Despite their best efforts with Windows Mobile 6.5, Microsoft’s smartphone platform continued to fall behind in mindshare faced with Android, iPhone OS and webOS, and the latest rumors are that the company plans an incremental update in order to tide us over until Windows Mobile 7. Digitimes’ industry sources reckon that Microsoft plan to release Windows Mobile 6.6 (codenamed Maldives) in February 2010, and while no specific event is mentioned it seems likely that such a launch would take place at Mobile World Congress 2010.
As for what WM6.6 brings to the table, the biggest improvement is said to be support for capacitive touchscreens. Full story...
Early adopters beware: if you were planning on picking up one of NVIDIA’s new Fermi-based GeForce GTX 480 or GTX 470 graphics cards when they go on sale later on this month, you could end up getting a less capable card than expected.
Tempted by Viliv’s range of MIDs and convertible netbooks, but wary of ordering sight-unseen from importers online? That’s all set to change this week, with the announcement that select Viliv devices will be showing up in Best Buy Mobile stores.
Let’s face it, the Toyota Prius – while still a reasonable hybrid – has lost one of its more important draws: its newness.
If the early preview shots of ASUS’ Rampage III Extreme motherboard got your juices flowing, then the full information about the Intel X58-based ‘board should be enough to knock you off your feet.
Welcome to the latest edition of the week in review here at SlashGear. Tons of new gear popped up last week, so let’s get right to it.
All of this mess with Google, China, and Google China has come to a head as of late. We’ve seen Google be the brunt of brute-force cyber attacks, before which they were trying to uncensor a nation of censorship.
Well, well, well. Look at what we have here. It’s been awhile since we last saw HP’s flexible display, and we have to admit, it’s been way too long.
There’s no hiding the fact that when you get something new, the first thing you want to do is open up the box, pop in the battery (if it needs a battery), and then turn that thing on and start going about your business.
While the iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta has been out since the official announcement of Apple’s iPad, developers haven’t been able to actually submit their applications anywhere.
The push for 3D TV is definitely going full force, and therefore seeing an announcement like this is only a little bit surprising.