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Jan 28
Found in: Android, Cupcake, Smartphones, Linux, Open Source,

There have been allot of talk about the upcoming Cupcake updates for the Android platform and handsets, finally seeing it in action and I am overly disappointed, FAIL.
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Jul 30 Apple iPhone Nano Resurfaces With Patent
Found in: Apple, iPhone, Apple iPhone, Nano, Smartphones, Patent,

Rumors about Apple releasing an iPhone Nano has been going around for longer than I can remember, these things just never die. Right now a new source of energy which will once again catapult the iPhone Nano thing back into contention is here and it looks legit.
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Feb 13 HP announces new iPAQ phone - hw6900 series
Found in: Devices, iPAQ, Smartphone,

Couple of months ago there was a rumour about a new HP iPAQ hw6900 phone and today it's finally confirmed at the 2006 3GSM World Congress.

The hw6900 is the successor of the hw6500 series and features similar 240x240 pixels 65k color touch display and full QWERTY keyboard. The hw6940 runs the latest version 5.0 of Windows Mobile Operating System for Pocket PC Phones and improves CPU power to 416 MHz, through Intel PXA270 Processor. HP iPAQ hw6940 main specifications are:

• Quad-band GSM phone; GPRS/EDGE support
• Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 OS for Pocket PC Phones
• 3.0-inch 65k color touch display
• 1.3-megapixel camera with flash and mirror for self-portrait
• Full QWERTY keyboard
• Infrared, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi 802.11b support
• miniSD expandable memory

source Phone Arena

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Dec 07 Laridian PocketBibile Has New Content Available
Found in: Windows Mobile, Smartphones, Pocket PC, Freeware,

The Christmas season is almost here and it’s that period of the year when people tend to become more religious. In case that’s happening with you too then you’re going to appreciate the fact tha Laridian PocketBible has updated its content.


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Dec 13 s60htmled for Symbian
Found in: Symbian, Freeware, Smartphones,

I know what you need today for that Symbian handset of yours! You need an HTML editor. Am I right? Well in case I am right then you need to check out this s60htmled freeware application for Symbian.


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Jun 06 $125 Smartphone from Hop-On
Found in: Smartphone, Mobile News,

Hop-On appears to be for mobile phones what the Eee is to computers. The cheapest and most affordable solution. We have shown you the almost disposable $10 cell phone, whose main function was to make calls. Now Hop-On has something different in mind.


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Apr 21 $149 Refurbished iPhone 3G 16GB
Found in: iPhone, Refurbished, AT&T, Smartphones, Apple, 16GB, 3G,

Folks who need an iPhone but can't find come to terms with the high cost can now jump for joy as cheap refurbished iPhones are sneaking around all stealthy like.
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Jul 06 .NET CF 2.0 SP1 comes with support for install to Storage Card
Found in: Mobile News, Pocket PC, Smartphone,

Microsoft have shipped .net Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 with install to Storage Card support!. This is great cause of the memory requirement of .net CF 2.0 placed upon an already limited resource (Smartphones for example) has always been off putting. Because of that most of the developers are still developing in .net CF 1.0.

NET Compact Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 details:

Added Features:

* Added support for WindowsCE 4.2 in both the CAB installation and a Platform Builder Update (For more information on the Platform Builder Update, see Windows CE Download Center.)
* Added the option to install the global assemblycache to the storage card.
* Allow DataGrid cell drawing to be overridden
* Added support for headless Windows CE 5.0 devices by adding a Headless catalog item in Platform Builder. (For more information on the Platform Builder Update, see Windows CE Download Center.)
* Added System SR files to the Windows CE 5.0 Platform Builder catalog item. (For more information on the Platform Builder Update, see Windows CE Download Center)
* Enabled device debugging using mdbg.
* Included LogViewer tools to monitor network traffic.
* Included the .NET Compact Framework Remote Performance Monitor. (For more information, see Steven Pratschner’s BLOG.)
* Added the Serializable attribute.

Fixed Issues:

* Changing VT_BYREF Variants in managed code could lead to a memory leak.
* Inappropriate caching of current UI culture even after CultureInfo.ClearCachedData is called.
* For the HttpWebRequest method, an uncatchable ObjectDisposedException could occur when exiting an application with asynchronous requests.
* Visual Studio hangs on setting a Breakpoint in a function with an infinite loop when it is called from the Immediate Window.
* Breakpoints do not work if the cached, managed dlls in the bcl directory differ from the ones on the device.
* Environment.GetFolderPath returns an InvalidOperationException.
* An access violation occurs when accessing .theControls or .Controls.Count property of a control once it has begun the disposing process.
* The WebBrowser.DocumentCompleted event is fired in a loop when the DocumentText property contains an image inside of a table.
* Files should be extracted to the main storage as a workaround to avoid hardware issues on some storage cards.
* For the HttpWebRequest method, an ArgumentOutOfRangeException occurs when accessing some https:// URLs.
* Timer breaks after GetTickCount wraps around (49.7 days).
* Error occurs when loading the .NET Compact Framework version 2.0 on a device using an ActiveSync push.
* Memory leaks occur when using Com marshaling.
* Installer should check for ActiveSync version and disable deployment if version is older than ActiveSync 4.0 build 4343.
* For the SerialPort class, an IOException is thrown when opening a serial port on the IPAQ 4150.
* A call to HttpWebRequest over SSL with a payload greater than 32 KB hangs on the client when SendChunked returns false.
* For the SerialPort class,an uncatchable exception occurs when Bluetooth is turned off.
* A finalizer for the FileStream class will cause the application to crash if a previous IO operation failed.
* Installation of the .NET Compact Framework fails on low memory devices.
* PInvoke return types of UIntPtr throw a NotSupportedException.
* The Debug.WriteLine method in the .NET Compact framework version 2.0 is not working.
* For the SerialPort class, virtual serial ports are not reported by the SerialPort.GetPortNames method.
* When using COM Interop, a VARIANT_BOOL type is passed incorrectly on ARMV4I.
* The .NET Compact Framework incorrectly performs version comparison when loading assemblies.
* ARMV4I runtime should be removed from ARMV4 Pocket PC CAB to reduce the size of the CAB.
* Corrections needed for Http Abort semantics.
* The DateTime.Now method throws an ArgumentOutOfRangeException.
* Crash caused by using CurrentTimeZone.GetDaylightTime and CurrentTimeZone.GetStandardTime in certain rare stress conditions.

So have a more pleasant development guys

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Feb 11 10 Smartphones From ZTE At MWC 2009
Found in: Windows Mobile, Android, Smartphones, Pocket PC, ZTE, MWC 2009,

ZTE a mobile manufacture from China is about to take MWC 2009 (Mobile World Congress 2009) by storm with a maximum of 10 smartphone handsets, all consisting of Windows Mobile and the potential Android handset.
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May 27 12MP Sony Ericsson Phone For Verizon CDMA
Found in: Sony Ericsson, Smartphones,

12MP camera phones are all the talk now since Sony Ericsson announced the Idou a couple months ago, now it seems there is a CDMA version waiting amongst us.
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