Before the Microsoft announcement of Windows Mobile 7 at MWC, there are already some in depth details of the upcoming Windows Mobile 7 leaked into the net. According to PPCGeeks, Windows Mobile 7 will feature a Zune like interface and there will be no multitasking support for third party apps on the phone!  Microsoft will control the Windows Mobile 7 about the same way Apple controls the iPhoneOS, except that Microsoft will not make the [...]

Microsoft is getting ready to fight back in the mobile market?  Analyst Katherine Egbert from Jefferies & Company said that Microsoft is getting ready to launch a phone based on Windows Mobile 7. “Our recent industry checks indicate Microsoft will be debuting its own phone sometime in the next two months,” Egbert said. “We expect the new phone to debut soon, at either the Feb 15-18 Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona Spain, or possibly at [...]

This make sense as Google is becoming the common enemy of Apple and Microsoft. With Google’s strong push of Android in the market and works from Google to integrate their services tightly to the platform, it will slowly capture the mobile search market and soon the mobile market. And with the recent purchase of Admob (a mobile ads company) and release of its first Android phone, Nexus One, to the market, the big G has [...]

When everyone of us is expecting Microsoft to announce Windows Mobile 7  during the Mobile World Conference (MWC) in February, Digitimes reports otherwise.  Instead of 7, Microsoft is going to announce 6.6, which no one has ever heard before. The report even goes on with Microsoft will be delaying the release of Windows Mobile 7 till year 2011.  What a big disappointment to many of the Windows Mobile fans if this turns out to be [...]

According to Microsoft, there are now around 800 apps in the Windows Mobile Marketplace. This is actually far less than the apps available for Windows Mobile platform.  As Windows Mobile platform is more open towards app installing, the users can freely install apps into the Windows Mobile platform by just copy the installation cab files to the device.  And there are still many developers not submitting their apps to the Marketplace yet. Compare to 100,000 [...]

Looking for an alternative search engine on your iPhone?  Microsoft has made its search engine Bing available in iPhone App Store.  And it will compete with Goole’s mobile app. The key features of the new application include: Daily image from Bing.com Easy to access voice search Tips and tricks on the home page “Locate Me” functionality Ability to add pushpins and save locations Show multiple locations on a single map If you wish to try [...]

Windows Mobil 6.0 and 6.1 users, wait no more and you don’t need to install the unofficial version anymore, Microsoft has officially made the Marketplace available for you. There is no official statement or document mentioning any difference between this version to the Windows Mobile 6.5 version.  The only different we can see at the moment is WinMo 6.5 users don’t need to download it as it is built in to the WinMo 6.5 ROM. [...]

Microsoft is at the moment playing a defensive game with Windows Mobile 6.5 and is putting a lot of hope for their upcoming Windows Mobile 7 next year. According to the source from ZDNet, Taiwan, Microsoft will be releasing Windows Mobile 7 to the OEM for testing.  And comsumers will receive it by Q3 2010. Microsoft has shown its will to revamp its strategy of mobile platform.  The new version will not be an upgrade [...]

Pocketnow.com has published an youtube video for Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23047, the latest leak ROM from Microsoft. In the video build 23037 of Windows Mobile 6.5 (relased last month) is compared with the freshly released build 23047 (via XDA). The differences include further refinements to the now relocated buttons on the bottom bar. All buttons that previously had text are now icon-based. Also a bit more refined is the pivot list area. [via pocketnow.com]