Windows Mobile 6.5: Where's the beef?

Matthew Miller: Microsoft announces Windows Mobile 6.5 at Mobile World Congress in Spain. As a fan of the OS, I am pretty disappointed with the update and even more that we may have to wait 9+ months to actually see it on any device. Read the full story.

• Gallery: Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots
  
• Larry Dignan: Microsoft's mobile strategy: Can it thread the prosumer needle?

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  The message from GSMA Barcelona: Fragmentation

  John Carroll: The future of smartphones involves lots more vendors, lots more competition, and lots more fragementation.

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  Android lays low at Mobile World Congress

  The head of Mozilla’s mobile business, Jerry Sullivan, tells ZDNet UK how his company is adapting the Firefox browser for mobile phones and handheld devices.

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  Mozilla's mobile Fennec open to add-ons

  The head of Mozilla’s mobile business, Jerry Sullivan, tells ZDNet UK how his company is adapting the Firefox browser for mobile phones and handheld devices.

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  Gmail for iPhone goes offline

  Jason D. O'Grady: The unannounced "technical concept" version of Gmail was demoed on the iPhone and the HTC Magic which runs Android.
  • Matthew Miller: DataViz shows Documents to Go on iPhone with copy and paste
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  AT&T confirms Dell's smartphone - but Dell doesn't

  Sam Diaz: In Barcelona, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega reportedly let slip that Dell is entering the smartphone business - news that has been swirling around the rumor mill for some time but has yet to be confirmed by Dell.

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  Ballmer praises openness, attacks iPhone

  Steve Ballmer told a panel that "open" refers to "the power and success of the partner ecosystem approach [that Microsoft] pioneered at the beginning of the PC revolution."

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  Nokia announces N86 with 8 megapixel camera

  Matthew Miller: As usual, Barcelona is the centerpiece for new mobile products that are ready to hit the road. More announcements:
  • Quickoffice for Android announced, viewer only
  • Google Android-powered HTC Magic debuts
  • HTC announces Touch Diamond2 and Touch Pro2
  • Microsoft announces My Phone service and Marketplace for Mobile
  • BOLT browser moves to public beta phase
  • Nokia announces S60 application store, Ovi Store, with social location feature
  • Nokia brings two new form factors to the Eseries with E75 and E55
  • Microsoft Recite provides voice storage, search, and retrieval on Windows Mobile
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  Microsoft says (again) it isn't making own phone

  Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft officials emphasize again that the company is not -- contrary to evidence and opinion -- making its own Microsoft-branded phone.

• Skype strikes deal with Nokia

  Nokia announced a partnership with Nokia, the largest cell phone maker in the world, to put the Skype Internet calling software onto its phones.

• Universal charger coming to cell phones

  At least 17 cell phone makers said they would cooperate on a single charger interface - making them available in more than half the cell phones by 2012.
  • Andrew Nusca: Universal mobile phone charger promises 50 percent less draw

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  Cheat sheet" Microsoft's mobile announcements

  Mary Jo Foley: The company says it is no longer focusing primarily on business customers, but both business and consumer users; and is no longer thinking about mobile devices in a vacuum.

• Adobe: Full-featured Flash 10 coming to a smartphone near you

  Larry Dignan: Adobe will roll out a full-blown version of Flash on smartphones running Windows Mobile, Android, Nokia S60/Symbian and Palm beginning in 2010.

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  Garman-Asus to show off nuvifones

  Larry Dignan: Garmin and Asus next week will show off two nuvifones, a smartphone with a GPS twist, but the larger question is whether proconsumers will buy it.
  • Gallery: Phones to keep you on track

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  Photos: Hands-on with the HTC Magic Android phone

  We spend some quality time with Vodafone's HTC Magic, the Android-based successor to the T-Mobile G1, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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