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Rumored Atila from Motorola

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone

Motorola’s latest  much-rumored smartphone, currently named "Atila," has had images of it supposedly leaked to the public. Designed as a device to compete directly with the iPhone, it features a touchscreen, 3G support and will run Windows Mobile.

The device reportedly will feature quad-band GSM/EDGE along with tri-band UMTS/HSPA, making it ideally suited for use overseas or on AT&T and Rogers in North America. The device will not support T-Mobile USA’s 3G rollout, only the carrier’s existing 2.5G network.

Atila will supposedly run on a Qualcomm 7201A processor, speed unknown but likely in the 400 MHz range.

Its 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen will be its only means of input, lacking a hardware keyboard or numeric keypad. This is a big part of what separates it from the Motorola Alexander, a similar model that was recently leaked.

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Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade from Motorola

Posted by sawaru | Category: Smartphone, Software

Motorola released a downloadable Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard upgrade for its AT&T-branded Moto Q9h and Q9h Global phones. The upgrade reportedly provides slightly faster speeds, along with new operating system features like a task manager, sliding panels on the home screen, plus cut and paste.
Motorola’s Q9h and Q9h Global originally shipped with Windows Mobile 6.0. Neither device has a touchscreen, making the upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.1 potentially significant. That release brought non-touchscreen devices functionality that was previously available only on touchscreen smartphones, such as text select, cut, copy, and paste.

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Treo Pro sales pitch

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Smartphone

It looks Palm set to announce the Treo Pro today. Not mentioning details specifications , but the email did confirm that the device "features a one-touch Wi-Fi button, GPS, Windows Mobile 6.1 and a high-resolution flush color touchscreen".

After googling , some specifications on the new Treo.

New details on the Treo Pro

• The battery is pretty much confirmed to be a near-unbelievable-for-this-size 1500 mAh.
• The WiFi switch is over on the side and works exactly as you’d like it to
• There is a decidedly non-Treo-esque power button up on the top, which brings the Treo more in line with traditional Windows Mobile devices.

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Toshiba Portege G810 with SPB customization

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Smartphone, Software

Previously E-TEN was embedding some programs from Spb Software into their Windows Mobile phones, but now even Toshiba is doing it! This choice just confirms how good products from Spb Software are, and users of Windows Mobile phones can buy them individually too to enhance their Windows Mobile phones.

Not a bad idea– let the folks who already know lots about making great software for Windows Mobile Professional handle the customized touch user interface for your new Windows Mobile Pro phone. Toshiba did just that with their G810, announced at Mobile World Congress in February of this year and now just hitting importer’s shelves.
The Portege G810 runs Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional with Spb Mobile Shell-based Toshiba Touch Interface, a customized version of Spb Full Screen Keyboard, the Spb Pocket Plus smart scrolling component, and other Windows Mobile customization enhancements.

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Blackjack 3 aka Samsung i788

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Windows Mobile

Rumor is floating around that AT&T will be launching the BlackJack III Samsung i788 some time in the very near future. It will be powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and will get loaded with HSDPA, GPS, WiFi, and optical mouse pointer. Perhaps the most notable change, however, is that the BJ3 may actually be equipped with a touchscreen. I wonder if that was just a slip of the tongue on the part of the Boy Genius.
In any case, we’ll have to sit tight until AT&T and Samsung make some sort of official announcement.

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Windows Mobile 6.1 improvements

Posted by admin | Category: Smartphone, Windows Mobile

Microsoft recently introduced Windows Mobile 6.1, an upgrade of the Windows Mobile operating system.

It adds new features and capabilities to the previous (6.0) version, enhancing your Web browsing and day-to-day use of Windows Mobile. It also adds new features and capabilities of interest to the enterprise users. This article looks at some of the more important enhancements.

Improved Messaging

Microsoft has made some significant enhancements in the Messaging application. For enterprise users Microsoft added Exchange Auto-Discovery, which makes it easier to set up synchronization with Exchange. Users are now able to download e-mail from all accounts at the same time. Microsoft added auto-complete for e-mail recipients, which makes it easier for users to enter e-mail addresses on small keyboards and touch screens. Also, Windows Mobile 6.1 added the ability to select multiple e-mail items in the list so you can easily delete or move e-mail. Finally, Windows Mobile 6.1 includes optimizing the bandwidth utilization for Exchange, POP3, and IMAP4, which is very important to enterprise wireless data users.

Other enhancements to WM 6.1

A number of enhancements made to Windows Mobile 6.1 are of particular interest:

• Bluetooth headset auto-pairing: Makes it easier to pair your device with standard Bluetooth headsets.
• Bluetooth phone address profile: This enables the transfer of phone book information across phone-enabled Bluetooth devices.
• Network Time (NITZ) Description: Automatically updates the time on a device when it moves into a new time zone or receives a Daylight Savings Time (DST) change from the cellular network.
• Cut, Copy, and Paste capability added to Windows Mobile Standard (non-touch screen) smartphones.
• Enhanced "Getting Started CD" not only contains user-installable versions of Mobile Device Center and ActiveSync, it includes software that helps the user set up their device and an application that makes e-mail setup easier by exporting their Outlook settings from a desktop PC to the Windows Mobile device.

Managing Mobile Devices—System Center Mobile Device Manager

Last fall, Microsoft released a new server to manage Windows Mobile devices called System Center Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM). SCMDM actually adds Windows Mobile Devices to Active Directory and provides group policy management of the device security as well as a separate VPN connection optimized for Windows Mobile. Windows Mobile 6.1 is required to support SCMDM. SCMDM is covered in detail in the Enterprise section on page 55.

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HTC iPhone-killer unveils a worthy alternative

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HTC unveils rival to Apple’s iPhone

HTC,a fast growing Taiwanese handset manufacturer, unveiled in London its new flagship product, the HTC Touch Diamond, a product that is widely expected to pose a challenge Apple’s iPhone.

Introducing the device that promises one-touch access to a number of features, including the mobile web, photos and music among others Peter Chou, president and CEO of HTC, declared 2008 the year of the mobile internet, and said his company, a relatively new player in the mobile telecommunications technology sector, was poised for another phase of rapid growth with the innovative phone.

Powered by Windows Mobile 6.1, the compact touch screen device — the latest update of HTC’s Touch smartphone line that has sold more than 3 million units worldwide since last June — features a revamped TouchFlo 3D interface. With a 2.8 inch display that allows users to zoom in on content with the touch wheel or tilt it by turning it on its side, the phone is a mere 11.5 mm thick, making it even thinner than the iPhone, and includes a 3.2 megapixel camera and 4 GB of storage.

HTC chief marketing officer John Wang said the new device runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, comes with 4 GB of internal storage with 256 MB flash and 192 MB RAM and runs on a Qualcomm MSM 7201A , 528MHz chipset. Other features include Bluetooth with EDR, minUSB, integrated GPS and Wi-Fi and 900 mAh battery which claims to offer a 4-hours standby talk-time on GSM.

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Portege G810 impressive size and features

Posted by admin | Category: Mobile Phone, Smartphone, Windows Mobile

Touchscreen a bulky device, not anymore.

You know the old saying – “touch screen phones are like buses, you wait years for one to come along and then a bucket load arrive at once.” The Portege G810 from Toshiba is certainly one of the best looking smartphones money can buy and when it’s released (expected release date is currently the second quarter of this year so any time soon) it will have an abundance of impressive features to boot.

The most recent announcement is that this little beauty will include the latest Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system. Users will enjoy better security features, improved navigation, and increased time saving features thanks to the Windows platform.

Other features include an improved user interface as well as an impressive touch screen display. A 3MP camera and built-in GPS receiver make this an impressive all round handset ideal for business or personal users.

The Portege G810 is Toshiba’s first foray into HSUPA handsets. HSUPA provides handsets and users with improved data transmission speeds and is dubbed as being the savior of multimedia handheld devices. Realistically, it does mean that handsets can offer a greater number of features and applications without the usual increase in manufacturing price and it will certainly offer improved speeds with a number of those individual applications.

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