Having 4 GB of MP3's on my WM phone is great, but often times it is very limiting when I want to play them on my home stereo or in the car. Wouldn't it be nice to turn nearly any stereo into a bluetooth compatibility with your WM phone so you could stream all of your favorite MP3's? This is exactly what I have been wanting to do. So I started looking around to see if someone was smart enough to solve this challenge. It did not take me long to find a potential solution from the dark side of any WM user... Blackberry!

Blackberry has a very small and sleek looking Blackberry Remote Bluetooth Stereo Gateway. The idea is that you can turn any stereo with either a 3.5 mm earphone jack or RCA auxiliary input, into a Bluetooth stereo that can stream your MP3's from your phone to your stereo with any A2DP-compatible bluetooth enabled WM phone. It sounds great, but how well would a Blackberry accessory work with my WM phone? This is what I set out to discover.

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Swiss Mobility has done it again with another magnificent case. The Swiss Mobility Legion Smartphone Case (24.99) is one of the best cases that kills two birds with one stone. Read on to find out how this case lets you leave your wallet at home.

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If you’re like me, the whole concept of a GPS fascinates you. The fact that I can find my exact location on the planet with a minimal amount of hardware (and software) is amazing to me. The only thing that’s better, is the fact that I can do it using my Phone.

I remember my first experience with a GPS. I was driving with some friends to an event in the Los Angeles area. We drove from the city where I live (about an hour away) to the destination that was given to the GPS. Once we got to the address that had been input, we discovered that the address was wrong. Typically this would have been in issue, but using the GPS we were able be at the correct location within 30 minutes or so.

CoPilot Live is developed by ALK Technologies and comes in two packages. The first includes the software on cd and a 2gb MicroSD card (the MicroSD also has converters for MiniSD and Standard SD). The second package bundles a Bluetooth GPS receiver (along with a frightening number of charging cables and a mounting system for the receiver). Both options are available from the WMExperts store for $99.95 and $199.95 respectively.

Keep reading for more juicy details.

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Here's the video of our hands-on with Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta. As promised, we tested in a Sprint Mogul. We left it stock, no memory optimizations on it, to try to get a good feel of how big a memory hog Opera Mobile would be. Verdict: it's pretty darn greedy, but even so it seems to run pretty well. Here's to hoping that this is a 'beta' issue. Co-WMExpert Phil Nickinson also writes in about Opera:

Runs pretty well on my trusty 750 (even with EDGE only), but HOLY MEMORY HOG BATMAN! Might wanna suggest this, too, to move the cache to the storage card...

• Close Opera.
• Create a folder on your storage card where the cache files will go.* I chose \Storage Card\Program Files\Opera\cache4, but I don't think the folder structure or folder name matter.
• Open \Application Data\Opera\opera.ini in a text editor.
• In the [User Prefs] section, add the following line: Cache Directory4=[full path to folder on storage card].
• Save and close opera.ini.
• Restart Opera. Your cache is now being written to your storage card.

...While that might not get rid of the persistent memory errors, at least it will free up some ROM space for ya.

How's Opera performing for you?

Update: Jeff Kirvin notes his impressions in the comments and lets us know that the reason flash didn't work in our video above is that it's currently disabled in this beta; ditto ActiveX.