IStartedSomething.com has a teaser image of the Live Mesh client for Windows Mobile which was demoed at Tech.Ed Australia. The rumor is that this will be available publicly in the coming months. In the broader picture syncing of data is just one of three components to the Live Mesh platform. They envision unified device management to remotely manage health, status, location and capability of devices; unified application deployment with synced configurations and settings for those …
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Location Aware Web Pages Now Available Exclusively on Windows Mobile
Google has launched their new Gears Geolocation API which currently works exclusively on Windows Mobile devices. The Geolocation API allows web developers to access user device locations via GPS or cell ID tower locations. Don’t worry about stalkers, though: The privacy of users’ location information is extremely important. The first time your site calls the Geolocation API to request a user’s location, that user will be shown a permissions dialog where they can choose to …
Continue readingTry Excahnge 2007 SP1 For Free!
Have you heard about how everyone wants their smartphones to synchronize with Microsoft Exchange? Do you know what that is? Is it better than Gmail or Yahoo mail? Well, why don’t you just take it for a 5 day test drive for free? Microsoft is offering a free 5 day hosted trial of Exchange 2007 SP1 for you to try. You can use it with Outlook on your desktop, webmail, Windows Mobile, iPhone 2.0, Symbian …
Continue readingGoogle Maps 2.2; Now With Mass Transit Directions
A while back a new version of Google Maps was released for Blackberry which included mass transit support. That new feature is now available in Google Maps 2.2 for both Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile. As reported by the Official Google Mobile Blog: Simply bring up Directions from the main menu and you’ll see a second tab labeled Transit (or Public Transport), where you can request a route using only public transportation. You’ll receive a …
Continue readingTouchFLO 3D’s Latest Speed Increase on the Touch Diamond
Since initial impressions of the Touch Diamond’s TouchFLO 3D interface were criticized as being very slow, HTC has been releasing updated ROMs with new versions of the TouchFLO 3D interface that have reduced the animated fluff in order to increase the usability speed. In June, you may have seen the TouchFLO 3D interface was already changed from the shipping version in ROM 1.37. You can see the video of the 1.37 version here… and you …
Continue readingSymbian S60 Attempts a Touchscreen Interface
Symbian-Freak.com has posted some leaked screenshots of the latest in Symbian S60’s Touch UI interface for touchscreen devices. It mostly looks the same as the regular Symbian S60 operating system, except now there are three buttons at the top of the screen or four buttons on the left side in landscape view. Something that I think the Symbian developers don’t realize is that there’s no way for new users to figure out what some of …
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