Acer make a step on the smartphone market at MWC 2009

On 16 February Acer will announce all the details about their entering into the mobile phone market. As they promised last year they will introduce at least one smartphone (most probably WinMo one).

Perhaps you remember E-Ten Glofiish smartphones. Not long ago Acer bought the Taiwan-based mobile manufacturer E-Ten and promised to show the world their first Windows Mobile smartphone at the end of 2008 or early 2009. It seems it will happen at this year’s Mobile Word Congress in Barcelona.
According to the official Acer invitation the smartphones launch will be on 16 February. As you may notice it says “smartphones”, so there may be more than one handset to surprise us.

There is no other information around, but some people guess that the upcoming devices may be powered by the latest Windows Mobile 6.5.

From GSMArena.com

Samsung to release two more WinMo devices

Samsung are two release two new devices powere by windows mobile at the begining of this year.

word on the grapevine is the samsung pivot will be among the first winmo 6.5 powered device

the pivot will be a follow up to the Samsung i780, the Pivot will be one of the first handsets to feature Windows Mobile 6.5. On board you’ll find a 5MP camera, QWERTY thumb board, LED flash, AGPS, Bluetooth, Wifi and host of other features

The Louve (above) will be winmo 6.1 powered and features a hardware sliding keyboards very htc

Looking very much like a TyTN II and running Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. A 3.2 MP camera and tilting screen with a customised interface (like the widgets found on the i900) the Louve looks like an interesting handset.

more news as and when we get it

Thanks to trayandmatt.co.uk for the news

The Wikia Has Landed

As i reveale yesterday i had requested a wikia in the winmodevelopers name, when i received my emails today i had received notice of its activation

so today ive done a few of them for the benefit of people who will be posting there. it basically gives you an idea of what the pages should look like the home page is a bit iffy and ragged looking but that wil get fixed soon enough

the link is

Request for a wikia account sent

I have just sent a request to get a wikia account for the forum. hopefully i should hear back in a few days,
this will mean our pages can be edited easier and pictures should be easier to upload. overall a more pleasant and proffessional experience

this will mean of course the wiki/specs forum will be delted but only after users can get there page back.

pm me if you need to know more

JASON

site admin

HTC Touch Cruise 09 officially unveiled, GPS but no WinMo 6.5

This is from gsmarena .com

Today HTC announced a new WinMo-powered device with GPS navigation as its main features. Photos of the device, nicknamed Iolita have already leaked online on several occasions but now it makes its official debut as HTC Touch Cruise 09.

Yeah using the name of an old device may same a bit silly but if you think every ipods change. they have the same names but differ only slightly.

Much like its 02 twin brother – XDA Guide the HTC Touch Cruise 09 strongest asset (and selling point) is GPS navigation. It packs a brand new Advanced Navigation System and the new HTC Footprints location-based services. Those include geo-tagging of photos, sound clips etc. Full turn-by-turn navigation capabilities are said to be included in the device for no extra charge and a car cradle will also be provided in the retail package.

The Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional powered Touch Cruise uses a 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM 7225 processor and 256 MB of RAM. There is also 512 MB of ROM on board, that expandable through the microSD card slot. Some of the other features the new Cruise include the sweet TouchFLO ready to roll on the 2.8″ 65K color QVGA touchscreen, 3G with HSDPA, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (2.0 and A2DP). A 3.2 megapixel fixed focus snapper that is in charge of the photography.

The HTC Touch Cruise 09 will start shipping this spring with an estimated retail price of 460 euro (600 US dollars).

which comes to this they best start releasing a 6.5 update pretty much as soon as it released so they dont lose any custom

Microsoft lays off staff from winmo dept.

this is a copied article from msmbiles.com

Windows 6.5 Ported to HTC blue angel

someone has managed to create a WinMo 6.5 rom on the htc blue angel

this at least show progress with new looks and proof that faith in winmo hasnt been lost yet

Portal Re-done

ive managed to get a portal working a bit like the one that was on our old site. and i made it show up as the home page.

this does leave us with a news page that now redundant (this one but ill keep it anyways)

Check it out at

WinMo 6.5 maybe available by next month

WinMo 6.5 available by next month?, thats according to some new leaked information

Also is the hint of three new mobile services from microsoft apparently getting shown at the MWC 2009 in february.
Unlike 6.1 there has been no mention of what new ideas the OS will have, or what it’ll look like

Despite running on some of the most capable mobile hardware. WinMo 6.1 can it predecessors can only be described and clumsy and they have no real online presence apart from hotmail.

Where Apple have MobileMe and their AppStore and Google have a whole suite of online application services, and even Blackberry are pushing an online Application center, Windows Mobile has nothing to show. That seems kind of outdated in modern times where everything is synced wirelessly to the cloud and you are always online.

Last October Microsoft announced Windows Azure platform – cloud services operating system, which will be a hosting and management environment for future online services. According to the leaked info the three brand new Azure services will be SkyBox, SkyLine and SkyMarket and they wil be launched in February at the MWC 2009.

SkyBox provides wireless sync capabilities to WinMo users. Contacts, messages, organizer events, files, backup and restore functions will be some of the upcoming features of this service.

SkyLine is aimed at the business clients. It offers the same features as SkyBox, but allows corporate clients to host their Exchange servers with Microsoft and use the wireless synchronization on all the corporate phones.

SkyMarket, as you can guess, is the answer to Apple AppStore. The Microsoft’s mobile marketplace will gather the hundreds of Windows Mobile applications in one place for the first time, so users can buy and download them with one click.

As of now no one knows what improvements will be introduced with version 6.5 of Windows Mobile. Multi-touch support, UI reorganization and better thumb optimization are some of the things that come to mind as logical upgrades. One thing is for sure – we’ll get our answers first-hand in February when we visit the MWC 2009.

The GECKO forums

After speaking to the creator of GECKO and learning of his frorum difficulties, ive offered my services to host it for him. the official gecko forum can now be found at this location

this will be the place to discuss all things gecko icluding debates on new releases and news