FEATURES The Spectare Portable features a 1" color LCD screen that displays images at 96 x 64 pixels and 4096 colors. At 1.5" x 1.5" x 0.4" and 4 ounces, the Spectare Portable should run for about 2 hours on it’s internal battery. Figure 1: On the left you see the On/Play button which turns the screen on. A second press will do a slideshow of your images. The left and right arrows let you …
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PDA France Posts Updated HTC Roadmap
PDA France has posted an updated roadmap of upcoming HTC products that we should see in 2006. The newest addition (in-so-far-as imagery), the HTC Artimes, sports an interesting directional navigation device that we havn’t seen on a PDA before; it uses a track ball. Here’s a sampling of the specs: HTC Prophet Quad-bande: Edge, GPRS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Irda, 2M pixels camera with flash, SDIO, 2.8″ QVGA screen, 128MB ROM, 64 MB RAM HTC Star Trek …
Continue readingMicrosoft Adds Windows CE Developer Wiki
Microsoft’s MSDN developer website has added a collaborative resource for Windows CE developers. Created by a program manager in External Research and Programs at Microsoft Research, the “Windows CE Developers WiKi” will support both platform and application developers. A separate wiki targeting Windows Mobile application development launched several months ago. A Wiki is like open source documentation where many users can contribute to the accuracy of information. And now MSDN has added this type of …
Continue readingOffice 12 for Windows Mobile to Include OneNote
According to Microsoft-Watch.com a version of Office 12 for Windows Mobile is expected to be in production along with the desktop version of Office 12. “Tentatively called “Office 12 for Windows Mobile,” the product will consist of viewers for Word, Excel and PowerPoint (along with some very limited editing capabilities for Word and Excel) — plus a new “OneNote Mobile” version of Microsoft’s OneNote note-taking application. The mobile Office 12 suite is being designed to …
Continue readingBluespoon AX2 Now Available at RadioShack
The Bluespoon AX2 bluetooth headset is now available at RadioShack stores as well as online. The Nextlink Bluespoon headsets normally have sold mostly through online retailers. This seems to be the first time they’ve been distributed through a major retailer. Originally published on Pocketnow on November 13, 2005. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingROM Upgrade for i-mate K-JAM Now Available
i-mate has released a ROM upgrade for their K-JAM Pocket PC Phone. The Worldwide English version updates your ROM to: Rom version: 1.1.9.3 Radio version: 01.01.10 ExtROM version: 1.1.9.104 The ROM numbers are the same as the shipping ROM, but this one adds the capability to remove the Antivirus and Skype software that’s pre-installed via the ExtROM. Those programs will now be removable through the Remove Programs control panel. Originally published on Pocketnow on November …
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