There are a lot of times when we need a stop watch and we are not carrying one. Your Windows Mobile smartphone is there to rescue! With StopWatch 2.0, one can enjoy the experience of a quality stopwatch. The developer, Martin Kaldma (nitramk at xda-devs) has come with a great stopwatch application.
The author has made every effort possible to make the application look like other HTC Diamond specific applications.
Continue reading “StopWatch 2.0 released and reviewed [Windows Mobile]”
Palm Treo Pro is the first Palm Smartphone with built-in WiFi. WIth a built-in QWERTY keyboard and numerous Palm enhancements, does the Treo Pro makes itself as a worthy contender to the rest of the Windows Mobile range? Read on and find out!
Packaging
Palm has really outdone itself with the packaging. It’s nice, classy, and simple.
Unfortunately my package seems to be lacking the regular flat pins that are common here in the PH. I will try to contact palm about this.
What’s in the box:
Palm Treo Pro
Palm wired stereo headset
Li-ion 1500mAh Battery
micro USB sync /charge cable
AC adapter with interchangeable plugs.
Documentation Continue reading “Palm Treo Pro review [huge review!]”
What is Cell Mate?
Never settle for sub-par reception. Never worry about charging your Bluetooth headset. Never risk your safety trying to sync your headset with your phone while driving. All you have to do is answer your cell phone and place the Cell-Mate on your head.
What were the folks at Cell Mate thinking anyway? Nothing is interesting other than the lady in the picture
[gizmodo]
It has always been a dream for the Netbook owners to run Hi-definition video on their netbooks. Sadly, due to the limiting processing power of the Intel Atom processors (so far) and absence of GPU in the netbooks, no one ever thought of running 1080p videos on the netbooks.
But, it is not a distant dream anymore. The GeForce 9400M GPU completely nails the integrated Intel graphics. In the video given below, we see a normal Acer Aspire one, which struggles a lot while playing the 1080p video. On the other hand, we see another netbook, but this one is connected to a HDTV and utilizes the Ion platform (GeForce 9400M + Intel Atom).
In the end, the main question that arises is that do we need all those bells and whistles? Well, it would be great for someone who wishes thinks something more than web browsing on his netbook. The inclusion of powerful GPU would also open gates for the gamers. It would also reduce the CPU utilization as most of the graphic part would be taken over by the GPU.
The LuvBook F1500B is a new netbook by Mouse Computer. The latest trend in the netbook market is incorporating the DVD-RAM drives under the hood. The LB F1500B does no different. It comes with a built-in DVD-writer to satisfy those folks who always complain about difficulty in loading applications into their netbook. There is no information about its price and release date.
Specifications of F1500B:
Sources say that it is basically a MSI Wind U100 with a DVD drive. I fail to understand this latest trend though. The netbooks were initially designed to be portable, small and light-weight. Incorporating DVD-RAM drive would:
I’ve seen so many people complaining about the lack of DVD drive in netbooks. The reasons which they give are pretty lame to be honest. Some say, they won’t be able to load their applications on it without DVD drive. Well, most of the applications are available online that they can download them to their netbooks. Another way is to install it via LAN by connecting a LAN wire to notebook/desktop PC, which have DVD/CD drive by sharing the drives. Another and probably the most easiest way is to install via external DVD drives.
MSI Wind U100 and Acer Aspire One are two of the very popular netbooks, which are available in various parts of the world under countless brands. Here is another one, from Gateway, which is a re-branded Aspire One. It was lately seen in the local office Depot in Singapore. It looks like Gateway has left the specifications untouched. It comes with the 8.9-inch screen, Intel Atom N270 processor clocked at 1.6GHz, 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM, Win XP Home. It is available at a price of $379.
edit: It was spotted in Redmond (Thanks Andrew for the tip!)
Windows 7 is faster and more reliable version of Windows. Last week, Microsoft made the beta available for download for the public. Microsoft says that they have made myriad of changes under the hood and they have been able to make the whole operating system a whole lot faster than the bulky Vista. Vista was never able to make big name in netbooks as netbooks didn’t have the horsepower to run such a heavy operating system.
Windows 7 BETA is running very well on most of the netbooks. So far, Windows XP has been the OS of choice as it performs very well on the Celeron M and the Intel Atom CPU, either of which are being used in the netbooks today. K.C Tofel at JKontherun has installed Windows 7 on his MSI Wind U100 and he is pretty much impressed with it’s performance.
Sleep without any programs open is 7.2 seconds. Resume is 3.6 seconds. The whole installation took less than 30 minutes. Here are the score of Windows Experience Index, which are pretty decent for a netbook.
Clearly, the Windows 7 will be more netbook friendly and the users will be happy to switch to it from the now-outdating Windows XP.
We know very well Archos for it’s PMPs and MIDs. But now, Archos is all set to join the netbook battle. They are going to release a 10.2-inch netbook, Archos 10. But, they are themselves not making this netbook. It is just a rebranded Hasee MJ125, which has plain Jane netbook specs. Perhaps that the reason, they quitely unveiled it at CES 2009.
Here are the Not-so-Exciting Features:
There is no official information about it’s price yet. However, judging by it’s specifications, it should be around $350-$399.
Obama currently uses a blackberry for mobile-email. No doubt, it is great for email, but routing his email all through Canada does raises a few security concerns. Instead, he can use an NSA-approved Windows Mobile device, which would give much more security.
According to the General Dynamics site, the Sectéra Edge boasts the following:
It is also NSA-certified. Oh and I forgot to mention the price of that Windows Mobile device. It is mere $3500 :)
via WMpoweruser (via Dallasblog)
The Exeda from Compulab may not be the prettiest device you would come across, but it is very flexible both in terms of hardware as-well-as software. It has U-boot bootloader, which gives the user the choice to boot between either in Google Android or Windows Mobile. Connectivity-wise, it has 2 USB ports; a Quad-band GSM radio(or CDMA radio), WiFi b/g and BT 2.0. It also has a 3.5-inch VGA display (640 x 480), which would make web-browsing acceptable on a mobile device.
Here are it’s other features:
Exeda also supports Windows CE 6 and Angstrom Linux. Although these are not on the board, but it is nice to know that the hardware supports CE 6 and Linux (mobile) variant.
[Exeda website] via EngadgetMobile
