Windows Mobile

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.

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.