Japan’s mobile operator Softbank Mobile signs the first major corporate deal for iPhone 3G. Under the following contract, nearly 1000 phones will be given to BearingPoint’s analysts and workers across the nation.
According to BearingPoint usage of iPhone is aimed towards improving the productivity of consultants and helping them access information more conviniently.
Use of the iPhone by BearingPoint may let the Japanese companies to consider the handset alongside more business-orientated models like those from Blackberry or running Windows Mobile.
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Softbank Mobile and Apple sign the first major corporate deal for iPhone 3G (Japan)
- October 6th, 2008
- 8:18 am
Sprint confirms of adding HTC Diamond and HTC Pro to it’s list of 3G touchscreen smartphones (USA)
- September 11th, 2008
- 7:05 am
Sprint confirms that it will be adding two new Windows Mobile-based HTC Touch phones to it’s list of 3G touchscreen smartphones including original HTC Touch and the bestseller Samsung Instinct.
The Touch Diamond will be available from late September in USA for $249.99. Adding $50 more the Touch Pro adds an expandable microSD storage slot and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard will go on sale from October 19.
The two HTC handsets will give a rise to the Sprint’s position in 3G smartphone stakes.
Samsung OMNIA brings you the Windows Mobile experience
- September 2nd, 2008
- 12:52 pm
Samsung brings to it’s customers a new experience of Windows Mobile devices, more expensive and much larger HTC Advantage devices, Samsung OMNIA. Specifications of the Samsung OMNIA include:
Specifications :
* Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
* Quad-band GSM and single band HSDPA (2100 MHz)
* 128MB RAM and 256MB flash ROM
* Marvell PXA312 624MHz processor
* 8GB or 16GB flash drive (I bought a 16GB model)
* 3.2 inch 240×4000 high resolution display
* Haptic feedback support
* Integrated 802.11 b/g WiFi radio
* Integrated Bluetooth 2.0 radio with A2DP
* Infrared port
* Integrated A-GPS receiver
* 1440 mAh Lithiumion battery with 5 hours 50 minutes of talk time
* microSD card slot with microSDHC support
* 5 megapixel camera with image stabilization
* TV out support
* FM radio with RDS support
* Weight of 4.30 ounces
* Size of 4.41 x 2.24 x 0.49 inches
HTC brings to you all new Windows Mobile Standard smartphone, the S740
- August 26th, 2008
- 2:15 pm
HTC has announced the launch of a new Windows Mobile Standard smartphone, the S740.
Key Features:
- QWERTY slide-out keyboard
- Traditional 12-keys phone-pad
- Size of 116.3 x 43.4 x 16.3 mm and weight of 140 gram
- GSM/GPRS/EDGE, dualband (900/2100 MHz) UMTS/HSDPA up to 7.2 Mbps, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and GPS/AGPS
- QVGA non-touchscreen measures 2.4″
- Fixfocus camera supports 3.2 megapixel
This device will be shown publically for the first time at IFA trade show and will be launched in September across Europe. No price given as yet.
iPhone may knock out Microsoft’s global position by 2009 end-Analysts
- August 25th, 2008
- 8:19 am
According to an analyst report, it has been forecasted that Apple will sell 13 million 3G iPhone this year and 45 million in 2009. On the lower end, it is also forecasted that Apple will sell around 11 million iPhones in 2008 and another 25 million in 2009.
It is belived that Apple will outnumber the worldwide shipping of number of Windows Mobile smartphones a year after releasing its first 3G device. Microsoft had sold 18 million Windows Mobile licenses in the fiscal year ended June 2008, missing expectations by 2 million and it is also said that will make it even harder for Microsoft to hit its goal of increasing global sales in fiscal 2009 to 30 million.
Let’s see what’s in store for both the companies and for Apple, it’ll be a great effort on it’s part with zero market share little more than a year ago, is able to knock out Microsoft’s global position by the end of 2009.
HTC the chosen one for manufacturing Palm Treo Pro (Taiwan)
- August 22nd, 2008
- 12:35 pm
HTC will now be manufacturing Palm’s latest Windows Mobile-based smartphone, the Treo Pro, sources reveal.
Taiwan based HTC’s experience in manufacturing the Windows Mobile smartphones is the reason behind it’s selection for manufacturing the smartphone for Palm, which is expected to launch in September.
Microsoft misses it’s 20 million Window Mobile license goal (US)
- August 1st, 2008
- 12:20 pm
Microsoft, in 2008, sold 18 million Windows Mobile licences, missing it’s goal of 20 million by mere 2 million. the blame goes to the delayed launch from handset makers.
According to the anlysts, the sales target were impacted due to the delay of Sony Ericsson’s Xperia, which was due in the first quater but was delayed to the second. The iPhone was another factor, which was launched in july is speculated to have made people hestitant of buying a Windows Mobile phone.
The reason could also possibly be that Windows Mobile, which targeted business users, just din’t have enough consumer appeal.Microsoft faces an uphill battlefrom traditional consumer company Apple to its enterprise rival Blackberry is targeting this segment now.
Apple iPhone’s rival HTC Touch diamond launched across 30 countries (World)
- July 31st, 2008
- 1:40 pm
High Tech Computer (HTC), the world’s largest maker of smartphones, has launched its Touch Diamond handset in 30 countries around the world by 50 operators.
The company also plans to introduce four or five more Diamond family products in the second half of this year.
HTC says it has also been successful in working out deals to lower the initial cost of the handset for users. Apple’s US$199 price tag on the 3G iPhone put pressure on HTC, which had originally planned to launch the device for NT$23,900 (US$783) in Taiwan.
Earlier this month HTC announced a deal to sell the Touch Diamond for NT$2,999 (US$98) with certain 3G contracts from Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s largest mobile phone service provider.
The company has already announced one of its new Diamond family products, the Touch Pro, a business handset with a similar design to the Touch Diamond.
Touch Pro shares the curved diamond backside of its sister handset, but it’s thicker due to the Qwerty-keypad that slides out from underneath for easy thumb typing. Also like the Touch Diamond, the Touch Pro is a 3G smartphone with a 2.8-inch touchscreen, and runs on the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS.
Microsoft’s Ballmer Dismisses iPhone
- May 15th, 2007
- 11:34 am
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in declaring recently that “there is no chance” that Apple’s iPhone will get much market share, indicates that the battle of the smartphones might just be the battle of the operating systems, part II.
For the last two decades, Microsoft has mightily overpowered the Mac operating system and others, and has maintained a dominating lead in the sale of operating systems for personal computers. However, Apple, for its part, has been equally dominant (if not more so) in the sale of personal music players, since introducing its phenomenally popular iPod nearly six years ago.
With Apple’s new iPhone slated for release this summer, it will be interesting to see whether Apple, the king of personal media players, can grab a significant share of the smartphone market. Ballmer might say no… but Apple begs to differ.
Apple has repeatedly said that it plans to sell 10 million iPhones, which run an optimized version of the Mac OS X operating system, before the end of 2008. As various analysts have pointed out though, Apple may have a hard time hitting its target because of its decision to work with just one carrier (Cingular/AT&T) and because of the unit’s projected cost: $499 for a 4GB model and $599 for 8GB.
1.Sounds Like Fightin’ Words
During an interview last week with USA Today’s David Lieberman, Ballmer acknowledged Apple’s success with the iPod, but dismissed the iPhone as irrelevant. Irrelevant? Yes, indeed… irrelevant.
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share,” Ballmer said. “No chance. It’s a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I’d prefer to have our [Windows Mobile] software in 60 percent or 70 percent or 80 percent of them, than I would to have 2 percent or 3 percent, which is what Apple might get.”
An estimated 5 million handsets are already powered by earlier versions of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Windows CE. And, in February, Microsoft announced the release of Windows Mobile 6 (WM6), the latest version of its mobile operating system. Over the coming months, a variety of phones powered by WM6 will be released, including handsets from the Orange network in Europe, Softbank Mobile Corp. in Japan, and T-Mobile in the United States.
2.A Tipping Point
At their Mobile and Embedded DevCon in Las Vegas this week, Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division President Robbie Bach said that Microsoft’s mobile business has reached a tipping point. He told reporters that, given the momentum behind WM6, he expects Windows Mobile handset sales to total between 10 and 11 million in 2007, and twice that in 2008.
“Today, there’s almost 150 devices that run Windows Mobile for mobile phones, it’s offered by 125 operators, and also 50 handset manufacturers,” Bach told the audience of developers. “This is a rich, vibrant ecosystem. And it doesn’t matter whether you want a keypad, whether you want a touchpad, whether you want a slider phone, you want a candy bar, you want a flip phone, we have, on the Windows Mobile platform, whatever phone you want.”
Will Ballmer’s dismissal of the iPhone as a high-tech irrelevance be correct? Or will Apple’s uncanny ability to transform form and function into “cool” bring us iCalls, iBusy, and iHang Up? One thing’s for sure: It’s going to be an interesting year in the phone biz, as the battle of the operating systems rages on.
Software spies on Windows Mobile smartphones
- May 12th, 2007
- 8:51 am
Retina-X Studios has introduced a call and messaging activity-monitoring service for Windows Mobile smartphones. “Mobile Spy” enables employers, parents, or other suspicious people to monitor SMS (Short Message Service) text messages and call details online in real time, according to the companySMS, a feature available with most mobile phones, allows users to send and receive short text messages. Now, thanks to Retina-X, if you don’t trust your employee or your child, you can monitor their text messages and other related activities on their smartphones.
The company says its software is completely hidden from view. Following setup on the mobile device, the application records all SMS text messages and calling information, and then silently uploads logs to a designated private account on Retina-X’s webserver. Thereafter, the messages and activity logs can be accessed over the Internet. Mobile Spy runs in “total stealth mode,” the company claims.
The company suggests one other possible use: backing up your own cell activity as a record of all important communications.
Specifics of what can be monitored are:
SMS monitoring — it can record every text message sent or received, including the sender’s number, recipient’s, the date and time, and the message itself
Call monitoring — it can log all inbound and outbound phone calls, including the number dialed, the caller’s number, the date and time of the call, and the direction
Mobile Spy works on smartphones running Windows Mobile 2003 through 6.0, the company said. It is available via download from the company’s website, priced at $19.97 per month; $49.97 quarterly; $69.97 semi-annually; or $99.97 per year.
The only question that remains is this: is there spyware to detect Mobile Spy if you suspect that your employer or someone else is monitoring your phone?
