If the Touch Pro is a sexy device with a touchscreen, then the new HTC S740 is the Windows Mobile Standard version sans the touchscreen and add a QWERTY and number pad. The new non-touch smartphone has a lot of design elements from its Touch Pro cousin. The device got some hands-on time at coolsmartphone.

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User nitramk from XDA Developers comes with a very handy “by request” tool, addressing the wishes of many users and creating the first Diamond StopWatch application. This free utility can run on both Diamond and Touch Pro, as well as theoretically on every Windows Mobile device featuring a touch sensitive VGA display.

There isn’t really much to the story, it’s a simple StopWatch with basic functions like Start, Stop, Reset and Split times but what makes this application stand out, besides the full integration with Diamond’s aspect, is that it can store and save up to 10 split times for later reference.

Using a three decimal time measuring system, StopWatch ver. 1.0 is the first free application of its breed, especially designed for the Diamond and Touch Pro.

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Yahoo is jumping into the Windows Mobile platform with vigour, and has just released their new Yahoo! Go 3.0 beta for Windows Mobile, mobile phones. The application’s user interface has undergone a overhaul and there is now full support ...

IFA LG’s not going be left out of the Small, Cheap Computer arena - it’ll be releasing its own would-be Eee beater, the 3G-integrated X110, in October. LG’s X110: 3G built in Built-in HSDPA costs, and the SCC is set to be priced at €399 ...

by Michael Erikson Sitting down to read a favorite book or a new release from your favorite author is a pleasure like no other. If you are worried that your hand held device, PDA or even your iPAQ Pocket PC H5550 is not able to use Mobipocket, then you could be wrong. The Reader allows you to read websites, eBooks, weblogs and so much more. The Creator allows you to create documents, advanced content and applications for your PDA and more. The requirements for the Creator are Windows 2000/X

As with most Pocket PC’s, standard features now include GSM / GPRS / EDGE / WiFi and Bluetooth, however there is a very unique feature available with this device that is well worth a mention and is one of the first handsets to be able ...

This tutorial will walk you every step of the way through installing, setting up and using SyncMate to sync your Windows Mobile device with your Mac. Though SyncMate isn’t new, they’ve just released a version with a long awaited feature - the ability to sync using a locked Windows Mobile/Pocket PC device. The free version of SyncMate is limited to only syncing your Contacts and iCal calendar (and Google Contacts and/or Google Calendar) - but that’s more than enough for me. It’s also worth

It’s not as ridiculous as it sounds – the T9 input method is used by almost everyone who has a handphone and is actually pretty fast and doesn’t have as steep a learning curve as the other Pocket PC input methods. ...

Sound quality slightly poorer than TYTNII but still very acceptable and streets ahead of the old i-Mate K-JAM. Touchflo - very nice, very cute, very hard on my big stubby fingers and disabled. Probably helps the battery life. ...

I posted a few early photos and videos of the 3 Skypephone S2 on the UK blog on Tuesday, but thought it was time to share some more of what we've seen around the blogosphere. The combination of free calls and cheap high speed internet access (using the handset's HSDPA modem capabilities) seems to be a favourite among those who've tried the phone so far, and I've summarised a few of the latest reviews below. Neil Bird at iGadget Life has posted a follow-up to his original photos of the 3 Skyp

MyMusix PD201 Portable MP3 Player Manufacturer: MyMusix Product Description: This handy, little 2" x 2" gadget plays MP3 and WMA formats and stores music using SD (Secure Digital) memory cards. And you can download straight from your computer to your MyMusix MP3 player or the player's SD card. No software or drivers required. No need for Flash memory. Just flash dancing. List Price: USD 119.99 Lowest Refurbished Price: USD 18.88 Price is accurate as of the date/time indicated. Prices an

According to MobilitySite, American Airlines already launched their in-flight WiFi services on select trans-continental flights. The service is dubbed Gogo and will block VOIP over its WiFi network. However, MobilitySite is reporting that there is a workaround to Gogo to enable VOIP. You could log into Phweet with your Twitter account and have a voice conversation with someone over the Twitter network. The downside is that both parties need to have Twitter accounts. The upside is that the call will be cheaper than the in-flight phone service.

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Rating: Great flashlight Perfect size to fit in a BC pocket and easy to manage. Havent used it as a primary night light, yet!

Yesterday, Brandon illustrated a way to get the Omnia Widgets on any generic Windows Mobile devices. Today, we are going to show you how to replicate the XPERIA tiled interface experience on a non-Sony Ericsson device. This way, if you are in love with the Touch Pro's hardware, as we have discovered that the XPERIA's keyboard has been less than stellar, and still want the tile interface, you can still have it! According to wmpoweruser.com, there's an application called Dynamo 3, which allows for the tiled interface. Dynamo 3 is like an application task manager so you can quickly switch between applications.

Between Dynamo 3 and the Widgets from Samsung, and possibly TouchFLO 3D if you get the Touch Pro or Touch Diamond, you will have one killer device!

Dynamo 3 could be downloaded from XDA-Developers.

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A review of pedometers shows us that they can do more than just count your steps.  The Omron HJ-720 can actually be connected to your...

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XDA Developers' sandeman684 decided to go on his own and write a free application that would be considered as the successor of Microsoft’s retired Expenses tool.
Easy Expenses, currently at version 0.91, will be your perfect business travelling companion, with the ability to track, store and log your expenses.

It basicaly keeps track of your expenses, while offering the ability of entering your information by selecting from the following list categories: Currency (it only supports US$, EUR and GBP for now), Expense type (ie.: taxi, dinner, lunch, etc.), Expense date, Intended source (Employer, Client, Myself) and Paid with (Employer’s Cash, My Cash, Mastercard, Visa).

One other interesting feature is that the application offers optional program database location; you can now choose where to save your expenses’ log.

Besides being fully finger friendly (there is a 5 digit limitation while using this method), Easy Expenses will soon gain smartphone compatibility (so just Touchscreen for now).

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Popular gaming titles are slowly coming to Windows Mobile. msmobiles is reporting that Electronic Arts has ported The Simpsons and The Sims 2 among other titles to Windows Mobile while wmpoweruser.com is reporting that Lamity, a Second Life-like experience, will be coming to Windows Mobile in which 400 people can simultaneously play in a virtual town. Lamity is expected to be a cross-platform game, with Android support to be in development.

Traditionally, complex games like Second Life, of which Lamity is based upon, requires complex graphics and therefore is difficult to port to a mobile platform. However, Lamity is made possible with advances in mobile technology such as NVIDIA's APX 2500 platform. Also, with more devices sporting accelerometer, such as the Samsung Omnia, the Touch Pro, and the Touch Diamond, we can look forward to new ways to interact with our devices.

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Treo Pro Review: Please check back tomorrow as I will continue this Treo Pro review with more information and my take on the internal hardware and

LG KT610 review: Communicator wannabe. KT610 is LG’s way of saying the communicator class isn’t reserved for insanely expensive high end devices. Packing a large full-QWERTY keyboard and neat and simple looks, the S60 Symbian handset ...

Should a computer ever be described as "cute?" The Space Cube shows that's surely open to debate. After drooling over the tiny available-only-in-Japan Space Cube, PC Pro finally got one, and has done a rather lengthy review of the adorably twee computer. The Space Cube measures 2 square inches ...

Karen Chang, “iCare Worksheet in the Pocket PC and the Tablet PC”, Regenstrief Center Health Care Delivery Systems workshop at Burton D. Morgan Center, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN on September 23, 2004. ...

NewsFactor - Klausner Technologies, a patent-holding company, is at it again. The New York-based company said late Tuesday that it has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Verizon Wireless, LG Electronics, Google and a long list ...

Power System Management ... Full papers will be due by 30 Sept 2008 for review ... Notification of acceptance will be given by 20 Dec 2008.

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DataViz today announced the availability of Documents To Go Premium Edition 3.0 for devices running Windows Mobile 6.x Professional and 5.0 for Pocket PC Phone Edition. Already available for Windows Mobile Standard, BlackBerry, Symbian and Palm OS, Documents To Go, will now allow users of Windows Mobile Pocket PC devices to view, edit and create Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files (Windows: Office 97 – 2007, Mac: Office 98-2008) as well as view PDF files on their devices and in their native formats.

DataViz has also enhanced the PDF viewer included with their mobile office suite with this release of Documents To Go for Pocket PC. The improvements provide a clear and crisp viewing experience of all Adobe PDF file elements (rendering stays true to desktop file) and makes dramatic speed improvements when opening files so users can be more productive.

If you're in the UK, you can get the Samsung Omnia i900 for a subsidized price on Orange. But what's been bugging us (and some of our readers apparently) is that the Orange website doesn't specify whether the Omnia you get is the 8GB or 16GB version. Well, mightymax did some work and found out from the company that it is the 16GB version that they're selling online. Since more storage space is better than less storage space, that pleases us =D.

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As the mobile Web continues to mature, the fantasy football world is slowly finding ways to migrate from your PC to your pocket. Most of the major fantasy football providers now offer mobile access in some (usually limited, but improving) fashion. If you like the idea of on-the-go access to your fantasy teams as well as important player updates and other news, here are some resources to help you stay connected to fantasy football wherever you are. Yahoo! has announced that it will offer a mobi

The video of the original pocketnow.com - Usability Tests. I created the following video for the MWg Zinc II.

Here is the list of tests I will run through.

1 - Switch between the email, contacts and calendar applications

2 - Open a 3rd party application (Windows Live Search) buried within the interface

3 - Open a favorite web page from the home screen

4 - Start playing music from a specific artist

5 - Add a new contact beginning from the home screen using the following details:
Name: John Zorn, Work Phone: 800.555.1212, E-mail: test@example.com

6 - Compose and send a specified E-mail to that contact (beginning from home screen; no cheating and using the contact you've just created and Send E-mail to) using the following details:
To: John Zorn
Subject: Test
Message: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.



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by Michael PJ Erikson Life comes at you fast, especially in the realm of technology where there are terms that are continuously flying at you. Some have dual meanings, such as mobile technologies. Mobile technology can refer to a dual-action processor and it can refer to the mobile gadgets, such as PDAs, pocket PCs and Smartphones. We are living in a mobile age and if you are going to stay in contact with your home and work, then you must be able to be contacted no matter where you are. one of

I tend to run several programs at a time on my Pocket PC in fact sometimes my device becomes so bogged down with all of my running programs that finding them as the system creeps along at a snails pace can be quite difficult and ...

Brandon just forwarded me an article from lifehacker detailing some of the best, most useful, free applications to enhance the functionality and/or look of your Windows Mobile devices. Most of these applications have been covered in detail at pocketnow.com, but it's a nice reminder of how much great, free software there is to make a great device even greater, especially in light of emerging platforms with stability woes (read: iPhone app crashes).

System Utilities

1. Mac synchronization: Sure, ActiveSync is a love/hate issue for Windows users, but if you're a Mac user and need a free way to synchronize your device, you can download SyncMate from Etima.

2. Backup of important data: PIM Backup is a great app that backups your PIM information, text messages, emails, and call logs. Best of all, it resides locally on your device so you don't need to be near a computer to use it. You can store it on your memory card.

3. Synchronization for the subversive: If you're not an Outlook user and use Thunderbird, you should check out FinchSync.

4. Backup to the cloud: DashWire allows you to backup your ...

Not only was the publication a wealth of knowledge, but Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine also did a yearly review of all software relating to Smartphone’s and PPC’s called The Best Software Awards. Many of website personalities ...

HotHardware.com has posted their take on Lenovo’s new ultraportable baby, the X200. Here is a quote: "It is obvious from its feature list that the X200 isn’t quite as advanced, in terms of its mechanical design, as the X300.  Despite being of similar weight and size as the X300, the X200 doesn’t have an internal optical drive, nor is it as thin and it doesn’t even have a touchpad.  It also sports a 12.1” screen like the X61, rather than the 13.3” LCD that the X300 is equipped with. However, the X200 isn’t lacking in its base hardware specification, that’s for sure. It incorporates all of the same communications, networking and connectivity options and features as the X300.  In addition, it’s also built on Intel’s new Centrino 2 platform which offers support for the new Penryn-based Core 2 Duo mobile processor. The X200 is available with the Penryn P8000 series, which is an upgrade of the original Merom mobile Core 2 Duo processors and it offers 3MB L2 cache, a 1066MHz FSB, front-side bus throttling, and the SSE4 instruction set. Most impressive of all, it has a TDP of only 25W, 10W lower than Merom, despite packing more features and ...

Hi all, This is a good review of the Pocket Express software for smart phones. I use it on my AT&T tilt, it's great. Easy to use and lots of features. Get all your news, weather, maps, stocks and tons more in this one app!

A premium portable navigation device for those looking for both style and substance, the NAVIGON 7200T offers cool features such as Reality View Pro, Lane Assistant Pro and Free Real-Time Traffic Updates for Life. It features a host of next generation features such as Voice Destination Entry, allowing drivers to specify their destination by simply speaking the address, and Landmark View 3D, which brings a new dimension to the map with hundreds of richly-textured 3D landmarks across the U.S. and Canada. The NAVIGON 7200T employs NAVIGON’s next generation software, on average requiring fewer clicks than any other GPS product to enter a destination. The unit features a 4.3-inch, 16:9 touchscreen display, 2GB of flash storage, a SiRF GRF3i+ GPS chip, microSD card support, 64MB of RAM, powered by a Centrality Titan I 600MHz CPU. NAVIGON 7200T will sell for $449 (MSRP) in the U.S. and Canada. It hits stores shelves and online retailers in October 2008. Customers can already pre-order NAVIGON 7200T devices at Amazon.com. http://navigonusa.com/about/news/2008-08-25

If you want a neat way to visualize what programs and files are taking up space on your device (whether it's on main memory or on a storage card), take a look at MobileMonger, a free program from James Boman. It requires .NET Framework 3.5 and will only work on touchscreen WinMo devices.

As an example of how you'd use this, you can tap and zoom in on My Documents (or any directory), and eliminate pictures or documents that are unnecessarily taking up large amounts of space based on what you see on the screen.

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It looks like a web client for Photoshop will be coming to Windows Mobile, allowing users to upload pictures to Photoshop.com and edit then over the air on the cloud later. All the new photo goodness should be launching by the end of September, and according to wmpoweruser.com, the new Photoshop.com on Windows Mobile will rely on the new Adobe Flash Lite 3 protocol.

It seems that the web client should work with both Windows Mobile Standard and Professional/Classic devices, although the latter's touchscreen will not work with the program requiring navigating by hardware directional pad. If that is true, it will be a great shame as the Omnia would benefit from a best in class photo editing program as it does sport a high resolution camera.

More information could be obtained direct from Adobe.

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The review at SM@PE’s can’t clarify this issue (they have photos of silver and black devices), but makes for excellent reading nevertheless. First of all: the keyboard and hard keys really seem to suck. The reviewer’s opinion is similar ...

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halsterpi submitted this review of the HTC 3125 / Smartflip / 8500 (Star Trek):. Overall rating: 2.5 (out of 5). At first I really loved this phone. I love that it's a smartphone that's also a flip phone, which makes texting easy when ...

In the very beginning of the first episode of The Gemini Division, an online-only web television series produced by NBC, we see the main character, played by Rosario Dawson, using an ultra-thin widescreen Windows Mobile device to record and send her video messages to a friend via Windows Live Messenger.

I'm not sure why she wasn't using full duplex video calling. Perhaps her friend wasn't online at the time and she had to send an offline video call.

In the second and third episodes, you'll get a look at Windows Live Search on Windows Mobile 10.

Click over to the Gemini Division website to watch some episodes of this sci-fi internet TV series.

P.S. There is no Zune phone in the future.

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by Michael Erikson There are a lot of different things to consider when buying a PDA, for the average Joe this can be a jungle. Some aspectes of electronic gadgets appeal more to the affectioned side of a person, often things like design, size and age of the model. We like to have brand new things of course, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, but we seem to forget the intended use and let affection take over a little to much from time to time. You might even want to take a closer lo

When it comes to file operations, the default Windows Mobile File Explorer is quite limited. Hou Ming has come up with a free solution, as his File Explorer Extension comes to address all the missing features that should have been included in the Windows Mobile stock File Explorer.

Here’s a list of the fantastic “must have” features it adds:

Resizable header for easy sorting by file name, date of last modification or size

Tree view of folders; you can now jump easily from a location to any other on your device in one step

Show extension option for those who ask themselves the same question I do: “What type of file is this?”

Icon view that enables the display of files as icons similar to your desktop computer

Real time image preview; now you don’t have to open several files in order to send the one you desire

Open with Program allows you easily select an application to open the specific file you select (useful in case you don’t have the correct file associations or when you want Album app to open your images instead of Windows default picture viewer.)

File property context menu for easy renaming and attribute ...

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Wondershare Pocket Video Converter is the simplest tool to convert videos for Pocket PC, Palms and Smart Phones, etc. Comes with user-friendly interface and batch converting technology, you can easily and instantly get videos on your Pocket devices. [Update

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Google has launched their new Gears Geolocation API which currently works exclusively on Windows Mobile devices. The Geolocation API allows web developers to access user device locations via GPS or cell ID tower locations.

Don't worry about stalkers, though:

The privacy of users' location information is extremely important. The first time your site calls the Geolocation API to request a user's location, that user will be shown a permissions dialog where they can choose to allow or deny your site access. Users can change that decision at any time via the "Gears settings" dialog in the browser menu. Google does not keep location information about users when your site uses the Geolocation API.

If you're in the UK and want to try it out, visit m.lastminute.com and m.rummble.com. The first time you use the location feature you will be prompted to download and install Gears.

For more information, see the Google Code Blog.

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