You may have recently heard about the secret Galaxy S Android desktop syncing software. It sounds like it could have been a pretty good sync solution. It certainly seems to be more feature-rich than the other sync options, and I especially like the text message archiving/printing features. We took it for a test drive with the Samsung Vibrant, and here’s how it went. Originally published on Pocketnow on July 24, 2010. More Android articles from …
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Windows Phone 7 Will Support Some Advanced Bing Features
There are a lot of extremely cool features in the desktop browser version of Bing. Unfortunately most of those cool features have never made it to mobil devices. It looks like Microsoft is working on changing that for Windows Phone 7’s Bing integration. The Bing Community Blog has posted some screenshots of a few of the cool features you’ll see on upcoming Windows Phone 7 devices. One that I love is “weather”. Simply type (or …
Continue readingMore 3.7G Cities and a New WebRocket USB
T-Mobile just announced that a number of new Cities have been upgraded to their HSPA+ high speed 3.7G networks with faster backhauls. Do you have a T-Mobile 3G device in any of the new Cities listed below? Are your speed tests clocking in any faster than before? They should be! T-Mobile is announcing the continued expansion of its super-fast mobile broadband network to more than 85 million Americans. T-Mobile is on track to deliver HSPA+ …
Continue readingAwesome Hidden Feature: Samsung Kies
While I’ve been using the T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant Galaxy S series smartphone, I’ve been thinking… I wish there was a better way to sync music & videos to this device. Manual USB copy/pasting is really annoying. And also… I wish I could archive text messages off of this device. Well, guess what Samsung made for their Galaxy S phones, but didn’t tell anyone about? It’s called Kies and it’s a desktop program that syncs your …
Continue readingWhy Twitter is Not Integrated With Windows Phone 7
You may have seen a number of recent Windows Phone 7 prototype reviews at sites such as CNET, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Engadget and MobileCrunch. Many of them cite the lack of Twitter integration in the People Hub as a glaring omission. Of course there will be plenty of Windows Phone 7 Twitter apps from the likes of Seesmic and Twikini, but why isn’t it fully integrated? If you were one of the Windows Live Home early …
Continue readingWindows Phone Live Service Screenshot
We first heard about the Windows Phone Live service last week, now that some preview devices are out there, it looks like we’ve got a screenshot of how the service’s interface is going to look. Unfortunately it’s not the extremely cool Kin Studio, but it will match everything else in Windows Live just fine. It looks like the Windows Phone Live service will be part of the Windows Live Devices service, which includes the new …
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