If you’re going out to a costume party tonight wearing a Star Trek uniform (and you probably are), don’t forget to dress up your favorite Windows Mobile device as a Star Trek Tricorder. ScaryBear Software has a great little program that makes your phone look and sound like a Tricorder straight out of Star Trek. Yes, it’s been around for 7 or 8 years, but it still works great even on the latest Windows Mobile …
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IE6 Mobile Now Available to OEMs
Pocketnow Alum, Derek Snyder, shows a demo of Internet Explorer 6 last spring. According to Brighthand, a Microsoft spokesperson said, “We recently gave Windows Mobile device makers the final updates to our new browser. It’s now up to our partners to roll out Internet Explorer Mobile 6 on their handsets; we’re expecting some of the first phones with IE6 to be available in Asia and Europe by the end of calendar year 2008, with U.S. …
Continue readingManilla TouchFLO 3D Style Windows Media Player Skin
Since HTC’s TouchFLO 3D interface found on the Touch Diamond, Touch Pro, and Touch HD uses HTC’s own audio manager software to manage and play music libraries, they’ve left the default Windows Media Player alone in terms of skin customizations. The problem with that is HTC’s audio player is not a very good replacement for Windows Media Player. It doesn’t have library search capabilities, it doesn’t play videos and recorded TV shows synced over from …
Continue readingWindows Mobile 6.1 SMTP Issues Fixed
Do you have a Windows Mobile 6.1 powered device and use either POP3 or IMAP4 with SMTP? Have you encountered problems sending email or seen the error message below? If the answer to either of the questions above is yes then read on as what you are seeing is actually a bug that affects all WM 6.1 powered handsets! Tracy and Matt’s Blog has documented a bug in Windows Mobile 6.1 where sending e-mail stops …
Continue readingWinMo 6.1 upgrade for Sprint’s ACE Now Available
As reported by Engadget Mobile: Sprint’s ACE smartphone from Samsung has now been gifted with a luxurious Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade. Sprint is really playing it up, too, touting that it’s bringing an “Enhanced Time-Saving Mobile Experience” to the phone — and to be fair, it’s also allowing the installation of unsigned apps and adding support for turn-by-turn navigation, so we suppose it’s a little more than just your run-of-the-mill 6.1 update. For more information …
Continue readingStreet View Photos Coming to Google Maps
As posted by the unwired, Google has released new Google Maps Blackberry and Java clients that support walking directions as well as street view. If you’re familiar with Google Maps’ Street View on the desktop, this let’s you select a point on certain streets and see photos of the surrounding area as if you were actually standing on that street and looking around. While, the Google Mobile Blog also tells us that the new Google …
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