FireFox [Fennec] Mobile, For Touch Pro?

Considering the dominance of Opera Mobile 9.5 on all of HTC’s latest “big hitter” devices, it sort of makes sense that if you were going to release a competing browser, you would want to use one of the power devices like the Touch HD, but it’s not available for the NAM market. So the next big thing would be the Touch Pro.

A few weeks ago I posted about the Alpha 2 release of Fennec,  and did not really expect any news of a windows mobile release this early in the year. Well a post over at WMExperts will warm the cockles of any Touch Pro owners heart. Or Not. Information from the Mozilla Wiki, points in the direction of a February release, but there are plenty of caveats included!

We are targeting a Milestone release for the first week of February, targeting the HTC touch pro.

We are two patches away from the meta goal of building from trunk. The tools changes have review from dougt, and are waiting for review from ted, who has promised review by the end of the week. NSPR changes are waiting for review from Nelson, who asked for and received a patch against NSPR trunk

So we know what the team is working towards, but nothing has been promised, although when a development team starts talking about release dates, even though you might want to take it with a grain of salt, it seems Fennec is imminent. Well for some of us with HTC Touch Pro’s any way.

Via WMExperts

Mozilla Wiki

An Apple Mid, Tablet, or iPod XXL!

Well the iPhone Nano has been the toast of the MacWorld rumours, getting early and lot’s of coverage, thanks to not one, but two case makers, letting the rabid fanboys, get what they think is an early look at the iPhone Nano all be it fleeting.

From the Washington Post
The analysts still say it’s inevitable, the critics still say it’s unlikely, and the fanboys are still panting over mock ups and screaming, “yes!” However, this time there might be a little more to it. Vaja–a company that specializes in protective cases for mobile devices–briefly added an iPhone Nano category to its Web site, where you could pre-order a case for this non-existent Apple toy

Needless to say I’ve been skeptical about the Nano iPhone, for a long time, but the feeling around this  rumour seems to be moving from “glass half empty” to “glass half full” on this one. In a rather strange twist today, we’ve gone from minimise to supersize in one foul swoop.

How would you like a netbook sized iPod touch, what about a 7 to 9 inch screen? Well a little tweet from TechCrunch I saw this morning is pointing in that direction!

Press release: Xmas Freebies – SBSH Mobile Software

I recently had the chance to have a look at a new application from SBSH for WinMo called Calendar Touch, a great, customisable replacement for the native calendar on windows mobile devices.

SBSH have announced a Christmas treble icon extension pack for SBSH Calendar and Calendar Touch. For the low low price of free.

It’s a little Christmas cheer from SBSH to you, which will let you further customise the visual recognition of your categories in the program.

Visually, Calendar Touch is already impressive, but little add ons like this make all the difference.

Hit the link below for the full press release and all of the links to get your Christmas Cheer from SBSH

 

Press release: Xmas Free Icon Stores – SBSH Mobile Software

Android Shuffle, or is it a Quick Step?

The  G1 android phone was and is a ground breaker as far as introducing the new OS from Google. Well it’s not so new now, but except for new applications developed for the OS, and lots of people joining the bandwagon, there has been little movement in the development of devices with the OS on them.

So  what would you say to a T-Mobile G2 device, there has been a rumour going around for a few days now, that, is rather dubious.

Although the rumour has been discredited somewhat, and given a nice bit of photochop, still the posts come, the tenacity with which the mobile community has embraced this bit of folly, is laughable, but the other information that has surfaced because of the impetus provided by this unverifiable tidbit is rather news worthy.

It may have even spurred the bevy of news that has surfaced since it became intertube fodder.

Review: SBSH Calendar Touch.

Today I bring news of a new application from SBSH Software, Calendar Touch. Well if your familiar with a SmartPhone application from SBSH called Papyrus, you would know that it is a complete calendar solution for windows mobile, non touch screen devices. Obviously a natural evolution for Papyrus, from a developers point of view, would be to enable it for windows mobile touch screen devices. Now a program with “Touch” in the title may seem to imply that this application is focused on finger friendliness, and could be misleading to many users, but I’ll let Amit from SBSH explain the naming of this product:

We could have used something like “SBSH Calendar Pro/Classic”, but I’m sure you’ll agree with me that Microsoft couldn’t have chosen more confusing names to indicate the different device platforms. I believe that the naming and use of “Touch” to indicate that this is a touch-supporting device is pretty common by now and it is not an indication to “thumb-oriented-operation”

An interesting point of contention, that resulted in a dialogue, that will probably see Calendar Touch (CT) head down the “Finger” or “Thumb” friendly road in the future, but for now let’s have a look at Calendar Touch in it’s first release