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Mar 29 dallab X8 Pocket PC phone announced for Asian market
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Devices, Pocket PC,

dallab X8 is one Pocket PC phone from dallab which is primary targeted for Asian customers. It is based on Window Mobile 5.0 and has built-in Wi-Fi and EDGE features.

This new pocketpc phone device is presented as mini pocket pc but it is quite powerfull with equiped Intel PXA272 CPU working at 416 Mhz and 128MB Flash and 64MB ROM memory.

dallab X8 features:

Display: 2.2" Transflective TFT LCD, 262K Colors with 240 x 320 dots resolution, Sensitive Touch Screen
Audio: Microphone, Loudspeaker and Receiver, Support hand-free operation, Support WAV/WMA/MP3 stereo
Keyboard: Integrated Numeric Keypad
Camera: 1.3Megapixel
Interface: Infrared IrDA SIR (115 kbps), SIM card slot, Mini SD card slot, Audio Jack hi-fidelity stereo headset
Wireless Lan: IEEE 802.11b compliant, Internal antenna
Bluetooth: Bluetooth 1.2 compliant, Internal antenna, Class 2 transmit power
Battery: Removable rechargeable Lithium Polymer battery (1500 mAH)

dallab X8 is one very nice Pocket PC Phone but probably it will pleasy only Asian customers, if no wireless carrier in USA or Europe pick it for distribution.

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Mar 29 3D Sudoku for Pocket PC with really amazing gameplay
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Games, Pocket PC,

Probably you have played Sudoku game in any of its versions before. How about playing Sudoku in 3 dimensions mode ? 3D Sudoku for PPC 1.1 is just this, a sudoku game for your Pocket PC that comes in 3-D version.

3D Sudoku for PPC 1.1 is your ultimate challenge - master the space, unleash your wit and conquer all dimensions. Rules and goals haven't changed, but solving 4 x 4 x 4 board in another dimension makes it even more enjoyable then before.

You just need to remember that a 4x4x4 cube is subdivided into 2x2 squares and a 1x4 column. There is exactly 1 solution to each given puzzle. Your task is to fill all the cells in the cube using numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 in a way that each column and each 2x2 square in any direction contains each of the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 exactly once.

3D Sudoku for PocketPC 1.1 Features:

* 2D and 3D view of the puzzle
* Animated transformation from 3D to 2D puzzle and back
* Possible values hint
* Board checking
* Save game / Load game
* large set of puzzles (over 300)
* 2 board styles

Full and Trial version are available for download here.

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Mar 29 Webmessenger Instant Mobile Messenger for Windows Mobile 5.0
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Software, Pocket PC, WM5,

Webmessenger is a multi-network IM application that allows you to chat with buddies on all Public IM Networks (AOL, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk and Jabber). Now this Mobile Instant Messenger has been upraged to support WM5 and you can get it on discount of over 26%!

Webmessenger Features :

* Provides multi-network access in a single client. You can simultaneously chat with your buddies from AOL, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk and Jabber simply and conveniently from a single application on your handheld.
* Runs simultaneous with the phone and email applications on your device.
* Can send and receive extended presence information (online, busy, away, and not available) as well as recognize the device of origin (desktop or mobile user).
* Import contacts from your public IM networks contact lists.
* Manage (add, drop, edit) Contacts can be done from the device.
* Organize Contacts into personalized groups for easy recognition and access.
* Display message history with timestamps.
* Supports shortcuts for quick navigation, show/hide offline buddies, show/hide groups.
* 3DES encryption of the communication (user selectable).
* Enterprise version available (interoperability with IBM Lotus Sametime, Microsoft LCS, Reuters Messaging, and Jabber XCP).

Webmessenger Instant Mobile Messenger for Windows Mobile 5.0 has trial and full versions available here and a Desktop client for easier contact managment, which can be downloaded from here.

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Mar 29 Happy Wednesdays Just Today with Palm Discounted products
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Mobile News, Palm, Treo, Accessories,

Palm Europe has just announced their exceptional offer to celebrate their 10th Anniversary. Just today they are offering a 10% discount on any item from their European Store. So today is one Good day if you are European country citizen and want to buy your Palm handheld Devices or Accessories.

So to get your 10% off whatever you purchase from the store don't forget to use one of the following coupon codes (as appropriate):

Austria and Germany : 102006DE
Switzerland : 102006CH
UK : 102006UK
Spain : 102006ES
Italy : 102006IT
Other European countries : 102006EU

Happy Shopping with Palm ! :)

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Mar 29 Dealexec Free RSS Reader for Smartphones and Pocket PCs
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Software, Smartphone, Pocket PC, Freeware,

Dealexec RSS is one new and FREE RSS reader made by Alex Lokshin. As a successor of the Ben's Pocket Bargains Dealexec RSS is quite easy to use and fun rss reader, specifically targeting the free deal hunters.

Dealexec works just fine with the wide range of Microsoft Windows Mobile powered both Smartphones and Pocket PCs. If it runs okay on your handheld device your are in the compatibility list, if it doesn't - probably your unit is incompatible and you may wait for newer version of this PocketPC RSS Reader.



You can download Dealexec RSS Reader from Smartphone Freeware site.

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Mar 29 Windows Mobile devices Input Tips and Tricks
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Tips, Pocket PC, Smartphone,

We are presenting you Input tips and tricks for Windows Mobile devices found on Windows Mobile Team Blog that we hope you will appreciate. It's possible that some of these things will work on some devices and not on others.

Smartphone Specific

Easy access to numbers. In both T9 and ABC mode, you can usually get a number by pressing and holding the button. For instance, the 2 button can be a, b, c, or 2. Press it once and you'll get a letter. Press and hold it and you'll get the number. This is a lot faster than switching to 123 mode if you just need to type a few numbers.

Lock the keypad. On smartphones that have a separate power button, pressing and holding the End key (the red button) locks the keypad. Some smartphones don't have a separate power button. On them, the press and hold of the End key is usually power off. In that case, there's often some other key that you can press and hold for lock.

Quicklist. On smartphones that have a separate power button, pressing the power button quickly (not press and hold) brings up the "quicklist." The quicklist lets you do things like toggle flight mode and set profiles. Press and hold the power button shuts the phone off. On devices without a separate power button, one of the other keys will bring up the quicklist (often press and hold Home).

Getting symbols. If you're typing in T9 or ABC mode, there are two ways to type things like period, comma, etc. You can get a table of them by pressing and holding the # key. Or you can get to many of the more common ones with the 1 key.

Speed dial apps. You can assign phone numbers to speed dial keys. Go into the contact, select the phone number you want to put on a speed dial, and then choose Menu->Add To Speed Dial. But you can also assign applications to speed dial keys. From the home screen, hit Start, select the application you want, and then choose Menu->Add To Speed Dial. Once you have a number or application on speed dial, you can go to the home screen and press and hold that number to call or run it. For instance, if you assigned my ToggleBTh button to speed dial slot 2, you can turn Bluetooth on and off by just pressing and holding 2 from the home screen.

Speed dial voicemail. On most phones, speed dial slot 1 is voicemail. So you can dial your voicemail by going to the home screen and pressing and holding 1. Pocket PC Specific

Better hardware navigation. Some WM5 devices have dedicated "Start" and "Ok" buttons (e.g. the Treo 700w and the Sprint 6700). Some WM5 devices don't have those buttons, but do have two buttons that launch apps (e.g. the T-mobile MDA and the Cingular 8125). Having Start and Ok buttons makes it much easier to control the device without touching the screen. You can change the existing application buttons to do Start and Ok instead. Go to Start->Settings->Buttons. Select the button you want to change and drop down the menu at the bottom. The two you care about are near the top of the list ( and ).

Symbols not on the keyboard. If you have a hardware keyboard that has a "Sym" button (often Fn + Space) you can use it to type symbols that aren't on the keyboard. For instance, say the keyboard has a "/" but no "\". Type "/" then hit Sym. It'll switch. Hit Sym again and it'll switch to "|". This is also a somewhat convenient way to get non-English characters. For instance, if you want an o with an umlaut over it, hit o and then hit the Sym key a few times. It'll cycle through the various accents. Or, if you need the Spanish ρ, hit n then Sym.

What happened to my backlight? On many PocketPCs, if you press and hold the power button it will turn off the backlight and keep it off. This may be what you want, or it may be something you did accidentally and now you're wondering why your backlight never turns on anymore. Press and hold power again to turn the backlight back on. (On at least one PocketPC I've seen recently, press and hold power is a full shut down instead.)

Make the SIP stop coming up. The PocketPC has a "Soft Input Panel" (SIP). This is the little software keyboard that pops up at the bottom of the screen. (It can also be various types of handwriting recognizers, etc.) If the device has no hardware keyboard, the SIP will pop up automatically whenever you get to a place where you can enter text. If there's a hardware keyboard, though, we assume you want to use the keyboard instead of the SIP and don't make it pop up automatically. However, if you tap the little SIP button once, we suddenly decide that you want the SIP to deploy automatically again, even though you've got a hardware keyboard. Maybe you did, or maybe you let a friend look at your PocketPC and he said, "Hey, what's this do?" and tapped it. If you want it to stop coming up automatically, let it pop up once and use the hardware keyboard as though the SIP wasn't there. When you use the hardware keyboard, the SIP will go away and won't come up again until you tap the icon. (The common mistake people make here is to put the SIP away and then start typing on the hardware keyboard. That will put it away, but it'll come back again when you go to a new text field.)

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Mar 29 Wrist Wearable GPS PC Unveiled by Eurotech
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Devices, Mobile News,

Do you remember that we have told you about a device called Wrist PC last year (Italian Wrist PC: Unfashionably Star Trek). Eurotech unveiled that they will soon release the WWPC, a revolutionary wrist-wearable device suitable for an extremely wide range of applications that solidifies the concept of ubiquitous computing. It is small enough to be worn like a watch and has all the power and capabilities of a full size PC.

The Wrist Wearable PC features fully integrated GPS, Bluetooth, Fast Infrared and WLAN, supporting the Linux and WinCE operating systems. The WWPC also integrates a newly patented Eurotech system that detects the position of the user’s arm and puts the WWPC into stand-by mode when the arm is hanging down beside the body.

WWPC integrated features include:

* GPS
* Mini SD memory slot
* Advance power management
* Audio mini speakers
* Video with a bright outdoor-readable 65K color TFT touch screen display
* Direct-access keypad
* USB host
* USB device
* Headphone jack
* Bluetooth
* Wi-Fi 802.11g
* IRDA

For more information concerning this great device visit manufacturer website.

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Mar 29 External GPS antena how to
Published by root in:Tips, GPS, Hardware,

"GPS is a nifty piece of technology."
GPS staff needs a clear view of the sky because it's satellite based, so using your handheld unit can be a problem when the roof of your car is blocking signal reception. The obvious answer is to add an external antenna.
Of cource you can wait until the new Galileo GPS project is released. It will be atleast five time faster than the US GPS and will support in-building GPS navigation along with many other functions.

The catch-22 is that many GPS units lack external antenna jacks.

If you crack open your GPS, you could extend the wire between the antenna and the internal antenna, but the loss from the extra wire would degrade the signal. But active antennas amplify the signal to get past the loss in the extra wiring; with a little bit of hacking, you can add an external active gps antenna to just about any GPS unit.

Find out how in today's Engadged How-To.

To complete this project, you need:

• A suitable GPS receiver
• 26 gauge wire (0.4mm thick)
  
• 100pF or 47pf ceramic capacitor
• Active external GPS antenna
• BNC panel mount connector (may vary, get one to match connector for the antenna)
• 1/8 inch mini jacks or similar for power and serial output (optional)
• Tools: Soldering iron, pliers, wire strippers, drill
  

Continue reading the how-to here

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Mar 29 Where art meets pocket devices
Published by root in:Wallpapers, PDA, PSP,

"Before cell phones came standard with the level of customization we're so used to today, handheld organizers reigned king in the gadget world. Even with camera and video phones in such common circulation these days, non-phone handheld devices haven't become any less useful than they were since the first PDAs burst onto the consumer market. Of course, you could only justify calling your PDA a personal digital assistant if you were able to customize its look and feel to your tastes. While you can buy decorative replacement faceplates for your device in just about any mall, it's here in this gallery where you'll want to look for skins and themes for your handheld device."

Deviantart Handhelds Art







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Mar 28 Pocket Heroes of Might and Magic for PPC devices alpha
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Mobile News, Games, Pocket PC,

Do you remember of GREAT PC game called Heroes Of Might and Magic? Probably you have played or heard of it, but if you have not do not worry, now a russian pocket pc developer has began to cloning it to Pocket PC devices.

Heroes Of Might and Magic is turn based strategy that in my humble opinion will be really amazing to play on pocketpc devices.

You can download the alpha version of this game from here.
To install Pocket Heroes, you'll need to:

• Unzip "PocketHeroes_002a.zip" archive
• Copy all extracted files to any folder in your PocketPC device, for example \Storage Card\PocketHeroes\
• Run "hmm_ppc.exe" file

Screenshots :

We wish good luck to the developer of this great game!

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