Category: Software (Windows Phone)

GpsSpot Updated – Geo-tagging and more

GPSSpot is one of those great little apps for finding your way back to a recorded GPS position. It'll find out where you parked your car and even which pub you ended up in last night. We've reported on this previously and the new version includes the ...

Qik video sharing app updated for WinMo

Qik is great, period. It's available for WinMo and Android and will let you stream live video to the web direct from your phone. Have a browse to qik.com and see people using it right now - broadcasting live across the net. A new version is now availa...

VsNotepad 2.7 Now available

VsNotepad lets you make notes and organise your life on the go. You can create workbooks and reminders easily and it's completely finger-friendly. You can browse your notes, set reminders and there's an auto load / save function along with a calculato...

Twitter clients galore – Twikini updated

Twitter client Twikini has just been updated to version 1.5. The bugs have been fixed, including images getting mangled when scrolling, tweets not opening properly and more. Improvements include tweet sharing and quality tweaks to comply with Windows ...

Another WinMo Twitter client – moTweet!

Twitter clients seem to be everywhere at the moment and Windows Mobile has just got another one to add to the list. moTweets is available in free (ad-supported) and paid-for ($3.99 / £2.44) versions. It's got all the Twitter stuff you'd expect plus d...

Orange Touch HD Firmware Update

Got a Touch HD from Orange ? Listen up. Orange have just put an update only (version 1.59.61.2) which improves the HTC Touch HD as follows.. - Improved Opera browsing performance - GPS Update speed improved - On-screen slider feature for answering cal...

Elecont Launcher now with Vibro touch

A new Elecont Launcher has just been launched with "Vibro Touch" for starting applications. It's easy to switch WiFi, Bluetooth and phone connectivity on or off with this, plus there's touch-controlled sliding effects and animation. Available in 12 la...

Samsung Apps store to launch in two weeks

Samsung have confirmed that their app store will now go live on September 14th. Available on the Omnia and I8910 HD in UK, France and Italy with 30 more countries and Omnia II and Omnia Lite compatibility later. The store is online but currently in a...

Another new 6.5 build – with shiftable icons

Another day, another leaked Windows Mobile 6.5 build. Whether this will be 6.5 or 6.5 Update 2 we don't really know as yet, but the latest build - 23037 - adds something we never thought we'd see. Completely re-arrangeable menu icons. Yes, just like A...

Another Twitter client for WinMo – Twaddle

Another Twitter client has appeared on the t'interweb for Windows Mobile. It's called Twaddle (cool name, I like that) and will let you post, reply and check Tweets. Geotagging is also supported and you can view locations on Google Maps, plus there's ...

New version of Photo Viewer available to test

This is in the early stages yet, but if you're not lucky enough to have the HTC viewer on your WinMo phone or you just want to try it out then Resco Photo Viewer Alpha is definitely worth a looksie. It builds on the success of their existing …

ThrottleLauncher – New version available

If there's one thing people love about Windows Mobile it's the ability to customize. ThrottleLauncher, which is billed as the "future UI for Windows Mobile" has now been completely rewritten but still maintains full compatibility with all of the theme...

NextAction – Manage action items and todo lists

NextAction! has been available on the BlackBerry for some time and has been getting positive reviews all over the web. Now available for Windows Mobile it's a lightweight task management app designed around the "Getting Things Done" methodology. This ...

myPlayer – ITV Player, BBC iPlayer and more

Got a Windows Mobile phone? Want to watch the latest X-Factor contestants murdering a famous song on the go? Grab myPlayer from SkyNetSoftware. It lets you access BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, Five OD and Hulu services straight from your phnoe. Featuring l...

Iris Mobile for WinMo is dust

Iris has been part of the fairly healthy choice of WinMo browsers for a good while now, but it looks like that's to end. Research In Motion (RIM, the Blackberry guys) bought the company very recently and, following a message on their site, it looks li...

Skyfire improved yet further

Morning. I'm typing this at 6.15AM. Don't ask, just don't ask. Skyfire, that free WinMo web browser that "does" Flash video and more has now been updated. Version 1.1 (OK, 1.1.0.13052 if we're being precise) has even faster page load times, improved r...

GPS Location – Send as a Google Maps link

Here's another one of those Windows Mobile apps that takes the GPS location from your phone and sends it to friends and colleagues. This one has the option of sending your location as a Google Maps link, so a simple click is all that's needed to find ...

Cradle Alarm – New version now available

Back in the old days CradleAlarm used to be called enAlarmPPC. Verion 4.6 now includes a stack of functionality with multiple alarms and four different types to chose from - it takes the standard Windows Mobile alarm to the next level. There's alarm w...

HTC TouchFLO 3D version 2.6 on video

Ladies and Gentlemen. On the left, wearing the blue shorts, it's the very latest Windows Mobile TouchFLO 3D interface from HTC - version 2.6. On the right, in the red shorts, it's the Android-powered HTC Sense / HTC TouchFLO interface also from HTC. ...

Twitter Client Twikini updated to version 1.2

Twikini - the Twitter client for Windows Mobile - has now been updated to version 1.2. The app, which only costs $4.95 (around £2.98) to buy, is also available on a 14-day trial. It's quick, easy-to-user and integrates with Twitpic and Windows Media ...

Touch Pro2 Software Update available

Now, we think we missed this one. A HTC Touch Pro2 ROM upgrade has just been found on the HTC website. It's for vanilla HTC Touch Pro2 phones bought from the likes of devicewire.com. It fixes a couple of fixes, including a financial providers icon and...

CoPilot Live 8 Launched

CoPilot Live v8 is now available on the iPhone, Android and also on Windows Mobile. It's a fully featured satellite navigation system in both portrait and landscape settings. Windows Mobile users can buy it and download directly for £25.99 for full ...

6.5 Extra tweaks caught on video

"Finger Friendly" is a term that I'm almost tired of using now. What else do I call it? Thumb-tastic? Finger fun? Either way, following news of more enhanced 6.5 functionality there's now a video of it in action. Now, we've gotta say that there's been...

SureLock Studio – Control your WinMo devices

Are you in charge of a workforce using WinMo devices? Concerned that they're actually being used for work and not other things? Check out SureLock. It'll let you disable to keypad, restrict users to only allowed applications and can disable autorun, A...

Even more 6.5 interface tweaks show up.

On May 14th this year Microsoft stated that 6.5 was done. Look, here's the Tweet. However, it looks like some tweaks are still being done to the interface. Earlier stories revealed a more finger-friendly interface and now there's even more changes wit...

Free GPS navigation software – AmAze

Portuguese mobile network Optimus has just launched a free GPS navigation app for Windows Phones. Called amAze it's got turn-by-turn navigation, 15 different languages, satellite view, speed trap notices and weather forecasts too. I've just given it a...

HandMarket Apps Store goes live

The new HandMarket Apps store is now available for Windows Mobile. Following several weeks of beta testing you can now download the application store here for free. For the first two weeks there'll also be feature specials with up to 80% off some awar...

SPB Radio – Listen to radio anywhere

Following on from their excellent TV viewer there's now SPB Radio for $9.95 it's got more than 1500 radio stations built-in and ready for you to listen to. You can add your own, and search for more from every country and lots of different genres. Ther...

Lots of Twitter clients to choose from

If you're a big fan of Twitter then you'll no doubt want to update your status on your Windows Phone too. To do this you can try one of several clients. Our personal faves are Pocketwit and Twikini, but there are more and you can check a selection …

Drive safe with ZoomSafer

Here in the UK we have a law that prevents using the actual handset whilst driving. Whilst it's ignored by quite a few and derided by many, it has helped. Bluetooth is pretty much universal here but still there's too many people texting and sometimes ...

New TouchFLO 2D improves GUI even further

XDA-Developers once again have the very latest update from HTC with their new HTC TouchFLO 2D GUI. It's a QVGA control panel which now integrates the very same backdrop as the HTC Sense GUI we saw on the Android-powered HTC Hero. In our image here you...

Need a VoIP Softphone? Try Vippie

I've had an email today asking for SIP dialer software on WinMo. It's a very good question and one I've stumbled across just recently is Vippie. It's usually provided by SIP / VoIP providers directly but you can download it seperately here and configu...

Another HTC Sense GUI clone for WinMo

OK Windows Mobile users, listen up. We've been looking at the HTC Hero and the new interface - HTC Sense. It all looks very swish indeed and we're very impressed by just how customizable it is. But, and there is a "but" .. to get it you'll need …

HTC Sense GUI for WinMo? Oh yes!

Got yourself a Windows Mobile? Are you looking over the fence at the innovative HTC Sense GUI on the Android-powered HTC Hero and thinking, "if only" ? Check this out - it's a Hero theme for the ThrottleLauncher app on Windows Mobile. With a very simi...

Google Maps now adds layers

There's a new version of Google Maps available for your WinMo which now includes "Layers". These allow more data to be added to your maps such as local content, traffic information, public transport info and local search results. There's also Wikipedi...

Windows Marketplace to be Microsoft Store?

We've been talking about the new application store for Windows Mobile for some time. Apple have an app store, Google have their Android Market. For months now we've heard about Windows Marketplace and it's arrival on Windows Mobile 6.5. We all smiled ...

Turn your phone into a wireless hot-spot

Woah, check this out. It's an app that turns your WiFi-capable phone into a router. To get it working, install this CAB from XDA-developers, ensure your phone has a data connection, then fire up the Mobile Wi-Fi Router program from your shortcuts. It'...

Windows Mobile 6.5 Getting last-minute GUI tweaks

It looks like there's some final tweaks going on with Windows Mobile 6.5. In these shots it looks like a more finger-friendly interface is now developing with some of the tabs being dumped in favour of larger arrowed buttons and chunky check-boxes. No...

The Today screen, inside TouchFLO

Lovin' your TouchFLO? Yeah? What about those Today screen plugins huh? Well, they're tucked away and until now the only way to see them was to turn off TouchFLO. Now there's this Manila Today Page. It'll make one of your TouchFLO tabs into the classic...

Record your calls for free

Want to record your calls? Try ACR (Auto Call Recorder). Tell it where to save calls, whether to ask first and whether to record incoming or outgoing calls - or both. There's two different WAV formats and several quality settings to chooe from. .NET ...