Microsoft is discontinuing the Windows Marketplace for Mobile service for Windows Mobile 6.x.
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Skyfire has offered a browser for Windows Mobile phones since 2008, but has no plans to create one for Windows Phone 7, said Glueck.
PocketNow recently put a Nexus One with Android 2.2 through a series of speed tests against an iPhone 3GS and and HTC HD2 running Opera for Windows Mobile.
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Nvidia also announced that they've hooked up with Intel and Freescale to develop reference designs for Windows Mobile 5.0 devices currently in development that should be unveiled later this year.
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This is already available for Windows Mobile devices.
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Last April, F-Secure researcher Mikko Hyppo nen found a Trojan masquerading as a first-person shooter game for Windows Mobile, which secretly made calls to international numbers in places as farflung as Sao Tome and North Korea, using what appeared to be a revenue sharing agreement to split the cash with the companies that placed the long-distance calls.
Yeah, we've all been a little afraid that our valued Windows Mobile-based devices weren't going to be named in the rollcall for that coveted Windows Mobile 5.0 upgrade path, but we've got good news for some of you out there.
Sales and download reports for your Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace applications will continue to be available through App Hub.
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The biggest drawback is that you can't use the device on its own without a phone, but if you're a heavy browser user or need to do some serious text input, but aren't doing anything serious enough to demand a real laptop, the REDFLY might just hit some sort of sweetspot for heavy Windows Mobile users.
Great news, you placeshifting fiends of the world: we've learned that Sling Media is hard at work crafting new versions of its SlingPlayer Mobile for S60, Windows Mobile Standard, and Windows Mobile Professional devices.
Both Symantec and McAfee already offer security software for Windows-based mobile devices.
That aside, the SGH-i900 seems set to bring everything we could ever hope -- or need, to be honest -- for in a Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro package.
The VoterHub app is available today for Android and Windows Mobile users in their app stores, and will be available in the Apple app store soon.
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The irony here is that one of the biggest criticisms for years was Windows Mobile's lack of a task manager and the ability to kill applications that were running.
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There had been thousands of handheld apps for Palm and Windows Mobile platforms before, but it took Apple and its structured iOS platform to turn mobile app developer into a calling that one could not only be proud of but get rich from.
Microsoft has been plugging away for five years on its Windows Mobile phone software and now has 40 devicemakers and 380, 000 developers writing for it.
Launch with 5, 000 or more WP7 apps in its app store, Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
No word on whether the company is working on a version of its service for, oh, Windows Mobile.
Until November, access to this store, which Microsoft calls Windows Marketplace for Mobile, will be limited to developers who are familiar with Microsoft and have contacted its staff to pitch their apps.
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F-Secure make a security tool for Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices.
Nokia's less stellar Windows phone for T-Mobile, the Lumia 710, is set to arrive on January 11, he said.
Rounding out the list, Windows Phone and Windows Mobile account for nine percent, largely thanks to sales of HTC handsets, while webOS and Symbian each eked out two percent.
We saw Microsoft embrace this idea with the announcement of Xbox SmartGlass earlier this summer, an app for Windows 8, tablets and mobile devices that lets users view and interact with new content in association with games and video on their consoles.
However, Apple continues to face increasing competition in the mobile devices segment from both Google, which recently made a low-end tablet entry, as well as Microsoft, which is making a renewed push for Windows Phone as the third mobile ecosystem of choice this year.
And, indeed, in that same six months, these developers created more than 100 apps for the platform, including mobile clients for iOS, Android and even Windows Phone and Symbian, desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux and browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox.
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Security specialist Marble Cloud is one of many companies offering mobile security platforms for Google Android, Apple iOS and Windows devices that secure mobile endpoints.
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For anyone used to Palm or Windows Mobile touchscreen devices, this is a completely different experience.
That could cause pain for proprietary phone platforms, like Windows Mobile or Symbian, as well as other attempts to do mobile Linux, such as the LiMo Foundation, he says.
Net platform, which aims to fulfill a "software as a service" vision: namely, Windows-based cards powering mobile phones -- not considered a good fit for Windows CE -- and Pocket PCs that are connected to Exchange servers.
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