Tag Archives: WindowsMobile

ComScore: Android tops 52 percent of US smartphone share, iPhone cracks the 33 percent mark

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Both Apple and Google have reasons to break out the champagne in the wake of ComScore’s latest market share figures. Android is still sitting prettier than ever and just reached a new high of 52.2 percent for US smartphone share as of this past July,…


Swann TrueBlue 4000 series D1 DVRs pack up to 8 cameras, 1TB of storage for home security

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Home security may not have reached all-seeing aerial eye proportions, but Swann’s TrueBlue 4000 series of D1 DVR systems can place up to eight digital peepers throughout your island fortress or humble abode. With a resolution of 480 x 704 pixels, the…


Swann TrueBlue 4000 series D1 DVRs pack up to 8 cameras, 1TB of storage for home security

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Home security may not have reached all-seeing aerial eye proportions, but Swann’s TrueBlue 4000 series of D1 DVR systems can place up to eight digital peepers throughout your island fortress or humble abode. With a resolution of 480 x 704 pixels, the…


HTC HD2 gets unofficial Android 4.1 Jelly Bean port, becomes the Phone That Would Not Die

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There’s a golden rule for the HTC HD2: if there’s a new mobile OS, the HD2 must get a port. It’s practically a law of nature, then, that Evervolv at the XDA-Developers forums has produced a pre-alpha port of Android 4.1 for the originally Windows Mob…


Switched On: Clash of the troubled titans

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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Fans of the Lincoln-Kennedy coincidences can appreciate similarly contrived dynamics in comparing Nokia and RIM (neither of which, contrary to the occasionally expresse…


Microsoft reminds users of Windows Mobile Marketplace’s imminent demise

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It truly is the end of an era. In just under two weeks, Microsoft will follow through with its plan to shutter the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace for good. In a cautionary email, Redmond asked that those still using a WM device “install any available…


Switched On: Not weaned from Windows

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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. This recent announcement that Dell would not be pursuing new smartphones for the time being following the retirement of its Venue Windows Phone devices raised the spotl…


Microsoft putting Windows Mobile 6.x market out to pasture

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Are you still out there rockin’ a Windows Mobile device? And, yes, notice we did not say “Windows Phone.” Well, we’ve got some bad news (besides the fact that your handset is seriously obsolete) — the Windows Marketplace for Mobile is getting ready t…


ComScore: US subscriber count reaches 100 million, Android and iOS use continues to climb

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Oh, ComScore. Every month you come out with a new market share report for smartphones, and every month it seems to offer the same theme: Android and iOS go up, RIM and Microsoft go down. The latest report, which details the three-month period ending …


Windows Mobile takes up roost in Windows Phone, thanks to WML project (video)

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Whether you’re looking for a good laugh or a simple trip down memory lane, seeing Windows Mobile 6.1 hobble around like a grumpy old man within Windows Phone might just satisfy both those urges. The technical stunt comes courtesy of the Dark Forces Te…