Tag: windows mobile

Orneta Beta Program for Windows Mobile

The guys at Orneta have unveiled a new beta program designed to help power users preview upcoming Orneta releases. The Orneta Beta Program currently offers six pre-release products including Biorhythm Mobile, Calculator Mobile, Checkers Mobile, Notepa...

CeBIT 2006: Samsung SGH-i310 Pictured

Engadget have some real-life shots of the Samsung SGH-i310. It's similar in design to the Samsung SGH-i300 that's currently on sale at o2 however the i310 has an 8Gb HD on board. That same design style has also been continued with the SCH-B600 10 Mega...

VITO AudioPlayer v1.0

VITO have announced their AudioPlayer for both Smartphone and Pocket PC. This software will play all your MP3 files and it has Bass Boost and loads of different "play modes" including single file, current folder, current folder and all subfolders and ...

CeBIT 2006: T-Mobile MDA Vario II On show

Engadget.com have got close-up pictures of the new T-Mobile MDA Vario II. "What!?", I hear you cry, "We've only just got the T-Mobile MDA 1!"Well yes, that's true. The USA only got the MDA (1) last month, however this new one is currently only slated ...

BenQ P51 Announced.. Hmm.. Looks familiar…

BenQ have announced this - the BenQ P51. Hmm.. it looks a lot like the P50 doesn't it? You may remember that the P50 recently had a rebrand and a few tweaks (including adding Windows Mobile 5.0) in order to be sold as the AnexTEK SP310. Now it …

Samsung i310 Announced – With an 8Gb HD!

Our mates at NewMobile.com have got news on a new handset from Samsung. This is the i310 and comes with an 8Gb hard drive. Samsung are really throwing the punches at the moment. Their Samsung i320 QWERTY phone is already thinner and smaller than the M...

More on the HTC Wizard push-email updates

Dipesh has just emailed me about the saga of the push email updates that are missing the stereo-over-bluetooth capability promised by A2DP. Dipesh says.. "I have been using the leaked ROM on my T-Mobile Vario for the last 2 weeks and I can confirm tha...

Atomic Cannon – Blast that tank!

Way back in the day I remember playing a very similar game to this on my Amiga, however it's now available in the form of Atomic Cannon which is now available to download for the Smartphone here (full screen for WM5.0 handsets too!) or Pocket PC here....

Avvenu brings remote files to your mobile device

Avvenu is an award winning free service that enables you to remotely access your computers from your smartphone or any internet-connected device. You can now download version 1.2 from our downloads section or from Avvenu directly. Once installed you c...

Push Email updates begin to appear

As you may know, iMate have now announced the ROM Update for the iMate K-JAM, which is also known as the T-Mobile MDA Vario or the O2 XDA Mini S. The good news is that, yes, push email is here and it's in the iMate update. Unfortunately it …

Skookum goes from strength to strength

The excellent Skookum is now at version 2 and includes support for Podcasts and audio from the equally excellent Audible.com. What does it do exactly ? Put simply it lets you easily subscribe to online media content via RSS / XML feeds like the ones o...

Record notes and CALLS with VITO Audionotes

VITO AudioNotes is an MP3/WAV recorder for Smartphones and Pocket PC's. Released today it's an easy way to record those important memos or thoughts on the go. It's simple to use to - you don't need to worry about stacks of recording formats etc - just...

HTC Trinity and Breeze Pictured

These pictures of the HTC Trinity (left) and the HTC Breeze (right) have recently popped up on the internet. Both of these are 3G handsets and will have face-pointing cameras so you can make video calls. The Trinity is a more Pocket PC style handset w...

Ad2Hand – Get Location-based deals on your Windows Mobile

This is Ad2Hand - it's a wireless advertising service for your phone. It works via bluetooth and, once you download the software it'll continually monitor for local shops and businesses using the service as you walk around town. When you do get near a...

Push Email for Orange Devices

Jeremy Platt has emailed in about the new push email facility coming from Microsoft. According to what he's heard, the ROM update for Windows Mobile 5 devices on Orange should be available before the end of this month. To make that news even better, t...

Samsung SGH-i750 Gets go ahead from FCC

The FCC have finally approved the Samsung SGH-i750 handset. We saw this last year and it appears to be running Windows Mobile 2003SE for Pocket PC still, however we'd hope it would be updated to Windows Mobile 5.0 if released on a network. FCC approva...

HTC Star Trek also to appear as QTek 8500

QTek already retail lots of HTC phones including that excellent QTek 8310 - y'know, the one with WiFi. So it's no great surprise to hear that a certain "Qtek clamshell EDGE music phone is here!" Aha! Could that be the HTC Star Trek / iMate Smartflip? ...

More Smartflip treats – Stacks of photos!

I'm not sure if I've mentioned it yet, but we love the look of the HTC Star Trek / i-Mate Smartflip. Seriously - it comes to something when the most bulbous thing on it is the Mini USB port! Oooo that is thin. There's even a second screen …

i-Mate Smartflip Treats – Video Online!

We like the i-Mate Smartflip. We really, really like the i-Mate Smartflip. No, we love it. We love the i-Mate Smartflip. If this device doesn't get badged up by several major networks I'll eat my hat. So here, for the first time anywhere, is a video o...

3GSM – Shots and Video of the Orange SPV M600

Our great friends at NewMobile.com have given us a shout about some excellent photos and videos they've taken of the new Orange SPV M600. These shots were taken on the Orange stand at 3GSM and show the real deal - no computer trickery, no artists impr...

3GSM – HTC Hermes Photographs

The HTC Hermes looks pretty much like the HTC Wizard however it's gonna have a quicker 300Mhz CPU and will support HSDPA / 3G. It's got WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, a 2.1 Megapixel camera with flash and - if you look carefully on the top left of the unit …

3GSM – i-Mate Smartflip Pictured

The i-Mate Smartflip / HTC Star Trek is the device that has caused quite a stir recently. Now there's some excellent pictures here at Phonescoop. I like this device, I really do. It's wafer thin - check this shot in particular and it's got a keyboard ...

3GSM – More shots of the Samsung i320 hit the web

If you're hungry for yet more shots of the thin Samsung i320 then this Phonescoop article is definitely worth a look. This device came out of the blue and it's yet another Q-competitor that's even thinner than the Motorola model. The link below contai...

3GSM – Orange SPV M600 – HTC Prophet – More Pictures

Our friends at Orange have sent even more huge pictures of the Orange SPV M600 PDA we mentioned earlier today. Click the "read more" bit below to see them, then click the thumbnails to get bigger pics. Right! I'm off to the pub. See you lot in the …

3GSM – Orange Launch the SPV M600

Here it is kids, the Orange SPV M600 ala the HTC Prophet we mentioned earlier. It's just been announced at 3GSM and it'll run on Windows Mobile 5.0 with push-email. It will be available initially from Orange in the UK, France and the Netherlands and i...

3GSM – Ballmer Bigs It Up

The wacky magician that is Steve Ballmer has just got off stage after doing his Keynote at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona. He mentioned the Microsoft Office Communicator and went on to show the new live TV service from Virgin Mobile and BT Movio. He...

3GSM – Asus P305 3G Flip Smartphone

See? Didn't I tell you we'd be busy at 3GSM ? Here's yet another new handset. This is the Asus P305 3G Smartphone. Yes, this is it - don't be fooled by those other fuzzy shots on the web. The Asus Press Release (which can be read below) …

Samsung SGH-I320 Revealed

This is the Samsung SGH-I320, which despite only appearing minutes ago, has already been nick-named the "Q-Killer" and "KoreanBerry" by various websites. It's another slim Windows Mobile device with a full QWERTY keyboard. This one is a tad thinner th...

HP iPAQ hw6510c On Show

Damian Gale has been lucky enough to get his hands on a HP iPAQ hw6510. This device is being sold by HP in the UK and Cingular in the US, however we think that Vodafone may pick it up too. Although this one has got Windows Mobile 2003 …

3GSM – Push E-Mail is Go Go Go!

This I guess is the news you've been waiting for, and amongst the Press Release below the following paragraph is definitely worth noting.. "Cingular Wireless, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone today announced free upgrades to the Messaging and Security Fe...

o2 XDA Phone in Germany – It’s a C550 with WM5.0!

This, as we all know by now, is the Orange SPV C550. Except... err.. it's not. This is actually the O2 XDA phone, now available in Germany here and loaded with Windows Mobile 5.0, a megapixel camera and bluetooth. This at least is evidence that the Or...

i-Mate Smartflip – HTC Star Trek Shots on the web

PocketInfo.nl have just emailed about their exclusive first shots of the i-Mate Smartflip, which is said to be based on the HTC Star Trek handset we got a glimpse of last October. According to this PocketInfo story it'll be running Windows Mobile 5.0 ...

Orange SPV M600 = HTC Prophet

Whilst browsing around NewMobile.nl I found this Orange SPV M600 .. now doesn't that look like an HTC Prophet to you? Why I think it is! You may have already seen this as the Dopod 818 Pro / iMate JAMin. Let's see... 2.0 Megapixel camera? Check. WiFi?...

Follow the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer

Steve Fossett is currently at the controls of the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer in order to set the record for the longest flight of all time. He's attemting to fly over 700 miles further than any aircraft or balloon has flown. Conchango are the Web Mi...

PhoneThemes Case Study

Our friends at Phonethemes.com have published news of a case study into the development work required to produce WM5.0 applications. This follows last year's presentation of the PhoneThemes PocketPC media player by Bill Gates as he launched Windows Mo...

Eye On Call – Control your calls

MoDaCo mentioned this Eye On Call (PhoneSharp) software today so I decided to give it a bash. The software is delivered as a Zip file so you have to copy the contents across to your phone. When you initially run it you'll need to start "Loader.exe" an...

Add a turbo to your Pocket PC

Back when PCs were the same speed as your Windows Mobile phone everyone was "overclocking" their CPU's. For the unaware Wikipedia states that overclocking is.... "Making a computer component run at a higher clock speed than the manufacturer's specific...

Certificates expiring?

Owen from MSMobileNews has emailed in about a rather interesting issue. He's gone into Start-> Settings-> Security-> Certificates-> Root and found that the "GTE CyberTrust Root" one is due to expire in just a couple of weeks time. We're not 100% sure ...