Prior to ending development last year, the company offered its Microsoft Reader software for about a decade -- first on handheld devices using Windows CE and Windows Mobile and later on desktop Windows.
Starting on this date, Windows Mobile 6.x users will no longer be able to browse, buy or download applications directly on their Windows Mobile 6.x phones using the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace application and service.
ENGADGET: Microsoft putting Windows Mobile 6.x market out to pasture
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.
Microsoft is discontinuing the Windows Marketplace for Mobile service for Windows Mobile 6.x.
ENGADGET: Microsoft putting Windows Mobile 6.x market out to pasture
Starting on this date, you will no longer be able to browse, buy or download applications directly on your Windows Mobile 6.x phone using the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace application and service.
ENGADGET: Microsoft putting Windows Mobile 6.x market out to pasture
Antenna does this by selling a mobile service and platform to enterprises called Antenna Mobility Platform (AMP) that runs mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone, RIM (RIMM) BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Windows, Symbian and Google (GOOG) Android.
Windows Mobile applications and games that are compatible with Windows Mobile 6.x may still be available directly from their developers or via third-party marketplaces.
ENGADGET: Microsoft putting Windows Mobile 6.x market out to pasture
Applications and games acquired from the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace service installed on Windows Mobile 6.x phones will continue to work after the service is shut-down on May 9, 2012.
ENGADGET: Microsoft putting Windows Mobile 6.x market out to pasture
Applications and games acquired from the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace service installed on your Windows Mobile 6.x phone will continue to work after the service is discontinued on May 9, 2012.
ENGADGET: Microsoft putting Windows Mobile 6.x market out to pasture
Platforms include iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Windows and, soon, Android.
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But, Microsoft took its time with the transition from Windows Mobile to Windows Phone, and by the time Windows Phone launched most of the potential customers had already chosen sides and invested in either the iOS or Android ecosystem.
Microsoft recommends you review the applications or games installed on your Windows Mobile 6.x phone and install any available updates in advance of the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace service shut-down on May 9, 2012.
ENGADGET: Microsoft putting Windows Mobile 6.x market out to pasture
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.
Windows Mobile 6.x user will no longer be able to browse, buy or download applications from the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace service starting on May 9, 2012.
ENGADGET: Microsoft putting Windows Mobile 6.x market out to pasture
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.
All of three run on the Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition operating system and come with the new mobile version of Windows Media Player 10 pre-installed (but you can use it to listen to stuff besides Joss Stone).
Publicly disclosable details about the future of Windows Mobile are still sparse, but we can let the door open a bit wider on what was shown at this year's Mobius with regard to the next two versions of Windows Mobile.
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Can you merge a fully loaded Windows XP PC with a Windows Mobile-powered smartphone without coming up with something so bulky, cumbersome and power-hungry that it doesn't work well as either?
"Powered by Windows Embedded Handheld (based on Windows Mobile 6.5 technologies), the Intermec CS40 offers business professionals the ability to capture, access, and act on business critical information where and when they need it, " said Kevin Dallas general manager of the Windows Embedded Business Unit at Microsoft Corp.
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Unlike consumer grade smart phones that yield low performance and high failure rates when force-fit into line of business applications, the CS40 is built on Windows Embedded Handheld technologies including the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform and is designed for mobile professionals who need versatile and reliable access and acquisition of information in real-time, at the point of work.
ENGADGET: Intermec CS40 walks the work / play tightrope, WinMo 6.5 threatens to knock it off
The new service, Xbox Music, will begin rolling out tomorrow on the Xbox 360 game console, with a rollout later this month to Windows 8 and Windows RT PCs and tablets, and on Windows Phone 8 mobile phones, with additional platforms later.
So far the group has tested touch screens, mobile phones running the Windows Mobile and Android platforms, speech input and output devices and an ordinary domestic TV set with a simplified remote control to run the UCH.
Code Factory's products are compatible with the widest range of mainstream mobile devices running on Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry Smartphones, and Android.
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If the Windows 8 launch is successful, this perception may change over time, but not unless the Windows mobile ecosystem grows as robust as competitive offerings.
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Back then the local companies made little commitment to Android and were still betting their smartphone future on the mature Windows Mobile, only to be burned by the late arrival of Windows Phone 7.
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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.
Here's a little background on Just Mobile: the company started off as a PDA (mainly Windows Mobile) accessory OEM in around 2005, with Huang taking care of procurement plus manufacturing, and his talkative friend Gustafsson, an ex-banker, overlooking European sales.
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Initially the system will allow file-sharing with Sony's PSP games console, Nokia's N-series mobile, Sony Ericsson's Walkman and Cybershot handsets and Microsoft's Windows Mobile smartphones.
The speculation is over kids, mobile-review got themselves a copy of the next major release of the Windows Mobile OS and slapped up a review for all to see.
As expected, Windows Mobile 6.5 brings some much-needed interface enhancements to the table along with the Windows Marketplace app store and My Phone syncing, but some longstanding issues remain -- the biggest one being that it still doesn't support capacitive touchscreens.
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