Archive for December, 2007
In the year 2008 we will see the first Windows Mobile phones with dual-SIM capability, which effectively will make it possible to use 2 SIM cards in one phone. Since many people - in Europe and Asia particularly - use 2 SIM cards every day (one for work purposes and one for private usage, or one for work country and one for holiday country) - such phones will be very popular.
HOP2001 from Hop-on is not offering dual SIM capability but it makes it possible to use CDMA and GSM/HSDPA networks with one phone - vital particularly in USA where CDMA is very popular but useless in Europe and Asia where CDMA is not used at all…
ASUS is branching out into unfamiliar territory and will roll out a smartphone targeted at the very high end of its market, leaks from GPSandCo reveal. The M930W will borrow its cue from Nokia’s E90 Communicator and LG’s enV: despite resembling a standard candybar phone on the outside, the handset will open up to reveal a lengthwise QWERTY keyboard and a larger internal screen. It will even mimic a notebook PC and open at a 90 degree angle suitable for a desk as well as a full 180 degrees for handheld use, says the French site.
The phone would be powered by ASUS’ typical choice of Windows Mobile 6 Professional and will use both 3G (including HSDPA) as well as Wi-Fi for its Internet access. A 3.2-megapixel camera and a microSDHC slot that can accept at least 32GB of storage should also push the M930W past both ASUS’ earlier smartphones and competitors. No precise launch date is given, though the phone is due in the first quarter of 2008 and may be announced either at CES in January or at the Mobile World Congress in February.
Source electronista.
If you’ve been astounding friends and family with your thousands-of-words-per-minute typing skills on your Blackberry, RIM’s latest patent may come as a bit of a heart-stopper. According to "recent" filings from the smartphone manufacturer, a new style of keyboard is on the table which may move your familiar key placement into a slightly more angular position. The purpose of the proposed pad is ostensibly to improve accuracy by creating a more "natural" placement for your thumbs — though this concept might be a little more effort than required. Of course, since all kinds of crazy designs get filed with the patent office, we wouldn’t put too much faith in this seeing the light of day, though it is an intriguing look into RIM’s design process.
Source Engadget
HP is introducing 3.5-inch PDA ‘HP iPAQ 112 classic handheld’ in Korea market. The HP iPAQ 112 classic handheld runs Windows Mobile 6 classic and features touch screen, WiFi, e-mail/document sync, and Bluetooth connectivity. Suggested price is 400,000(KRW).
Source AVING
The source of this information (GPSandCo) claims that this phone is powered by Windows Mobile 6 Professional what of course is total nonsense because all screenshots show Windows Mobile 6 Standard (the one for phones without touch-screen)… therefore it is not clear to what extend we can trust the other specifications of this phone:
- processor: Marvel PXA270M running at 520 Mhz
- tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900 Mhz), GPRS, EDGE, 3G (2100 Mhz) and HSDPA at 3,6 Mbps
- ROM: 256 MB, RAM: 128 MB
- Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
- Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
- camera: 3.2 megapixel with auto-focus
- MicroSD card slot compatible with SDHC
- Mini USB 1.1
Source msmobiles
The thing is that in some countries mobile data tariffs are very expensive and also while moving you can loss your mobile connection from time to time, so mobile blogging may be problematic if you use server side software for posting… but with use of moBlog you can create blog posts for popular blogging services also off-line!
The author of this freeware - Sampath Dassanayake - writes to us:
I have just released moBlog, a free application for Windows Mobile Devices. This application will run on any Windows Mobile device from WM2003 and up.
moBlog currently supports Blogger.com, Wordpress.com / Wordpress, and Windows Live Spaces. It supports creating multiple profiles (for your different blogging accounts) and multiple blogs within a single account (such as for Blogger.com).
moBlog works in off-line mode and only requires a connection when you are initially setting up your blogging accounts and when you want to publish your posts.
For Blogger.com blogs, moBlogger also supports setting Labels (Tags). For Wordpress and Live Spaces blogs, post categories are supported.
Based on user requests future versions will support more blogging platforms and will have enhanced features.
Source msmobiles
Asus is riding on popularity of ultra-cheap micro-notebook "Eee PC" and selling also loads of regular notebooks, but it creates great synergy effect from which also Windows Mobile powered phones made by Asus may benefit…
Some spefications of Asus P550 3G phone:
- large 3.5 inch display however of standard resolution (320×240)
- built-in GPS
- WiFi
- 2 megapixel camera
- miniSD card slot
- Bluetooth
- processor: 520 MHz from Marvell
Source msmobiles
HP is introducing 3.5-inch PDA ‘HP iPAQ 112 classic handheld’ in Korea market. The HP iPAQ 112 classic handheld runs Windows Mobile 6 classic and features touch screen, WiFi, e-mail/document sync, and Bluetooth connectivity. Suggested price is 400,000(KRW).
Source AVING
HP is introducing 3.5-inch PDA ‘HP iPAQ 112 classic handheld’ in Korea market. The HP iPAQ 112 classic handheld runs Windows Mobile 6 classic and features touch screen, WiFi, e-mail/document sync, and Bluetooth connectivity. Suggested price is 400,000(KRW).
Source AVING
Ateksoft has released a major update (Version 2.0) of the WebCamera Plus application, which transforms your PDA or Smartphone into a Web-Camera. Now with microphone feature!
WebCamera Plus key features:
- Transforms your PDA or Smartphone into a high-resolution web-camera and microphone.
- Can work through any connection: USB ActiveSync, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS, 3G, LAN.
- Compatible with most modern Smartphones and PDAs.
- Can be used as a web-camera and microphone in many applications: Skype, Windows Live Messager, Yahoo Messenger, Virtual Dub and many others.
New version 2.0 brings many new features and fixes known issues of previous version.
- Audio capture from built-in microphone! Even if your PDA don’t have camera, you can use it as microphone in many programs: Skype, Virtula Dub and others.
- Use WebCamera Plus Audio as Wireless microphone.
- Many new Gigabyte, Samsung, Eten, HTC and other devices supported.
- Multi-language core (both PC-side and device-side).
- Autostart from any desktop capture application (only for ActiveSync connection).
- XScale overlay is supported for capturing screen from built-in camera applications.
Read more about WebCamera Plus at www.ateksoft.com.
Source msmobiles