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In case you haven’t heard, a new version of Windows Mobile has arrived: Windows Mobile 6.1. This version brings tons of new features and improvements which you are sure to love. But in case you missed the details, here are the ten best new things that this new mobile OS brings:
Redesigned home screen - the improved home screen displays notifications of the phone of missed calls, upcoming appointments, and new messages at a glance
Built-in Task Manager
Threaded SMS - threaded text messages make it easy to follow the conversation
Ability to Select Multiple Emails at Once
Copy & Paste Support for Non-Touchscreen Devices
Improved Windows Live Integration - like new Live Search features built-in
New Getting Started Center - the new Getting Started Center makes it easier to set up email, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi by walking you through the steps involved via a wizard.
Faster Bluetooth Setup - For [...]
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Along with the announcement about the new version of Windows Mobile, version 6.1, it was also announced that Live Search for Windows Mobile and Blackberry is going to be updated, too. The updates include mapping contacts, Virtual Earth integration, voice input, and weather.
The ability to map contacts means you can see the locations of those in your address book on a map so you are then able to easily get directions to that location.
The Virtual Earth integration will offer you the ability to make “map collections,” or custom maps that you or your friends create. The maps are made on your PC prior to viewing them in Live Search.
For Blackberry users, the new version of Live Search will offer voice input, something that previously only Windows Mobile users had the ability to use. With voice input, you only need speak a command in order to find businesses or [...]
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This is interesting - a company called SlideIt is offering you a different way to enter text on your Windows Mobile phone. Instead of picking up your stylus when entering text, you just drag it from one letter to the next without picking it up. In this way, you save…what? Microseconds? It’s definitely different, but I’m not sure it’s better.
However, you can also use SlideIt do do tapping with prediction - something that might be more useful. As you tap the words out, a list of words appears on the left for you to choose from. A graffiti box is available for any characters that are not on the keyboard.
You can see more of SlideIt’s features here or watch a video demonstration of SlideIt in action here. And if you want to give it a try yourself, the download is available here.
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Twobile is a brand-new app, still in beta, designed to be a Twitter client for Windows Mobile devices. The app is small - only 200K - so keeping it always running shouldn’t hog up too much memory. The Twobile app offers many different features, each in a separate tab. You can switch between your friends timeline, your messages, your replies, etc. For active twitters, this may mean a lot of switching needs to be done, but no worse than any other app. However, the layout for viewing tweets does make good use of the screen’s real estate by displaying one-line views of the tweets. You can download the software for free from here.
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PIM Backup is a tool that lets you backup and restore information on your Windows Mobile device. The program backs up contacts, appointments, tasks, messages, call logs, speed dials, and your entire file system. The items that you want to backup is configurable, so you can add or remove items as necessary. The backup files can be stored on your device’s storage card and automatic backups can be scheduled to run as often as you want. PIM Backup works on Windows Mobile 2003SE, Windows Mobile 5.0, and Windows Mobile 6. (via Inside Microsoft)
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Fring is an application for your mobile phone that provides Instant Messaging via Skype, MSN, AIM, GTalk, Yahoo, ICQ and its own platform. It also offers VoIP via Skype and does seamless switching between WiFi and 3G / 3.5G / EDGE without VoIP call interruption. Just recently, fring added the ability to do file transfers, too. With fring’s new file transfer feature, you can swap music tracks, pictures, video clips and other files between friends, from mobile to mobile and mobile to PC quickly and reliably without the need for MMS, cable, Bluetooth, or Infrared connections. And because it’s via fring, the connection is made via the phone’s mobile internet capability, using the already paid for data plan, so there’s no extra cost. You just choose whether to send the files using fring’s IM platform or using the MSN application. Fring is compatible with Symbian 8, 9.1, 9.2, Windows Mobile [...]
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Vito SMS-Chat is a Windows Mobile SMS messenger application that organizes your SMS correspondence into threaded SMS conversations. With this app, you have a separate chat for each contact you’ve texted. All the messages are grouped by date and you can manage them with a flick of the finger. With SMS-Chat you also have the ability to send multiple SMS message, resends messages, forward & delete messages, and delete entire chats. You can download the software for only $14.95 at http://iwindowsmobile.com. (thanks again to Mr.Mobile!)
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Niveus Pocket Remote 2.0 is remote control software for your Windows Media Center that you can use from your PDA or Smartphone. With the Pocket Remote, you use a virtual on-screen remote control to access any Vista Media Center PC on your network to play music, videos, DVDs, or even internet radio stations. If you’re not a fan of the virtual remote, you can also choose to control playback of your media directly from your phone or PDA itself. The media cover art and metadata info including album art, artists, song and track information and more is displayed right on PDA or Smartphone. While in beta, the software is available as a free 10 day trial from their website.
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A recent post on LifeHacker mentioned a little program called MPlayer, which allows you to play nearly any media file (like RealAudio/Video, Ogg, & M4A) on your Windows Mobile 5 or 6 phone. However, the post mentioned the program was a rough port of a Linux version of the app, and was somewhat of a killer on processor (and thereby, battery) usage. However, a commenter mentioned another program called Conduits Pocket Player, which they liked better, so I thought it was worth checking out. The Conduits Pocket Player, although not free (it’s $19.95), supports all Windows Mobile devices and offers a myriad of features. The Pocket Player supports MP3, WMA, WMV1 2, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV, Protected WMA, u-Law, A-Law, AU, &ADPCM WAV formats. It also has a Media Browser menu system with touch scrolling & gesture support; a Media Library with ratings, an auto-imports up to 1000+ tracks; an [...]
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A must-have for Windows Mobile users is the Live Search app for mobile devices. If you need to search for a place, get directions, or find what else is in the area, Live Search for Windows Mobile can really be a lifesaver. After installation, to use Live Search, you just click on the Live Search icon from the device’s Start Menu, and the application launches. From the main screen, you can easily navigate to select the city of your choice by drilling down by geographic region and alphabetical listings. To find a business or category, you enter in the information you need to find in the search box and your results will display on a map. You can use the routing feature to get directions from point A to point B, and, in major cities, you can even see what traffic is like on your selected route. Roadblocks and delays [...]
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