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Sprint's HTC Touch Diamond: September 14 for $249.99. Honest.

Engadget Mobile — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:34:00 GMT

Filed under: Handsets , HTC , Sprint , Windows Mobile , EV-DO , CDMA Now that Uncle Walt has gone and opened the floodgates , details are starting to pour in on Sprint's imminent release of the Touch Diamond , a device that should actually manage...(read more)

Treo 800w gets updated, USB and battery main beneficiaries

Engadget Mobile — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:42:00 GMT

Filed under: Software , Palm , Windows Mobile Though the Treo Pro has tempered pretty much any love we'd had for the suddenly ancient-looking 800w , we've got to hand it to Palm -- they've been on the ball with software updates since the phone's...(read more)

Palm Treo Pro gets props from Telstra for extreme signal strength

Engadget Mobile — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:50:00 GMT

Filed under: Handsets , Palm , Telstra , Windows Mobile , GSM , EDGE , HSDPA , UMTS For our money, there's really nothing worse than dropping a few hundred bucks on a shiny new 3G toy, taking it home to the Outback, and realizing that we're getting...(read more)

Mossberg reviews HTC Touch Diamond: "can't disguise WinMo's flaws"

Engadget Mobile — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:45:00 GMT

Filed under: Handsets , HTC , Sprint , Windows Mobile , EV-DO , CDMA It was only a matter of time before ole Walty got his hands around Sprint's still-not-official Touch Diamond , and we can't say that the conclusion he drew is at all shocking...(read more)

Motorola Q11 is probably like the Q9, but two better

Engadget Mobile — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:12:00 GMT

Filed under: Handsets , Motorola , Windows Mobile There's a "Motorola Q11" chilling in the Bluetooth SIG's product directory, and while the SIG is famously tight-lipped about revealing gory details about its members' unreleased wares...(read more)

Microsoft job listing hints at App Store-like 'Skymarket' for Windows Mobile

Engadget Mobile — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:03:00 GMT

Filed under: Software , Windows Mobile While Apple's App Store was far from being the first of its kind , we're now seeing a job posting over in the Redmond area that suggests that Microsoft is looking to produce something similar for its Windows...(read more)

Sprint, Bluefish taking names for Touch Diamond, September release confirmed

Engadget Mobile — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:02:00 GMT

Filed under: Handsets , HTC , Sprint , Windows Mobile , EV-DO , CDMA Everything prior had been rumors, hearsay, speculation, and leaked documents -- but now that Sprint has something out in the open, it's going to be a whole hell of a lot more difficult...(read more)

The HTC S740 gets handled

Engadget Mobile — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:24:00 GMT

Filed under: Handsets , HTC , Windows Mobile HTC is keeping the S740 under wraps at IFA , but the crafty folks at newmobile managed to score some time with the new QWERTY slider, and it looks pretty decent. Thinner than the Touch Pro, the keyboard is...(read more)

FCC approves an HTC Touch Cruise with North American 3G -- but why?

Engadget Mobile — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:18:00 GMT

Filed under: Handsets , HTC , Windows Mobile , GSM , EDGE , HSDPA , UMTS With the dull roar of frenzied anticipation (okay, that might be over the top, but you know what we mean) surrounding the launch of the Touch Diamond in all its variants around the...(read more)

Samsung's BlackJack II gets its Windows Mobile 6.1 treatment

Engadget Mobile — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:49:00 GMT

Filed under: Handsets , Software , Samsung , Windows Mobile This has to wrap up the lunacy that has seen Windows Mobile 6.1 updates for just about everything that needed one in recent times. We've seen 6.1 hacked for Sammy's BlackJack, but it's...(read more)

E-TEN's glofiish X610 and V900 just about ready for release

Engadget Mobile — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:14:00 GMT

Filed under: Handsets , Windows Mobile , GSM , EDGE , HSDPA , UMTS , E-TEN Announced all the way back at MWC in February, the glofiish X610 and V900 are finally nearing release -- or so E-TEN claims, anyway. Though the X610's spec sheet isn't...(read more)

Palm cooking up a CDMA Treo Pro?

Engadget Mobile — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:02:00 GMT

Filed under: Handsets , Palm , Windows Mobile , EV-DO , CDMA The hardened news hawks over at China Economic News Service would like to hit us up with some knowledge: Palm allegedly plans on outing a CDMA version of its Treo Pro "in the future"...(read more)

HTC Touch Diamond stuff showing up in Sprint stores

Engadget Mobile — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:25:00 GMT

Filed under: Handsets , HTC , Sprint , Windows Mobile , EV-DO , CDMA It's still anybody's guess when the Touch Diamond will actually launch on Sprint, though the latest rumors suggest that it has once again been moved up to September 2 after initially...(read more)

Samsung i770, u810 pictured for Verizon

Engadget Mobile — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:49:00 GMT

Filed under: Handsets , Features , Samsung , Verizon Wireless , Windows Mobile , GSM , EV-DO , CDMA Don't worry, you throng of dual-band Samsung smartphone fanboys and girls out there -- Verizon hasn't forgotten about you. It's been a little...(read more)

When it rains, it pours: Verizon XV6800 gets hooked up with WinMo 6.1

Engadget Mobile — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:13:00 GMT

Filed under: Software , HTC , UTStarcom , Verizon Wireless , Windows Mobile We're not sure if it's coincidence or if there's some concerted effort to push out overdue Windows Mobile 6.1 updates all of a sudden, but for whatever reason, Verizon's...(read more)