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AT&T Pure now on sale -- with Windows Mobile 6.5 {Engadget}
Oct 4th 2009 4:45PM The white windows flag in the upper left corner suggests it is 6.5; in 6.1 it is multicoloured.
However, that is an older version of TouchFlo 3D 2.1; the Touch Diamond 2 on Vodafone in Germany has just had a 6.5 update which comes with a more up to date version of TouchFlo 3D. http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=8578
iPhone 3G and 3GS to be offered by Orange UK -- official {Engadget}
Sep 28th 2009 7:06AM Agreed. The trouble is that I really want the HD2 which means that after all of that I will probably be moving away from Orange after all.
HTC Leo's TouchFLO 3D build demoed on video {Engadget}
Sep 27th 2009 4:11AM The singificant difference is that twitter apps can run in the background in WinMo meaning you don't have to open up the app to check for new tweets. Instead you are receive new tweets like you do text messages, which makes twitter a much better communication tool. especially if you are on a carrier which does not support SMS tweet notifications.
i-mate CEO says company isn't dead yet, just dealing with 'major fraud' {Engadget}
Sep 24th 2009 2:57PM Last MWC i-mate had the Centurion and the Legionnaire in the pipeline. I think the credit card sized Centurion would have done well as a smart, small messaging device, quite unlike the current trend for ever larger smartphones. Hopefully it will still make an appearance at some point.
HTC HD2 (aka, Leo) launching on O2 UK October 12th? {Engadget}
Sep 24th 2009 7:01AM This is probably enough to make me go through the hassle of switching carriers, even with the very good deal I have with Orange at the moment. I just hope that, as with previous HTC phones, it is released on multiple carriers, or I might have to get the TG01 which is pretty cool too, but not as hackable as the Leo will be.
Switched On: A tale of two tablets {Engadget}
Sep 23rd 2009 3:58AM I have a couple of Windows CE tablets doing double time for home automation and as remote desktops. About five years ago this was the vision: remember thin client computing and smart displays? The trouble is that the advent of the cheap netbook has made the case for portable thin clients less economically viable, and the model now appears to be self-contained devices which synchronize their contents to the internet, not to a local server.
Microsoft's dual-screen Courier booklet emerges, isn't near production {Engadget}
Sep 23rd 2009 3:49AM @deccangroove:
I very much doubt this will be running Windows 7 on an x86 processor. Battery tech has not advanced far enough that you can have an always on connected device with such compact hardware that will last the full day with moderate use. I'm guessing this is running on a version of Windows Embedded (CE, XP or 7) on some ARM processor.
If I were to hazard a guess it could even be running Windows Mobile 7, which would explain the app store, and a new set of apps designed to run in WVGA screens. OneNote already runs well on the current generations of Windows Mobile, as does the integration of addresses with Google Maps. What is demonstrated is just a very pretty shell, so it wouldn't be too much a stretch of the imagination if this were so.
HTC Leo Windows Mobile 6.5 slate is capacitive? (update: video!) {Engadget}
Sep 18th 2009 8:15AM What a gorgeous device! TouchFlo 2.5 looks amazing, and I am pleased to see that both tethering and the program which converts the phone into a HSDPA-WiFi router are present as well. The latter is absolutely essential.
I just hope it is announced on the 6th of October and available in the U.K. shortly after.
R.I.P. i-mate, we barely knew ye {Engadget}
Sep 17th 2009 8:58AM I have an i-mate 9502 which, at the time, was one of the most well-specced phones you could get. It is still pretty amazing now.
New iPod touch gets a speed test, zips right on by {Engadget}
Sep 16th 2009 11:49AM Perhaps he genuinely means that he COULD care less, rather than the more usual "couldn't care less". After all, if he "couldn't care less" he would not have posted at all would he?
