Windows Mobile loses nearly a third of market share (mostly to Android)

As much as I’d love to be a trend setter (who wouldn’t?), I’m merely just following the trend of many, many Windows Mobile users that have jumped ship either to iPhone (the more “consumer-oriented” portion), but mostly the Android (mostly ”the geekiest” portion). It is sad, but things like the one that happened at PDC09 where Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s “Chief Software Architect”, said that the mobile apps are not an important strategy clearly shows that Microsoft has no clue of how the mobile space is working right now, and Gartner’s latest research shows people is not tolerating that… only time will tell. As far as I’m concerned, Android brought back my passion for mobile devices. Click on the “Read More” link to get the full story.

“Windows Mobile lost 28 percent of its smartphone market share between the third quarter of 2008 and the third quarter of 2009, according to analysis from Gartner.”

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The Samsung Moment rocks!!!!

When I finally decided that I was switching to Android, I was trying to decide between getting the Samsung Moment and The HTC Hero.

I spent quite a few days playing with one of my co-worker’s Hero for a few days and finally after a while I was convinced that this was the phone I wanted, but then I went to a Sprint store that day and held the Samsung Moment and the HTC Hero side by side and compared most features, and finally I liked the Moment a lot better than the Hero so I ended up buying it. But guess what?? I’m loving it!!!! 

The screen is brighter on the Samsung Moment and the colors look more vivid compared to the HTC Hero, my wife immediately noticed it without me even opening my mouth, THE AMOLED SCREEN IS BETTER, is a fact of nature no HTC fan boy can deny (I know they will though).

Senese UI is better than vanilla Android no doubt about it but for me it reminded me a lot of TouchFLO 3D and being a frustrated Windows Mobile user that came running to Android I really don’t want that painful memory on my phone. (I do realize they are separated things but hey!! I got issues)

Keyboard is important for me, the dust issue on the Hero’s “gap” between the screen and the bottom panel is also a factor and finally there’s a bit of barley noticeable speed difference but I’m sure it will disappear once you have installed apps and loaded contacts etc.

Two places where the Moment is faster: Boot up time and camera app the rest is barley unnoticeable. but I have to admit Sense UI does feel a little bloated, two separated Hero owners have complimeneted the speed of my phone without me saying anything!!!

After making my evaluation I made my purchasing decision and spent all night playing with the phone and I’m very, very satisfied. Is not for everyone and if you’re more of an iPhone kind of guy I guess the HTC Hero is a better choice for you.

I also expect vanilla Android phones (or Google Experience I should say) like the Samsung Moment and the Motorola Droid to get updates faster like the G1 that is already rocking Android 1.6.

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How to move your contacts from Windows Mobile to Android

As I blogged recently I ditched mi Windows Mobile phone and moved to a new Samsung Moment (on the Now Network ) so I wanted to save some time for folks like me that are making the switch (about 33% of WM users according to this article) and help them get up and running fast on their new Android phones.

First things first, you need a GMail account, you probably already have one (or many) but if you don’t hurry up and open it…

Next you’ll have to connect your Windows Mobile phone to Google Sync using ActiveSync. This a fairly simple task and all you have to do is follow the very easy instructions detailed here.

When you’re done your Windows Mobile Phone will erroneously tell you that you’re connected to a Microsoft Exchange server, but don’t worry, you did everything right, is just that your Windows Phone can’t tell the difference (LOL ).

Your Phone is now backing up all your contacts, appointments and tasks into your GMail account. You can even navigate to GMail on your PC and click on the contacts link and you’ll see all your contacts there or go to your Google Calendar and check the appointments you had on your phone.

When ActiveSync tells you that the sync is finished, then that is when the fun begins, you can kiss your Windows Mobile device good-bye (sorry Microsoft but you saw that coming and decided not to do anything about it) and then turn on your beautiful Android device!!!!

In the Android device you simply open the GMail application, type in your GMail credentials and out-of-the-box your Android device will sync all your GMail contacts to your device including the ones you had in your Windows Mobile phone (you did bought an unlimited data plan with this, did you?). 

When you see your recent GMail messages, you can now get back to the Android home (by pushing on the home button) and click on the contacts application to check all your contacts. 

One last thing, if you’re like me and have a gazillion contacts in your GMail account and only care about the contacts you had on your windows mobile device, simply click on “menu” inside the contacts app and select the “edit sync groups” option and then unselect all options and leave only “My Contacts” group selected. this will only sync the contacts you had on your old Windows Mobile phone.

If you have any problem or need any other advice, please leave a comment and I’ll try to help you out.

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Hello Android!!! Bye bye Windows phone

FINALLY!!! I got my Android device today. After a lot of research I finally went for the Samsung Moment.
Yeah, yeah you might think I’m insane getting this phone the day of the “Droid” launch, but I like Sprint better so I went for Droid’s little brother, as a matter of fact I’m typing this post from the Moment’s awesome keyboard and let me tell you it beats the hell out of the Droid’s keyboard.
I will be uploading pictures tomorrow.
Until then…

YAMB!!!

Yup, you got it right, this ain’t a Windows Mobile blog no more!!!

It’s been two good years devoted to Windows Mobile and I’ve got over 100.000 hits on this blog on the course of this time which I think is a great number but now that I’m getting back to blogging I consider that the mobile space has changed and opened so much I feel Windows Mobile is just a mere part of it and sadly is fading into the distance.

I’m even considering getting a different phone, probably an Android phone in the coming month so that is also an important factor of my decision to change this blog into Yet Another Mobile Blog (YAMB).

Hope you enjoy the new direction, I’m hoping to have a ton of fun again with it and I hope to keep counting with you as a reader.

Thanks again!!!

Windows Mobile: Race to Market Challenge

I’m back baby!!!! a little video for you to watch until I write my first REAL post

And a link to check out www.mobilethisdeveloper.com

Microsoft announces Windows Mobile 6.5!

Windows Mobile 6.5

It’s finally here!!!!! despite the endless chain of leaks that at first I didn’t even credited (specially the screen shots), it has finally been announced.

I have to admit that the leaks helped built up all the excitment and maybe remove a little bit of the suspense  — but for what it’s worth, Windows Mobile 6.5 is now official.

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Internet Explorer 8 RC1 (not yet! but close…)

UPDATE 01/26/2009: The new version of Internet Explorer RC1 has officially been released today and it’s open for the general public, you can download it here. This version’s build is 8.0.6001.18372 

Black Friday is here!!!!!

How To:Make a ringtone from a YouTube Video (using your Windows Mobile Device)

 

This is my first video post, it started as a review of youtube play and ended up being a quick how-to guide on making an MP3 ring-tone from a YouTube Video using your Windows Mobile Device and Youtube play.

As I told you a while ago YouTube Play has a new version (1.0.0.11) and that’s the version featured in my video.

Enjoy!!!!