You can now download the Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile. Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile is a step closer for Opera into it’s goal of unifying the web browsing across it’s different platforms. The Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile have a similar feel to the Opera 10 web browser for the desktop and Opera Mini 5 which is currently also in beta.
Mozilla, the organization that manages the development and community collaboration for the Firefox web browser, has started developing a mobile version of its Mozilla Firefox web browser a while back. The Mobile Firefox version, officially know as Fennec, started out with a Windows Mobile version of the web browser. A version for the upcoming Nokia N900 connected phone that runs the new Maemo 5 mobile platform is also under development. In line with Mozilla’s thrust into the mobile space it has just announced the winner of its “Firefox goes mobile” design challenge. The winner is the PocketFox design by Yaroslaff Chekunov who hails from Russia.
Developing software for mobile phones is such a challenge! Not only do you have to deal with the wide variety of hardware, you’d also have to deal with the different platforms available. Imagine trying to make your mobile application or game available on the Symbian, Java, Windows Mobile, Android, iPhone OS, Blackberry, Danger platforms! Continue reading …
The Inquirer has an exclusive walththrough of the upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 being dubbed as the Windows Phone operating system. The operating system is running on the new HTC Touch Diamond2. The demo shows off some of the new features of the OS, the Market Place (online app store for mobile phones based on Windows Mobile), A demonstration of the “My Phone” service which allows users to archive their phone data, remotely wipe data on lost or stolen mobile phones based on Windows Phone OS and restore your data to a replacement mobile phone.
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MobileVT might be what you’re looking for if you need a VT terminal emulator and you are a user of a mobile device running on either Pocket PC 2003 SE, Windows mobile 5.x Pocket PC, Windows mobile 5.x Pocket PC Phone, Windows mobile 6.x Classic, Windows mobile 6.x Professional. It’s only requirements are that you device has a touch screen and Microsoft .Net Compact Framework 1.0 or above is installed (it is usually natively installed on Windows mobile 5 and later devices). Continue reading …
Eltima, creator of SyncMate, has released version 2.0 of the synchronization software for the Apple Mac. With the tool you can sync your applications with various devices. With version 2.0 of the software, you can sync Windows Mobile devices, your Mac with another Mac, Nokia series 40, your Google account and your Online Backup Account. Sync contacts and calendar in your Mac with other Macs, Windows Mobile devices, Nokia S40 and backup these data online absolutely for free with SyncMate Free Edition!
It looks like June will be a busy month for mobile platform updates. Besides the announced availability of the Palm Pre on June 6, the Android open mobile platform version 1.5 cupcake revisions has been bumped off to early June.
Windows Mobile 6.5 is now finished and will soon be available according to the Windows Dev Team Twitter updates. What’s even more interesting is the upcoming Apple Development Conference in June which has raised speculations and discussions on the Net that not only will it feature the iPhone OS 3.0 release but also a new iPhone HW as well. The Apple WWDC has been sold out as of now.
If you’re a Windows Mobile developer and want to start selling your software, here’s some good news for you. Registration for developers that want to sell their software via the upcoming Windows Mobile marketplace has recently started.
Developers can submit their complete profile information and start the registration here. You can read more about it and keep yourself updated via the Windows Mobile Team blog.
I started something has posted an article of what looks like some awesome improvements to the themes for Windows Mobile with the upcoming version 6.5. The new designs are at least a magnitude better than what I’ve use on my HP mobile phone. I wonder if we’ll ever see a trend of mobile phone manufacturers providing long term support for operating system upgrades. Anyway, here’s a couple of shots of the new theme designs from the istartedsomething post.
