Can you install every Operating System on Windows Mobile devices?

When you can live with small fonts and a tiny screen on your WinMo this is a geeky way to install Ubuntu on your smartphone.

Ubuntu on the HTC Touch Pro2

Video via Pocketnow

Btw this is already available for the X1 via X1BUNTU (“UBUNTU 8.04 for X1 WORKING WIFI”)

Engadget and more heads up XDA developer forum

Geeky but not usable? Please give us your opinion.

This video is the TechEd Middle East Dubai 2010 Opening Keynote by Eric Rudder. He presents ”Indiana Jones” game on the WP7 series

Although this game is on Zune HD available month ago, this is a great presentation because it shows the ability to resume the same game on a different platform.

Eric Rudder Playing Indiana Jones On Stage

Think about Netflix or Windows Media Center with this functionality. If you’re watching a movie on a PC, you can pause and move it to your TV. And if you need to get on the bus, or even a plane, you can resume it on your phone.

Great

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Control the linux-based Dreambox, produced by the German multimedia vendor Dream Multimedia, remotely with your Windows Mobile smart phone and WMDreamRemote

If you’re reading this, you probably already know all about the Dreambox, one of the most popular lines of digital television series ever to be produced.

Dreambox 7000-S via Wikimedia

Given all the fuss over these digital receivers being remotely controlled by an iPhone, owners of smartphones powered by Windows Mobile are probably feeling left out in the cold right about now. Is there any way to make Windows Mobile-based mobile phones remotely control a Dreambox as well?

“What in the world is a Dreambox?” you still may ask.

Okay, a quick review of the Dreambox reveals it to be a highly-popular series of Linux-based set-top box receivers for DVB satellite and cable digital television channels. These Linux tuners even support terrestrial television (that means your standard plain-jane TV channels, for you non-technical folks out there). It was originally produced by Dream Multimedia, a German multimedia company. The Dreambox series used Linux-based software originally developed for DBox2, another Linux tuner. The DBox2 was originally distributed by KirchMedia, another German company that has since gone “kaputt” due to a bankruptcy. The bankruptcy was a boon to Linux geeks worldwide, as it flooded the market with unsold Dreamboxes available for hobbyist tinkering. The low-cost Dreambox hardware makes Digital Video… Read the rest

Windows Phone 7 skin LeSScro series for older WinMo phones

Skin WAD 2.x, Windows Phone 7 series LeSScro design with lot of fetaure supported… like Stocks… podcast…streaming… Meteo & more…

via “Hasty hacker hobbles together a Windows Phone 7 skin …” MobileCrunch via XDA-Developer (WP7 – LeSScro edition)

Do you like this skin?

No native apps allowed in Windows Phone 7 Series

Windows Phone 7 is only three days old, but leaked docs from Microsoft supposed to show that the requirements for the developer have turned up (via XDA-Developers)

#WP7 will use both Silverlight and XNA, this decision makes sense it will it the Xbox 360 integration.

Microsoft has been rebuilt their Mobile devices Windows-Mobile from the ground-up, the result could be described as the Zune Phone, the Zune HD has impressed many people

The only allowed apps will be:

XNA-written apps – mainly for games and full screen immersed apps, that don’t use standard controls; XNA uses .NET technology (managed, not native)

.NET apps (probably Silverlight?) without possibility to invoke native API, i.e. only “managed” APIs allowed

MSMobile via wmpoweruser

Applications that were made for Windows Mobile 6 are compatible with Windows Phone 7 Series.

via xda-developers

Developers though, can look forward to Microsoft’s legendary documentation and support.

Windows Phone 7 Series Features Video

The old Windows Mobile name is now gone, replaced by a longer name Windows-Phone-7-Series.

I have seen WiPho 7 or “Could WinPho7 Be a Contender?” around the web, which one is your favorite?

Flash 10.1 running on Motorola Droid, HTC HD2 and Nexus One

Once Flash Player 10 is released, almost all Android devices would be provided an update that would make the phones a lot web friendly than they are right now.

This demo video shows embedded YouTube videos and a Flash-based web game on a Motorola Droid.

Motorola DROID running Flash 10.1 demo

via @mobileburn

Motorola revealed that Adobe has been working with the Droid by Motorola, during the process of development of Flash Player 10.1, which is expected to be released by the first half of 2010.

Adrian Ludwig from the Flash Player Team on Adobe demos various Flash video and game sites on two HTC devices the HTC HD2 and Nexus One.

HTC HD2 and Nexus One

(via @TV-Adobe)

More videos on Adobe Devnet “Flash Player 10.1 prerelease software demos and interviews”

SPB Mobile Shell has been available exclusively for Windows Mobile smartphones with touchscreens, version 5.0 is to be released for Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian.

Watch the new portable SPB UI Engine in action

First look on the new SPB Mobile Shell 5.0

One important innovation in SPB Mobile Shell 5.0 is the Natural Interaction Engine which includes support for G-sensor and multitouch, a dedicated Feedback Engine providing realistic visual and haptic responses, and a Physics Engine responsible for the real-world behavior of all objects.

“…, SPB Mobile Shell is planned to be spread to more mobile platforms.” SPB Software

The Microsoft Turtle aka PB10ZU has a unique design look all its own.

When the first rumors of Project Pink leaked out last fall, the most interesting phone detailed was a little slider named the Turtle. Is this Microsofts Avatar moment, the company made flesh. Sharp, who cut their teeth building the Sidekick way back when, should release the phone in March, probably with direct Microsoft involvement.

And the phone they were supposed to make. MobileCrunch Remember when people were all excited about Microsofts weird tablet stuff. So the dots likely are being connected to whatever it is Microsoft ends up announcing this at Mobile World Congress. You can clearly see it’s manufactured by Sharp, which, as we all know, also manufactured the Sidekick, which Microsoft later purchased.

Look what was just seen poking its head out of its shell for the Federal Communications Commission.

Apparently, Turtle is somehow related to Project Pink and Windows Mobile 7

Idea via Gizmodo and Engadget

Microsoft tries to show that its phones can still compete with those of Google and Apple but their new smartphone OS flagship Windows Phone 7 will not support Flash at initial launch

Image via windows7themes.net

Windows Mobile 7 Won’t Get Flash according to Informationsweek and Engadget Adobe confirms no Flash in Windows Mobile 7 (updated).

“Update: Sorry kids, we have independent confirmation: Windows Phone 7 will not support Flash at initial launch.”

HTC will build the  first ‘Windows Phone 7′ smartphone in Q4

Engadget is still the greatest source in the Blogosphere for latest news

Today they unearthed the first ‘Windows Mobile 7 Serie‘ screenshots.

Screenshots via “Windows Mobile 7 interface and device leaked on MWC banners“

It seems that the iPhone has shaken the mobile industry even more than we had thought. Handset designers like HTC and LG may have been hand-picked to develop flagship phones and could show early forms of these at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft will seek to show that its phones can still compete with those of Google and Apple.

Today “Windows Phone 7 Series – It’s official !“

Chances remain that the company will only shown Windows Mobile 6.6 or similar, though these have been increasingly downplayed… Read the rest

First Images of Dell’s latest Droid Phone prototype the Dell-Mini-5 aka “Streak” or “M01M”

Once they have met with general recognition of specialists, such a tendency Dell tells secrets to assume that the Mini-5 built into so far officially unpresented Intel processor family, Moorestown.

It should be noted, however, that a very powerful ARM processors, such as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tegra 250, or Nvidia, have just been officially presented at CES. The company also did not disclose how the processor used in the device. The screen resolution is higher than in the Nexus One type of smartphones with the operating system, but Dell would not give exact dimensions in pixels. Android immediately reacts to the touch screen and gives the finger to operate smoothly. Dell effectively modified the interface of Android with a few own widgets, which allow access to Facebook, Picasy and other such services without the need to open specific programs.

At apress conference at CES Dell only briefly demonstrated Internet Tablet with a 5-inch screen in a brief photo session for the journalists present in the courtroom, but later in the lounge in the company showed a bit more openness – for example, confirmed that the device will be called the Mini – 5.

The Mini 5 has a 1GHz Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm, which should mean it’s fast enough to do a healthy amount… Read the rest

comScore’s latest Smartphone Platform Market Share anylysis from Sep. 2009 – Dec. 2009

“…, Palm with 6.1 percent share (down to -2.2 percentage points), and Google with 5.2 percent share (up 2.7 percentage points).

Get an idea about how the Chrome OS tablet UI might look in hardware

While Tablet hardware is somewhat a commodity , the big issue is software. It’s a fast operating system that’s completely browser centric.

One month ago Gizmodo stated that Google and HTC are working together on a new Tablet concept which shall have its base on Google’s Chrome OS

The Google Tablet: Head to Head with Apple?

This is a video of Google’s Chrome OS Tablet concept. This video can give you an idea about how the Chrome OS tablet UI might look in hardware.

UI of Google’s Chrome OS Tablet concept

There’s no competing operating system with native apps competing for attention with Google’s web services, and there’s not necessarily a need for a contract or carrier as on smartphones.

The Most Direct Way To Get People Online is the Physical Manifestation of a Browser: And if Google wants more people on the web, a low cost, ad subsidized web tablet is probably the least complicated way to do it from a hardware, software and business partner standpoint.

That’s not too dissimilar to Google’s free software model for Android, where Microsoft has to charge licensing fees to manufacturers because they don’t have enough revenue from online services or ads to make up for the cost.… Read the rest

Can you really make a comparison between Google’s new HTC-Nexus-One and Apple’s iPhone-3GS? Apple iPhone fans can’t await Apple’s new iPhone 4G

The HTC Nexus One was introduced recently to rave reviews. Some claim HTC could add more features to the Nexus One, which at present, are not working on Apple’s iPhone 3GS.

“Comparing the two smartphones is not fair.”

First watch the video, which has been brought to us by PhoneArena.

This video compares the HTC Nexus One vs. iPhone 3GS

“…so you can get a good idea of their similarities and differences,…”

Apple iPhone 3GS and HTC Nexus One: Side by Side

The opinions still differ, some love their new HTC Nexus One phone and other would never swap their iPhone with any Android phone.

Image credits and more information to this comparison via PhoneArena

When Apple will release the iPhone 4G, will it  kick and will it pass on the HTC Nexus One?

Engadget has uncovered some new features on Apple’s new iPhone OS 3.2

• CoreGraphics to PDF API for sure, printer API is being prototyped
• Spell checker in text fields and web views using AppleSpell
  • multiple languages
  • grammar checking (English-only so far)
  • address book integration
  • user added words
  • SDK access
  • Included dictionaries: Apple Dictionary, New Oxford American

… Read the rest

Is your Android phone and your private data on it secure? This list of Android security apps will help you to secure all your private data and your private communication on your Droid

Now that Google’s Android mobile OS has been released to the public for some time and now thoughts of security are floating around in our minds. I am sure that many people just want a simple app to take care of security for them. Well, the good news is that since Android is based off of Linux inherently it is less susceptible to malware. The the flip side, Android users should think about their own private security since even Android developers say that their product is not completely secure due to the fact that apps must intercommunicate. Ultimately you will need to decide how much security you want on your phone. Androlib.com offers several free security apps to help you browse the internet, text your friends, and talk as securely as possible.

Secure SMS

This app will allow you to encrypt and decrypt your texts. This can be great for users who communicate potentially sensitive information via texting.

more via Handango

WaveSecure Mobile Security

WaveSecure is an app that takes action when your phone is lost or stolen. Via a secure website you can destroy or recover data, track changes to your SIM card, lock the phone, or back-up your personal… Read the rest

Here is a list of free Smartphone winter sports apps, games, themes, wallpapers and sources where you can find more skiing and snowboarding applications especially for the Android-phone and the iPhone

With the 2010 Winter Olympics approaching fast, interest in winter sports is on the rise. Even if you live in a tropical climate (lucky) or do not particularly like leaving the house, you can play winter games by downloading them to your mobile phone. There are several Android games available for indulging your inner snowboard star. If getting in the snow is your thing, there are applications for making your outdoor time easier and more interesting. These sites offer reviews of winter themes, winter games for mobile download, Android and iPhone applications for skiing and snowboarding, and winter sites for optimizing your outdoor experience.

Android Winter Sport Apps and Themes

1. Android Freeware offers a variety of sports centered freeware for your Android device, including but not limited to winter sports.
2. Snow Report provides snow and ski conditions from over 125 ski resorts around the world to help you plan your next vacation, or help you decide whether you want to leave the lodge that day.

3. Gadget Review offer reviews of Satsports handheld GPS Navigation device, and also the Satski application for Android users. Satski uses your smartphone’s GPS software to track you… Read the rest