Back in September, MySpace had a press release that mentioned their MySpace Mobile website. The mobile website was in beta and live for about a day before they took it down. Well, now it’s back. You can now access MySpace from your phones at mobile.myspace.com. Originally published on Pocketnow on November 16, 2007. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow archive.
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Voice Command’s Caller ID Announcements
Some of you may have noticed that when you install Microsoft Voice Command v1.6 on the AT&T Tilt or HTC TyTN II, that the incoming caller announcements have stopped working. The fix can be found on XDA-developers.com. It involves overwriting some DLLs and an EXE file after you’ve installed Voice Command 1.6. I don’t know why this feature got broken on the Kaiser, but it’s good to see that our friendly neighborhood hackers are providing …
Continue readingChronicles of a Windows Mobile User Gone Symbian: Part 4
One of the things that has always been really difficult to do on a small screened mobile device is browse the web. Many phones don’t even attempt to render full HTML web pages, and the ones that do generally try to reformat the page so that it’s easier for the user to read. Windows Mobile’s Internet Explorer has options to collapse the entire web page into one long-scrolling column. This is great for smaller pages, …
Continue readingT-Mobile Shadow in the House
I got a new T-Mobile Shadow last week shortly after its release and have been getting to know it a bit. A few first impressions: the new animated home screen does more than I expected! First of all, the notifications section shows large contact photos for emails and text messages that you’ve received. Very nice! Also, the album-art-displaying Media Player home screen interface is very cool. One thing to keep in mind when reading other …
Continue readingWindows Media Player Mobile Tips and Tricks
SETTING UP THE SYNC If you’re on Windows XP with ActiveSync 4.x, do not turn on "Media" syncing. This will launch a wmplayer.exe process every time you connect the device to ActiveSync. In some cases you will get two wmplayer.exe processes and Windows Media Player 11 on your desktop may stop working. Furthermore, ActiveSync will continually launch and check Media Player 11 for changes in the syncing set-up (thus tying up your CPU). …
Continue readingChronicles of a Windows Mobile User Gone Symbian: Part 3
It’s great that the Nokia N95 has all of these awesome media features, but what about the phone part? How is it at making calls? Well, it’s pretty simple. When you slide out the keypad in the home screen view, you can dial numbers and then press the call send button like you would on any other phone. However, pressing these number buttons does not offer contact matching options or any kind of call prediction. …
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