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The above image of the latest Sprint Business brochure shows that the HTC Touch Pro 2 is slated for an upgrade from its current Windows Mobile version in 6.1 to Windows Phone Classic 6.5 sometime this month.
Many HTC Touch Pro 2 users on Sprint have been long expecting the [...]

Pricing and availability information for the highly anticipated T-Mobile HTC HD2 has been all but confirmed after months of speculation.
The Windows Mobile 6.5 powered device will not be receiving the previously confirmed Windows Phone 7 Series update, with HTC now confirming that the device is in fact incompatible with the new platform.
Pricing is set at [...]

Adobe’s Principal Product Manager for Flash Mike Chambers has released a statement on his personal blog concerning Flash on Windows Phone 7 Series. In the statement, Chambers elaborates that “Adobe and Microsoft are working together to bring Flash Player 10.1 to Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Phone 7 Series.”
Chambers didn’t state a timeframe for availability, [...]

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Phone 7 Series will represent a clean break from the current Windows Mobile codebase that has formed the basis of Windows Phone Classic.
Because of the focus on Windows Phone 7 Series to integrate newer technologies and platforms such as Silverlight and XNA, existing applications built on the current platform up [...]

Natasha Kwan, Microsoft’s General Manager for Mobile Communications Business in the Asia-Pacific market, has stated that all current Windows Mobile 6.x.x devices will not be upgraded to Windows Phone Series 7, including the HTC HD2 that many have thought met initial specifications “because it doesn’t have the three buttons”, pointing to the requirement that [...]

Microsoft has updated its Windows Marketplace for Mobile application with new features for Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 , chief among them being support for application installs directly to memory cards instead of forcing installations on the device’s flash memory.
In addition, the update also includes the World View feature which allows users to browse and [...]

Venerable specialty smart device manufacturer Pharos has announced its newest device with a ruggedized bodyshell in the 565.
The 565 will be the first smart device manufactured by the company to be classified under the IP54 standard for measuring shock and impact resistance from a specified height, with resistance to shock and impact up to [...]

Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha has stated that the resurgent manufacturer is reconsidering Windows Phone device development after initially halting development due to Microsoft’s delays in delivering Windows Phone 6.5 and Phone Series 7.
Motorola also halted development of its own internally developed Linux-based, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices due to a lack of R&D capital in [...]

Microsoft’s senior product manager Michael Chang has alluded to the possibility of allowing other game console online platforms access to Windows Phone 7 integration on the same level as the Xbox LIVE integration previously announced for the operating system, with Sony’s Playstation Network a strong possibility.

“If you look at our history in mobiles, we have [...]

Acer has officially announced the forthcoming launch of its latest Aspire One model with Intel’s newest Atom processor line (Pine Trail) and Nvidia’s new ION 2 integrated graphics solution based on the Optimus dynamic graphics switching technology.
The Aspire One 532G will launch in March with the ION 2 graphics solution. Speculation abounds that the yet [...]