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- August 17, 2007 – 12:05 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Meebo, which I have recently been turned on to, yesterday released an iPhone client which is basically a web interface to their chat website (which integrates AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, gtalk, and more). It looks great, take a peek: That is great that they are developing this and I applaud them for their efforts of releasing updates on mobile devices. Now, maybe I have iPhone envy, but wouldn’t it make sense to release this for Windows Mobile since the market share that Windows Mobile has is MUCH greater than iPhone? According to Gartner, Windows Mobile shipped a little over 3 million devices in the 1st quarter of 2007 alone (and that number does not even include “Smartphone” devices). iPhone, according to their own estimates [MacNewsWorld], will sell a million units by Sept 30th. I asked Meebo about their plans for Windows Mobile. Here is the response I received from Sue: As….
Categories: Cell Phones,Other Technology,Webdesign,Windows Mobile
Tagged: Internet Explorer Mobile, microsoft, Nintendo, Opera for Wii, web app, web code, Web Interface, web interfaces, Web publishers, Yahoo!
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- August 1, 2007 – 9:16 am
- Author:
- By Dave
If you can access the internet fine using PIE (Pocket Internet Explorer) on your Windows Mobile device over Edge or 3G, but when you switch to Wifi Internet Explorer always times out (It says “Loading…”) – then you are probably dealing with the dreaded “hard coded proxy” problem. In this situation you have Wifi wireless enabled and Opera and other internet applications work fine – but PIE will not work. The issue is that PIE is trying to connect to the internet via a proxy, however if you are using WiFi there is no need for this and the proxy server can not identify you since you are not on AT&T’s (Cingular’s) network. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings] The default setting that forces the proxy to be used is: 1"EnableAutoDetect"=dword:00000000 Change to: 1"EnableAutoDetect"=dword:00000001 Do a soft reset on your device and PIE should now be able to access the internet again!
Categories: Cell Phones,Windows Mobile
Tagged: AT&T, Internet Applications, Internet Explorer, Internet Settings, microsoft, proxy server
- Published:
- August 1, 2007 – 8:56 am
- Author:
- By Dave
Windows Mobile 5 did not seem to have an easy way to have YouTube mobile videos (3gp files streaming over rtsp protocol) play to your phone. However with Windows Mobile 6 Professional and HTC’s “StreamingPlayer” software – playing YouTube Mobile videos, at least through PIE (Pocket Internet Explorer) is easy. If you don’t have HTC’s StreamingPlayer – check here. After installing the software, you may also need to modify your registry in order to allow rtsp streams to be opened by the player. Here is a link to the registry entries you need to make – again courtesy of XDA-Developer’s forum. Save the above text to a .reg file, and import to your device (for example, using RegEdit for WM6) Hopefully if all went well – when you visit http://m.youtube.com, and click play video, the HTC player will launch and play the video. After the video is done the player….
Categories: Cell Phones,Configurations,Television,Windows Mobile
Tagged: Internet Explorer, streaming video, wireless account, YouTube
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- June 28, 2007 – 2:13 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Introducing systemBash’s first Windows Mobile theme: Black Grass. This totally free theme features a grass background and a black menu bar. Text is white and accents are green. It in meant for pocket PC / Windows Mobile version 5 and above. systemBash Black Grass Theme In case you are wondering what the clock/center menu uses, it is phoneAlarm and uses this theme.
Categories: Cell Phones,Windows Mobile
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- June 12, 2007 – 8:52 am
- Author:
- By Dave
I received an interesting mail from CallWave this morning: Great news: CallWave is reinventing voicemail – again! — with two fantastic enhancements to the CallWave service: 1. VtxtSM: A new feature that transforms your voicemail into a concise text message that you can read on your cell phone or email. 2. PhonePage: A permanent, searchable web-based archive that lets you treat all your mobile messages just like email. Use your PhonePage to read, hear and save your messages, send texts, call back, organize your contacts and more. You have been selected to participate in the CallWave VtxtSM and PhonePage Beta Test. There’s no charge to participate. All we ask is that you agree to provide feedback and answer a brief survey after using it for a few days. If you would like to try the new CallWave VtxtSM and PhonePage features, simply reply to this email with your mobile number,….
Categories: Cell Phones
Tagged: AT&T, cellular telephone, searchable web-based archive, SMS, speech recognition
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- April 25, 2007 – 9:29 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
I recently installed the demo version of Teksoft Smartbar. Instead of doing my own review, I will point to the 4WM Review of Teksoft Smartbar. I came up to the same verdict: It is a nice piece of software. It gives you a lot of functions missing in Windows Mobile – a task manager, better close button, a “desktop”, and screen capture. However, it must be buggy as it great slows down and even locks up your device frequently. It also show a program called SimPolicy – which I am not sure if it is an actual Windows Mobile program or something shown by this program, but it frequently used up my CPU. This bugginess in the software will have you tearing your hair out in no time, and you will find yourself uninstalling it. Stay away until they have released a version with less bugs and better performance!
Categories: Cell Phones,Reviews
Tagged: screen capture
- Published:
- March 9, 2007 – 1:19 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Phones come in two ways, locked or unlocked. If a phone is locked, then you can only use it with one provider, such as T-Mobile or Cingular/AT&T. If it is unlocked, you can put a sim card in from another carrier, and use the phone just as normal. Phones are locked because a carrier typically gives you the phone for cheap, and in return you need to stay with them for a certain amount of time. Reasons you might want to have an unlocked phone include: using your phone on a separate carrier, international travel and using a country’s native GSM network, and fetching a higher “unlocked” phone price at auction. Different phone models have different ways of being unlocked. With Nokias and SonyEricsson, as far as I know, you can generate an unlock code based on the IMEI (Unique identifier) of the phone. These generators can be found for….
Categories: Cell Phones
Tagged: AT&T, GSM, Motorola, separate carrier, Sim Unlock Department T-Mobile USA Inc, t-Mobile USA (VoiceStream Aerial Omnipoint SOL Digiph P, USD, wireless carrier
