Play the Online Games of Spb – for both Pocket PC and Smartphone

Spb Software, the world’s leading maker of Windows Mobile applications announces the release of Spb Online Games as a separate suite. Originally, part of Spb Online – a set of online services under one roof, which attracted over 15,000 users in under two weeks (at the rate of more than 1000 users per day) – Spb Online Games is a collection of four instant online games, supplemented with an online chat service.

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How To Improve battery life of HTC Diamond

HTC Diamond comes with 900maH battery. Even though that figure does not look very impressive on the paper, HTC Diamond has pretty ‘ok’ battery life. But, heavy use of it can drain the battery at a very high rate. I’ve compiled a list of tips that will make your Diamond yield better battery life for sure.

Go to start>settings>connections>Beam. Turn the Beam off from there
Go to start>settings>connections>advanced network. Turn off “HSDPA” if you are not using it right now. It is a huge battery sucker
Go to start>settings>Phone. Go to the Band(tab). Select GSM from the “network type”
Make sure the WiFi radio is off, if you are not using it.
Use the task manager to terminate the applications that are not in use.More the number of applications running in the background implies more load on the CPU and thus, it will suck more battery than you can imagine. Fortunately, almost all versions of the HTC Diamond come with HTC Task Manager to manage the tasks.
Personally, I recommend using the Dinarsoft Handyswitcher (reviewed here) instead as it is much more faster and responsive than the HTC’s own task manager. Before installing it, please make sure to disable the HTC’s task manager. To do this, go to start>settings>system>’task manager’>button (tab)>”untick” both of the checkboxes to disable it.
Make sure the “key lock” is on. It will prevent accidental key presses when your device will be in your pocket. To do this, go to start>settings>system>key lock and select “lock all buttons except power button”.
If none of the above suggestions work for you, sell your Diamond.

Auto Screen Rotation on HTC Diamond – Gyrator

A screen rotating application which uses the GSensor to detect the orientation of the device, and rotate the device screen accordingly. It has a graphical configuration system for blacklisting/whitelisting applications where auto-rotation should not be performed.

Requirements:

  • HTC Diamond / HTC Diamond Pro
  • WM6/WM6.1
  • NET Compact Framework v3.5

Download the application from here

Play with the Tmobile G1 even before you buy it!

Click the buttons, go through the menus, get to know the functions and it’s capabilities. Yes, you can do all that with the emulator of the Tmobile G1. When the page has loaded, click on the emulator to play with it. It is obvious that you won’t be able to use wifi and GPS on it.

It is really nice to know that Tmobile has gone for the innovative medium of making people play with the (new) Android OS before they buy it.

Link to the emulator