Tag: windows mobile
The excellent guys at T-Mobile PR have just sent me the following email.... "London, 25th January 2007: T-Mobile today announces that the Ameo device will be available exclusively to T-Mobile UK when it is launched later this quarter. The Ameo from T...
Just before Christmas we ran a story on an interesting looking device called the HTC Athena. Although at first it may look a little different than any other Pocket PC you've ever seen; the specs list is astonishing. It comes with Windows Mobile 5.0 (P...
The guys at Teksoft posted a news item about CapturePro in our forum. This Desktop PC application will let you easily grab screenshots from you Pocket PC or Smartphone. You also get Mobile Device CapturePro included in the deal, which lets you grab s...
This is the Asus Pegasus Pocket PC phone and comes with GPS on board. It's a slim device with numeric keypad and jog dial for speedy navigation. Asus are already responsible for a large number of laptops and their skills for design and build are show...
I'm both annoyed and frustrated by this Guardian story which states that Virgin Mobile UK have sold less than 10,000 of their Lobster 700TV handsets, despite dropping the price heavily and launching a massive advertising campaign with Pamela Anderson....
The lack of a multi-touch screen on a Pocket PC secretly causes people to curse daily when they try and tap a number in quickly using the dialpad. Perhaps a way around this is to combine the slide-out QWERTY keyboard with a standard numeric keypad on ...
Keni has emailed in after spotting recent news on upgrades to the HTC Hermes / HTC TyTn handsets. He's had a chat with the guys at Vodafone and they've advised him that the AKU3.3 Firmware is currently being tested and should launch soon. If you've go...
If, like me, you need telnet or SSH access into a server then you'll be used to using tools like Putty and secureCRT on your PC. For Windows Mobile you should definitely check out zaTelnet, which has support for telnet, SSH1 and now SSH2. There's two ...
WM Soft have released a freeware application called Export Contacts which will create a HTML or XML file with more than 50 properties, including photos and ringtones. Although your contact details are effectively backed up when you synchronise, this f...
Sure, I may be sat in my hammock here in Cancun, but I'm still here to bring you the latest news. Today it's the HTC Cavalier, which looks to be the successor to the current HTC Excalibur - seen as the o2 XDA Cosmo and T-Mobile Dash. TheBoyGenius …
The 3GSM World Congress is coming up in Barcelona soon and you can bet there'll be plenty of new phones on display. Our friends at Emoze have an interesting plan for the event. You may remember their easy-to-setup push-email system we mentioned a few ...
Are you having problems with your o2 XDA Orbit or T-Mobile MDA Compact III ? Well, it seems that there's a possible issue with the transfer of data on storage cards. According to this forum the issue seems to arise when files are deleted. This simple ...
The o2 Zinc we spotted earlier looks to have slipped slightly. A release date of March is now being shown on the o2 site with a March launch date. If you're interested in this handset you can still click here to be informed when it's ready. Link - …
A lot of people will have seen the HTC Universal. It's available as the Orange SPV M5000 and the o2 XDA Exec, however HTC plan to shrink it down to look a bit like our artists impression. The resulting smaller device will be called the HTC Omni - …
We've been busy beavering away on this rather huge HTC P4350 review of late and it's now available for your delectation. The P4350, soon to be seen as the Vodafone VPA Compact IV, has a full auto-sliding QWERTY keyboard and comes complete with both Ad...
You may remember our Palm Treo 750v review. It's safe to say that we were more than a little impressed with this exceptional phone and it showed. Until recently it's been exclusive to Vodafone in the UK and Europe, however Cingular now plan to release...
This, according Engadget, is the Samsung i760. Hmmm... weird.. it looks completely different to how we remember it but hey, we'll mention it as Samsung were keeping very quiet about it during CES (Computer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. The Engadget ...
All-round top geezer Johnny De'Silva has just emailed in with some fantastic scans from the o2 UK catalogue. Inside is o2's XDA Orbit and you could indeed be forgiven for thinking that it's pretty much the same handset as the T-Mobile MDA Compact III ...
I've just taken a trip into town and picked up the latest Orange catalogue. Inside is the Orange SPV M700, proudly sat on the "Coming Soon" pages with the following details beside it. The larger version of this page is below and, although we've seen i...
Netwasp have announced the acquisition of the software business “ThemeMaker” from KamWare. “ThemeMaker is widely recognized as the best Windows Mobile theme creation tool available today”, says Jim Hunt (Netwasp CEO), “so we see this as a ...
At Computex Taipei the Tatung UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) has appeared running.. err.. Windows Mobile for Smartphone by the looks of it. It's seen on this adtecsys.com site and, if we're honest, we don't know a fat lot about it. It certainly looks nice eno...
Push email on Windows Mobile is fantastic. Any email arriving to your Windows Exchange Server will be instantly sent to your phone. Contacts, meetings and more will be instantly synchronised - nobody will ever know that you're actually replying to an ...
If you've read our Vodadone Treo 750v review then you'll no doubt be aware how highly we think of it. The text messaging application stood out as a pioneering and ideal solution to tracking conversations with people. Due to the popularity of it there ...
Now, I may have had a bit too much wine but I'm sure I've just spotted the Samsung i320 on Vodafone UK. I've certainly not seen it there before, but here it is and it costs from anywhere between nothing and £119.15. I'm actually using one of these …
With nothing but bilge on TV over Christmas it's good to see plenty of news in the Windows Mobile world. HPC.ru have managed to get their hands on more of the HTC roadmap for 2007. The HTC Kaiser, shown top left, is first up and comes in a …
If you're on the go and in the mood for some gaming fun then check out the new service from Astraware.com. Simply browse to www.astraware.com mobile device and you'll be transported to a magical mobile flavour of the site where you can easily browse a...
Check this out. You're looking at K-Rally. This amazing 3D top-down racing game has astounded all those who've played it. PocketGamer says of this game... "There is just no comparison: K-Rally simply blasts them both away in almost every respect. K-Ra...
I don't know about you but I'd be completely lost without Notepad on my PC - I use it for making notes, writing articles and stories. It's simple and easy to use (just like me, some would say). If you're looking for something similar on your Windows M...
FPSEce.net have released the newest version of their Playstation X/1 Emulator for Windows Mobile. This free software, once installed and fed the appropriate BIOS and ISO, will let you play Playstation games on your Pocket PC. There's a list of compati...
It's Christmas so it's an ideal time to mention ChristMassMessage (geddit?). This is a brilliant application which lets you send texts out to groups of numbers. It's something I've been wanting for years from Microsoft but you can now get it free (a d...
This weekend there'll no doubt be thousands of people running around attempting to get those last-minute Christmas gifts for friends and family. Usually you'll probably end up with something really naff like a pair of socks or a hat and scarf set, but...
Do you have a Windows Media Center and a Windows Mobile phone? Yes? Well listen up! Makayama Mobile TV Center lets you watch your recorded Windows Media TV shows on more than 500 mobile devices. Install the software on your Windows Media Center PC t...
Here's the UMPC known as the HTC Athena. Err.. wait.. is it a UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) ? In fact no, it's running Windows Mobile (Pocket PC) and comes with a detachable keyboard. We first started seeing computer generated images of this device a while ...
The o2 Graphite has now appeared on the seeo2.com website. WiFi and 3G are confirmed, as is the Intel XScale® PXA 270 Processor running at a brisk 416 MHz, a 2 Megapixel camera, secondary face-pointing camera for video calls, flash, 128Mb ROM / 64Mb ...
Most of us will have already suffered the pain of rubbish singers and C-list celebs like Jordan who decide to make their pop songs slightly less awful by pitch-bending and regulating their voices through a computer. Step forth singtone.com, who will m...
Our T-Mobile MDA Compact III review is now online. Sure, you may have seen reviews before but there's nothing quite like a CoolSmartPhone review. Filled to the brim with pictures, screenshots and movies it also comes with a look into CoPilot too. The...
Eric has just emailed in about a new game called Ballistic. Available to try or buy (£4.06) you have the deceptively simple task of getting the ball into the pot. To make things a bit trickier you've got moving platforms, explosions, homing missiles ...
Do you want to get into Today screen or Home screen design? Well, look no further than the PhoneThemes Studio toolkit. Hundreds of people were involved in beta tests for the application so it's already tried and tested. PhoneThemes Studio is a one-sto...
The HTC Vox - a QWERTY / numeric keypad-combo device - has yet again appeared on the internet. You'll have to excuse the badly placed Smartphone screenshot, however it does tally with previous suspisions of a Smartphone OS... then again, who knows?! W...
Everybody has heard of Skype. Thanks to Skype I called the UK from Boston and Seattle for hours on end and yet it only cost me about £6. All it took was a Pocket PC and a WiFi connection, however it's now properly available for the Smartphone too. …
