AT&T Pure running Windows Mobile 6.5
With Steve Ballmer’s recent admission that Microsoft had dropped the ball with Windows Mobile, and really should have released WinMo 7.0 by now, one should have realistically low expectations for the fresh-from-the-oven WinMo 6.5. Those who are still hoping for a miracle might prefer not to read the five quotes we’ve compiled from the first round of reviews.
Flash 10.1 coming to smartphones
HTC Dragon
The latest Android leak from HTC is the system dump of an unannounced device called the HTC Dragon, which an XDA developer called Reignzone has analyzed to determine the Dragon sports an 800 x 480 capacitive touch screen, and runs on Android 2.0 with the HTC Sense UI. The really exciting part is the possibility that Dragon codename is referring to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset, used in the Toshiba TG-01 and available in a whopping 1.3GHz version.
HP Mini 311
The folks at Laptop Mag recently got their hands on the HP Mini 311, which features the nVidia Ion LE chipset, and put it through some benchmarks of varying usefulness. It achieved a score of 1,917 on PCMark05 and 1,386 on 3DMark06 – both these figures unsurprisingly higher than the average scores of GPU-less netbooks.
It was just over five months ago that we brought news of Apple’s App Store reaching its billionth download after just nine months – and we’ve just received word that that figure has hit a staggering two billion downloads.
iPhone 3GS
Got an iPhone 3G or 3GS on AT&T? AT&T has just launched their official MMS support – welcome to 2002! MMS charges are 30 cents per message (or $1.30 while roaming), $5/month for 200, $15/month for 1500, $20 for unlimited, or $30 for unlimited on a FamilyTalk plan. Original iPhone users will have to put up with www.viewmymessage.com.
Vertu Constellation Ayxta
Back in January 2002, Nokia launched Vertu as an independent subsidiary, aiming to “bring artistry and personal significance to an everyday object, elevating it to the level of the finest timepiece.” Since then, their phones have been seen in the hands of ultra-wealthy celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna and David Beckham. The Constellation Ayxta is Vertu’s first flip phone, hand-made in Britain using stainless steel, aluminium, leather and ceramics, and featuring a sapphire glass screen.
BlackBerry Desktop Manager for OS X
While Apple’s share of the personal computer market continues to increase, many device manufacturers are still, for whatever reason, lagging behind in releasing OS X versions of their software tools. RIM are the latest company to play catchup – a recent post on Inside BlackBerry, the official BlackBerry blog, lets us know that the release of BlackBerry Desktop Software 1.0 for OS X is “just around the corner”.
Ergonomic TOUCH WOOD prototype
NTT DoCoMo, Sharp, Olympus and the reforestation project “more trees” have partnered to create these gorgeous TOUCH WOOD concept phones, which are encased in cypress wood.
Intel's Mooly Eden with the Core i7 Mobile processor
Gamers and video editors who have tried to do their thing on the road will know all too well that there’s no substitute for a fully-specced desktop machine – although Intel’s Core i7 Mobile processors promise to change this.
