, I like it a lot” while laughing off Apple’s iPhone.
Ballmer was speaking when [...]

Thoughts On The HTC Touch Pro 2

I’ve spent a good amount of time with HTC’s Touch Pro 2 for T-Mobile, and this beast has a long feature set that will make smartphone fans drool. But is the Windows Mobile-powered gadget just a good device on paper?
Hardware
There’s no way around it: the HTC Touch Pro 2 is a brick. It’s a hefty [...]