Y’all might remember the old HTC Star Trek smartphone also known as the Qtek 8500, i-mate Smartflip, and Cingular 3125. It’s still the thinnest and lightest Windows Mobile Standard/Smartphone around and its successor (the Erato) has been delayed indefinitely. I reviewed the Star Trek back in the summer of 2006 and I still like it a lot. It was picked up by Cingular/AT&T later that year in a slightly different form. Anyway, since the T-Mobile …
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iNav iGuidance v4.0
INTRODUCTION iNav iGuidance (and its derivatives) has been my favorite GPS Navigation program since I bought my first GPS receiver. Back then, iGuidance was the fastest, most accurate and easiest to use program for navigation. It used the same Pocket PC interface with easy-to-read menus. I could still access the start menu, minimize buttons, clock, volume control, and signal strength in the title bar. The voice prompts were clear, easy to understand, and it …
Continue readingExclusive Video: Opera 9.5 Mobile Tour
Here’s my video walk-through of an early Opera Mobile v9.5 Beta. There are some significant design flaws with this program, most notably the removal of the Windows Mobile bottom bar with softkey menus. This makes it impossible to use the browser with the highly efficient keyboard shortcuts found in the rest of Windows Mobile. Instead you have a series of “mystery meat” icons that require a stylus to actuate (and documentation to understand). So if …
Continue readingSkyfire v0.55 Beta
INTRODUCTION Ever since the Apple iPhone was announced with it's Safari browser, people have been bad-mouthing the Windows Mobile version of Internet Explorer. It's slow rendering pages, it doesn't render pages like they look on your desktop, and everything is zoomed in so close you can't see the whole thing all at once. Skyfire is here to try to make the browsing experience on Windows Mobile much more user friendly. It is one among …
Continue readingZune + Windows Mobile = Better Together
A poster named Mel at an MSDN Windows Mobile blog has asked for thoughts on making Windows Mobile and Zune work better together. I think it’s pretty much a no-brainer that this type of integration should have been thought through from the beginning. What are some ways the Zune player and a Windows Mobile device can work better together? I’m not referring to an imaginary “Zune phone”, and I’m certainly not hinting or speculating about …
Continue readingEighty Percent Off at CellPhoneShop Today
The CellPhoneShop has been having an 80% off President’s Day Sale that ends today. If you want to stock up on some accessories, check out the deals they’ve got going. There are plenty of great prices on accessories for Windows Mobile phones, including extra batteries, chargers, and car cradles. Originally published on Pocketnow on February 19, 2008. More Deals articles from the Pocketnow archive.
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