Windows Mobile Marketplace, Now Available for WM 6.0/6.1, PC

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

After being released with the Windows Mobile 6.5 OS, Windows Marketplace is now available for Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 phones, but also desktop PCs. This is probably just another effort from Microsoft to try and surpass the popularity of the Apple App Store. Microsoft launched its Marketplace portal last week, ...

Windows Mobile Marketplace Gets Upgrades, Available on PC

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Windows Marketplace for Mobile has just received a bunch of upgrades, after its October 6th introduction. The service benefits from more advanced anti piracy protection and an enhanced developer portal, plus it now supports PC based shopping and account management for Windows phone users. The improvements have been made based on ...

Windows Mobile 7 Versus Windows Mobile 6.5… Oops?

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

In case you're wondering what the image below is all about, know that it was meant to be a comparison between Windows Mobile 6.5 (top row) and Windows Mobile 6.5.1 (should have been bottom row). However, things somehow went wrong, since this is supposedly an internal Windows Mobile 7 mockup, ...

Windows Mobile Evolution in One Minute (Video)

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

We travel back in time, courtesy of 1800PocketPC, who shows us the evolution of the Windows Mobile OS, from the early days of PocketPC2000, to the recently launched Windows Mobile 6.5 aka Windows Phone: The interface has come a long way, but the core of the platform hasn't been fundamentally changed, ...

Windows Phone Final Build Shown to the Folks of The Inquirer

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

The lucky folks of The Inquirer have managed to have a look at the final build of Windows Phone, the OS formerly known as Windows Mobile 6.5. We'll never understand why Microsoft changed a good name with a silly one, but as long as the "bad press" is gone, we'll ...

Windows Mobile Dying… at Least the Brand Is

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Microsoft must be euphoric after convincing Yahoo to hand over the keys to its search engine and implements its secrets on Bing and while they're making such moves, they might as well rebrand Windows Mobile. Say what? That's right, the Windows Mobile brand will be dead and it'll be replaced by ...