Slip on your fine silk smoking jacket and light up a victory cigar US Android fans, the latest comScore numbers are out for the three-month period ending in May 2010. The most notable trend spotted was a 4% quarterly increase in Google’s Android market share as all other smartphone OS subscribers declined
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ComScore: Android grows US smartphone market share as all others decline
Throughout the course of Windows Phone 7’s paced, deliberate unveiling this year, Microsoft has been very clear on the fact that it doesn’t intend for Windows Mobile — the legacy platform we know today — to disappear, arguing that it’s got several years of life left in it for certain verticals. We’re starting to see that philosophy play out today with the introduction of Windows Embedded Handheld, which is essentially a warmed-over version of WinMo 6.5.3 with some key UI and enterprise-focused enhancements
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Microsoft outs Windows Embedded Handheld platform, Motorola ES400 is the first to get it
Here’s the simple truth about touchscreen smartphones: it’s the software, dummy. Just look around at all the flagship handsets… other than a choice of with or without a QWERTY, today’s handsets all look pretty much the same and are built using the same off-the-shelf components with very few exceptions
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We had to exercise our neglected patience muscle with this one, but at long last we’ve gotten ahold of a real live HD Mini and put it through its paces. Equipped with the same processor, screen size and resolution as HTC’s Legend , but running the HD2 ’s Windows Mobile 6.5.3 under a WinMo-specific Sense skin, the Mini is in many ways an amalgamation of its two better known cousins. You’ll no doubt be aware that we weren’t too displeased by either of those handsets, so what you must be wondering now is whether or not splicing them into one eminently pocketable package delivers an equally compelling device
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HTC HD Mini review
Eh, those kiddos don’t need no physical keyboards and power cranks , right? Right! In a presumed effort to both keep with the times and take advantage of what’s being served to them on a silver platter, the philanthropic souls over at One Laptop Per Child have teamed with Marvell in order to develop the next OLPC — which, predictably, will be a tablet
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OLPC sees bandwagon, hops on with XO tablet based on Marvell Moby design
If you’re still hanging on to the hope that Windows Mobile is going to serve you just fine in the coming years, LG and Verizon have at least one more option for your phone needs — and it’s running 6.5.3 , a first for a US carrier launch.
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LG Fathom gets real with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 on Verizon
Microsoft certainly added all the right features to its Bing navigation app for Windows Mobile , but does it actually deliver the goods in real world use? It does according to the folks at PocketNow , who have put the app through its paces and kindly provided a quick demo video of it running on an HTC HD2.
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Bing turn-by-turn navigation for Windows Mobile gets taken for a test drive
If you’re going to rip off one of the more memorable Windows Mobile devices ever made, you’d think you’d want to at least clone its most notable feature — but seriously, what do we know about the KIRF business? Yeah, well, this little number manufactured by a firm doing business as “iHTC” (no relation to HTC, we’re sure) looks an awful lot like the HD2 , but lacks that all-important 4.3-inch display, instead trading down for a more pedestrian 3.6-inch unit. On the upside, it’s still WVGA and packs the latest and greatest Windows Mobile 6.5.3 (if “latest and greatest” really applies there) plus a 5 megapixel autofocus cam — not bad specs for a device that eats copyrights for breakfast.
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Keepin’ it real fake: HTC HD, too
For as long as Windows Mobile 6.x overstayed its welcome, Microsoft seems to be doing what it can to launch a full-out assault on the mobile battlefield — first with Windows Phone 7 , and now less than a month later with Kin . As we were reminded ad nauseam at the unveiling, the pair of devices — dubbed Kin One and Kin Two — aren’t for the tech enthusiasts in the crowd, but rather for a younger audience Microsoft is calling “generation upload.” That’s apparently a group whose life is focused around capturing memories and updating Facebook, without any care or concern whatsoever for apps
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Microsoft Kin: everything you ever wanted to know
If you were near an internet display terminal yesterday, you might’ve tragically stumbled upon one of Microsoft’s Kin promo videos. Sure, the product might be slightly condescending to its supposed target market, but the promotional videos are outright MTV-gone-bad, full of hipster shorthand and fake “reality” bits. The “Day in the Life” videos are particularly egregious, featuring a guy on a road trip to burn a box of mementos from his ex while accompanied by his two new girlfriends, a terrifying parade comprised of facial hair and Williamsburg-esque terror, and a tragically-near-30 couch surfer trying to remember a drunken night of excess through pictures.
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Day in the Life: Kin-less
