Windows Mobile Pocket PC & Symbian Smartphone software and freeware, reviews, tips & tricks

Jul 06 Free VoIP software for Windows Mobile devices from BeWip
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Mobile News, Software, Pocket PC, Smartphone, WM5, VoIP,

There is another Free VoIP application for Smartphones and Pocket PC Phones with WiFi, the BeWip, that just hit the scene. BeWip is a softphone (software phone) for mobile phones, which integrates in a single interface both VoIP and standard cellular telephony (GSM, CDMA, UMTS, etc.).

BeWip relies on standard services and protocols provided by telecommunications operators. This software gives you the ability to use on your mobile, the services you normally use at home. For example, it is possible to call your contacts over landlines or cellular telephony, and thus on your mobile at a price close to what you would pay if you were at home on your own landline, as defined by your SIP operator.

In other words BeWip unifies your Cellular and VoIP communications due to an unique interface on your pdaphone, pocket pc phone edition or smartphone based on Microsoft Windows mobile 5.0.

BeWip is available for Free download here.

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Jul 06 NS Durak card game for Smartphones and PPCs released
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Games, Pocket PC, Smartphone, Freeware,

NS Durak is a simple Russian card game. The goal of this game is to get rid of all cards, the first who will have no cards is a winner.

You can start your turn with any card and your opponent should beat your card with a higher card of the same suit (for example, you put on the table 8 spade , the opponent can beat it with 10 spade or King spade) or with a trump. After opponent has beated your card you can put additional cards for opponent to beat with the same rank (for example, there are 8 spade and 10 spade on the table, you can put additionally 8 diamonds or 10 hearts and so on). When you have nothing to put on the table, the turn goes to the opponent.

NS Durak Main features:

* Screen resolution 240x320 (later will be supported 320x240, 240x240, 480x640, 640x480, 178x220).
* Flexible using controls, you can play either with stylus (mouse) or joystick (arrow keys).
* Your last game is automatically saved, you can continue playing just after start.
* Sounds can be switched off.
* Tips can be switched off.
* Multilanguage user interface is supported, play this game using your native language.
* 3 levels of computer artificial intelligence (AI).

NS Durak has version for Pocket PC and Smartphone, which are available for Free download at Freeware Pocket PC site and Smartphone Freeware site.

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Jul 06 .NET CF 2.0 SP1 comes with support for install to Storage Card
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Mobile News, Pocket PC, Smartphone,

Microsoft have shipped .net Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 with install to Storage Card support!. This is great cause of the memory requirement of .net CF 2.0 placed upon an already limited resource (Smartphones for example) has always been off putting. Because of that most of the developers are still developing in .net CF 1.0.

NET Compact Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 details:

Added Features:

* Added support for WindowsCE 4.2 in both the CAB installation and a Platform Builder Update (For more information on the Platform Builder Update, see Windows CE Download Center.)
* Added the option to install the global assemblycache to the storage card.
* Allow DataGrid cell drawing to be overridden
* Added support for headless Windows CE 5.0 devices by adding a Headless catalog item in Platform Builder. (For more information on the Platform Builder Update, see Windows CE Download Center.)
* Added System SR files to the Windows CE 5.0 Platform Builder catalog item. (For more information on the Platform Builder Update, see Windows CE Download Center)
* Enabled device debugging using mdbg.
* Included LogViewer tools to monitor network traffic.
* Included the .NET Compact Framework Remote Performance Monitor. (For more information, see Steven Pratschner’s BLOG.)
* Added the Serializable attribute.

Fixed Issues:

* Changing VT_BYREF Variants in managed code could lead to a memory leak.
* Inappropriate caching of current UI culture even after CultureInfo.ClearCachedData is called.
* For the HttpWebRequest method, an uncatchable ObjectDisposedException could occur when exiting an application with asynchronous requests.
* Visual Studio hangs on setting a Breakpoint in a function with an infinite loop when it is called from the Immediate Window.
* Breakpoints do not work if the cached, managed dlls in the bcl directory differ from the ones on the device.
* Environment.GetFolderPath returns an InvalidOperationException.
* An access violation occurs when accessing .theControls or .Controls.Count property of a control once it has begun the disposing process.
* The WebBrowser.DocumentCompleted event is fired in a loop when the DocumentText property contains an image inside of a table.
* Files should be extracted to the main storage as a workaround to avoid hardware issues on some storage cards.
* For the HttpWebRequest method, an ArgumentOutOfRangeException occurs when accessing some https:// URLs.
* Timer breaks after GetTickCount wraps around (49.7 days).
* Error occurs when loading the .NET Compact Framework version 2.0 on a device using an ActiveSync push.
* Memory leaks occur when using Com marshaling.
* Installer should check for ActiveSync version and disable deployment if version is older than ActiveSync 4.0 build 4343.
* For the SerialPort class, an IOException is thrown when opening a serial port on the IPAQ 4150.
* A call to HttpWebRequest over SSL with a payload greater than 32 KB hangs on the client when SendChunked returns false.
* For the SerialPort class,an uncatchable exception occurs when Bluetooth is turned off.
* A finalizer for the FileStream class will cause the application to crash if a previous IO operation failed.
* Installation of the .NET Compact Framework fails on low memory devices.
* PInvoke return types of UIntPtr throw a NotSupportedException.
* The Debug.WriteLine method in the .NET Compact framework version 2.0 is not working.
* For the SerialPort class, virtual serial ports are not reported by the SerialPort.GetPortNames method.
* When using COM Interop, a VARIANT_BOOL type is passed incorrectly on ARMV4I.
* The .NET Compact Framework incorrectly performs version comparison when loading assemblies.
* ARMV4I runtime should be removed from ARMV4 Pocket PC CAB to reduce the size of the CAB.
* Corrections needed for Http Abort semantics.
* The DateTime.Now method throws an ArgumentOutOfRangeException.
* Crash caused by using CurrentTimeZone.GetDaylightTime and CurrentTimeZone.GetStandardTime in certain rare stress conditions.

So have a more pleasant development guys

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Jul 06 AutoOff Extender for Palm OS based devices
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Palm, Freeware, Treo,

AutoOff is when your device shuts itself off automatically after a specified period of user-inactivity, in order to conserve battery power.

AutoOffExtender can detect when your device is powered on after being off for less than a few seconds, and extend the timer to some minutes for that session automatically, assuming you need more time to watch the screen.

AutoOffExtender restores the timer to its default value when your device is gone off.

AutoOffExtender is available for Free download at Freeware Palm site.

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Jul 06 New PocketPC Battery Monitor application released
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Software, Pocket PC,

Pocket PC software developers SC eXs Corporation SRL has just released their newest application for monitoring your Pocket PC battery levels.

Battery power information is an essential feature on the PocketPC and very important for people depending on their PocketPC's, and not only. You no longer have to worry about how much your battery will last, or go through the entire Control Panel just to see the percentage of remaining power. PocketPC Battery Monitor conveniently displays this information on your Today screen. Even better, it will also show you an estimate in days, hours, minutes and seconds until your battery needs to be recharged.


PocketPC Battery Monitor Features :

* Display remaining battery percentage
* Choose between 3 display modes : (graphic only, text only, graphic + text)
* Displays estimated remaining time in days, hours, minutes and seconds.
* Display charging status and percentage.
* Lightweight software. Uses very little memory, storage space and Today screen area.
* Updates are completely free, for lifetime, for this software.
* You can redownload your software anytime you wish, completely free, for lifetime.

PocketPC Battery Monitor has full and trial versions available for download here.

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Jul 05 How to make Skype works on HP iPAQ h6300 Series
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Tips, Pocket PC, iPAQ,

Probably some of you who own h6300 series iPAQs want to use Skype on their Pocket PC Phones. I have just tested one trick that makes it work perfectly.

So if you want to start using Skype on your series h6300 iPAQ You have to do the following steps:

1. MAKE A BACKUP OF ALL YOUR DATA BEFORE PROCEEDING!
2. If you do not already have the "Low CPU" version of Skype (for 312 Mhz PPCs) please download it and install it (you can get it here).
3. With the Skype program not on (shut down), open a registry tweaking/hacking tool. (You can use RegEdit which is a freeware program.)
4. In the iPaq's registry go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Skype\Phone\Audio\DisableCodecs
5. The value is normally blank but you want it to read: ILBC G729 EG711U
6. Save and exit the registry tool.

After doing this you need to boot up Skype and make a test call (calling Skype's Echo123 test call service no longer works because it relied on the codecs that you have just disabled but who cares because the test service was of little to no use anyway).

Skype can now be used for voice calls very well on the h6300 series (6315, 6340, etc)! You are still forced to use the iPaq's internal mic and speaker but you can also use the wired handsfree headset that came with your iPaq if you don't want to hold the iPaq to your head.

This trick is available thanks to mobilitysite member FallN. You can read his original post here.

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Jul 05 Bluebird Pidion BM-300 T-DMB Pocket PC announced
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Mobile News, Devices, Pocket PC,

BlueBird was known in the near past with its very nice Pocket PC devices. As it seems the Korean manufacture have decided not to leave the Pocket PC scene and have announced their latest Pocket PC device called Pidion BM-300, which is running running Windows Mobile 5.0.

Bluebird Pidion BM-300 has 2.8" QVGA screen and is powered by an Intel Bulverde CPU running at 520 MHz. It has 64 MB RAM, 128 MB ROM memory and slot for SD memory cards. The Pocket PC also has built-in WiFi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth and USB. And not at last place is its inbuilt support for T-DMB digital terrestrial TV.

As we currently know Bluebird will launch the Pidion BM-300 Pocket PC in Korea in October, but there is no date for the rest of the World.

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Jul 05 Garmin Mobile XT GPS device approved by FCC
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Garmin, GPS, Devices, Mobile News, Navigation,

FCC has approved new GPS device from Garmin called the Garmin Mobile XT.

The Garmin Mobile XT looks ideal for daily use no matter if want to find a route or look up your contacts. This GPS device also has a nice touch-screen interface. You can also browse by type of place you are looking for like Hotels, Cities, Addresses or your Locations.

We are hoping that there will be further details soon.

You can get some technical information about Garmin Mobile XT at FCC website.

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Jul 05 Lowest prices for Symbian OS Smartphones this Week
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Symbian, Hardware, Weekly Specials,

Here we offer you the most popular Symbian OS Smartphones and their lowest prices as they are according to Pricegrabber. If you are interested in learning more about specific device just click on it and read specifications, reviews, etc.

You can browse more PDAs, Hardware and Accessories at our Hardware Store
If your are looking for Symbian OS Freeware check out our Symbian Freeware site.

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Jul 05 Change the look of your Palm device with SprayPaint
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Palm, Software, Treo,

Does your Palm look a bit boring lately? Then paint it - with SprayPaint!

SprayPaint lets you select your own custom colors for things like backgrounds, menu frames, list and button background, texts and hilites and many more. It is a very easy to configure and save application and you won't believe for how long you have been staring at white buttons with white fills, after you have configured your own favourite color scheme.

To make it easy there are lots of template schemes already preconfigured, so just dive in!

You can download Trial of purchase full version of SprayPaint here.

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