Yes, it is official now.  Microsoft has officially announced its next generation Mobile OS platform – the Windows Phone 7 Series, to the world during the press conference in MWC. Yes, it is completely rewritten from ground up and it has nothing similar to the current Windows Mobile 6.5.  The entire platform, from the core to the UI, will give the smartphone market a tough competitor. It is a completely new mobile OS to the [...]

Chinese New Year is very closed now (14 Feb) and I will be going for holiday during this period. I wish everybody a happy and prosperous Chinese New Year and Gong Xi Fa Cai. Oh, and happy Valentine’s day as well

So is Microsoft getting ready the big launch event for the new Windows Phone / Windows Mobile 7 in MWC? According to Engadget, by looking at the decoration and banners, Microsoft seems to be ready to push the Windows Phone’s brand name in the event.  And guess what, Steve Ballmer will be there for the event.  And hopefully Microsoft is ready for the Windows Mobile 7 announcement. MWC 2010 is going to be an interest [...]

You might be wondering what are the new features that the new HTC Sense on Android 2.1 may get.  And here we have a nice video showing a good implementation of multitouch – pinch-to-zoom on the home screen and you will get all the home panel screen arranged in a 2-3-2 pattern.  And you just tab on anyone of them to go straight to the panel.  It looks like a nicer implementation of Nexus One’s [...]

I believe many of you are waiting anxiously for the Android 2.1 update for HTC Hero.  And we have a more concrete news now that the update will be released in March. HTC’s Benelux team reports that the Hero will get the update in March.  And not only the Hero will get the Android 2.1 update, the Sense UI will get quite a number of improvements as well.  The update will include a new Friend [...]

Google has admitted its problem of giving support over the phone to Nexus One users and promised to fix it.  And here is the solution from them. Apparently Google has setup a phone support centre for Nexus One at 888-48-NEXUS (63987). Open daily from 7:00 am EST to 10:00 pm EST.  You can call the number to check on your existing order and status.  For the Nexus One owners, call the number for technical support.  An unnamed Google [...]

According to BGR, the Motorola CLIQ/DEXT will be getting Android 2.1 upgrade in March. Motorola is surely working ahrd to get those handsets out in the market to be upgrades to the latest Android version.  The DROID/MILESTONE owners will be getting the Android 2.1 treatment soon and now the CLIQ/DEXT is following. This should get a lot of CLIQ/DEXT owners excited if it turns out to be true. [via BGR]

We are seeing more details of the upcoming HTC Legend now. According to a tipster of AndroidCommunity, the specs of Legend will be: 3.2-inch capacitive HVGA AMOLED display 5-megapixel camera with LED flash WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, microSD card slot and GPS/AGPS 1300mAh battery Quad-band GSM and dual-band UMTS/HSDPA Digital compass, G-Sensor, 3.5mm Audio jacket, microUSB port It uses a 600MHz Qualcomm MSM 7227 processor If you like HTC Hero, this is something you will like [...]

While we are still waiting for Google to release the next version of Android – Froyo, Brian Swetland, Android’s Kernel guru who works for the big G, has mentioned that the version of Froyo will be called Gingerbread. Brian has just dropped the following on the LWN.net boards: We maintain a set of patches on top of Linux, which we periodically rebase to the latest released Linux kernel. We’ve been doing this roughly every other [...]

Google just launched Buzz – a social networking tool with just about anything you can think of – status, share photos, share locations, etc. Buzz is built into Gmail, some of you may have seen it in your Gmail already.  And it is available for mobile users as well.  Go to buzz.google.com, and you’ll be taken to a Web app that lets you see and create Buzz messages. You can see messages from people you “follow” [...]