Archive for October, 2007

This week at CTIA in San Francisco, AOL launched a new suite of mobile web services designed to help mobile consumers enrich and share their lives via the mobile web. AOL.com WAP Portal, AOL MyMobile Software, Mobile AIM Services, and Winamp Remote are all designed to be used by any WAP browser, which means most phones on the market currently are able to take advantage of these new services.

The AOL.com WAP Portal intelligently detects the device that is accessing it to provide the most robust experience possible. Consumers can point their mobile phone’s web browser to http://aol.com to take advantage of the numerous features available. Features include AOL Mobile Search, designed to get the information with as few clicks as possible, as well as access to AOL Mail and myAOL.

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This week at CTIA in San Francisco, AOL launched a new suite of mobile web services designed to help mobile consumers enrich and share their lives via the mobile web. AOL.com WAP Portal, AOL MyMobile Software, Mobile AIM Services, and Winamp Remote are all designed to be used by any WAP browser, which means most phones on the market currently are able to take advantage of these new services.

The AOL.com WAP Portal intelligently detects the device that is accessing it to provide the most robust experience possible. Consumers can point their mobile phone’s web browser to http://aol.com to take advantage of the numerous features available. Features include AOL Mobile Search, designed to get the information with as few clicks as possible, as well as access to AOL Mail and myAOL.

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If you’re still using a paper planner, maybe it’s time to catch up with technology and upgrade to the affordable and easy-to-use Palm Z22 handheld. It enables you to keep your entire day-to-day schedule and contact information at hand and in your pocket–no more flipping through multiple pages, looking for scraps of paper or keeping track of to-do lists. And you won’t have to enter the same thing twice–once on the computer and once in your planner, as you can easily make updates on your computer and synchronize data to the Palm Z22 in just a minute or two.

Everything looks great on the Palm Z22 organizer’s bright, colorful screen. Names and addresses are easy to read, appointments can be color-coded, and photos come to life. In light or dark rooms, it truly shines. Once you put information into the Palm Z22 organizer, you can rest assured it’ll stay there. Even if you forget to recharge and the power runs out. What’s more, you can save everything to your computer. All it takes is a quick cable hook-up and a simple tap. It’s one of the smallest, lightest color organizers around. You’ll find that the Palm Z22 organizer fits nicely into your pocket or purse. So you can carry years of appointments, thousands of addresses, hundreds of photos, your to-do lists, a note pad, and still you’re never weighed down.

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Psion Teklogix is celebrating its 40th year in the industry by offering up the iKon. This PDA / smartphone features a 3.7-inch VGA display, an integrated camera, built-in GPS, GSM / GPRS / UMTS connectivity options, Bluetooth, WiFi, a barcode scanner and your choice of Windows Mobile 6 Classic / Professional or CE.net 5. This sturdy piece can withstand falls from five feet, and can handle sandstorms and downpours with equal finesse.There is no word on the pricing of Psion Teklogix’s iKon, but you can certainly contact the firm directly when it goes on sale this December.

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Of the five high-end Ultimate smartphones from i-mate, three are yet to be released. But i-mate has gone ahead and introduced two more phones, the 9502 and the 8502. The 9502 will give hot competition to the HTC Kaiser / TyTN II. This QWERTY phone has features similar to the AT&T Tilt (except for the tilt). This quad-band GSM / tri-band HSUPA Windows Mobile 6 handset features a VGA display along with video out, LED "flash," and standard 2.5-millimeter audio jack. The candybar Ultimate 8502 features WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth 2.0, memory configuration (256MB ROM / 128MB RAM) and 400MHz Qualcomm processor. It replaces the 3.0-megapixel autofocus camera with a 2.0-megapixel fixed focus. The display is down to 2.6-inch QVGA.

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Dr.Web anti-virus for Windows Mobile protects Pocket PCs and communicators running under Windows Mobile 2003/5.0/6.0. The new product combines resident virus protection (real-time detection of viruses) and on-demand scan (on-demand files check).If the monitor detects malware, it will be temporarily blocked, a warning message will be displayed and a user will be prompted to do one of the following: ignore, delete or move to the Quarantine. All information concerning the activity of the monitor is stored in the log file.

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  The Pocket Player media browser now sports several enhancements; in addition to browsing by artist, album, and genre, Pocket Player 3.5 introduces the ability to browse by Release Date. The Album view now displays thumbnails of album artwork, which appears alongside album and artist names.

For devices with a touchscreen, simple finger gestures can now navigate the browser list. No longer limited to using the scroll bar or the standard press/hold of the directional pad, Pocket Player 3.5 allows you to drag your finger or stylus on the list to scroll the list up and down. A quick swipe on the list will scroll through the items on screen, with the list continuing to scroll, slowing down until you tap a selection. Dragging left-to-right, much like turning back a page in a book, will navigate backwards in the browser. A through Z tabs are available on the right side of the screen, to quickly jump down in the list. Alternatively, on non-touchscreen devices with a keyboard (such as the Motorola Q or Samsung BlackJack), you can type in the first few letters of the item, and it will jump to the item.

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Pocket dbExplorer is a tool that allows you to browse, view, edit, and manage application and system databases on Microsoft Windows Mobile based Pocket PCs and Smartphones. The program is similar to File Explorer, only it works with databases stored in the device’s object store folder or in external database volumes instead of files. Pocket dbExplorer implements the following database manipulation functions: View/Edit, Copy, Rename, Delete, Export (as CSV or text), and Transfer (via infrared port). The program also allows the Backup and Restore of one or more databases and registry settings into a file which can be stored on the flash memory card or copied onto the desktop PC. Any database can be exported as a comma or tab separated text file. The main new features in the new version are the advanced database editor, ability to open standard object store and external database volume files, support for CEDB and EDB (WM5 or later) database formats, and support for Windows Mobile Smartphones.

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iMate have thrown (almost) everything at this handset. Sure, there’s no QWERTY keyboard and no GPS, but one thing that instantly jumps out at you is the speed. If you open up the "Programs" window and scroll down the motion is so fluid you’d be forgiven for thinking that you’re using a real PC. The graphics accelerator and extremely fast CPU really show through - the phone just charges into every application and game with venom.
The device, let’s admit, is a little large. The design is, if I’m kind, not to everyones taste. I showed this phone (and the iMate 6150) to quite a few people and had comments like, "It looks like something from that ‘Tron’ film" or "Nice phone - how old is it?".

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HTC presented their new HT1100 3G smartphone at the recently held CEATEC 2007. Measuring 16.5mm thickness and sports World Wing, the NTT Docomo international roaming service. We have no information regarding price and release date of HT1100.

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