Author: Tarandeep Kaur

It seems to be a Christmas gift for the XDA Mantle owners. The O2 has come up with the Windows Mobile 6.1 update just in time. The O2 Mantle originally came with Windows Mobile 6.0. The update is free of cost. Here are the specs of the handset.

Hours talktime (up to, in hours) Talk time GSM: 464 minutes
Talk time WCDMA: 284 minutes
Hours standby (up to, in hours) Standby GSM: 407 hours
Standby WCDMA: 460 hours
Colour Black
Dimensions (W x L x D) 137.4 x 72.9 x 20.5 mm
Weight 220g
Band Quad GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Triband UMTS/HSDPA
Wireless LAN 802.11b/g
Available memory Micro SD HC (up to 32GB)
Processor Qualcomm MSM7200, 400MHz
Battery 1500 mAh
Keyboard No
Colour Screen 3.5” touchscreen
Operating system Windows Mobile 6 Professional
GPRS Class 10
Bluetooth Yes v2.0
Push Email (MS/BlackBerry/Good) SMS, MMS, Email, MS Push
3G Capable Yes
Integrated Camera 3 MP

Make sure to back up the data before performing the upgrade as it erases all the data. However, the data in the storage card will remain intact. Click here to go to O2’s site to download the update.

Mail on Ovi, the free email account from Nokia, is now ‘live’ and can be set up directly on Nokia phones without requiring a PC to get started. People who use Nokia Series 40 devices can create their own email address directly on their mobile phones.

The Ovi email account gives a person all the features and functionalities of a typical PC-based email account. During the Beta period, consumers will be able to choose from 12 languages based on the settings of their device, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Hindi, Bengali, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia.

Devices that enable Mail on Ovi include: Continue reading “Nokia's Mail on Ovi public beta goes 'live'”

Currently, if you go to Sony’s NZ website, you will see the following. So, in 17 days and some hours, they will be revealing a new VAIO that made a lot of news few days back?

What’s more? If you live in NZ, you have a chance to win one too! Can it be the rumored netbook(shown below) from SONY? Or something else. Frankly speaking, the only type of model NOT there in the SONY current line of Notebooks is the netbooks. Almost every company have a netbook in their laptop range except SONY. Perhaps this the one we have been waiting for

Nokia is rolling out 5800 XpressMusic in the US with 3G support. Of course, the support for the US bands is there. Now, here is the odd thing. Where is the carrier logo? May be Nokia has plans to make them available unlocked. So those folks who wish to pick one up, be very prepared for a huge price tag. But, then look at the brighter side, that will be one time payment and you will be free to choose the carrier you want to be on.

The best part about it is the 3.2″ 640 x 360 resolution display. This is not up to the par of one of those new Windows Mobile devices like the new HTC TOUCH HD and Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, but it is not shabby too. Nokia is even bundling 8GB micro-SD card to make the whole package even attractive.

Download it for free only for today (Dec 21, 2008)

SeeqPod is a notorious application for Windows Mobile, which was so far available for the Desktop PC only. What this application does is that it finds the music from all over the Internet and streams it in a very sleek and user-friendly interface. Does it works? Yeah!

Installation

You have two ways to download it:

• point your IE mobile web browser on your device to http://seeqpod.com and you will be taken to the download page. Note that you must be using the default browser string in order for the seeqpod website to know that you are on a mobile browser.
• get the installation link via email

When you start the application, it gives you a nice list of songs from all genres. I selected “2008 singles of the year” and it loaded them to the playlist. It also comes with a nifty search function. This is the most powerful function of this software. I searched for my all time favorite “Rev Theory” and I was impressed with the results. You can learn more about the artist/music group as it also enlists the related wikipedia article. The article opens in IE mobile and loads the respective wikipedia webpage.

Note that all the screenshots are done in VGA. You may click on them to view the full resolution screenshot.

It also comes with a very finger friendly music player. The player is skinnable and colors are also changeable. Continue reading “SeeqPod for Windows Mobile released and reviewed!”