Roughly 10 percent of Microsoft employees use an iPhone according to tipb.com. Using an iPhone at Microsoft isn’t forbidden, but it’s discouraged. Microsoft will only re-emburse expenses for Windows Phone-based devices for its employees.
Nearly 10,000 iPhone users were accessing the Microsoft employee email system last year, say two people who heard the estimates from senior Microsoft executives. That figure equals about 10% of the company’s global work force.
They also claim Apple employees, are not thought to be using Windows Mobile devices in any perceptible quantity. Well do you folks want to check how many of them use a PC for Games ? and plz check back with Apple employees once Windows Phone 7 comes out , will ya ?
We have seen many a times users create iPhone UI for windows mobile, there are so many of these iPhone clones available, even some lock screen mimic the iPhone UI but looks like with Windows Phone 7 the tables have turned.
iPhone users want the WP7 UI and now there is theme available via cydia ( only for Jailbroken iPhones ). Its quite interesting, whole world used to get iPhone themes, but now iPhone users are getting WP7S theme. Microsoft surely did turn the tables over.
Till Windows Phone 7 comes out Apple does not consider Windows Mobile to be a threat, their major competition now comes from Android and what way does apple dealt with competition ? they hit them with a lawsuit. Apple’s complaint with the International Trade Commission makes an explicit distinction between HTC’s Android devices and its WinMo phones (referred only to as “DSP Products”), and the Android sets are repeatedly called out for infringing certain patents. We don’t know exactly what Apple’s issue is yet — the problem could be the specific way HTC implements Android.
Apple’s filed suit against HTC, alleging that the company is infringing 20 patents “related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture, and hardware.” Here is the official apple statement “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
HTC made this statement to Engadget ” We only learned of Apple’s actions based on your stories and Apple’s press release. We have not been served yet so we are in no position to comment on the claims. We respect and value patent rights but we are committed to defending our own innovations. We have been innovating and patenting our own technology for 13 years. “
iPhoneToday is now Nobeing developed by a new xda-member tronikos. He has resumed development and released version 1.4 with some bug fixes and improved settings.
Changelog : iPhoneToday v1.4
1. Support for Pocket PC 2003
2. Support for Portable Navigation Devices (Windows CE Core)
3. Today item height is automatically figured (you can have multiple today items and it should still work properly as long as iPhoneToday is the last one)
4. Vertical scrolling
5. Added header text for each screen
6. Support for BMP files without using the imaging API (BMP images are actually a lot faster)
7. Made almost everything configurable
8. Bottombar can have different settings from the mainscreen
9. Icon text can be set to 0
10. Icon offset can be set to a negative value to make the text overlap the icon
11. Commandline arguements and special icons with the same commands (–reload, –relaunch, –add, –options, –close, –exit, –goto:, –goto:next, –goto:previous, –goto:down, –goto:up)
12. Added copy icon and copy here in the right click (long tap) menu
13. Paths can now be relative to the application directory
14. Better orientation and rotation support
15. Special characters such as “, < , >, & are properly handled in the XML (if you manually edit the XML make sure you escape them!)
16. Use the last indexed LED as the vibration LED
17. Scroll through the pages with the directional pad.
18. Many other bugfixes, improvements, and optimizations
Request : I know some of you guys hate the iPhone UI and flame everything that tries to mimic this UI. But there are many users who like these UI on Windows Mobile. So keep the flaming to a minimum ;)
AreaMobile.de performed a browser comparison between the leading smartphones on the market ( HTC HD2 vs iPhone 3GS vs Droid vs Nokia N900 vs Palm Pre )
TechCrunch has recently published a video which puts typing on Windows Mobile ( Samsung Omnia II with Swype Input Keyboard ) against the multi-touch keyboard on the iPhone. There are also rumors that Swype will be included in a new Android phone in the first quarter of 2010.
If you guys want to get a similar keyboard for other Windows Mobile devices. Try SlideIT – See the Review for SlideIT
Sweet: I already have the beta of this app . METROFIED [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
AppTastic: Yanko – thanks for the concept! We’re looking forward to getting a lot more feedback from the users here. We’re committed to making AppTastic the best marketplace...
Tony: Looks so good. Please make a paid app – no ads.
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Andrew Chobaniuk: Thanks for the heads up! [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
Emiel Zuurbier: I would like to see the posibility of making a trip that uses different kinds of transportation as from train to bus, bus to subway, subway to train. With a map and directions,...
MrVamosMuchachos: Nice idea. You could take some ideas from the application “SBB”. It is the public transport app from switzerland. [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
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