Category: Windows Phone

Having a good backup solution for today’s WM devices is a necessity for everyone wishing to protect his precious data.

Continue reading “Resco Backup 2.0 released [Windows Mobile]”

If Benchmarks say a thousand words, video would then say (at least) a million words. Right? Here is a quick video, where I’ve tested the browsing speeds of both the devices. Both are running the Opera Mobile 9.5. ASUS P565 really shows it’s power when it comes to processor intensive task like web browsing. The Opera Mobile 9.5 truely shines on the ASUS P565, where it not only loads faster on the P565, but the web browsing too is noticeably faster on it as compared to HTC DIAMOND.

I also did some basic tests like making a new MS Word file, opening Excel and Powerpoint Mobile. The speed of both devices were similar with P565 being slightly faster in those tests. Of course, the speed won’t be that noticeable in such tasks as they don’t take the CPU to it’s limits. But, the ASUS P565 impresses us, where it should: in the processor intensive tasks like web browsing.

Windows Mobile lacks the ability to send sms to a particular group of people. Fortunately, there is a way to handle this missing function from the Windows Mobile, thanks to the GroupSMS by Shubaroo.com

Installation
The installation went fine with no problems. The installation is done via a CAB file, which is meant to be run on the device itself.

After the installation, you get two icons in the programs folder under the start menu: Group SMS and Group MMS. Both of them work similarly. First select the group to which you wish to send the SMS/MMS. There is also an option to send the SMS to all of the contacts on the list.
Continue reading “New GroupSMS released and reviewed! [Windows Mobile]”

Unfortunately, Opera Mobile does not give you an easy to backup the favorites that you’ve made on your device. The odd part is that unlike Netfront which shares it’s favorites with the Internet Explorer mobile and vice-versa, Opera manages the favorites separately. If you are going to buy a new device or updating the ROM of your device, you might want to backup those favorites so that you don’t have to do the tedious task of remaking the favorites again.

Follow these steps to backup your favorites, if Opera came with your device:

• Using file explorer on your device, go to windowsOpera9
• backup the file named opera6.adr to your desktop or somewhere secure on your device. We suggest storage card as it’s contents don’t get erased away when a hard reset is committed

If Opera didn’t come on your device and you have installed it manually: Continue reading “Backup those favorites! [Opera Mobile 9 Tip]”

If you don’t know about this great application of Windows Mobile, then you are missed something big. According to my knowledge it is the only Windows Mobile application that lets you view and download the videos from a huge list of websites. This application is must have for anyone who owns a windows mobile device.

And did I mention, it is free? Read the review which we did last month. It has now been fully updated with screenshots from the latest version. Visit Web Video Downloader’s website now and download this amazing application!

Volume Switcher automatically sets sound volume or switches silent/vibrate mode(profile) at desired time. This feature is a nice addition to Windows Mobile communicators. Don’t worry about loud calls at the very undesirable moment anymore!

Features:

• Simple and convenient interface.
• Automatic switching to silent, vibrate or normal mode/profile on your Pocket PC. Events can be scheduled based on definite time, dates and days of the week.
• Ability to activate and deactivate scheduled events. There is no need to delete and create them again.

Learn more here

Fring is a mobile internet service & community that enables you to access & interact with your social networks on-the-go, make free calls and live chat with all your fring, Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®* friends using your handset’s internet connection.

Installation

fring(yes, the first letter is small) takes around 1.8MB on your windows mobile device. The application can be installed via a CAB file or by an EXE. CAB file must be executed on your device directly, while the EXE is meant to be run on the desktop. The installation went fine with no problems at all.

Launching the application for the time

If you are launching the application for the first tim, then it will ask you if you would like to activate the today-plugin. The today-plugin is quite basic in nature. It only tells you the status of fring, if it is connected or not. It also shows you the number of missed calls

Here are some screenshots of the today plugin:

Working

The fring is pretty easy to use. I logged-in into many of the services. Also, in this new version, it introduces the use of Widgets, which are actually small internet applications. Unlike other widgets-related applications of Windows Mobile, the widgets are embedded into the fring application. fring supports:

Skype
MSN Messenger
Facebook
Gmail Notifier
Orkut
ICQ
Twitter
SIP
Google Talk
Yahoo
AIM
Yandex.mail

This new fring also support skype-out calls. While you don’t need this since there is already a version of Skype for windows mobile out there, but the support for Skype is appreciated nonetheless.

The best feature of the fring is it’s ability to use the inbuilt earpiece instead of the speaker. This is something even the Skype for Windows Mobile does not provides. This lets you keep your conversations private. This does not mean you cannot use the speaker. You can toggle between earpiece and microphone at any time during the call. The chat feature works well in all the services. The smileys do not work though.

Widgets of Social-sites like Facebook, Orkut etc worked fine in displaying the basic information like how many friends, messages, photos etc you have. If you click on messages, it would launch IE mobile and load the mobile version of the facebook. In short, the widgets provide limited usefulness and just give you an overview of your profile. Some of the things just didn’t work though. I could not update my status at all in any of the social-website related widgets. Also, if I clicked on the photos, I should get a list of my pictures that I’ve uploaded, but it refused to open my picture folders after repeated attempts. If someone has been able to get these working, let me know.

Gmail notifier launches IE mobile inside fring.

Final Verdict

It is a complete application for those who want to stay connected to their friends irrespective of the Instant Messenger they are using. Also, it’s ability to use the built-in earpiece for VOIP calls is a big plus as it helps to maintain privacy. Widgets only show an overview and uses IE mobile for most of the operations.

Get the fring from the following link:

http://www.fring.com/download/

Here comes the highly awaited phone from ASUS, which claims to be world’s fastest PDA-Phone. It arrived yesterday and after posting unboxing pictures, I went straight to do some benchmarking. Without wasting more time, let us take a look at the benchmarks.

For the benchmarking test, we used 3 devices: ASUS P565, ASUS P552W and HTC DIAMOND. The ASUS P565 is the first windows mobile device powered by Intel Marvell Tavor 800MHz processor. Infact, it is the first mobile device to be powered by such a powerful processor. ASUS P552W is also an extremely fast device powered by Intel Marvell Tavor 624MHz processor. The HTC DIAMOND is powered by Qualcomm 528MHz processor.

Let the game begin!

As one can observe, the ASUS P565 scored the best in almost everything. Note that since ASUS P552W is a QVGA device, it’s processor has to do comparatively less work when it comes to graphic processing. Since, the users would be having their eyes on the VGA devices, which in this scene are ASUS P565 and HTC DIAMOND, it would be more appropriate to pay more attention to their performance.

Now, let us take the ASUS P552W out of the scene to make the comparison more fairer.

Leave the benchmarks aside, does it really feel snappy?

Yes, it does. It is definitely lot snappier than the HTC DIAMOND, whose processor is shared by the likes of HTC TOUCH PRO and HTC TOUCH HD too. Overall, a very nicely made device and we are indeed very impressed with the ASUS P565.

On a side note, the touch screen is very very sensitive. Stay tuned for the full review, which will be published in few days!

update: see unboxing pictures here.

I received the ASUS P565 yesterday and I could not wait for a single second to rip open the box. Here are few pictures that I took of the box and have given brief information about what is there in the box.

..and here is what you get in the box

• ASUS P565
• AC adapter
• A really sleek leather case
• Battery (1300mAh)
• Getting started CD and Bonus CD
• mini-USB cable
• Wired headset

Continue reading “ASUS P565 unboxed or shall I say "World's fastest PDA-phone unboxed"”

Conduits Technologies, Inc., announced today the release of Pocket Player 4.0, an alternative media player for Windows Mobile 6 Pocket PC and Smartphone. Pocket Player aims to satisfy consumers who demand more from a dynamic media player on a mobile device, and recently won Best Audio at the 2008 Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine Best Software Awards for its Pocket PC and Smartphone editions.

Pocket Player 4.0 introduces AAC and M4A playback and podcast subscriptions, as well as enhanced MP3 support and other improvements. Pocket Player 4.0 is fully compatible with all Windows Mobile 6.1, Windows Mobile 6, and Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. Continue reading “Pocket Player 4.0 released by Conduits”