tzywen (whose site is down at the moment) has put up a great little video on YouTube - an E-Ten m600 running some custom software that's awfully close to an iPhone experience, complete with slider-unlock and flick-scrolling. It's not a complete overhaul, but it's still very impressive. Nice job tzywen for programming all this!
Video embedded after the jump.
Phonenews has a little posting about Sprint's upcoming roadmap - notable in there is the venerable PPC-6700 looks to be put out of its misery soon, to be replaced by the CDMA version of the Titan. Earlier rumors have pegged the release sometime in May of this year. Engadget Mobile also scored an early photo from some marketing materials last September, if you want to see what a Sprint Pocket-PC phone without an antenna looks like (that's the source of the thumb at right).
Read: New Phones/EOL's and Dates 02/25/07 - PhoneNews.com Forums
In honor of my metal-intensive review, let's make it just a little easier to rock out with your WM phone by giving away a copy of CorePlayer - the commercial successor to TCPMP and a great player that supports multiple audio and video formats. It's my favorite media software on WM by far.
Do you listen to music on your smartphone, or do you use a different device (or do you not listen to music at all)? I switch back and forth myself - sometimes I can't believe how convenient and awesome it is to have a bunch of music on my phone, other times I just want my iPod. Head on over to the forums and chat a bit about music on the WM5 platform. Any post in this thread between now and noon EST tomorrow, March 1st, qualifies.
..I say this every day - but every day I mean it: Every entry in a daily contest doubles as an entry for the Grand Prize and the two Second Prizes! Namely: A Smartphone of your choice plus $300 to spend in the WMExperts store and a couple of Slingbox Pros.
(Full contest rules are here)
A touch late today with the prize contest because I'm rocking out with the Aliph Jawbone - er, I'm actually rocking out to Mastadon while testing the Jawbone, expect a video review up tomorrow morning.
In any case, today's prize is the Smartphone Experts Mini-USB Sync n Charge Retractable Cable (or, for you sad folks without a mini-usb connector on your smartphone, a wall charger).
Comment here on this post about battery life on your mobile device. Is it good? Is it terrible? Do you try to keep it topped off all the time, or do you let it run down often?
Today's contest will be open until noon EST tomorrow (Feb 28th). Don't forget - Every entry in a daily contest doubles as an entry for the Grand Prize and the two Second Prizes! Namely: A Smartphone of your choice plus $300 to spend in the WMExperts store and a couple of Slingbox Pros.
(Full contest rules are here)
on10 has a neat little video of a PocketPC device successfully running Vista Gadgets. Microsoft is working on enabling it so it can show up on your Today screen. For now, though, they have it working with a simple drag and drop onto the phone. It's just a proof-of-concept, but it's pretty darn slick.
Windows Vista has so many great features and I know a favorite at the top of everybody's list are the gadgets. "But Laura..." you say..."I love my gadgets so MUCH that I wish I could take them with me everywhere!" Well, stop you're whining I say and check out this application that Mel Sampat is creating.
Read: Vista Gadgets running on Windows Mobile | Laura Foy | Channel 10
If you're not in the list below, fret not: your entries still count towards our grand prize and second prize, so keep 'em coming. Yesterday's contest will be running for another few hours (till noon EST today) and I really appreciate the input about what you'd like to see reviewed. Basically you can expect any category of product in that thread to get moved to the top of my queue.
Remember, you can check for the latest Prize-A-Day every day, here, full contest rules are here. I can't wait to give away that Smartphone and those Slingboxes!
Smartphone Thoughts has a mini-bombshell: Microsoft is giving away Windows Mobile 6 to its vendors (ex. HTC, Motorola, Samsung, Palm, etc) in case they're interested in making it available for upgrades. HTC has already stepped up and said they'll offer upgrades to QWERTY devices. Whether or not these upgrades will make their way through the morass of carrier testing and approval is another story, but I have my fingers crossed. Twice. I wish I could say I was hopeful that everybody would follow T-Mobile's lead - they've already announced future upgrades for the Dash.
We've just learned that Microsoft has given a free license to vendors who will upgrade their devices.
Read: Smartphone Thoughts - Daily news, views, rants and raves
PC World is reporting that BenQ is giving up the Mobile business, having failed to even sell off the company to another buyer. Instead it's all going to be split up and sold piecemeal. BenQ did try to get some attention at the 3GSM Conference earlier this month, showing off their E72 - but it was all for naught. So long, BenQ, we here in the US hardly knew ya.
"I now see no realistic chance to sell the entire company in one piece and enable a new start," Martin Prager said in an e-mailed statement. "We have to acknowledge that the market has decided against BenQ Mobile."
Read: PC World - BenQ Mobile to be Split Up and Sold
A large swath of the midwest got smacked with a snowstorm over the weekend. I like snow as much as the next guy, but this one made me want to just hole up in my house and play video games. Being holed-up means that my smartphone didn't need much using, so it just sat in its cradle.
Ah, a cradle! That's what we'll give away, a cradle of your choice! Lock yourself inside, give your phone a rest, and go get yourself some cocoa.
The WMExperts store has well over 1000 products in stock and while I sincerely doubt we'll ever be able to review them all here, we do want to get as many as possible up in our Reviews section. So: help us prioritize! Go take a look-see through the store and comment here on this post: which product would you most like to see WMExperts weigh in on? We can test conteston a multitude of WM phones, so if there's some compatibility question be sure to mention that too.
Today's contest will be open until noon EST tomorrow (Feb 27th). Don't forget - Every entry in a daily contest doubles as an entry for the Grand Prize and the two Second Prizes! Namely: A Smartphone of your choice plus $300 to spend in the WMExperts store and a couple of Slingbox Pros. We'll announce last week's winners a little later today.
(Full contest rules are here)
Let's do a Casual Friday Edition of the Prize-A-Day contest for the weekend. I'll be wearing this Penguin Suit at a wedding tomorrow, so I want to know that somebody, somewhere, is going to be wearing sweatpants, eating Oreos, and 'wasting' time on a video game.
Also, our Software Store is now open! To celebrate the store and slacking off, we'll give away the piece of software that has been getting the most screen time on my Dash lately: Aces Texas Hold'em. It's a fun little game and the players have just enough "playing personality" to keep me on my toes.
We're slacking, so let's just forget about Windows Mobile for this contest. Instead, just post a comment on this entry about your favorite slacker of all time. For me, it's a toss up between Socrates (It makes sense to me) and Victor Tugelbend. Bonus points if you know who Victor is without doing a google search. ;)
Today's contest will run until noon EST on Feb 26th. Don't forget - Every entry in a daily contest doubles as an entry for the Grand Prize and the two Second Prizes! Namely: A Smartphone of your choice plus $300 to spend in the WMExperts store and a couple of Slingbox Pros.
(Full contest rules are here)
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