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Windows Phone Forum application 1.0 review – Aggregated NL Windows Phone info

June 28, 2010 By 1 Comment
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Last week I attended the first edition of the Windows Phone Get Together Event in Utrecht, The Netherlands that was hosted by the local Dutch Windows Phone Team and initiated by two dutch MVP's Mark Briggeman and Jaap van Ekris. The event is covered in the article "Windows Phone Get Together Event – Microsoft engaging with end-users !" and consists of interesting information about Windows Mobile 6.5.3 and Windows Phone 7.While this has been a truly unique event in many ways, I would like … [Read more...]

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Verizon Samsung Omnia II Review Part 2 – User Interface

December 2, 2009 By 2 Comments

In Part 1 of our review of the Verizon Samsung Omnia II we looked at the device quickly, including what came in the box with the device. Now in part 2 we will be looking more in the different user interfaces (UI) that the Verizon Samsung Omnia II has.Samsung has their own Samsung TouchWiz UI and a Cube UI. We also will show SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 and the standard Windows Mobile 6.5 user interface on it. The video below is about 10 minutes long but we will give you a view of many options … [Read more...]

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Verizon Samsung Omnia II Review Part 1 – Unboxing

December 1, 2009 By 9 Comments

A couple of days ago we announced that Verizon would officially release the Samsung Omnia II. This Samsung Omnia II is a Windows Phone running on Windows Mobile 6.5.  Besides that this is a touch screen phone it still comes with a stylus integrated and not like a hanging pencil on the side like the original Omnia. The screen has a ultra-brilliant touch screen WVGA AMOLED display. Swype keyboard input (we'll get back to that) and some other extras from the Verizon Vcast applications.The … [Read more...]

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HP is back in the Smartphone business with the HP iPAQ Glisten

November 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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The big suprise of today is the announcement of the new HP iPAQ Glisten. The HP iPAQ Glisten will be available through AT&T in the coming weeks for $229.99 with a 2 year contract with a smartphone data plan. The HP iPAQ Glisten will be only available through the AT&T business, corporate channels or the consumer AT&T ,HP and third party websites. Meaning you can't see it in a store before you buy it.The HP iPAQ Glisten looks pretty similar to the Motorola Q9-series. However it … [Read more...]

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Verizon Samsung Omnia II slated for December 2

November 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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Verizon will be launching the Samsung Omnia II on December 2nd. The Samsung Omnia has been very successful worldwide due to great specifications it had. With a large on-board memory,5 megapixel camera and the almost finger friendly UI the Samsung Omnia was a leader in the Windows Phone line up at that time.Since then Microsoft has come out with Windows Mobile 6.5 which allows the operating system to be more finger friendly compared to the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system. This now … [Read more...]

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HTC HD2 review – A new era in Windows Phones’ history

November 5, 2009 By 79 Comments
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We have waited long for this device, but finally it's here. There were a lot of rumors about the HD2, also known as HTC Leo. Some people believed it would be a (killer) Android device and others told us that it would be the first HTC device with the 1 Gigahertz Snapdragon processor and a capacitive screen. The last party was right. The HTC HD2 has been released to the public with a Snapdragon processor, a large 4,3" capacitive touchscreen, lots of ROM and RAM and all this in a 11 mm tick … [Read more...]

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Windows Mobile 6.5 on the HTC Snap – Impressions and thoughts

October 28, 2009 By 9 Comments
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The HTC Snap is one of the few Windows Mobile Standard devices that received an upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5. In this article I would like to have a look at the Windows Mobile 6.5 improvements for Windows Mobile Standard devices and compare these with the findings of the HTC Touch2 review, with Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional pre-loaded on the device.1.  Homescreen The left screenshot above shows the todayscreen of the HTC Snap running on Windows Mobile 6.5, while the right … [Read more...]

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HTC Touch2 review – Windows Mobile 6.5 and TouchFLO 3D combined !

October 13, 2009 By 16 Comments
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Early september 2009 the HTC Touch2 was announced by HTC as their first device with Windows Mobile 6.5 pre-loaded, together with the additional services Windows Marketplace for Mobile and Microsoft MyPhone. During the local Windows Phones launch event on October 6th in Amsterdam, Netherlands the HTC Benelux was present as one of the strong partners of Microsoft Windows Mobile in addition to Samsung, LG, and Sony Ericsson. In addition of the local announcement of the HTC HD2 by Mark Moons, … [Read more...]

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