The official Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM upgrade for the HTC TyTN II has been leaked over at MoDaCo: in the next couple of days the file ‘RUU_Kaiser_HTC_WWE_3.28.405.0_radio_ sign_25.83.40.02_1.65.16.25_Ship.exe’ that you can find here will also become available via official channels! The update is for HTC TyTN II devices, and will be followed later by a AT&T branded update. The update adds Windows Mobile 6.1 with improvements such as the ‘Getting Started’ wizard, Threaded SMS and …
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A Windows Mobile User Gone BlackBerry (8820)
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Continue readingBig Design Challenges for Windows Mobile
There have been rumors that Microsoft is planning to fold all of the various current versions of Windows Mobile into one in the future. The advantage to this would be that developers only have to create programs for one platform, users would only have to learn one platform, and it would increase the level of consistency in Windows Mobile thus also increasing the sense of intuitiveness across a variety of Windows Mobile devices. The problem …
Continue readingMatthew Miller’s Opera 9.5 Review
Matthew Miller of ZDnet’s The Mobile Gadgeteer reviewed Opera 9.5 today. Overall he’s very impressed by the new web browser. Unfortunately, he neglects the fact that the browser is horribly lacking in support for hardware keyboard navigation. While this is something HTC Touch users surely won’t notice, you can imagine how annoying Opera will be on something like the Palm Treo. It looks like the latest version still has those cryptic mystery icons I mentioned …
Continue readingCalendar to Map
Another piece to my wish for a Killer GPS Navigation program has just appeared. Oops I’m Late has developed a little program called Calendar to Map which sounds like it takes the location information in your Calendar appointment and geocodes it using opengeocoding.org, geonames.org or Microsoft Live Search. This would be similar to the new “Show on Map” command in Live Search mobile version 3. Very nice work! Now we just need to be able …
Continue readingLive Search 3.0 for Windows Mobile Released
According to LiveSide.net: Live Search for Windows Mobile has just received an update, bringing out the features announced at CTIA last month. While it provides the standard mapping and local search that we’ve come to expect, it now adds the following: · Map a contact: For any people in your contacts list/address book, immediately view their address on a map and get directions there. · View Virtual Earth collections: View custom maps of locations and …
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