The Pantach Duo, offered by AT&T for almost year, has just received an update to Windows Mobile 6.1. The upgrade to Microsoft’s latest and greatest smartphone platform is available for free here. Pantech’s update website for the Duo says that the new firmware will provide “other enhancements” in addition to Windows Mobile 6.1, but fails to specify what any of the enhancements are.
What’s New?
The new version of Windows Mobile adds a sliding panel interface for the Today Screen, improvements in handling wireless connections, and an update to Internet Explorer Mobile. The software upgrade was released on September 29th last month and will update your Pantech Duo to Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard. This smartphone launched at $200, but it’s now available from AT&T for $80. This price reflects its fairly “bare-bones” feature set. read more…
RIM announced over the wire that they have updated the BlackBerry JDE to version 4.6 officially. They have also released a updated beta 4.7 for the upcoming Storm. These are designed to create and test applications not only for the Storm, but also for BlackBerry Pearl Flip and BlackBerry Bold, the other two new smartphones produced by the Canadian company.
Version 4.7 of the BlackBerry JDE, which is now available in public beta, allows developers to write applications that will work across both touchscreen and physical-keyboard-toting handsets. Developers writing for the Storm can also take advantage of the handset’s accelerometers — the internal sensors that make it possible for the screen orientation to flip from portrait to landscape when the phone is turned onto its side, or for games to be based on the phone’s motion. read more…
Samsung’s new a637 for AT&T is unlike other handsets. It’s design is just looks like an oversized pill. The Samsung SGH-A637, available from AT&T, is a fun and hip handset available in a stylish white color that has top of the line multimedia capabilities.
It is a candy bar phone with clean design and supports 3G connectivity, which allows for seamless access to MobiTV, Cellular Video and XM radio. A 1.3 megapixel camera, AT&T Video Share, access to AT&T Mobile Music and AT&T Navigator, Bluetooth wireless technology, and a microSD slot for expandable memory makes this phone a multimedia lovers dream. read more…
Digia Plc has created a first fully finger touch controllable web browser for UIQ based mobile phones. Designed for UIQ 3 and Symbian OS the Digia @Web provides user oriented mobile browsing experience. One thing that Sony Ericsson phones lack is a strong developer community to support its UIQ OS. Digia has decided to give UIQ the time to shine with the release of its @Web mobile web browser app for Sony Ericsson phone that come equipped with touchscreen display.
It features a full touch UI and a desktop-like rendering of web pages giving the high-end line of phones from Sony Ericsson the needed app to make it a serious mobile internet device. It’s now available for you to try out, but if you wish to get the full version, you’ll have to cough up 8 Euros or roughly $11 for it. read more…
Following a recent trend of actually announcing products after they have been leaked to death, Motorola has made the Q11 official. The Q11 makes some styling changes compared to the Q9, but still has a full QWERTY keyboard and will run Windows Mobile 6.1. The new Q11 ditches 3G connectivity as seen in the Q9 and instead adds a WiFi chip that automatically connects to Boingo hotspots.
The Motorola Q11 is also expected to launch with “WAP 2.2 / HTML / Pocket IE 6,” which means that this Motorola smartphone may just be the Windows Mobile 6.1-powered device that makes good on Microsoft’s promise to deliver a revamped Pocket Internet Explorer. The Motorola Q11 gets a significant boost in camera technology as well, as it now sports a 3-megapixel sensor, though for all of those pixels, an auto focus feature would have been nice. To store those images, the phone will accept microSDHC cards up to 32GB in capacity. read more…
