Rhapsody of XDA-developers has created a great little application that can use a Voice over IP provider’s text messaging service to send SMS messages from your Windows Mobile Professional or Standard phone. I’ve been using the mobile web based version of VoipBuster’s text messaging interface to send international text messages for free, but this program adds an interface for that which does not require logging into a web page. Anyone think not paying for so …
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AOL Brings AIM Back to Windows Mobile Again
Back in April, AOL started releasing a beta of their MyMobile software for Windows Mobile which included AOL Instant Messenger functionality. Now, they’ve started a beta for a new stand-along AOL Instant Messenger client called MobileAIM. It should work with all Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices both Standard and Professional versions. Click on to sign up and download the beta. The new client shows contact ID icons, but does not offer any kind of …
Continue readingTomTom 7 for Windows Mobile Appearing on some Touch Diamond models
A number of users at XDA-developers are reporting TomTom version 7 is including on their Touch Diamond models. The new version obviously supports the newer version 7 map sets. There is also a new “Help Me” menu that will guide you to help related services. Of special interest is a Quick Menu, that shows a large button on screen in the map view which you can customize to have one specific function, or bring up …
Continue readingTouch Diamond Supports Native Podcasts
MSmobiles is showing that the latest Touch Diamond ROMs are now including an RSS Hub application which, combined with the other native media playing capabilities, allows you to subscribe to, download, and listen to Podcasts without the need to sync with a desktop computer. If your podcasts also included embedded album art, the TouchFLO 3D Music panel will be able to display this. If you are syncing music with Windows Media Player, there’s a work-around …
Continue reading.NET and Windows Mobile the preferred choice for developers
Jason Langridge puts it well: “Infoworld has just published an article highlighting the recent results of a developer survey run by Evans Data where they looked at which platforms were being targeted for development. The great news was that the .NET Compact Framework came up #1 with 43% of developers targeting that with Java Micro Edition coming a very close second with 42%. In terms of OS platform Windows Mobile came up #1 again with …
Continue readingTouch FLO 3D’s Slight Redesign
I just upgraded my Touch Diamond to the now shipping version 1.37 ROM, and there’s a definite difference in the timing of the animations in TouchFLO 3D. Here’s a video: As I mentioned in this post and my review, the animations were pretty slow by design. I recommended that reducing the timing on the animations would increase the perception of speed, and that’s exactly what they did. You’ll also notice that when swiping a finger …
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