Windows Mobile

Microsoft has shrewdly created an application environment that makes the new Windows Phone 7 handsets -- on sale Monday November 8 -- instantly useable to buyers, in many of the e-mail, photo, social networking and work activities they pursue daily.

Another week, another roundup of what you may missed in the world of geek. During the past seven days we've looked at how to hack your Windows Mobile phone to run Android, how one design student is looking to save the world one power outlet at a time, and how you can get more hands on with your computers.

Microsoft is so dominant on the desktop. Yet virtually all of its plans to replicate that power on mobile devices have flopped or died in the cradle. Will Windows 7 be the exception?

With a touch-friendly and clean interface, Windows 7 is a huge overhaul from Windows Mobile phones of the past.

Speculation is mounting that Microsoft will show off the Windows Mobile 7 operating system at a wireless industry conference in Barcelona next week. Customers have waited through a series of delays and setbacks, but if those predictions turn out to be true, it could help to generate some renewed excitement over the waning mobile platform.

In a new report from IDC, analysts predict there should be 68 million Android-based devices on the market by 2013. Huge growth, but is even this underestimating Google's mobile OS?

The score gets higher and higher. The mirth and magic of the iStuff and Windows Stationary is getting tromped by announcements both at CES 2010, but also counter-announcements elsewhere. HTC, only recently a contender in mobiles, gets lots of airplay as well.

Though Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 has only just been officially released, newer builds of the operating system are popping up in what are called cooked, modified or hacked ROMs for smartphones. Together, they're being unofficially dubbed version "6.5.1." and seen as a preview of an early 2010 Windows Mobile update, and even a harbinger of Version 7, due later that year.

Microsoft yesterday announced the global availability of a number of handsets running its brand new mobile operating system (OS), Windows Mobile 6.5. While most of the new features and enhancements are aimed at consumers, the company says it isn't overlooking the enterprise.

Hopes were high for Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5, but the mobile operating system was met with disappointment by critics. Reviews are concluding Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 can't hold a candle to Apple's iPhone.

The reviews of Microsoft's new mobile OS, Windows Mobile 6.5, are in -- and none of them are glowing. It seems that Windows Mobile 6.5 is more of a superficial cosmetic overhaul, not a bona fide upgrade capable of handling the mobile market's stiff competition.