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Spb Mobile Shell 3.0 sets a new standard in handset user interfaces and goes far beyond what is available on any phone today. The new software is fitted with a flexible engine for 3D animation, clever Facebook integration, kinetic scrolling, widgets, and multiple usability innovations. Spb Mobile Shell 3.0 has gained a thrilling ‘wow’ factor and preserved the speed and clarity of device navigation.

SPB Mobile Shell 2.0 made a lot of fame in the Windows Mobile world. It was opted via a lot of carriers from all over the world due to it’s ease of use. We expect it to shake the mobile world.

Spb Mobile Shell 3.0 is scheduled to release to manufacturers in late February of 2009, with release to the consumer market expected to follow in late March. According to Spb Software upgrades policy all end-users, who purchase software within 90 days of a new version’s release, are eligible for free upgrades.

The GSMA MWC 2009 will take place February 16 – 19, in Barcelona, Spain. Spb will also showcase the new multiplatform approach to product development, more software upgrades and releases. To arrange a meeting with Spb at booth 2B38 in Hall 2, please contact us at pr@softspb.com.

AIM Productions has released a FREE beta version of EASY SMS, a new Windows Mobile application that will provide you with a comfortable interface to send and receive SMS messages in all circumstances. Texting with the standard Windows Mobile SMS interface is not always very convenient. The text is very small and hard to read in many cases. Replying or sending a new text message by using the stylus and the tiny onscreen keyboard can be a real pain and is just impossible in situations where you don’t have both hands free. If you have been carrying around a Windows Mobile device for a while, this will definitely sound familiar to you.

[EASY SMS product page]

Bored with the look of your Diamond’s phone dialer? If yes, pauldgroot at xda-devs has stepped forward and has the skinned the Diamond’s dialer.

How to install:

• Check if your phone is VGA.
• Check if you are using the HTC Phonecavas with Slide to Answer.
• Check if you don’t have any dialerskins installed.
• Intall the cab and soft-reset.

Get it here

Please note that this skin is only for those who have the new 2.03 ROM by HTC or for those who have installed the slide to answer cab

[related xda-devs thread]

Just like other Windows Mobile OEMs, who have used some sort of mobile shell as an endeavour to make the Windows Mobile GUI more finger-friendly, Toshiba has employed a GUI of it’s own in it’s offering TG01. Here is a video of it.

[via slashgear]

This is for those who thought the Toshiba is dead. True, their last few offering have not able to make a lot of splash in the mobile phone market, but the new Toshiba TG01 promises to break new grounds. With just 9.9mm thickness, a huge 4.1-inch display with a WVGA (800 x 480) resolution and the use of 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, it surely promises to give HTC and other handsets like iPhone a good competition.

Last time, the people were extrememly disappointed with the buggy-software of G900, which was the first WVGA Windows Mobile device. I hope the Toshiba would release a bug-free software for their new big baby, TG01.

On the software side, it promises flash websites as it claims to use Internet Explorer Mobile 6, which is not officially available for any handsets. Also, even the unofficial version of IE mobile 6 is unable to run any flash content nicely. You would barely get 3-5fps on a powerful device like HTC DIAMOND. But, considering the fact that the Toshiba TG01 sports a 1GHz processor, it may be a truly different story. We recently reviewed ASUS P565, which claimed to be world’s fastest PDA-phone. It surely turned out to be world’s fastest Windows Mobile phone. Why? This is due to the Windows Mobile OS. It would be interesting to see, how speedy the 1GHz Snapdragon CPU compared to the 800MHz Marvel PX930, which the ASUS P565 uses. [via engadget]