The fifth Mobile Technologies Seminar promoted by the Windows Mobile community PocketPT.net, of which I am founder, was a great success.
More than 110 interested users and potential consumers spent the day learning more about Windows Mobile.
This informal, and informative event took place at Portucalense University in Oporto the last 5th of December and had several interesting contents such as: Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 presentation, Windows Mobile 6.5 – What’s new (by yours truly), Freeware, and many many more interesting topics.
The success of this event is based on the contents, the informal but professional posture of the presenters and organizers, the fact that it's free to participate, and at the end the prize raffle :)
To find out more about this event click here.
This new way of data introduction is simply great, fast a quite reliable.
Download SlideIT and try it: http://www.mobiletextinput.com/Download.php
Developers, dust of you old applications source code backup HDD’s, grab your keyboards and start updating those old and dull .NET CF UI controls!
Silvermoon, is a bunch of free UI controls will help improve the look and feel your apps.
Well at least for high end Windows phones with support for OpenGL and VGA up screens.
Take a look at this video and let me know of any apps you create using SilverMoon, I will be more than happy to divulge them!
A question I get allot from users is “can move my e-mail to the Storage Card?”.
The answer is, yes you can, but you’ll need to edit your registry to achieve that:
HKLM\System\Inbox\Settings\PropertyPath = "\Path to your Card\Mail"
Try it out and let me know if it worked.
The new social sharing tool from Microsoft is now live for everyone to begin sharing their life's.
With it you can boost or create your own communities and share useful information.
To know more visit Vine’s website.
This is something we are used to do on the PC, but now that we can easily view YouTube videos on our devices thanks to browser support and other apps, why not download them?
In order to download videos, you can use Web Video Downloader, aka WVD.
Here are some features:
- Compatible with most popular websites.
- Search by keywords or categories.
- Support search results by detail or thumbnail.
- Support thumbnail animation to preview videos.
- Allows to stream or download videos from websites.
- Support many video formats.
Well start downloading it here.
Source: MobileSpoon
Speed City is a fast paced motorbikes 3D game from OmniG Software:
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For touch screen and non-touch screen phones
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Free full version
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An endless challenge with randomly generated racing routes
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Stunning city scenes and lifelike physics simulation
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3-D graphics
It is now available for free from Total Access so get it now!!
It seems there is one more service to add to this list and its name is mobiwee.
With this new service running in Beta you can:
- Send SMS’s from your PC
- Set-up your email on your device automatically
- Install applications from your PC Wirelessly (cool!)
- Backup SMS’s, favorites, contacts
- Browse files in your device from your PC
It seems these services are getting better all the time, you can try mobiwee for free here.
It seems that Flexilis is quite interesting, it has some nice features for missing devices such as “Locate” “Scream” and “Nuke”:
Locate: Click the 'Locate' button to locate your device and the map on this page will display the location of your device.
Scream: Click the 'Scream' button to cause your device to produce a loud noise to help you find it or annoy everyone nearby.
Nuke: Click the 'Nuke' button to erase all data from your device. Use this if someone else has your device and you want to prevent them from gaining access to private information.
Note: Nuke requires a hard reset.
Check out more at Flexilis.com
It seems that more and more companies are beginning to offer on-line backup services for Windows Mobile Devices and in some cases other devices.
First we saw Dashwire arise with a cool innovative, complete and very easy to use backup service that allows a user to backup photos, SMS’s, Call logs, Videos, and even do a twist of social networking.
Then Microsoft’s My Phone arrived, now MyPhone is pretty cool because it integrates very well with Outlook Mobile, and allows you to backup documents, music and access it anywhere anytime, and since its a Beta, it looks promising…
Now we have Flexilis which not only gives you access to an account with 1.5GB of free storage, but will also track your device if its lost and remote wipe it. Oh, and you still get an Anti-virus and Firewall service.
Now that many of us are starting to get our deserved vacations, its great to be able to put these work tools called Smartphones to a different use, like gaming!
So here’s suggestion: EAMobile has a selection of titles that range from classic games to high profile titles like Sims 2 and Spore.
To start having fun now visit EAMobile.
Dasher is an innovative piece of software that allows us to input data easily without the use of the keyboard and by recurring to just one hand.
You can use the finger or the stylus to visually navigate between the letters and numbers collections that are organized alphabetically and logically.
the final result is a very intuitive and easy way to write who’s only back draw is the fact that at the moment it occupies the whole screen.
To download and try Dasher today click here
Source: Loke Uei’s Blog
Gizmodo has had access to the image study of the future Microsoft retail stores created by a company called Lippicot.
Though these are not the official final designs, they sure let us foresee some very interesting and dynamic spaces where people will be able to see most of Microsoft’s products such as Windows 7, Surface, PC’s and Netbooks, and of course Windows Mobile.
A bar will also be available and the stores could be prepared for events such as presentations, training and birthday party’s.
It seems that all preparations are going according to planed and the first stores should open by Fall.
It seems that the iPhone is not yet ready for the business environment due to some security issues that have been reported by Jonathan Zdziarski to wired.com.
According to him, by using some exploits widely divulged around the internet, one could get access to the personal and business information on the iPhone 3GS in a matter of minutes.
What’s interesting about this story is that you can appreciate from the posted videos how simple it is to crack security of the iPhone, when you should expect that any device that features business applications, Exchange sync should comply to industry security standards.
Microsoft has recently announced that Windows Marketplace for Mobile will be available for all Windows Mobile 6xx versions. For devices with 6.0 and 6.1 a download will be available by the of this year.
Therefore developers will be able to reach a wider audience when trying to sell their products.
Here is the timeline:
Application Submission Opens on July 27th: Windows Marketplace will open for application submissions from 29 supported countries July 27.
Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 Support: Windows Marketplace will be available for Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 by the end of 2009 (in addition to Windows Mobile 6.5 at launch in the fall).
Business Center: Windows Marketplace will feature a "Business Center" category for business applications.
Developer Contest: Microsoft will be disclosing the details of a Windows Marketplace developer contest on July 27.
Source: Windows Mobile Blog
Lucasarts is prepping a re-release of the infamous and full of humor adventure “Secret of Monkey Island” with updated graphics (no nothing of that 3D rubbish) that is faithful to the original version.
The game sure looks good and comes with re-mastered audio (songs and voices).
One of the coolest features is the possibility that with the click of a button you can switch to the older version.
It seems that this will be available to several platforms, lets hope that Windows Phone’s get a break at it too!
For more info go the Lucasarts website.
According to the official Windows Mobile portal, the AT&T Samsung Jack will have an upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5.
Check it out here.
A common question I get from costumers is how can they manage more than one contact at once, for instance to import them to their SIM card or delete several contacts.
The answer is a free app called PPCContactsMgr v1.6 which is free and can be downloaded here.
So it seems that my suspicions where indeed correct, and that Exchange 2010 will sync your device’s SMS’s, so you can always have a backup of your text messages even if you loose your device.
Also users will be able to send and view SMS’s right from OWA, and also view e-mail messages in the the conversation mode.
SMS sync will only work with Windows Mobile 6.5 and Exchange 2010.
If you are a developer or just have a wish to try out the new Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM’s, just go ahead and download the new DEV Kit from Microsoft’s website.
This new toolkit adds new documentation on some new features of this new OS iteration, sample code, which is always useful, and the emulator images so you can test you applications.
Go ahead and get it here.´
Source: Pedro Lamas @Pocketpt.net
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