Qualcomm Incorporated today announced the Company has sampled its first dual-CPU Snapdragon™ chipsets. The Mobile Station Modem™ (MSM™) MSM8260™ and MSM8660™ solutions integrate two of the Company’s enhanced cores running at up to 1.2GHz. Targeted at enabling high-end smartphones, the MSM8×60 solutions are third-generation chipsets from the Company’s expanded Snapdragon platform, which has been powering smartphones, tablets and smartbook devices in markets around the world.The MSM8260 for HSPA+ and MSM8660 for multi-mode HSPA+/CDMA2000® 1xEV-DO Rev. B feature two enhanced CPU cores running at up to 1.2GHz for high levels of Web application and multimedia performance, including a powerful GPU with 3D/2D acceleration engines for Open GLES 2.0 and Open VG 1.1 accelration, 1080p video encode/decode, dedicated low power audio engine, integrated low power GPS, and support for 24-bit WXGA 1280 x 800 resolution displays.

Just in case you missed it, Microsoft released the final version of Office Mobile 2010 last week. This useful pack contains five applications - Word Mobile 2010, Excel Mobile 2010, PowerPoint Mobile 2010, OneNote Mobile 2010, and SharePoint WorkSpace Mobile 2010. While there are not any significant improvemets in the first three named, PowerPoint Mobile is now much better. Not only it allows you to edit the presentation (well, at least it supposed to but when I tried it, I got the "PowerPoint Mobile doesn't allow editing of .ppt, .pps., .ppsm and .ppsx files" error message), but also features a new "Presentation Companion" option allowing you to control presentation running on desktop from your mobile device. Also business users will be pleased with the SharePoint WorkSpace Mobile 2010 tool enabling direct access to the documents stored on company's SharePoint server. More…

Beginning today you can download the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh (WPDT CTP) from http://developer.windowsphone.com, which means you can now build Windows Phone 7 apps on the final release of Visual Studio 2010 (VS2010). While this update is primarily intended to enable development using the final release of VS2010 there are a few new things here too. More…

Today, Microsoft alogn with Sharp, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone introduced on ceremonial event two new Windows phone devices called KIN ONE and KIN TWO (see the gallery). They are not a classic Windows Mobile devices, but more or less stupid cellphones aimed at a group of users who professes modern social life through websites like Facebook, Twitter and more. Just for those who do not care how it works, but who wants to be simple users of devices and share their experiences and thoughs with friends. More…

It's more than half a year when the new developmental version of update for Mobile Outlook was presented - it was a version for older devices with Windows Mobile 6.1. A few day ago, Microsoft troted out with the final version which brings us sorting of emails according to conversations with simple design, also offer the most frequently used features, arranged appointments in the colleague's calendar with whom you are planning a meeting, the synchronization of SMS with Exchange Server and thus able to react from classical Outlook or via OWA or enhanced voice mail. These new features are, however, available only to users whose devices are synchronized with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. To those should appear soon a prompt to download update, all should pass fully automatically.

After many many months of developing, on Opera website finally appeared the final version of both browsers - Opera Mobile 10 and Opera Mini 5. Both browsers are completely free. Even if it is now available native beta version of Opera Mini, the final version published on the website still requires Java. Opera Mobile is again available in two versions - for touchscreen and non-touchscreen devices. There is not much news, but everything should be optimized and functional (but unfortunately it is not true, because Opera Mobile renders poorly perhaps most of the complicated pages). If you want to try one of these browsers just download either installer for desktop, or directly installer for your device (just open the website m.opera.com from your device). More…

After weeks of speculations, Microsoft yesterday finally released official specifications for the devices with Windows Phone 7 Series. Probably the most interesting and somewhat unexpected requirement is the display resolution, because in addition to classical Windows Mobile devices with WVGA resolution (480 x 800 pixels), the new system will also support the HVGA resolution, ie 320 x 480 pixels (for example this will have the upcoming HTC HD mini). Archaic QVGA will probably end. Other requirements for WP7S devices are capacitive display with support for at least 4 contact points (for multitouch technology), sensors (A-GPS, acceleration, approach, compass and light), at least 5 megapixels digital camera with flash and a separate control button, multimedia codecs with suppport for acceleration, at least 256MB memory and 8 GB Flash, GPU with DirectX 9 support and the main processor type ARM7Cortex/Scorpion or later. The last requirement is a trio of buttons for controlling below the screen. More…

Sad news noticed today editors of Palmserver. Skype company pulled back from their website installer for Windows Mobile and soon it does not intend to return it back. According to an official statement of the company, the reasons are mainly bad user experience especially when using the program for voice calls. The same fate met Skype Lite, a lightweight version of Skype for mobile phones. More…

FlightControl, one of the most downloaded, best-selling and the most addictive game for iPhone can appear soon on your Windows Phone device. This is an express logic game with simple controls and primitive goal - land as many planes as you can without a crash. You have to draw an exact route for every plane to land. But it is not easy as it looks like, from the edges of the screen arrive more and more planes, fighters, helicopters and waterplanes in an infernal pace. In addition, each type of aircraft flies a different speed and has to land only at a particular runways or heliports. More…

AT&T* and HP today announced the upcoming availability of the new HP iPAQ Glisten, a feature-rich 3G world phone that meets the increasing demands of modern mobile professionals. AT&T’s first smartphone with an AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) screen, the HP iPAQ Glisten is loaded with features tailored with the business power user in mind. The iPAQ Glisten features a full QWERTY keyboard and five-way directional pad for fast, easy and accurate messaging including SMS/MMS and e-mail. The touch-enabled AMOLED screen, among the best displays on the market, allows users to easily navigate through menus, windows, and links with the touch of a finger. More…