Forgive the pun, but we got a perfect storm here: The Storm 2, of course, right around the corner, the Christmas shopping season is steps away, and Verizon, perhaps, sitting on a pile of fat stagnation Storm inventory is to go. As the largest carrier in North America do? Leave the original prices through the floor, of course, that means you can now pick up for the scarce 9530 $ 49.99 for a two year contract after discounts. If you remember, he went for $ 199.99 at the start, so this is a worthy cause (for Verizon, in any case - it was easy to get a free Storm through third parties for a while now), so I just did not Freak Out at us when replacement hits every month, right?

Last video we reported on the Storm 2 makes SurePress thing was unceremoniously pulled from YouTube, but this new video really makes up for it. It appears on the screen using piezo electronics to detect the pressure at any point on the screen, instead of “all or nothing button On The Storm 1, and our video master kindly explain it in painstaking detail Embedded video after the break. The screen is really strengthens when he switched off or locked, and there is a kind of sponge to give him a lifetime. He also stated in no uncertain terms, GSM and CDMA versions of the device will be packing WiFi. According to his account Twitter, we should expect a video of the OS just fine.

Microsoft efforts to return the lost ground in the mobile phone business will see the two companies offering different versions of its operating system next year.

The company will continue to widely sell Windows Mobile 6.5 on a large number of phones, working more closely with a number of phones to sell phones built on a new version of Windows Mobile, which for several years, in the process, according to a source familiar with the plans of the company .

While Windows Mobile 6.5 is quite interim update for the mobile operating system, Microsoft was selling, Microsoft is also working on a sweeping effort to overhaul the operating system. Both of their plans for Windows Mobile 7, and his old “pink” the purpose of the project in accordance with the kinds of experiences seen in the iPhone and Android, a more advanced and voice interfaces, and higher end equipment.

A Digitimes report this week called on “dual-platform strategy, although I am not sure I would use this term to describe the two versions of Windows Mobile is sold at the same time.

It is clear that Microsoft needed to do something serious if he hopes to fulfill its mobile ambitions. For many years now, the company made a relatively modest update for the Windows Mobile operating system, which dates back to the time code Powered PDAs, and other organizers, who were neither telephones nor, in some cases, even connected to the Internet.

At the same time, Palm has gone back to the drawing board and reinvented itself with WebOS Pre basis, while the iPhone and Android have entered the market, and even Research In Motion has probably done more to capture consumer interest, than Microsoft.

Inside Redmond was moved a number of people on mobile devices. In addition to the server, a former executive, Andy Lees, who now works the phone business, a former Mac Business Unit chief Roz Ho has been leading one of the most secret of premium mobile experiences “team is responsible for some of the” pink “work. The company has acquired Danger, a well-known to create adolescent-center T-Mobile Sidekick, and Ho, the head of the unit as well.

Software Maker also involved people from his Tellme unit, to help improve speech recognition in Windows Mobile.

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Microsoft is working on Windows Mobile 7 that now seems eternity, especially in the mobile world. The product must be in the hands of the phone earlier this year, but has suffered several delays.

Officially, the company will be discussed only in the Windows Mobile 6.5, and it is planned to start using “Windows Phone” brand.

“We are on the way to deliver Windows phone that will run Windows Mobile 6.5 this fall,” said the representative.

But, in a discussion with reporters earlier this year, Microsoft Entertainment division president Robbie Bach stressed the importance of new user interfaces, such as communications, and voice.

“If you have time, we are not in Advanced Windows Mobile as quickly as we like, I think the answer is that the truth. You will see that change.”
- Robbie Bach, Microsoft president of Entertainment unit “Regardless of the specific plans for any specific product, need only assume that over time it becomes part of products that we produce,” Bach said, according to a Seattle Times account. “Do you know the specific dates and all those things, I leave aside, but it is a huge trend. And as soon as you have something like a voice and to interact with you wonder why you did it the old way.”

And even though Microsoft denies it expects to enter the mobile phone business itself, he said that he thinks should partner more closely with several companies to obtain more competitive devices.

“To date, we have not done as good work as I would like to build a relationship and get the right level of integration,” Bach said at the company’s financial analyst meeting last month. “Obviously phone takes time to develop, so that will not happen overnight, but you want to see a drastic improvement of integration between what we are doing software and hardware of our partners do on the hardware side.”

The company also has to have its software to work on multiple devices, as a result of the fact that Lisa and Bach, the so-called “lowest common denominator” experience.

In a July interview with CNET News, Bach acknowledged that Microsoft needed to continue the pace.

“If you have time, we are not in Advanced Windows Mobile as quickly as we like, I think the answer is that the truth,” said Bach. “You’ll see that change.”

However, Bach did not say much more about where to move Microsoft, not to mention that the company has made many changes in the working group on production over the past year.

“My view on these topics is cheap talk,” he said. “The next thing we are going to show people, is the Windows Mobile 6.5. There a lot of innovations in the pipeline.”

Update:: This is not Windows Mobile 7, but I just saw this parody of the video and add Mashable.

Sixty-seven per cent in 2009, venture capital support for mobile applications are beginning to develop their app to work on multiple platforms - namely, at the beginning of the six mobile operating systems: iPhone, Palm, RIM, Android, Symbian and Windows, according to new data from research firm chubby Brain, 67.

Of the 33 per cent, which is a platform to develop specific applications to develop for iPhone dominates all other platforms with a little less than half of all investment dollars. This makes sense for several reasons, primarily the fact that the App Store is the most simple and clear path to profits said applications.

Interestingly, the data that developers are actively supports six different platforms and for different reasons. For example, the need to support Symbian to reach a wider group of users, and you should try to reach an Android support what could become the next big swath of mobile devices. However, management development efforts for all these platforms will eventually become a major headache.

I suspect that we will see in the future move to support devices in the Apple iPhone, Research In Motion of BlackBerry, as well as the company’s Google Android operating system, over time, as the smartphone functionality is becoming more important globally.

Regardless of how you enjoy perusing BlackBerry applications with a device in his hand, it is likely the rate you want to see on the big screen when you are sitting in front of the computer. ROME, after Apple in the iTunes Store App model, created in the Internet-shop “for its use.

It began on Tuesday, the electronic version of RIM BlackBerry App mirror world of software in a directory of mobile plant, as well as several additional services.

There is emphasis Featured items in the search bar, as well as the opportunity to browse by category. You will see information about pricing and minimum requirements, the star ratings, and can gain access to user comments. A large carousel displays screenshots of the app, and there is a hyperlinked list of icons that can be used to share information about Virally OK with e-mails and contacts with their social networks.

Now you can run the installation from your computer.

(Credit: Illustration by Jessica Dolcourt / CNET)
Most notable of all (and also recalls the iPhone in the App Store), you can start downloading the application from the RIM App online world. At least in theory. The reality, unfortunately, in the TAD less reasonable.

First, it is not as easy as connecting the device to your computer - no payment process with the website, and not directly transfer files to your phone. This e-mail yourself a link. Follow it from the BlackBerry, and it opens in the browser BlackBerry, when you click another link to download the recording in the BlackBerry App World Blvd. This ungainly process, and you only can use if BlackBerry browser is set to default. (Check this by selecting Options from your browser’s menu -> Browser Configuration -> Browser Identification.) 

I confess I was a bit underwhelmed at the BlackBerry App world, when he first appeared on stage. However, the network does not significantly change the status quo, the ability to search the network layer is added to provide wealth and experience. For those with a high-speed internet and low-speed data transfer over the phone, search and comparison of the applications the network will accelerate this process.

Despite the polished and easy to use, there is room for growth. It would be better if the RIM network in an integrated payment and download files to your phone - like iTunes for the iPhone. In the boot process should be streamlined. In addition to screenshots, BlackBerry square shop online publisher can support video, which users in a more accurate and thorough tour of the app. Despite this, the web directory is a strong start and a useful complement to the BlackBerry in the universe.

In the BlackBerry App world application works on BlackBerry phones with the operating system version 4.2.1 or higher.