The way I see it, this fragmentation - with allowing the OEMs to add their own little flavor to the vanilla Android OS (Blur for Motorola, Sense for HTC, etc.), it just delays all the phones from being instantly updated. That much is obvious. Microsoft did it right, just like Apple - they told the OEMs, essentially saying: "There will be no tweaking of the Windows Mobile OS. It will be deployed as is." This allows them to push out updates instantly to every phone out there at the same time,...
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Jobs, the head honcho for Apple, recently made an announcement that he wants the IPad and IPhone to be “porn-free.” Initially, this seems to be a great thing. Furthermore, Mr. Jobs certainly has the right to control his products and determine how they will be built. No one has to buy an Apple product if he does not want to. I personally have never been a fan of the Apple line of products. I did own an IPod classic (which in all fairness I used extensively, and loved), but I turned down an...
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After a few weeks without the HD2, I realised I need proper Exchange on a phone - not the Fisher-Price version of it on the iPhone, the half-ass on Droid or the bugtastic equivalent on the N900 - which are my other phones. And so, it comes down to either Blackberry + BESE or a Windows Mobile 6.5 device. That BESE is now free, and clients are also free as long as you're on an Enterprise contract is actually pretty darned attractive. Thank you Apple at least for scaring RIM into that move. On...
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Dear colleague Nerds ;) a friend of mine asked me to find him a new smartphone. He has been using Windows Mobile smarpthone and wants a new one. I've heard in the GDGT podcast (which is my favorite one!, btw) about the new good ones done by HTC. There is that big screen one HTC HD2. I am looking for a GSM unlocked one though. Any suggestions?
Well, at least couple of phones and loads of custom rom users can take a test run on the new Marketplace application for the windows mobile 6.5 platform. What are your thoughts and perhaps favorite apps? My opinions: - Installing queue = AWESOME, i was not expecting this. - Font is quite big on a vga device. Causes unnecessary scrolling. - Catalog is not too impressive yet. But plenty of free stuff. Tested apps: Facebook has not been updated. slimPassword, just the thing i have always wanted....
I have an iphone 3gs, but i really like the way WinMo is getting better and smoother... has anyone used WinMo 6.5? (i know its not out yes, but beta is). What do you guys think about it? Doesn't it looking really good and has more features than other mobile OSz?
