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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:

• Windows Mobile only
• Android only
• Or both Windows Mobile and Android. That is possible now. Take a look at Exeda which can dual boot by using U-bootloader. We can only speculate till DELL really comes up with something. What if DELL announces it’s new smartphone at Mobile World Congress 2009?

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)

[TrackMyRun]

Here are some more (leaked) screenshots of the Windows Mobile 6.5. The first screenshot that you see is the use of same homescreen that you see in the Windows Mobile Standard edition that the non-touchscreen Windows Mobile devices. The second screenshot shows the honeycomb screen. It appears to be a separate program that can be launched from anywhere as it overlaps the program currently running. This would provide immediate access to basic phone and PIM functions. One can also access the settings from here.

The usage of a really stupid looking bird is quite funny though

More screenshots after the break Continue reading “More (Real) Screenshots of the Windows Mobile 6.5 [Windows Mobile]”