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More than 30 Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets launching in Q4 2009

According to Benjamin Tan, senior director, GCR Mobile Team Unit at Microsoft China , over 30 Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets are supposed to launch before the end of the year.

More than 30 smartphones running on Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 from a total of over 15 handset vendors are to be launched before the end [...]

Rumor: Microsoft in talks to buy EA

This could be huge. Reuters is reporting rumors of an Eletronics Arts purchase buy Microsoft:

NEW YORK, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Shares of Electronic Arts Inc (ERTS.O) jumped more than 4 percent to $19.36 on Wednesday on unsubstantiated talk that Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) might be interested in buying the video game publisher, traders said.
“There’s talk that [...]

Layar augmented reality Android app goes 3D

Layar is anouncing today that they are going to launch a new version of their Augmented Reality Android browser in November with full 3D support.

We are proud to announce today, on the 22nd of September, we will move our platform to a full 3D Augmented Reality experience. We consider AR to be an experience medium [...]

Windows CE 6 R3 is RTM, Silverlight on board

Yesterday at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Boston, Microsoft announced that Windows CE 6 R3 (code name Cashmere) has finally hit RTM. Silverlight for Windows Embedded user interface (UI) framework is now part of this new release.

Silverlight for Windows Embedded is an out-of-browser, native code implementation of Microsoft Silverlight technology used to create rich, [...]

Silvermoon Windows Mobile OpenGL ES Compact Framework UI makes Microsoft’s devteam look like amateurs

Here’s what Windows Mobile (and the much hated MSM7200 SOC) can do when coded right:

Here’s what Silvermoon is:

Project Description
.NET Compact Framework 2.0/3.5 Control library
that uses OpenGL for rendering.
This is the first beta release of Silvermoon, a collection of windows mobile compact framework 2.0 controls to build modern user interfaces with transitions, alphablending and other effects.
Silvermoon [...]

BlackBerry 9700 reviewed and loved

BlackBerry Tour vs BlackBerry 9700

The BGR boys just slapped up a review of RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry 9700. I must say that I’m surprised to see how small it is compared to the Tour. It really looks small but also solid. Here’s what they say about the hardware:

The 9700 makes the Tour look like [...]

Microsoft’s Courier Tablet details!

What the…Gizmodo just posted a whole bunch of info (and video) of Microsoft’s internal Tablet prototype named Courier. It’s said to have dual folding 7inch capacitive touch-screens that can be operated by fingers or stylus for handwriting recognition and a 3mpx camera with flah on the back. It still remains to be seen if this [...]