How to Get Asian Characters to Appear on Non-Asian Windows Phones

Are you multi-lingual or trying to be multi-lingual? If you’ve tried some of the cool language translation programs in the Windows Mobile Marketplace such as LangLearner or LangLearner Translator, you might have been disappointed to see that Chinese or Japanese translations appear as empty boxes instead of the actual characters. Simply download the Sunglobe CAB (in a ZIP file), install it to your device, and reboot. After that your language translation software should be showing …

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Alien X TouchFLO 3D Theme

Probex is at it again. This time with a nice green “Alien X” theme for TouchFLO 3D version 2.1. You can purchase and download this new theme from the Probex website. If you’re not crazy about the green color, of course there are other themes available as well. Generally, these are $5 each. Originally published on Pocketnow on November 30, 2009. More Software articles from the Pocketnow archive.

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Windows Mobile Devices on the Carriers 2010: US Edition

Despite rampant Windows Mobile criticism this year, there are still many great choices for Windows Phones offered by the carriers. With choice sometimes comes indecision, and we’re here to sort it all out for you. What is to come is a comparison of the US’s four biggest carriers (so that’s Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint) and their current offerings of Windows Mobile devices. You’ll see that with popular devices like the Touch Pro2, all carriers …

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CoPilot Live 8 only $20 ’til Monday

CoPilot Live 8 is having a Thanksgiving weekend sale. Their North American maps package is only $20 ’til Monday. That’s a one-time fee of $19.99 for the maps and software. We’re not talking about a monthly fee that you might have to pay with some of the GPS Navigation programs carriers like to include on their Smartphones. The map data takes up over 1Gb though, so you’ll need a storage card for that. You can …

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LangLearner Translator

If you remember seeing Dan’s demo of the LangLearner Lite application from the Windows Mobile MarketPlace, the LangLearner Translator will look a bit familiar. It’s made by the same people, but offers different functionality. Where the regular LangLearner application only allows you to select phrases that you want to translate, the LangLearner Translator lets you type in any phrase you want. The advantage to the Translator is that you can type in any type of …

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Office Mobile 2010 Beta Now Available

Office Mobile 2010 Beta is now available for free in the Windows Mobile Marketplace. You can see it here in your web browser or look for it in the Marketplace app on your Windows Phone. The description is as follows and you may notice a few new features. Microsoft Office Mobile 2010 brings the powerful Microsoft Office 2010 tools you use every day at work, home, or school, to the screen of your Windows phone …

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