Mark Morrow takes the Sony Experia X1 for a spin over on BengalBoy.com (Adult content warning). Here’s a video of how the optical joystick works: It does not look very user-friendly to me. However, the device does certainly look quite stylish. The lack of softkey hardware buttons and directional buttons on the keyboard seems to be a huge oversight. Without those buttons, you’ll have to take one hand off the keyboard and use your finger …
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Windows Mobile’s Secret Today Screen Shortcut
Here’s a nice little tip for quickly getting back to the Windows Mobile Pro Today Screen. It definitely works in Windows Mobile Pro 6.0 and 6.1, but I’m not sure about 5.0. Normally, if I wanted to bring up the Today Screen, I would press the Windows Start Menu hardware key on my device and then press the action or enter button since the “Today” item is the default top-level selection. That’s really too much …
Continue readingGPS Enabled Meeting Reminders?
Julian Bourne CEO & Founder of Proxpro Inc. posted a comment in our How to Design a Killer GPS Navigation Program thread about a product they are developing that integrates GPS navigation with calendar appointment reminders. Proxpro’s Prompt software checks the traffic and estimated travel time required to get to your next appointment in your Calendar and notifies you when you have to leave. This is exactly the kind of innovation we need to see …
Continue readingA Look at the MWg Zinc II with Windows Mobile 6.1
A post at PhoneMag.com says the MWg Zinc II gets reviewed, but all I see are 4 paragraphs of text and one picture. Anyway, the Zinc II looks like a promising device. The MWg Zinc II is an attractive new phone, featuring Windows Mobile 6.1. The solid feature set includes a 500MHz CPU, courtesy of Samsung, a slide out keyboard, and the obligatory touch screen. The improvements, especially considering many new smartphones are still lumbered …
Continue readingTouchPal Version 3 is Now Available
Cootek has just released version 3 of their TouchPal software input panel for Windows Mobile. In my opinion, this is the best on-screen software based keyboard around. Version 3 now offers more gestures and two more keyboard layouts. Instead of the original 2 letters per button layout, there is now a full Qwerty 1 letter per button layout, as well as a T9 style 3 letter per button layout. Another new thing is two new …
Continue readingHow to Design a Killer GPS Navigation Program
GPS Navigation programs for Windows Mobile and Pocket PCs have been around for a long time. Since the turn of the century, Windows CE has been the preferred platform for voice-guided GPS Navigation applications. You would think the developers of these essential programs would have gotten it right by now. Unfortunately, this is not so, and most GPS Navigation programs are actually removing and breaking more features than they fix. Click here to see how …
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