Hi All,
I've been using WinMo for years and am a confirmed HTC fan. But in recent months I do find myself slightly jealous of the newer location/environment iphone and android apps.
E.g. the android scan software where you can photograph a barcode and it finds the prices, or the iphone programs which can show you the local cinemas with a list of shows etc.
I know Live Search can replicate some of these features but I`m not sure why WinMo doesn't have equivalents?
Anyone else feel the same?
http://mobigasmic.blogspot.com/2008/12/windows-mobile-barcode-scanner.html
http://www.lockergnome.com/news/200...shes-up-best-movie-content-for-mobile-phones/ <--- maybe no longer in service. Was from 06.
Just searching around for phones and then i saw this one. Its called a Anycool t1000 and its got windows mobile on it! Ive searched this forum for the word anycool and found nothing. I presume its some china junk phone. But would be cool to test it out.
I found it here.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Mobile-phones/Vodafone-network/Other/auction-230146892.htm
is it really winmo?
i dont see winmo OS mentioned from the site
yea i did a search on that webpage with the keywords "win" and nothing relating windows mobile showed up. on the pic it shows "Windows Media" and looks similar to WinMo. never seen that phone before. anyone else know?
From the looks of it, it isn't a WM phone but a Chinese imitation. There are plenty of then floating around here in India.
yea its weird ay.. surely having a phone that looks like winmo and has the media player called windows media player must b illegal. but yet since this phone is so hard to find it mustnt be winmo. or someone jus photoshoped that screenshot of course
(sorry 4 the spelling, im using my phone and its weird having 2 use proper gramma on a phone!)
Anyone know when this will be brought to our beloved Topaz?
http://www.google.com/mobile/navigation/#p=default
It looks great.
I read an article about it yesterday but there is no date for a release. I think there will be no WM release till it's a stable release.
Just read carefully:
Google Maps Navigation is an internet-connected GPS navigation system with voice guidance. It is part of Google Maps for mobile and is available for phones with Android 2.0.
Wow. Looks fantastic. I did come across this a little while ago but I think that its someones own program that just uses Google Maps as a background.
I was told by a friend who has a friend who works for Google that there are currently no plans to port Google Navigator to Windows Mobile. They are looking into bringing it to the iPhone, and it's obviously going to be released for Android 2.0 devices, but that's it.
I really, really hope they change their minds...
Why does everyone hate Windows Mobile? iPhone and now Android get all the love, and we have to beg to get some of the nicer programs...
we just have to port android faster
johnus said:
I was told by a friend who has a friend who works for Google that there are currently no plans to port Google Navigator to Windows Mobile. They are looking into bringing it to the iPhone, and it's obviously going to be released for Android 2.0 devices, but that's it.
I really, really hope they change their minds...
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I call shenanigans. The same was almost certainly said for every major new feature in the current google maps (even google maps itself), but then it all showed up for us windows mobile users too. It doesn't make good business sense for google to ignore part of the market/userbase.
shadowline said:
Why does everyone hate Windows Mobile? iPhone and now Android get all the love, and we have to beg to get some of the nicer programs...
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are you stupid? just because 1 app isnt on wm everyone hates it? Its just a platform exclusive, its just like how wm has windows live, my phone, media player, office etc... win mobile os alone is better then android 1.5, 1.6, 2.0.... windows mobile has some of the best apps running on its the platform and your complaining over some cheap turn by turn gps map software? Nav N Go's iGO 8 is probably better than this
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are you stupid? just because 1 app isnt on wm everyone hates it? Its just a platform exclusive, its just like how wm has windows live, my phone, media player, office etc... win mobile os alone is better then android 1.5, 1.6, 2.0.... windows mobile has some of the best apps running on its the platform and your complaining over some cheap turn by turn gps map software? Nav N Go's iGO 8 is probably better than this
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Looking at his contributions to xda he certainly is not even close to being stupid.
igo8 costs a lot, pay even more for TMC traffic updates, and keep paying for updated maps. Google Navigation is free. Plus had street view feature which is not available in any other PND.
Google Navigation has already been submitted to apple for approval, so it is not a platform exclusive feature. Accept the fact, windows mobile is loosing respect. Even as a platform. Mio navigation is moving to android. TomTom has moved to linux already. Garmin has it's own platform. Windows CE hasn't recived any good updates for a long time. It won't be long before most of these cool navigation softwares will disappear from windows. I like my phone a lot.. but ocasionally I find myself compromizing. I can't even use my phone to it's full potential without using a custom ROM.
You are not really having an argument about googles release strategy, are you?
Google Maps Nav will come for WM quite soon. The fact that it was released now first for Adroid is not really a reason to argue here, is it?
For me windows mobile never again.
(Awaiting for a serious maemo.)
arkavat said:
Looking at his contributions to xda he certainly is not even close to being stupid.
igo8 costs a lot, pay even more for TMC traffic updates, and keep paying for updated maps. Google Navigation is free. Plus had street view feature which is not available in any other PND.
Google Navigation has already been submitted to apple for approval, so it is not a platform exclusive feature. Accept the fact, windows mobile is loosing respect. Even as a platform. Mio navigation is moving to android. TomTom has moved to linux already. Garmin has it's own platform. Windows CE hasn't recived any good updates for a long time. It won't be long before most of these cool navigation softwares will disappear from windows. I like my phone a lot.. but ocasionally I find myself compromizing. I can't even use my phone to it's full potential without using a custom ROM.
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ok, but just to tip you on somthing it dosent matter what os, platform, manfacturer etc, you'll always have to do some sort of customization to get the best out of the product.
i just brought a mytouch 3g and to tell you the truth, ive done just as much flashing as my touch diamond 2 n i am far from satisfied with it. I hope htc continues to make ui's for android b/c they are surely turned wm into a dream.
Dear all,
Tere are some useful applictions on iphone, but I have not seen on wm. Could any one help me to find these apps which can be used on wm?
1. cnn money mobile for wm
2. bloomberg mobile for wm
3. mobile price watch ( oil, natural gas, gold )
tks
you can use RSS feeds to keep you updated, you can even find the latest headlines on twitter.... that is the way I manage to get those, and it is even integrated to manila.
Anyone knows if it's possible to have anything similar to Google Goggles, Google Shopper and Apple AroundMe for our HD2?
Thanks
oh yes, I would be interested to!
AroundMe = Next2Me (WM Marketplace)
Augmented Reality Apps like the ones you mentioned havent been developed for WinMo yet.