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

Apr 08 Modeo DVB-H integrated smartphone announced
Published by Veselin Nedeff in:Devices, Smartphone, HTC,

Modeo, a leading company in the mobile television industry,has presented production-ready DVB-H integrated smartphone aka HTC Forseer at CTIA WIRELESS 2006 in Las Vegas. This innovative handset is designed around the high performance DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld) standard, the Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 platform and Microsoft Windows Media platform to supply mobile users with a feature-packed mobile entertainment and productivity solution.

Based on the Windows Mobile 5.0 platform, the handset is optimized to receive and playback Modeo's DVB-H mobile broadcasts delivered using Windows Media technologies, including Windows Media Video and Windows Media Digital Rights Management. The handset also uses Windows Media Player 10 Mobile to playback video and music stored in multiple formats, with Windows Media Audio (WMA), MP3 and AAC to be the supported file types.

The 10.3 x 5.5 x 1.5cm handset is based on a 200MHz Texas Instruments OMAP 850 processor, 128 MB of Flash ROM, 64MB of SDRAM and a Micro SD slot for more. It has a 2.2in, 240 x 320, 65,536-colour display and a 1.3 megapixel camera. It has a quad-band (850/900/1800/1900MHz) GSM/GPRS/EDGE radio and Bluetooth 1.2.

It also features Nvidia GoForce 5500 graphics chip on board to process and display the digital TV data picked up by the handset's antenna. The phone also sports an on-board electronic programme guide (EPG). Modeo didn't say whether it will allow shows to be recorded to memory. The Modeo phone weighs 120g and contains a 1150mAh battery, the company said - enough, it added, for three hours' TV viewing time, four hours' talk time and to allow it to operate in stand-by mode for six days.

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Apr 08 HP adds more ROM memory to iPAQ hx2000 Series
Published by Veselin Nedeff in:Mobile News, Pocket PC, iPAQ,

Pocketpcthoughts informs us that HP has silently changed that as their site now shows a new hx2190 and hx2490, each with 64MB RAM and 192MB ROM.

Back in September 2005, HP discontinued their old hx2000 series in favour of a new one based on Windows Mobile 5.0. Each model number was appropriately updated from hx2110, hx2410, and hx2750 to hx2190, hx2490, and hx2790 respectively. While the hx2790 was lucky enough to receive a wealthy memory configuration of 64MB RAM and 192MB ROM, the hx2190 and hx2490 had to settle for a lesser offering of 64MB RAM and 128MB ROM.

Source : pocketpcthoughts.com.

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Apr 06 Trick Soccer World Championship 2006
Published by GeorgeDimoff in:Games, Pocket PC, WM5,


Like Soccer ? Then play trick shoots right at your PDA with Trick Soccer World Championship 2006 for as low as $4.99.

Let the Soccer madness begin !
With Trick Soccer World Championship 2006, your PDA becomes a virtual soccer stadium and you're the key player in it! Your "GOAL" is becoming a PRO soccer player and the only way to get there is by good old fashioned hard work and practice! Your personal coach will help you to train your technique, ball-control and aiming skills. To do so, he has put together an intensive training program with different exercises, which you'll need to master if you want to become that PRO!

The Kickoff training schedule will train your accuracy! you'll need to drop the ball in a specific area.

The Penalty program will help you to improve your aiming skills! Aim right and score as much points as possible.

And last but not least the Footbag exercise! This exercise will improve your technique. Keep the ball in the air as long as possible and perform the best tricks.

Features:

• 3 Mini Games: Kickoff, Penalty and Footbag
• Activity and Story game modes
• 3 Difficulty Settings: Easy, Medium, Hard
• Easy to master controls
• Hiscore Table with name entries
• Polished graphics
• Soccer-inspired music soundtrack
• Clear instruction screens
• Compatible with most Pocket PC's (ARM and Xscale)
• Also available for SmartPhone & Java

The game does not have a demo download but it cost just $4.99 and its a very good investment for the next football seasson. Order Trick Soccer World Championship 2006 here
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Apr 06 FlexWallet 2006 (Desktop Edition) Rev 2 released
Published by GeorgeDimoff in:Software, Pocket PC, WM5,

FlexWallet enables you to securely store any type of information and sync it to any Windows Mobile device. Bank accounts, credit card information, emergency contact numbers, travel documents, software registration codes, online passwords, calling cards, gift ideas, clothing sizes, ATM Pins and dozens of other types of private records like your kids SSN's.

Major Features in the new Rev 2 version:

• Secure encryption of all your information using redundant 128-bit algorithms.
• Professional, easy-to-master user interface consistent with Microsoft design guidelines.
• Organize your information into multiple level categories and sub-categories.
• Use the built-in templates or create your own using the Template Editor to store almost any type of personal information.
• Choose from over 110 attractive and consistently themed icons to identify your cards and categories. You can also use your own custom icons!
• Built-in Password Generator utility.
• Convenient ATM-style keypad for easily entering numeric passwords on Pocket PC devices.
• Quickly access frequently used cards using the Favorites and Recently Used Cards lists.
• Card Level Wallet Synchronization to easily setup synchronization between your desktop computer and Pocket PC or Smartphone device.
• Easily search for text stored in any card.

Download FlexWallet free 15-day trial and see for yourself why over 30,000 Pocket PC and Smartphone users find FlexWallet to be the best application in its category.

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Apr 05 Lowest prices for Palm handhelds this Week
Published by Veselin Nedeff in:Mobile News, Devices, Palm, Weekly Specials,

Here we offer you the most popular Palm OS based Handhelds devices 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.

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Apr 05 Blackberry 7130c PDA Phone images leak
Published by Veselin Nedeff in:Devices, BlackBerry, PDA, Smartphone,

Today the Blackberry 7130c has made its first unofficial appearance on the internet. The photos of the unreleased Blackberry 7130c have been leaked and we are pleased to present them to you. At the moment there are no specifications and details about this BlackBerry 7130c PDA Phone, but one thing is more than sure - it will be released by Cingular Wireless service.

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Apr 05 Treo 700p should be available thru Sprint on May 15th
Published by GeorgeDimoff in:Treo, Palm,

A fresh rumor about a new Palm Treo 700p release date has been spreading around lately. Unofficial announcement at this blog post the new date should be May 15th, of course Palm keeps the right to rewrite this ! They claim that a highly trusted source has confirmed, that they won't be making an official announcement until Monday, May 15th .

I'm very excited to see that i will be able to grab that new palm phone earlier than expected (May 28th). According to me that would be a strike back to the Pocket PC phones industry which takes more and more string positions around the worldwide markets. If Palm Inc. start selling the 700p Treo in Europe as soon as possible that would be a great advantage, since treos are not so popular around there.
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Apr 05 Extend & monitor battery life of your Pocket PC
Published by GeorgeDimoff in:Tips, Pocket PC, PDA,

Recently a great Pocket PC application has been released, acbPowerMeter lets you measure the battery load put on your device by various functions like CPU, display, wireless radio, speaker, etc.

"Battery life is very important with PDA's, especially if you don't have any chance to charge them or swap batteries while on the move. Then, every additional minute you can squeeze out from the battery may be important. In this article, I show you what you can do in order to optimize battery life."

That's what Werner Ruotsalainen, AKA Menneisyys, has written on his in-depth article.

abcPowerMeter has some great features like weighted moving average to chart, overall average and total power (mAh) consumed to display. Also added pause/resume and x-axis labels.

Here are some real world examples: "A test to compare with the Alpha version of Agile messenger running. And it confirms what many have thought, it's a battery eater ! We started with as low as 102mA and as high as 460mA while Agile was running. It seems like whenever it connects to the network is when the super high usage spikes would happen, but it appears to constantly be doing that. On the other hand, my push email client doesn't hit battery life at all."

 

Yet another test with Skype for Pocket PC, Here's a capture of Skype's major power drain. If you, like me, would like to use Skype to replace voice calling, but because of battery use cannot ! Starts with no data connection, around 30 mA.
First spike is connecting to data over EVDO and IE download
Another minute of around 30 mA with data connected but no active transfers
Then started Skype. As you can see, the average use with Skype running was around 400 mA. During this time, I made no calls or chats.
Exited Skype at end, left data connection on, dropped back to about 30 mA.

 

The conclusion for me is that all those colorful applications that has recently hits the market are only about to drain our battery power in less time. Testing which applications drains less is a good practice in order to keep the handheld alive for as long as it can.
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Apr 05 MobiTV will Support Windows Mobile Smartphones and PocketPC soon
Published by Veselin Nedeff in:Mobile News, Pocket PC, Smartphone,

MobiTV announced upcoming support for Windows Mobile-Powered Phones and Devices and this will be nice add-on to any windows mobile powered handheld device.

MobiTV, the global leader in television and digital radio services for cellular, WiFi and broadband-enabled devices, today announced collaboration with Microsoft to bring the world-class MobiTV service and user experience to Windows Mobile-powered phones and devices, as well as Windows XP-based PCs and laptops. MobiTV has selected the Microsoft Windows Media platform, including Windows Media Digital Rights Management, Windows Media Audio and Video codecs and Windows Media Player to deliver live, high-quality television content to a broad range of subscribers.

"We look forward to working with Microsoft to extend our incredibly successful mobile television experience to the desktop. It was an easy choice for us to select the Windows Media platform to deliver a superior television experience to millions of laptop and PC users," said Dr. Phillip Alvelda, CEO and chairman of MobiTV. "Microsoft offers an integrated and complete solution that fulfills our vision to deliver the best possible live television experience to consumers, across a range of devices and networks."

Source : MobiTv Press Release

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Apr 04 Palm and treo freeware and discounted downloads
Published by GeorgeDimoff in:Palm, Software, Treo,

MobileTopSoft has recently launched Palm software archive with complete list of all new and updated applications for Palm OS powered PDAs and phones (treo).



We have implemented a userbased tagging system which should help the palm users to tag a specific software and then access them directly thru that specific tag name.

Current discounted Palm OS software titles are listed here. We are going to updated this list on a regular bases so be sure to check out the newest discounts.

RSS feed are also ready to read at http://palm.mobiletopsoft.com


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