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RUMOR: Is the Samsung SGH-i780 coming to the U.S. as the SGH-i788?

info@theunwired.net (Arne Hess) — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:33:57 +0200

Engadget Mobile found a new Samsung phone, listed by the FCC which is called the Samsung SGH-i788. Unfortunately not too much is known yet but remember, Samsung uses "SGH" for GSM and UMTS smartphones while "i" is used for its Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 smartphones. And if you compare FCC's drawing of the SGH-i788 with the SGH-i780, it looks quite similar. Furthermore, while Samsung tried to hide details of the drawing, if you scroll the FFC PDF quite fast, you can see a square camera whole, centered on the top with a speaker right to it (on the left the SGH-i780, on the right the unmasked SGH-i788):

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SERVICE: CommonTime launches new Lotus Notes mobility solution for Windows Mobile

info@theunwired.net (Arne Hess) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:58:00 +0200

Global Lotus Notes mobility expert CommonTime has teamed with Microsoft to provide a mobility solution offer exclusively targeted at businesses looking to utilize Lotus Notes Domino and System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 solutions. Providing real-time mobile E-Mail, messaging and line of business applications, the combined solution offer will feature Microsoft's System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 solution for security and device management with CommonTime's industry-leading mobile messaging and Notes database access products, mNotes and mForms.

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VIDEOVIEW: Unboxing the HTC Shift Windows Vista / Windows Mobile UMPC

info@theunwired.net (Arne Hess) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:52:18 +0200

Finally, after HTC's first UMPC, the HTC Shift was delayed several times, two days ago I've finally received my German Shift with the much appreciated German QWERTZ keyboard. Running on Windows Vista Business and a kind of locked Windows Mobile 6 Professional, the HTC Shift supports quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and triband UMTS/HSDPA up to 3.6 Mbps, as well as WiFi b/g and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. Powered by a Intel CPU at 800 MHz and backed-up by 1 GB or RAM, the HTC Shift is able to run Windows Vista Professional. If not needed, there's a second OS installed, which is a locked Windows Mobile 6 Professional HTC calls SnapVUE, which runs on a Qualcomm MSM 7200 CPU at 400 MHz.

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SERVICE: Google releases Picasa Web Albums for Windows Mobile

info@theunwired.net (Arne Hess) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:22:40 +0200

Following Google's shiny AJAX-featured Picasa Web Albums for the Apple iPhone, Zak Cohen, Software Engineer at the Google mobile team, started thinking if they can make an AJAX interface work on new Windows Mobile devices too? After all, Internet Explorer Mobile supports many of the advanced browser features that were used to build the iPhone version. The team wanted to give it a try and started to work on a Windows Mobile compatible version which the Google Mobile team is pleased to launch today. So far available for Windows Mobile 6 Classic and Professional devices (touchscreen) only, you can now enjoy a much faster and slicker way of browsing Picasa Web Albums on your device:

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VIDEO: What's new in Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1?

info@theunwired.net (Arne Hess) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:50:19 +0200

And another video demonstration, this time of Windows Mobile 6.1. This time, the Windows Mobile team sat together and recorded a video, demoing most of the new features in Windows Mobile 6.1. While this is quite a long video (40 minutes, so prepare some Popcorn first before you press the play button), this video shows several features in great detail that you may have not seen elsewhere. Also note, there are other improvements in Windows Mobile 6.1 that weren't covered in this video, including Internet Explorer Mobile's new Zoom feature and integration with SCMDM 2008:

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