Mugen Power has released a high capacity battery for the HTC Shift, which should at least double the battery runtimes of your HTC Shift, if not tripled. It is 6600mAh. It costs $239.95 and is available from the following link:
What’s more? There are providing free shipping too!
What is Whiskers?
Whiskers is an educational PocketPC application under the GNU/GPL license which tries to exploit all the hardware available on most common PDAs providing a link between different features such as GPS-Bluetooth-Wireless. Generally whiskers was built with radio reconnaissance in mind as help for geocachers or wardrivers but also as penetration and audit tool. There is support for in depth device scanning, triggering actions based on filters when certain devices are in range, centralized GPS logging with search functions for private or public databases and much more.
Download Whiskers
Features:
Thanks to SevenRains for this exciting utility [related xda-devs post]
Although, we normally do not post about dot upgrades, but this update from A_C comes with a nice feature, which would be welcomed by the non-HTC Diamond/Pro users. It is “Vibrate on connect”. This feature is already there in HTC DIAMOND. When you do a call, it vibrates your device to notify you that you are connected to the other party.
Go to ac-s2.com and download the latest version
In Windows Mobile devices, there is a very irritating quirk that it does not show the actual percentage of the battery left. Instead it shows just 3 bars. When the user clicks on the battery icon, he is taken to the battery settings panel. In some devices like HTC DIAMOND, it does not tell the user the percentage of battery left.
Ariel Battery Monitor comes to rescue you from this problem. It replaces the nonsense battery icon with a more meaningful icon that displays the amount of percentage of battery left in the device.
Main features:
-Makes good use of the unused space of the “Start” button icon.
-Battery power is always visible, because it is on the taskbar.
-Very low CPU consumption (Only about 0.001% !!! Much less than any other battery monitoring program !!!)
-Tiny memory usage, Much smaller than kBattery, pBar, magicbutton, batmon or xbutton.
-Just put it on StartUp folder or link to it, and it will do the job!
-WM2003, WM2005 (WM5) , WM6 ( Now fully compatible ).
-Full control of all displayed colors.
-The gauge can be moved to replace any icon on the taskbar
-VGA screens are supported ( Drag the “pick color” window by it’s title to see it all )
-Landscape mode is supported
Oh. And did I mention that it is a free?
[Download Ariel Battery Monitor]
iPlayer is now finally available for Windows Mobile. However, to run it, you must have Net Framework 3.5 and Coreplayer.
Features:
– Finger friendly UI including flick kinetic scrolling, swipe gestures and vibration feedback.
– Supports Nav Sensor and Stylus Removal
– Higher quality video/audio than Samsung User Agent hack
– Browse content by Highlights, Popular, Channel, Category or Date.
– Search for content and save history.
– Checks for latest version of player and AppToDate support.
– Downloads video to device for later viewing (I download at home over wifi and then watch videos on the tube on the way to work).
– Video launched in your default player associated with ‘.mov’ files
Please note that current version of iPlayer only runs on HTC DIAMOND and HTC TOUCH PRO
Note: Coreplayer is not freeware. It is a commercial application. The videos are encoded in h.264+AAC format, which only coreplayer can play.
[Net Framerwork 3.5] [Coreplayer]
[download iPlayer]
Looks like the rumors of DELL smartphone are up again. Ever since the DELL discontinued their Axim range, there have nearly a pile of rumors that DELL is working a smartphone. Most of these rumors were proved to be wrong, often by DELL’s spokesmen. But, this time Wall Street Journal is saying that DELL is now seriously coming to the Smartphone market.
This is what WSJ has to say:
Dell Inc., aiming to rev up sales as its mainstay personal computer business struggles in the recession, is preparing a move into cellphones as early as next month, said people familiar with the matter.
The Round Rock, Texas, company has had a group of engineers working on the phones for more than a year from an office in the Chicago area, these people said. They produced prototypes built on Google Inc.’s Android operating system and Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile software, these people said.
This means that the DELL is working on a device that can be running:
At first, there were no plans for the SSD version of the Acer Aspire 103 netbook, but now it seems that the ACER is indeed planning to release a linux version of their Aspire one 103, whose HDD version was released couple of days back. The SSD will have the capacity of 16GB and will run Linpus, a custom linux distro. Other specs wil remain the same as the HDD version.
It is nice to see that ACER is still thinking about those folks who want the ruggedness and reliability of the SSD. Personally, I use my trusty old ASUS EEE 701 more than my notebook or my ASUS 904HA just because I know that it uses SSD. Although, the capacity of the SSD is not huge, but anyday I would not be carrying my DVD collection on it. If I feel the need of extra space, I can always plug-in my external USB HDD.
[zdnet]
TankillerR over myhpmini forum has posted a huge review of HP Mini 1000 and he is very impressed with his mini 1000
The HP Mini 1000 XP is for the most part a solid Netbook. It’s got its quirks like any other Netbook, but with its 10.2” screen, 94% full sized keyboard, ability to turn off the touch pad/buttons, super sexy look and US based tech support (in most cases, more then Asus, Lenvo, MSI at least) It is a good consideration when buying a new or first time Netbook. The Mini is only about 2 months old, so it’s got some catching up to do to the EEE PC brand, but give it some time. I’m sure we’ll all be impressed later down the road.
He is also very impressed with the keyboard.
“One thing that stands out with the Mini is its huge keyed 94% full sized keyboard. It is almost exactly the same as a full sized with a dedicated top row of function keys, large enter and shift keys and 4 arrow keys. The key design goes edge to edge, not the normal curved down style of other laptops. This helps a lot by keeping the keys large and preventing typos”
He has also given some nice tips to improve the battery life: Continue reading “Long review of HP Mini 1000 [Netbook]”
gweedo767,a talented programmer over xda-devs have come up with an application called TrackMyRun that works pretty similarly to the Nike+ application. What it does is that it tracks how many distance have you covered by using the GPS. It also shows the amount of calories that you have burnt.
Here is the video which demonstrates how it works (by the developer himself)
