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STOPPED: Final Issue of Smartphone & PocketPC Magazine

September 1, 2008 By Remo Knops 2 Comments

Last week sad news arrived from Hal Golstein, the publisher of Smartphone & PocketPC magazine. After 11 years of hard work, devotion and commitment to the Windows Mobile platform, the magazine will be suspended until further notice. As already introduced the magazine is totally tailored to the Windows Mobile platform, with contributions of many online communities from around the world. Hal Goldstein provides some details around the difficult decision in his blog-post on the magazine's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: WINDOWS PHONE Tagged With: Best Software Awards, Magazine, PocketPC, Smartphone, WINDOWS PHONE

NEW: HTC S740 the smartphone brother of the HTC Touch Pro ? [UPDATED]

August 26, 2008 By Remo Knops Leave a Comment

Early this morning HTC announced their newest Windows Mobile standard device. The naming, HTC S740, seems to tell it's the further development of the HTC S730. Design wise, there are also huge visible influences of the HTC Touch Diamond. But let's have a closer look. The most striking difference is the numeric keypad on the front of the device. If the device is slide-ed open, a 4-row full QWERTY keyboard shows its face. With this approach the text input is very versatile and flexible … [Read more...]

Filed Under: WINDOWS PHONE Tagged With: Bluetooth, HSDPA, HTC, Qualcomm, S740, Smartphone, Standard, Touch Pro, Wifi, Windows Mobile 6.1

ANNOUNCEMENT: Treo Pro Windows Mobile Smartphone & Review

August 20, 2008 By Remo Knops Leave a Comment

Palm officially announced the Palm Treo Pro device, although some training pictures leaked onto the web last week. Will this newest Palm device be an ongoing development of the Palm Treo 750 and the US Palm Treo 800w, or is it something completely new. I've owned the Palm Treo 750 for quite some time, and Palm developed the device from a end-user usability perspective. Since the Palm Treo Pro is just the second Windows Mobile device, I hope Palm continued the line of putting some really nice … [Read more...]

Filed Under: WINDOWS PHONE Tagged With: GPS, HSDPA, Palm, Pro, Smartphone, Treo, Wifi, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional

FREEWARE: Total Commander (for Windows Mobile v2.51)

July 31, 2008 By Remo Knops Leave a Comment

Today a new version of the nice freeware file explorer Total Commander from Christian Ghisler is released. Both the versions for touchscreen devices as well as the non touchscreen version are upgraded. Those of you who were favourites of Norton Commander in the past probably know the Total Commander desktop software, with its two window style. However Christian Ghisel also developed different other versions, like the one to run from a USB stick or the sp-called U3 platform and ofcourse versions … [Read more...]