Windows Mobile 6.x not upgradeable to Windows Phone

Posted on March 2, 2010 by ColmNo Comments

There is a lot of expectation and a little bit of confusion over the Windows Phone 7 operating system. The confusion is around whether a phone running Windows Mobile 6.x can be upgraded to the new operating system when it is released. It seems as if Microsoft in the UK said last week that it is something for the hardware partners to think about.

Today, however, we hear news “because we have very specific requirements for Windows Phone 7 Series, the current phones we have right now will not be upgradeable.” Natasha Kwan, General Manager for Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business in the Asia-Pacific region.

Doing a little bit of investigation it seems as if many phones will not be upgradable because they do not have the back, home and search hardware keys required by the new operating system. If this is the reason for example the HTC HD2 pictures of both will not qualify to be upgraded to the new operating system but will however be upgradable to windows mobile 6.5.3.

I’m sure over the next couple of weeks and months it’ll become clearer and we will have more information on this.

Windows Phone 7 Series handset from LG

Posted on February 28, 2010 by ColmNo Comments

The first mobile phone to run on the new Windows Series 7 operating system was unveiled at the weekend by Aaron Woodman from mobile communications business at Microsoft.

The phone that was unveiled is an LG smart phone which is a pre-production units. It was shown up in The Engadget Show over this weekend.

As you can see from the photograph it has a sliding QWERTY keyboard. It’s also believed that it comes with a five megapixel camera and a touchscreen display. I’m sure it can this model goes into production it will be slightly different. Should start to hear more information about the new operating system in the next couple of weeks/months. But, we are not really expecting to see many phones on the market place until towards the end of the year.

Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Series

Posted on February 16, 2010 by ColmNo Comments

One of the latest announcements at the mobile world congress in Barcelona is that Microsoft are releasing a new operating system for mobile phones. Windows  Phone 7 series will offer a fresh approach to phone software with a distinctly smart design and integrated experience.

Unfortunately we will not see any handsets with this new software until late 2010. We have posted a couple of videos below if you want to have a closer look.

Via: engadget

What’s new in Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5.3

Posted on February 2, 2010 by ColmNo Comments

Today seen the announcement from Sony Ericsson all of their new Aspen smartphone which will run on the Microsoft mobile 6.5.3 operating system. As this is a new operating system I was little bit curious as to what extra features this has. Lucky for me I can across a post from Mary-Jo Foley from All About Microsoft simply went and asked Microsoft to send question and has now come back with some of the extra features that the operating system will have.

Ease of Use features

* Capacitive touchscreen support
* Platform to enable multitouch
* Touch controls throughout system (no need for stylus)
* Consistent Navigation
* Horizontal scroll bar replaces tabs (think settings>system>about
screen)
* Magnifier brings touch support to legacy applications
* Simplified out-of-box experience with fewer steps
* Drag and drop icons on Start Screen

IE Browser Performance

* Page load time decreased
* Memory management improved
* Pan & flick gestures smoothed
* Zoom & rotation speed increased

Quality and Customer Satisfaction features

* Updated runtime tools (.NET CF 3.5, SQL CE 3.1)
* Arabic read/write document support
* Watson (error reporting) improvements and bug fixes

One of the interesting features that seems to stick out a little bit here is capacitive touch screen support, which I’m sure many people will be happy about.

Windows Mobile Mobile Remote Software

Posted on April 8, 2009 by ColmNo Comments

Here’s a program called Mobile Remote works that Windows mobile operating systems, the software allows you to take control of mouse and keyboard movements using Bluetooth and will work with the likes of Windows Media Center and Windows media player. The video below is a quick demonstration of how this actually works.