Category: Windows Phone

Imate is going to unveil a truly peculiar phone for the consumer market, which is weatherproof, shockproof and can withstand extreme temperatures. On the top of scoop, it runs Windows Mobile and comes with all the latest bells and whistles like digital compass and accelerometer coupled together with WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and 3G. Imate also promises to give you lifetime warranty on it. What more do you want?

Special emphasis is given on its security side. It comes with an application called Secure i-Q, which lets you lock the device; erase data and even trigger an alarm in case it gets stolen. The 810-F will be unveiled at Mobile World Congress next week in Barcelona, Spain

[via mobilechoice]

Normsoft, the maker of Pocket Tunes has released new version of the Pocket Tunes, which come with heaps of advancements over the previous version 4. The core advancements over the previous versions are:

• Podcast Subscriptions
• iTunes sync
• WMA Internet radio
• Last.fm scrobbling

New version is available at $37.95. Others who already own it can upgrade to the latest version 5 for just 19.95.

http://www.pocket-tunes.com/

Point UI has released BETA of Home 2, which is set to replace the old version one. The Point UI is extremely popular mobile shell, which makes basic functions of your Windows Mobile device easier to access. It also makes the whole user-experience more finger friendly.

The only officially supported devices are:

• HTC DIAMOND
• SONY ERICSSON XPERIA X1

It has quite huge running process footprint of around 14MB, which is quite huge by Windows Mobile standards. Other than that it runs great on my HTC DIAMOND.

Download it from here

The PocketGear has launched an App Store for Windows Mobile. For those of you who know about the Palm’s App store, this news is not new. The Palm App Store was nothing but a link to PocketGear’s IE Mobile friendly webpage.

This makes the so-called new PocketGear application nothing new.

http://appstore.pocketgear.com/winmo/

It is high time that someone release a proper App Store for the Windows Mobile. One endeavor is Gecko, which is still in its infancy stage. All hopes now lie on the Microsoft to release a proper application store for Windows Mobile.

Note to the developers: to submit your application to the App Store, follow this link.

Let the pictures say the story. The one on the left is the HTC DIAMOND and the one on the right is the HTC TOUCH PRO.

As you can see, on the HTC DIAMOND’s display has much more saturation and the image looks much more dense on the Diamond’s display as compared to HTC TOUCH PRO.

Also, on the  Diamond’s display, the white color is more whiter, while on Touch PRO’s display, the white appears as pale yellow although my camera was not able to differentiate effectively, but in person, the difference can easily be observed.

(one more image after the break) Continue reading “PROOF: Screens of HTC TOUCH DIAMOND and HTC TOUCH PRO are NOT same [Windows Mobile]”

I’m sure many of us have lost their stylus some way or other. This little application called “NoStylusWarning” comes from a person who lost his stylus twice and finally decided to write an application which monitors the stylus state (if it is in there or not).

Features:
– notification icon and balloon for switched on device
– vibration for suspended device
– monitoring g-sensor to detect moving
– monitoring light sensor to detect stylus loosing in pocket/pouch
– running in unattended mode to detect events in suspended mode
– smart minimize (X using your default setting, to minimize, use the menu)

Installation / requirements:
– .Net 3.5 is required as well as an HTC device with g-light and stylus sensor (which includes HTC DIAMOND, TOUCH PRO and TOUCH HD)
– just copy the EXE file to your device via activesync’s explore feature along with the sensors.dll to the same directory on the device. Then, you may create a shortcut to the Start Menu>Programs to easily launch the application.

Download this nifty application

TouchFLo is a simple app that allows HTC Touch Diamond / Pro / HD devices to run TouchFlo3D outside of the Today screen. You may wonder how is it different from the ones already there like the SecondToday? Here are the words from the developer himself

So what makes mine different? Well, my app is actually very similar to MastSogo’s ManilaControl. The main difference is that I plan to actively develop it now for a while, whereas ManilaControl has been a bit frozen in development for a few months. Mine is also open source, licensed under the Ms-RL. Mine is on CodePlex, so download speeds should be much better than the average rapidshare link. Finally, mine is in English and not Spanish. :-) Other than that, it’s just another solution for the same problem!

Get the application from here

[via freewarepocketpc]

Samsung has recently launched their own online store for Windows Mobile phones and non-smartphones. But, clearly on their store, the focus seems to be on the Windows Mobile softwares. You can find applications of all the big software houses like SBSH and SPB.

Currently, it seems to be only focused on the UK market. The best part about it is that Samsung has included not only commercial applications, but freeware (see this link) applications too.

Go to Samsung Mobile Store

LG has released SU200 in Korea today. The SU200 is Windows Mobile 6.1 powered phone, which is targeted to be a cheap phone. It was released in US last year as LG Incite. It will be made available in the second half of 2009 via LG and KTF

Specifications

• Windows Mobile 6.1
• WQVGA resolution (240 x 400)
• 3-inch display
• Wifi
• 3G
• 3MP camera
• 3.5mm headphone jack

The specifications are not earth shattering but since this is going to be a budget handset, we can spare LG for it ;)

[LG electronics Korea] [via newswire]

thanks to Jamie for the tip!