Adam Z. Lein

A Look at the MWg Zinc II with Windows Mobile 6.1

On April 21, 2008 By Adam Z. Lein In Hardware, Pocketnow

A post at PhoneMag.com says the MWg Zinc II gets reviewed, but all I see are 4 paragraphs of text and one picture. Anyway, the Zinc II looks like a promising device. The MWg Zinc II is an attractive new phone, featuring Windows Mobile 6.1. The solid feature set includes a 500MHz CPU, courtesy of Samsung, a slide out keyboard, and the obligatory touch screen. The improvements, especially considering many new smartphones are still lumbered …

TouchPal Version 3 is Now Available

On April 20, 2008 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Software

Cootek has just released version 3 of their TouchPal software input panel for Windows Mobile. In my opinion, this is the best on-screen software based keyboard around. Version 3 now offers more gestures and two more keyboard layouts. Instead of the original 2 letters per button layout, there is now a full Qwerty 1 letter per button layout, as well as a T9 style 3 letter per button layout. Another new thing is two new …

How to Design a Killer GPS Navigation Program

On April 18, 2008 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Thought

GPS Navigation programs for Windows Mobile and Pocket PCs have been around for a long time. Since the turn of the century, Windows CE has been the preferred platform for voice-guided GPS Navigation applications. You would think the developers of these essential programs would have gotten it right by now. Unfortunately, this is not so, and most GPS Navigation programs are actually removing and breaking more features than they fix. Click here to see how …

The Mobile Web Must Live On!

On April 16, 2008 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Thought

Today, the Mobile Gadgeteer has written about how Mowser has ended it’s services. I guess Mowser was a website transcoding service that automatically reformatted websites for easier reading on small screened mobile devices. I never heard of Mowser, but had been using Skweezer, MobileLeap, and Live Search to do that kind of thing on Pocket Internet Explorer. One of Mowser’s founders posted a blog entry saying that the mobile web will never be popular. I …

T-Mobile’s Shadow II Revealed

On April 15, 2008 By Adam Z. Lein In Hardware, Pocketnow

TmoNews.com has got their hands on a photo of the T-Mobile Shadow II. It looks like the “Neo” home screen hasn’t changed much from the original Shadow we reviewed here. The good news is that it sounds like this will be the first Windows Mobile phone to support UMA and thusly T-Mobile’s HotSpot@Home service. Hopefully we’ll also see Windows Mobile 6.1. Originally published on Pocketnow on April 15, 2008. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow …

Chronicles of a Windows Mobile User Gone Blackberry: Part 2

On April 14, 2008 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Thought

I’ve been getting to know the Blackberry 8820 for a few days now. In part 1, I covered my very early initial first impression as well as some tests with the GPS program. Today I’d like to talk about the thing that it’s widely regarded to do best; E-mail. Click on to read the rest of this article. Originally published on Pocketnow on April 14, 2008. More Thought articles from the Pocketnow archive.