The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i is a budget friendly laptop that should handle basic computing …
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Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard Screenshots Revealed
Apparently the Boy Genius Report has gotten their hands on an AT&T branded Motorola Q9 which happens to have Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard installed. They’ve posted photos, but unfortunately their site seems to be down now. Some of the features you can expect to see are presumed to be: Copy / Paste (finally!) Domain Enroll in Settings (Enrolling in a domain will connect your device with company resources.) New home screen (pan left and right …
Continue readingIs This What Windows Mobile 6.1 Will Look Like?
Microsoft has a new flash-based Windows Mobile Experience site which shows off some of the features in Windows Mobile 6. You’ll notice that all the interface illustrations look a lot different than what we’re used to in Windows Mobile 6. Is this just an artist’s misrepresentation of the operating system’s interface, or are we looking at a new Windows Mobile 6.1 design? Originally published on Pocketnow on November 30, 2007. More Software articles from the …
Continue readingT-Mobile Shadow with Windows Mobile 6 Standard
Review sponsored by… INTRODUCTION You'd expect something called the Shadow to be all black and sleek looking. Well it is very sleek looking, but this one has a brown "copper" paint job and it looks great. T-Mobile seems to have been experimenting with releasing abnormally colored phones that give you a nice unique feel. Adding to the uniqueness factor is the "Neo" Home screen user interface, the result of a collaboration between Microsoft and …
Continue readingMySpace Mobile Now Available
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.
Continue readingVoice 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, …
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