Microsoft And The Rough Diamond
Blog And when HTC chucks up the first Android handset later this year, let's see how the Windows Mobile team react. That was always fairly unlikely though - a release of Android this early in the year would just be too half-baked.
[May 6, 2008, 17:32]
HTC To Make First Android Handset
News HTC, the mobile-handset manufacturer best known for its Windows Mobile smartphones, is set to become the first vendor to release a handset using Google's Linux-based software stack, Android. According to Seiche, this broad adoption will make...
[November 6, 2007, 11:08]
Google Android Developers Push Location-based Apps
News Pitted against Microsoft Windows Mobile and Symbian devices, which are both popular in China, Android needs to beat them on usability to be accepted, Huang added. In accordance with the recent interest around location-based services, a wave of such...
[May 19, 2008, 8:46]
Google's Non-paranoid Android
Leader If you were disappointed by Android, the subject of Google's mobile-strategy announcement, then you were hoping for the wrong thing. Android and the attendant Open Handset Alliance (OHA) are aimed squarely at Redmond.
[November 6, 2007, 14:43]
What Will An Open Source Symbian Do?
Blog Despite its dominant market share in smartphones, Symbian has been looking increasingly under threat, from the enterprise-savvy of Windows Mobile, from the uber-usability of the iPhone, and (a little bit over the horizon), the promise of a free...
[June 24, 2008, 11:23]
Mobile Consortium Releases First Linux Platform
News Unlike Google's Android project, which is a complete software stack, LiMo's is a middleware platform, allowing members of the consortium to add their own proprietary applications on top. The middleware approach also makes it possible to run Linux...
[March 31, 2008, 16:28]
Surveys Show Vista Struggling One Year On
News Finally, if Google's mobile-phone stack, Android, takes off, we could be seeing hundreds of millions, or even billions, of Linux-based systems running web apps, like the gPC, but not on a desktop," said Moody.
[November 23, 2007, 17:36]
Can Linux Forget Desktops And Servers?
Blog There are phones, too, with Android expected to make an impact. Windows Mobile hasn't done that well outside the US, which has always been a smaller and freakier mobile phone market than you might expect.
[November 26, 2007, 14:48]
Windows Mobile Makes Strides In Asia
News On the emergence of Google's upcoming phone OS, Sorensen said Microsoft's game plan "should not be changed", because he does not expect Android to encroach upon the business mobile market — where Microsoft is "focused".
[November 29, 2007, 15:11]
