Posts tagged Windows Mobile
Have you wished your Windows Mobile 6 Device Had A Reboot Option Natively?
Oct 25th
I had been using Celetask to do quick one button reboots but my trial expired and I really could not justify $7.95 just to reboot easier. User Maevro over at Howard Forums created a .cab file that adds a Reboot option to your Windows Mobile Device Quick List. Thats the one you get by hitting the power button once. This was tested on the Q, Dash, Wing and my Dopod 730 aka the Cavalier. It should work with all Windows Mobile 5 or 6 devices. Enjoy!
The Cab file can be downloaded here:
http://www.mistercomputerhead.com/reboot.cab
The Dopod C730 aka HTC Cavalier reviewed.
Sep 27th
My wife got me the new HTC Device Dubbed the Cavalier with a Dopod Branding and imported it from China for my birthday… Migrated my information over night and replaced my dash on the charger with this Dopod – NOW THATS LOVE!
I have had this bad boy for almost 3 weeks now and it’s just about time for my in depth review. First of all I love this phone in all its 3.5g Glory. Everything I didn’t like about my Dash has been improved upon (almost). I am going to run down a list of what I really like and then follow it up with its weaknesses. Check back later in the week for applications, hacks and configuration settings…
The Good:
- HSDPA is Super fast and I have seen up to 965kbps in Manhattan.
- 3g Is still faster than Edge or Gprs – I have seen up to 93kbps.
- Tethering a laptop to my Dopod is super fast.
- The processor is double that of the Dash @ 400mhz. This might not seem like a big deal to you mister 3ghz desktop… but trust me this is like the jump from 56k to Broadband.
- This smart phone is really smart – it does cut and paste out the box.
- 2mp Camera.
- Windows Mobile Standard 6.
- Battery life is much better as long as the device isn’t constantly switch between bands.
- Video streaming on this guy is awesome and so is mp3 streaming.
- My security cameras display on the dopod as well.
- Auto Dimming of the screen with an ambient sensor.
- The combination of the faster processor and faster bands puts my Dash to shame!
Now the bad...
- No touch screen.
- Built in speaker for playing music without headphones is just so-so.
- No flash on the camera.
- No GPS – Is this so hard to integrate now? Chips are so small!
- No upgrade on internal memory – Can we get a mandatory bump please?
So when my buddies push their iphone at me and grunt… Ug why you no have iPhone Admin?
I just say one word… HSDPA!
What phone do you guys use? Do you love it or hate it? What do you want your phone/pda to do that it can’t? Do you need help setting up your dopod on a local network? We can help! Hit us up in the comments! There is also a great thread over @ HoFo.
_TheDopodAdmiN_
Best of the best 10 must have windows mobile apps
Aug 16th
Are you running on the windows mobile platform? Then this list is for you! Some of these might not apply to all versions like Vito Copy Paste and Note Pad are only useful for non-touch screen WM5 and 6 phones like the Dash. Let us know if we missed any of your favorites! Check here to see if we have the Application Unlock your Mobile Phone.
Metro - Metro finds your way in public transport systems in more than 350 cities around the world (Paris, New York, London, Tokyo, any city with a subway & many more!). FREE, FAST & ACCURATE. Many more features to discover: – Directions and information! FREE!
Egress - Egress is an advanced yet easy to use application which displays your favorite RSS/ATOM feeds directly on your PocketPC. Now supports Podcasting! Free 30 days $12 to own
Celetask - The best Task/Process Manager on Windows Mobile Smartphone and Pocket PC! Allows for reboots and full access to kill tasks. I only installed this after I could not kill certain process via Task Manager. Free to try for 30 uses and $12.95 after
Total Commander- is a file manager, a program like Windows Explorer to copy, move or delete files. However, Total Commander can do much more than Explorer, e.g. pack and unpack files, access ftp servers, compare files by content, etc! Features: – Copy, Move whole subdirs – Inplace rename, create. This is a beta version and free! Works great have not had an issue with it.
Voice commander – This is an amazing offering by Microsoft. If your on WM5 and don’t have this built in to your OS this is a must have! It reads your caller ID, appointments and other information to you out loud. It emebeds the persons name or phone number that is calling in between rings – a great resource! $40 a lot of money but if you are often in the car – this is for you!
Vito copy paste – Sometimes every Smartphone user has to face the difficulty of transfering text from one edit box (any default editable field) to another on your Smartphone. Say, you need to copy a phone number from e-mail and send an sms to this number. In this case, thou funny it may sound, you still have to use a banal pen to write down the number and use it later for writing an sms. This is a big drawback of Windows Mobile platform for Smartphones. VITO CopyPaste has been developed to solve this problem with edit boxes and make Windows Mobile for Smartphones more functional. FREE!
Ztelnet – A professional Telnet / SSH client, designed for network system administrators, end users and web designers, working with Unix/Linux/BSD systems. This new, operating system independent version comes with extended functionalities, including smart phone support, ability to save, restore and edit sessions, virtual scrolling screen with adjustable size, floating keyboard, different font sizes, support of all possible display sizes and orientation, and many more. They also have ZAFtp secure ftp program and ZAtunnel utilities all for FREE!
Pocket Ping - Porting PING.EXE to your PocketPC. FREE!
TCPMP Media Player – Best freeware media player plays everything!
Orneta notepad – The Award Winning Notepad Mobile, by Orneta is a simple and easy to use text editor and viewer for Windows Mobile based devices. The simple and elegant design, is very powerful and feature rich. You can create, view and edit simple or complex documents with ease. Notepad Mobile supports any type of text file, from simple notes and memos, to complex HTML and XML documents. Notepad Mobile is so powerful you can even edit and create Start Menu shortcut links as well as Home Screen layout files. The possibilities are endless with Notepad Mobile, winner of the Pocket PC Magazine Best Software Awards 2003. Free to try – 10$ to buy.
What do you use?? What did we leave off?? Hit us up in the comments!
We got Themes here… Get your Dash and Blackjack Themes here…
Aug 9th
Check out these amazing Smartphone Themes… You can use em’ on the Blackjack, Dash, Q and the such… Available from here. It looks like they have lots of theme goodness for all sorts of sized screens as well! Thanks for sending this in Mark!
Oh and don’t worry they will be in the language that you use on your device! Don’t get scared off by the funny talk :) _TheAdmiN_
We got Themes here… Get your Dash and Blackjack Themes here…
Aug 9th
Check out these amazing Smartphone Themes… You can use em’ on the Blackjack, Dash, Q and the such… Available from here. It looks like they have lots of theme goodness for all sorts of sized screens as well! Thanks for sending this in Mark!
Oh and don’t worry they will be in the language that you use on your device! Don’t get scared off by the funny talk :) _TheAdmiN_
Admin Unplugged (literally) The Internet Outage and HTC to the rescue. Internet connection sharing ATT Vs. Tmobile
Jul 15th
Optimum online and their high speed internet tubes have shut me down today at 10:11am in mid page refresh and it drove me crazy. I reset my modem, router, laptop and everything in between. I grabbed my bill to make sure I didnt miss a payment and then I called them on it.
I got the whole sorry sir it just happened so we won’t know if their is a service outage for some time… blah… blah…blah. Someone will call you back to come to your site at some point today.
Arrrrrg.
So what better time to do a Internet connection sharing comparison between 2 networks via the Dash WM6 Smartphone on ATT vs the Wing WM6 on Tmobile.
I saw faster speeds more consistantly on ATT but they also dipped below 30kbps several times where Tmobile stayed over 29kbps at all times. (ATT seems to handle my requests better though!)
Tmobile Max 76kbps Minimum 29kbps
Att Max 119kbps Minimum 17kbps
They both let me get on and post but it is still sub standard pre 1995 modem speed. I tried using them to do bit torrent – no problem other than speed. It seems neither network is blocking ports – yet. I noticed the Wing timed out after 10 minutes or so and i had to hit a key on the screen to restore it.
But all this does is make we want 3G that much more or how about 3.5G?? Someone want to send me some high speed mobile goodness to review? What is the best available connection for WWAN in the US? Other regions?
Anyone… Anyone… Mcfly?
_TheAdmiNviaEdge_
Update: The Wing on Tmobile timed out or something after 20 minutes and came up on the sim lock screen – Network Locked Enter Unclock Code
Strange and then I had to restart it. Now its working again. ATT seems to be my favorite at the moment.Update: 1:26PM They had a dude come out and resplice some wires in a box in front of my building. Everything magically came back on. I also noticed a huge box inside the box marked XM. Lots of blinking lights.
And I’m back @ full speed around 20 Mbits – That 20kbps was killer!
