Articles Tagged “Windows Mobile”
It’s official: Motorola drops Linux Java and Symbian UIQ, embraces Android
by Darcy LaCouvee on Oct 30, 2008 2 Comments">2
In the company’s quarterly earnings call, Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha confirmed that he is reducing the number of cell phone platforms that his company supports. Symbian OS and the UIQ user interface, as seen on devices like the Motorola Z10, will no longer be used except for devices that the company has already committed to building. Motorola’s own Linux Java platform (originally called JUIX) suffers the same fate. Jha said that his company will use Windows Mobile and Android for its mid-tier and high-end handsets for both consumers and enterprise. That’s great news for newcomer Android. The less good news …
HTC’s John Wang says Android and Windows Mobile are complementary
by Darcy LaCouvee on Sep 30, 2008 0 Comments">0
Taiwan’s DigiTimes has posted a brief story on HTC’s CMO (chief marketing officer), John Wang. In the story Wang says that the Android platform and the Windows Mobile platform are complementary in nature. Windows Mobile and Android handsets form separate ecosystems with their own merits and advantages. The former provide users with high performance, interoperability and a large library of applications, while the later give handset design companies and developers more flexibility. He also argues that the future success of Android will not be built upon its open source nature, but rather the platform’s innovation. [via SlashPhone]
Microsoft sees the light, starts work on its own app store
by Darcy LaCouvee on Sep 01, 2008 0 Comments">0
This isn’t really directly Android related, but it is interesting to see that Microsoft has just posted a job description on a Seattle job-hunting site that describes a position as a lead for its “Skymarket” project for Windows Mobile 7. If Apple, Google, and Microsoft are all going to have integrated app stores, it seems likely that Nokia and friends will have to follow suit in the not so distant future. [Read]
Google Android running on an HTC Touch Dual
by Darcy LaCouvee on Apr 13, 2008 0 Comments">0
It seems that the guys over at XDA Developers, a Windows Mobile centric hack/developer site, have managed to get Android running on a number of HTC devices. Leah Geary of Coolsmartphone has it running on his HTC Touch Dual and has posted a number of videos of it working. It took a number of reboots and such, he says, but hey – it works. Which, of course, makes everybody wonder, if a bunch of random guys can plug away and get it working, how hard could it be for HTC to do it?
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