It’s been lagging behind mobile versions on Facebook on other platforms, but Microsoft’s updated Facebook app for Windows Mobile finally adds a sorely missed feature: the ability to add comments to posts made by friends.
The updated app – now hitting v1.2 – also lets users “like” their friends’ posts.
Accompanied by a flurry of flapping flipcharts and clicking ballpoint pens, tech stat fiends Gartner have just unleashed their annual figures for worldwide mobile phone sales to end users.
Coming hot on the heels of today’s announcement of no less than three new handsets from HTC is the glossy promo videos.
They’re all short and snappy (we’re talking a mere 45 seconds a piece) and they all come accompanied by the usual shuffly funky backbeat, so kick off your shoes and soak ‘em in…
Taiwanese handset maker HTC has unveiled no less than three brand spanking new smartphones.
Be prepared to doff your cap in the direction of the HTC Legend and Desire (both running Google’s Android operating system), and the HTC HD Mini, which opts to embrace the wonderful world of Windows Mobile.
Suitably impressed with the innovation seen in their new Windows Phone 7 series mobile operating system, we’ve been positively ladling the praise on Microsoft today.
It’s got s crap name alright (“Windows Phone 7 Series” is hardly snappy, is it?), but the initial response to Microsoft’s new mobile operating system seems to be overwhelmingly positive.
Following on from today’s announcement at the Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft have released more details of their new – and hugely innovative -Windows Phone 7 Series operating system.
So far we’re loving the look of what we’ve seen…
Microsoft has launched the latest update to its mobile phone operating system, with the all-new Windows phone 7 series serving up a radical and dramatic redesign.
Microsoft has wisely decided to just about wipe out the legacy of its much maligned Windows Mobile OS, with the new Windows Phone 7 Series offering a thoroughly original and modern interface to banish those stylus-driven WM moments.
A hands on video has been posted up showing Sony Ericsson’s new candybar Aspen handset (also known as the Sony Ericsson Faith) in action.
Sporting a screen shinier than the beady eye of the Shiny Eyed Eagle, the Aspen runs the all-new Windows Mobile 6.5.3 mobile operating system.
We’re typing this using CreaWriter, a free Windows text editor designed to “increase your productivity and creativity” by decluttering your screen and covering up your endless flashing widgets, Twitter feeds and IM distractions.
Opening up to fill your screen with a suitably soothing sunset image, the minimalist interface aims to serve up a distraction free environment, with only the orangey sunset hues and the sound of gently trickling water for company.
Looking suitably business-like and packing Microsoft’s brand new, all finger friendly Windows Mobile 6.5.3 mobile operating system is the Sony Ericsson Aspen (also known as the Sony Ericsson Faith).
Clad in moody black and ready to strike a pose in the boardroom, the Aspen candybar handset packs a full QWERTY keyboard for rattling off super-important businessy emails and sports a 2.4-inch QVGA TFT touchscreen LCD (that works out as 320 × 240 pixel resolution if you’re not hip to the acronyms).
An updated version of the Skyfire web browser has been released for Symbian S60 3rd and 5th edition smartphones.
The free app claims to bring a PC-like browsing experience to mobile devices, with the latest version adding full support for high-resolution screens, an updated, finger-friendly user interface (UI), crisper text, smoother zooming with kinetic movement, and a full-screen mode that maximises screen real estate.
Telecoms firm Orange has launched its vrey own App Shop, which is available now for over-the-air downloads to around one million customers in the UK and France.
The App Shop serves up a total of 5,000 applications, games, ringtones and wallpapers (we’re not sure how that’s broken down in terms of apps) – a figure that will no doubt grow swiftly.
There’s certainly be no shortage of interest in HTC’s big hitting HD2 handset, and Vodafone have just announced that they will be carrying the iPhone rival.
The Windows Mobile smartphone will be available for free on lengthy 2-year contracts/£35 per month deals, rising to £40 per month if you need more bundled minutes.
If the thought of being tied to one phone and one network for two years of your life is giving you the heebeegeebees, then you can sign up for an 18-month contract at £40 per month, or fork out an extra fiver for more free chat time.
We ran a piece last week previewing one of the early reviews for the Windows Mobile-powered HTC Touch HD2 handset, and the folks at Gizmodo have just posted their thoughts.
The review starts in glowing terms, with the Touch HD2 being described as, ” the nicest phone in the world …ostentatiously huge and amazingly slim …business-savvy and utterly pornographic.”
The praise continues to flow freely as the HTC’s delightfully constructed lines are lovingly admired and the nippy Sense UI praised for delivering the goods with gusto.
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