Since version 1, iNav’s iGuidance has been the most accurate and easy to understand voice-guiding GPS navigation program on any device. The 5th version is now available. You may have had some problems with version 4 and 3. There were a number of bugs that made the software unusable for me. I’m happy to say the new 2009 version works great on the ATT Fuze I’ve tested it with. The text-to-speech voice prompts work great, …
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Touch: the Most Evil Technology in Modern Computing
Here’s an interesting opinion piece from the ZDNet iGeneration Blog. Zack Whittaker thinks touch screens are bad for a variety of reasons. If you’ve seen some of the leaked road maps and rumors for the future smartphone releases of 2009, you’ll see that practically everything is touch-screen based. Windows Mobile Pro phones have been touch-screen based since the turn of the century. Most people were clamoring for a more hardware-button friendly user interface for Windows …
Continue readingLive Search 4: New Features in Action
If you haven’t already downloaded the newest version of Live Search for Windows Mobile from wls.live.com, here’s a short video showing the new features in action. The software now loads your location based on cell phone towers as soon as you start up, thus making searches for nearby locations much easier. All you have to do is press the “Speak” button and say what you want to search for. Originally published on Pocketnow on January …
Continue readingLive Search v4 Also Has Bird’s Eye View!
If you saw Daniel’s post earlier about the new version of Live Search now including a “Locate Me” feature that does not require GPS hardware, you were probably pretty excited about that alone. Well, that’s not all that’s in version 4 of Windows Live Search for Windows Mobile! There’s also predictive text for your search queries, as well as a “Bird’s Eye” view that lets you see 3D aerial photographs of many of the map …
Continue readingWindows Mobile’s Security Features
If you don’t need quite as much security features as the General Dynamics Sectera Edge, (which we think President Elect Obama should be using) then have a look at all of the security features that already exist in Windows Mobile without any customization. Here’s a presentation posted by abhisheksharma. Originally published on Pocketnow on January 12, 2009. More Software articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingMicrosoft’s New Sync
Engadget takes an extremely brief look at the new Microsoft Sync system at CES. Check out the video here. Some of the new features include more highly integrated server-based services such as news, traffic info, and directions. The version of Sync shown in the video is the one that does not use a large touch screen. You’re probably wondering how you’ll see the map for your directions. Well, you don’t. There is no map. It …
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