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MSMobiles say they have the low down on Microsoft’s Mobile World Congress announcements, and what they leaked makes quite a bit of sense.

First the bits we think we know already:

Windows Mobile 7 will be introduced with Zune, Xbox, Bing integration. It will feature a new kernel,Games and Music improvements and a new user interface, based on Windows Presentation Foundation. Development will take place in the latest version of Visual Studio.

Now the new bits:

Clearly in a direct response to Nokia and Android, Windows Mobile (not sure which version) will come with free navigation (presumably turn by turn). Also clearly in a response to all the open source mobile OS’s, Windows Mobile 6.X will be free to developing markets.

As mentioned above, these changes make perfect sense, and shows a Microsoft prepared to respond much more rapidly than before to changes in the mobile market.

Read more at MSMobiles.com here.

Ok so it’s a bit funny because it comes from Pocketpcitalia so of course it comes with an Italian accent. The video starts with a Metallica song and then this Italian dude showing off the device, it makes it quirky. Oh, several times you can see the reflection of the presenter camera on the glare of the device screen. LOL! Enuf talk… here’s the video of the HTC Touch Pro 2 including TouchFlo3D 2.

The lucky guys at PDA.pl not only got to have a HTC Touch Diamond 2, but also a HTC Touch Pro 2, and have recorded this hardware tour. Nothing else to say but check it out:

HTC Touch Pro2 – Hardware from pda.pl on Vimeo.

Ok everybody knows that Pocket Internet Explorer (aka PIE) sucks. CNet reports that Opera Mobile 9.7 will support Flash and Ajax. Opera says Turbo can squeeze down data by 80 percent, clearing through slow and stubborn network connections quicker. Opera Mobile 9.7 boasts that it passes the Acid 3 test of Web standards with 100 percent, and that it supports Google Gears and the Open GL ES standard for graphics acceleration. Oh ya, and it’ll support widgets. NICE!

It’ll originally be targeted at OEM’s (in other words… the handset makers/carriers) but they hinted that end users will get a go at it as well.

The author of nueROM has figured out how to do something that has always irked me about the Touch Pro – the keyboard light turns off. It drives me nuts that I’ll be chatting away or typing an email, pause for a minute, and then the backlight on the keyboard has turned off. I’ll end up fubling to find the CTRL key to activate it so that it turns back on so I can start typing again.

You can now get nueKBLight to resolve the issue/design flaw/whatever. nueKBLight does the following:

• Keeps keyboard backlight on as long as keyboard is open
• Checks if keyboard is open instead of screen rotation
• Overrides keyboard driver ISR

You can grab the utility from nueROM’s KBLight section.