Author: Leigh Geary
Here's the new release of Elecont Weather. Right now there's an animated New Year theme and you can save 25%, bringing the cost down to just $10.95 (around £5.37). This app gets weather information for 51,000 locations along with full six-day foreca...
Do you have a HTC TyTN II, a HTC Touch, Touch Dual, P3300 or S620? You do? Well, listen up. We want to hear just how much you love your HTC device. If you've sent/received an important email just in the nick of time, sent a picture message …
Create Ringtone Mobile is a Windows Mobile Pro (Pocket PC) application for touch-screen devices. This app will let you create and edit your own ringtone directly on your phone. Features include a melody bar-graph to divide the song, WAV/MP3 support,...
Yesterday Connected Tools announced version 2 of CT Scheduler. The software lets you schedule repetitive tasks and turns your phone into a fully automated assistant. It'll let you send texts, switch profile and change call forwarding automatically. Yo...
If, like me, you're constantly forgetting birthdays and anniversaries you've probably added dates into your phone calendar. Rivia Friendzee goes several steps further, adding and managing your relationships with friends and relatives. You can store th...
I was lucky enough to visit Las Vegas last year as part of our honeymoon. I decided to try my hand at Roulette, but didn't realise that I was sat at a $20 minimum table. The lady sat behind the table wasn't pleased when I eagerly spread my …
Following our review of the iMate Ultimate 6150 and 8150 it's interesting to see other publications getting their hands on the near-final devices. The PC Magazine review comes to pretty much the same conclusion - power is delivered in spades but there...
Smartphoneware have just annouced several new apps. Best RegEdit will let you fiddle around with your Windows Mobile registry, whilst Best Crypto protects your private files and photos to ensure that lost or stolen phones don't turn into a huge securi...
I've just stumbled across PocketCM and I'm surprised we've not covered it before. It's a finger-friendly contact app for touch-screen phones that'll let you glide through your contacts, call, edit, sort, filter and then show all the text conversations...
Christmas shopping, for blokes, is like hell on earth. Being shoved around a huge shopping centre with your wife, trying desperately not to get trampled on or pushed aside by people randomly grabbing at anything on the shelf is annoying as hell. I tri...
OK, so following the whole Cigular / Cingular business (when it should be AT&T), the Boy Genius has a video online showing Windows Mobile 6.1 in action. Sure, it still says "Cigular" towards the end of the video and there's confusion about whether thi...
It's now been a few months since we started our donation drive to buy a server. We've been hosted in America on a rented server for many years and, even after slimming down code and optimizing the site further, we needed additional memory to keep all ...
The Boy Genius has been fishing around Windows Mobile 6.1 even more since his exposé just the other day. He's looking at the Windows Mobile Standard 6.1 version (i.e. no touch screen) and has now spotted some extra improvements. Internet Explorer h...
Here's a story I forgot to mention. Google Mobile Maps now includes a feature to locate your position - even without GPS. It works by using information from your local mobile tower to get your location within a 1000 metre radius. Whilst this isn't per...
Although I run a Windows Mobile website I'm never afraid to criticise the phones or the Operating System. There's a few major things I'd like to see improved, but one major problem is Internet Explorer. Sure, HTC have helped a great deal with their To...
The other day someone with a Windows Mobile Pro (Pocket PC) device asked me, "How do I get the text message sound to repeat?" I figured it was easy, you just go into Settings->Personal->Sounds and Notifications and then choose "Messaging - New Text Me...
If you're looking for either the HTC S730 or the HTC Touch Dual without any contract or fuss, have a browse over to devicewire.co.uk. The S730 is currently selling for £289.99 whilst the Touch Dual is available for £349.99. We've reviewed both the ...
The Boy Genius Report has blown the lid on the upcoming Windows Mobile 6.1. They've just taken delivery of a Motorola Q9 with WiFi and Windows Mobile 6.1 powers it! So what's new? Well there's a lot of gloss in the user interface with the ability to ...
Looking for a threaded SMS application? Try Extreme Text from Birdsoft. There's a free trial, then you can buy it for $14.95 (£7.23). Now available for both Windows Mobile Standard (Smartphone) and Windows Mobile Pro (Pocket PC), the popular threaded...
Why wait until January to get some good deals? Right now HP have a great discount on the HP iPaq 514 Voice Messenger. It's been reduced from £175 to just £119. Running Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard (ignore the specs that says it's Pocket PC) and has a...
Have a look at this picture. It's the HTC Touch Dual .. right? Well, no it's not - look a little close and you'll see "MDA" and "T-Mobile" printed on it. This is set to be launched onto T-Mobile very soon and will be known as the "T-Mobile …
T-Mobile have now made several Windows Mobile 6 updates available on their site. If you've got a T-Mobile MDA Compact III, T-Mobile MDA Mail, T-Mobile MDA Vario II or an Ameo then head over to their UK update site, choose your phone and punch in your ...
I've been off work for a few days with what I'd call "Man Flu Extreme". Yesterday it developed into conjunctivitis too, so now I'm having trouble seeing the screen! Due to this I'm a little late picking up this story on Office Mobile 6.1. Paul Foster ...
I love Maplin. They sell.. "stuff". By "stuff" I actually mean gadgets, gizmos, electronics bits, bobs and boys toys. There's a new store opening this weekend so I've had a butchers at their site and found this. It's a charger with two USB sockets at ...
Welcome to our new home. We've moved across the Atlantic, from San Diego, California to... err... Maidenhead ... here in the UK. Whilst it might not sound glamorous, we're now on our brand new server that you guys contributed towards. It's a beast to ...
VITO have just updated their RingtoneEditor software to version 1.2. It's really easy to use - just load up an MP3, then click play and choose the start and end of the ringtone. The new version brings compatibility for Samsung BlackJack and MotoQ user...
Oh dear, it looks like the iPhone is having issues here in the UK. A survey conducted by gfk NOP shows that almost half of the 500 people questioned would never buy the iPhone at its' current price. The iPhone currently costs £269 and you have to at …
If you're lucky enough to have bagged the Motorola Q9H or the Samsung Blackjack II then head on over to MoDaCo where they've got the solution for using GPS through the COM port. Yes, we know, GPS data should come through the relevant COM port, but for...
o2 have now elbowed the iPhone off their front page (a bit) in favour of the o2 XDA Stellar, which now gets a full video preview and dedicated mini-site. Although we're still seeing it on the coming soon bit, we've heard from Victor Ling who's just or...
Now that the o2 webdesigners have decided that the newest o2 handset isn't named after an alcoholic beverage, it's been reviewed over at 4winmobile.com... "I've been honoured to have the Stellar in daily use since early September (thanks O2) and I'm ...
Following our review of the HTC Touch Cruise Tristan Whittaker got on the phone to o2. If you cast your mind back we were first to sniff out the original o2 XDA Orbit, so Tristan wanted to know about the pricing and availability o2 XDA Orbit II - …
Last night I decided to do a quick video showing the HTC Audio Manager the inbuilt graphic equalizer on the HTC Touch Dual. However, I stumbled across something in the process... When using the touch you've got a range of input options - there's xT9 /...
So, you've got a streaming media player on your handset and you're ok looking the slim selection of mobile YouTube videos yes? No, let's admit it, we want to browse all the YouTube videos available and watch them. then give YouTube Pocket. Simply put...
With most Windows Mobile phones now packing cameras, large storage cards and video capabilities it's becoming clear that most people have their life activities stored on their phone. Just annouced, trakaxMobile lets you take your videos and photos and...
Meet ZoomBoard. This has to be possibly the best on-screen keyboard I've ever seen. When typing you'll get a quick preview bubble popping up which shows you a zoomed-up look at the key under your finger. I decided that this picture didn't really do th...
Most of you will be pretty clued up when it comes to mobile phones, however I'm sure you've all had the "trying to get my grandparents to work one" experience. Doromobile have decided that senior citizens deserve to have simple mobile phones that are ...
The Samsung BlackJack II is now available on AT&T Wireless in the USA. It's a feature-rich handset with quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity and tri-band 3G/HSPDA. Powered by Windows Mobile Standard 6 (Smartphone) it's now got GPS and a boost to the ...
Symantec have just announced the launch of Mobile AntiVirus 4.0 for Windows Mobile. Until now, there's only really been one major player doing AV for Windows Mobile - and that's F-Secure. Retailing at $29.95 you can buy the Symantec product online, al...
Way back in July we told you about Yahoo! Go. It's a completely free application for your phone that'll let you grab Yahoo! email on the go, check maps and local information, search for answers and share photos using the Yahoo-owned flickr.com. There...
Back in early April we covered a free game called PocketPool. It was a pool / billiards simulator which you guys loved. Since then it's undergone a name changed and has been improved to work on Qualcomm-based phones like the HTC TyTN II. Now called "P...
