Windows Mobile 7

Skyfire Web browser

Skyfire is a free, downloadable mobile web browser that makes browsing on your phone exactly like
browsing on your PC. Now, you can use the web from your mobile phone with unprecedented speed and simplicity. Same like Operamini this browser will is also be a server based.

Skyfire gives you speedy
page loads, full audio, video, images, dynamic Flash content, advanced Ajax, Java and more – just like your PC.

Skyfire in action:

However this masterpiece is in its early beta and its available only for US users. Make sure to check here or at official site www.skyfire.com for any update.

Opera Mini™ 4.1 beta

Opera Mini 4.1 beta

Opera Mini 4.1 beta lets you have the full Web everywhere. This newest release includes several new features, including automatic completion of Web addresses, making it easier to get to the sites you need; tools for attaching files to Web-based email; uploading photos to your blog or other site; downloading attachments from email for storage on your phone; and saving and viewing pages offline.

Download Opera Mini 4.1 beta

To download Opera Mini 4.1 beta, visit mini.opera.com/beta using your phone’s existing Web browser and click on one of the links to download Opera Mini.

To download directly on your computer visit www.operamini.com

New in Opera Mini 4.1 beta

Now even faster

Prior to this release, we upgraded our servers and Opera Mini now receives your requested Web pages up to 50% faster. So you can now access sites like Facebook, BBC, and any of your other favorite Web sites even faster, with Desktop-like speeds.

Find things faster

Even though scrolling to your Web content is already easy with Opera Mini, the new Opera Mini 4.1 beta lets you search for text within a Web page so you can get to the information you need even quicker than before.

Get your to your Web sites faster

Now you can stop wasting time typing in full Web addresses more than once while browsing. When typing Web addresses, Opera Mini 4.1 beta will recognize and suggest completions for you based on your Bookmarks and browsing history, making address input faster, easier and much more intuitive.

Download and upload files

On phones with JSR-75, you can now upload and download files using Opera Mini 4.1 beta, without being re-routed to your phone’s native browser. Update your blog while on the go. Upload photos to your Web site or social network. Add attachments easily to Web-based email, and download other non media-rich content to your phone using Opera Mini 4.1 beta.

Save it for later

On phones with JSR-75, Opera Mini 4.1 beta lets you save pages for offline viewing so you can quickly access and read your desired Web content, even when you’re on a plane, in the subway, or in other places where you can’t get network reception. Depending on your phone, you may need to choose a destination folder for storing pages for offline viewing.

Existing Top Features

Sync bookmarks and Speed Dial

Opera Mini 4.1 beta features Opera Link, which allows you to synchronize your bookmarks and Speed Dial shortcuts with a computer running Opera 9.50 beta or other mobile device running Opera Mini 4.

To use Opera Link with Opera Mini, simply choose “Synchronize Opera” from within Opera Mini and enter your current My Opera login details (or register a free My Opera account) to synchronize your bookmarks between your phone and your computer. Access and edit the bookmarks from any other browser by going to the Opera Link page.

View pages in Landscape mode

To view the Web on a wider screen, just hit * # and flip your phone to the side to enjoy browsing in Landscape mode. Change your default view to landscape by turning “Landscape mode” on inside the Settings menu.**

Give your phone a mouse

Opera Mini gives your phone a virtual mouse, so you can easily scroll in any direction. Move the mouse cursor towards what you want, and then it quickly snaps your view to the link or content.

Power scrolling shortcuts

Scroll at warp speed using your phone keypad. Find your way around on the Web pages quicker by using your phone’s number keys. Press 2 to go up, 4 to go left, 6 to go right and 8 to go down. Hitting 5 zooms you in and out.

Create custom search shortcuts

Just like in Opera for your computer, you can create your own Web search from any search field on the Internet using Opera Mini 4.1 beta. Simply click on the search field that you want to grab on a Web page and then choose “Create search” within your menu alternatives. Then you can enjoy making frequent searches without having to type in the site link again.

Tools and support for Web designers

We support Web designers who want to make their Web sites look even better to those browsing with Opera Mini. In this Opera Mini 4.1 beta, we have included all of the CSS support that Web designers need to make their Web pages look pixel perfect on in the mobile Web world. Read more.

* BlackBerry devices with firmware older than 4.2 don't have JSR-75 support. The firmware version can be found under Options > About (third line).

** Sorry, this feature is yet not supported on BlackBerry and some other devices.

Opera Mini™ 4.1 beta

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Microsoft Unveils Smartphone Advancements to Improve Ability to Work and Play With One Phone: Company demonstrates new version of Internet Explorer Mo

LAS VEGAS— April 1, 2008 —Windows Mobile is improving smartphones to better meet people’s rapidly expanding work and personal needs, Microsoft Corp. today announced. At CTIA Wireless 2008, the company unveiled the newest version of Internet Explorer Mobile, which adds desktop-grade Web browsing to Windows Mobile phones. In addition, Microsoft announced Windows Mobile 6.1, an update for its Windows Mobile software that includes new time-saving features, easier phone navigation and management, and increased security safeguards.

“People want a single phone that’s flexible enough to meet their needs throughout their day, whether it’s connecting to work or your everyday life,” said Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft. “The innovations we’ve added to our Windows Mobile software ultimately make it easier to manage your world.”

“Microsoft is taking the necessary steps to broaden its consumer
appeal while also addressing the complex mobile needs of the
enterprise,” said Ben Bajarin, analyst with Creative Strategies.
“Internet Explorer Mobile and Windows Mobile 6.1 demonstrate
Microsoft’s ability to harness its technologies to bring tangible
innovations and benefits to customers and partners.”

Updated Internet Explorer Mobile Brings the Quality of Desktop Web Browsing to Phones

The
new version of Internet Explorer Mobile adds the ability to easily view
full-screen Web pages and multimedia on the Web with a smartphone. By
taking advantage of Internet Explorer 6 technologies and supporting
established and upcoming industry standards such as H.264, Adobe Flash
and Microsoft Silverlight, the updated Internet Explorer Mobile gives
people a rich mobile Internet experience. The update will be available
to mobile phone partners in the third quarter of 2008, with the first
Windows Mobile phones using the new version expected to be available by
the end of 2008.

Windows Mobile Update Drives Simpler Experience

Windows
Mobile 6.1 features several key updates based on customer feedback,
including the capability to make the most critical information readily
available at a glance, quicker phone setup, and enhanced features
adapted for the small screen. In addition, if coupled with System
Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 or Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Windows
Mobile 6.1 provides the best experience for IT professionals to manage
mobile phones for businesses.

Windows Mobile 6.1 will help people
get more from their phones by bringing updates to what they care about
most. With Windows Mobile 6.1 users will be able to accomplish the
following:

•	Stay up to date and share from a single location. Glance at and respond to notifications such as missed calls, upcoming appointments and new messages from the home screen as well as play music and share photos.
•	Get up and running in minutes. From setting up e-mail, a Bluetooth headset or Wi-Fi, the new Getting Started Center makes the phone experience intuitive and simple.
•	Save time with features adapted for the small screen. Easily flag, delete or move groups of messages and keep track of conversations through threaded text messaging. Zoom in on text or pictures, or view an entire Web page at once.
•	Help keep business information protected. Support for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 helps administrators manage phones similarly to a Windows-based PC or access company data that may be behind a firewall; and support for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 advanced mobile policies helps businesses manage and administer security for phones while enabling people to find, share, and use information no matter where they are.

More information is available at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/apr08/04-01EnterpriseMobilePR.mspx.

Industry Embraces Windows Mobile 6.1

Partners
from around the globe are committed to updating or expanding their
portfolios to Windows Mobile 6.1 beginning in the second quarter of
2008, demonstrating the strong industry demand for software that
delivers one phone for all aspects of a person’s life.

“AT&T
customers select Windows Mobile phones because they’re a fit for their
lives — whether that’s traveling the globe, managing the family’s
schedule or staying in touch with colleagues,” said Mike Woodward, vice
president, Business Data Service for AT&T Mobility. “We intend to
update our most popular Windows Mobile phones to offer these new
capabilities that help our customers get the most from their mobile
experience where they live and work.”

Other partners include
Alltel Wireless, AT&T, ASUS, HP, HTC Corp., i-mate, Intermec Inc.,
Motorola, O2, Orange, Palm Inc., Pantech, Samsung, Sony Ericsson Mobile
Communications, Sprint, T-Mobile USA Inc., T-Mobile International Inc.,
T-Mobile Germany, TELUS, Toshiba, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone. The
following new phones and updates were announced today:

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Mobile operators: • Alltel Wireless: HTC PPC6800, HTC Touch • AT&T: Samsung BlackJack II, MOTO Q 9h global, Pantech duo, AT&T Tilt by HTC • Sprint: A new Palm Treo and updates for the Mogul by HTC, Touch by HTC, MOTO Q 9c, Samsung ACE • T-Mobile International: T-Mobile MDA Ameo 16 GB, T-Mobile MDA compact IV

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Device-makers: • ASUS: New phones including the P320, ZX1, P560, M536 and updates for the P527, P750, M930 • HTC: A new Touch Dual for the U.S. and updates for the AT&T Tilt, Touch by HTC, Mogul by HTC from Sprint, TyTN II • i-mate: 8502, 9502, 8150, 6150 • Intermec: CN3 • Motorola: MOTO Q 9c, MOTO Q 9h global, MC70, MC9000 • Pantech: Pantech duo • Samsung: BlackJack II • Toshiba: Portégé G810,Portégé G910

More information about Windows Mobile 6.1 is available at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/default.mspx; information on System Center Mobile Device Manager, available today, can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/mobile/default.mspx.

Microsoft Unveils Smartphone Advancements to Improve Ability to Work and Play With One Phone: Company demonstrates new version of Internet Explorer Mobile with desktop-grade Web browsing, introduces updated Windows Mobile operating system.

Review of "Pointui Home"

Check out New Version is available (Monday, May 5, 2008)

I call it revolution for a Windows mobile devices, pointui.com has changed the way people looked at windows mobile.
With this program it is no more complicated for a newbie to use a windows enabled phone, it has got all the eye candy i think anyphone can give.
To scroll up you need to move your finger in the opposite direction, and if you need to move faster may be when you are searching call history move you your finger from top to the bottom.
It also has bookmark searching, it will activate itself if you'll scroll on the left side of the screen.
As you can see in the above image it has "Home" same like windows "Today". It shows all relevant information like Radio signal strength, Battery indicator, Volume status and on the top left corner is the setting menu(I will come to it later on). Now in middle of the screen is Digital timer, Analog timer, weather, upcoming task-appointment, calender, you need to slide your finger on the middle to cycle all the program.

At the bottom of the screen is call history icon, email, text message and windows media player. Below that you can see a triangular arrow facing downward, clicking on it will display the following tab- New, Favorites, Applications and Currently running.

Now i will explain you one by one what this application does. New tab has option to create new document, text-multimedia message, email, contact, task, appointment and spreadsheet. Favorites has all the item you enabled in startmenu menu. Application has all the item there is in your programs menu. And Currently running is same as its name suggest(see image below).

Now on the top left of the corner of the home screen you can see a setting icon. Clicking on it will take you to system menu.

In system menu there is everything you have in your startmenu\settings.

And Lastly there is two type of navigation in this program- object navigation and
slide navigation.

Pros:
1.Smooth transition in a really slow 200mhz processor
2.Big buttons for more practical use.
3.Cover all the menus
4.Fast
5.Uses marginal RAM
6.Support for Window Mobile 2003

Cons:
1.It doesn't Allow for theme
2. Contacts and Phone still not covered.
3.It doesn't support VGA.

Conclusion:
The powerful function of windows mobile and the all the transition and beauty of this UI(User Interface) will make using windows mobile a joy.
This application covers the startmenu and settings menu and all other small things you can think of. It also support call history in its program. The knockout part of this program is that it runs smoothly and with all its glory in merely a 200mhz processor of my HTC Wizard. This application is a must keeper for all Winmo users if they truly hate the winmo's default UI and love to have something more user freindly in their pocket. And above everything all the thanks goes to www.pointui.com for keeping this program free.
But dont forget donate on their website.

Update:
There is a new version available with lots bug fixes and new features.

New Features

• Smartphone support
• PDA's (without phone) support
• Voice mail count is now displayed under the missed call count for those with phone networks supporting this feature.
• Lock screen will fade back to Home screen to allow you to see all of the status information even when device is locked.
• Translation support - see the forums for more information.
• New customise option: can choose digital or analog clock.
• New customise option: Lock Device, Show Home, or Show Home Screen when device is switched on.
• New customise option: automatically switch bluetooth on only during phone calls and switch off at the end of the call (not supported on all devices). The idea behind this is that if you only use bluetooth during phonecalls for headset etc and don't need it on all the time, then this option could be useful to you. It will turn bluetooth on as soon as an incoming/outgoing call is detected, and turn it off when you hang up.
• New customise option: can choose to use Home's comm manager or system default if supported.
• New customise option: can choose to not show screenshots in Currently Running screen (if your device has issues showing the screenshots).
• New customise option: can choose to Show Home, Show Call Summary Screen, or Do Nothing when call is finished.
• New customise option: can choose to use Home's task bar or standard system task bar.
• The list of applications now merges the list of favorites so you can view the entire list together
• Call summary screen added to display who was called and how long call lasted for at end of call.
• Lock screen can now be used on smartphones - you press up then down on dpad.
• You now have an additional option to "Lock Device" on power on.
• Battery saving - now only uses marginally more battery power than normal - smartphone users should notice a big difference (of course this is dependent on how excessive you are with using it).

Changes

• Taskbar in all other standard apps is no longer changed except for the Start button area which still takes you to Home's Task Menu.
• Windows Media icon has been replaced with Favorites.
• Appointments summary shows only the next 7 days of appointments.
• Tasks summary no longer shows completed tasks.
• Force close now returns focus back to Home.
• Ringer volume and profile button on sound screen for non-phone devices are no longer displayed.
• Appointments now display all day events in bold and should not display events that have been completed for the day.
• "Today" and "Tomorrow" in appointments also now show the date after them
• Smartphones no longer have a Windows Mobile section as it's not relevant.
• Shortcut no longer includes "." at start which was causing issues for button mapping.
• Soft key on Today screen no longer overridden. (NOTE: you will need to reset it back to what it was manually if you have a previous version installed).

Bug Fixes

• Many bugs fixed!
• Memory leak issues fixed.
• Lock screen locks keys as well, and when orientation changed while locked the keys remain locked.
• Recurring appointments now displayed.
• Hardware buttons now working.
• Volume controls now working.
• Volume controls support stereo.
• Control panel applets have had a number of bug fixes. They still are only categorised correctly for English ROMS unless you use a translated terms file as described in the forums.
• Battery shouldn't show 255% any more but some devices for some reason do not report the correct % when asked and can take a while before they report it successfully.
• The speed that tasks load has been improved and should no longer cause freezes.
• Currently Running screen causing device to freeze has been fixed on most devices, but still is problematic with some devices in which case you need to switch off the screenshots option.
• Closing home sometimes caused it to freeze needing soft reset issue has been fixed.

To Download click HERE

Good news for WM(Windows Mobile) 6 users, New UI

Real good news for all Windows Mobile user, there will be a launch of New UI(user interface) by pointui.com tonight at 0 hours. Similar like iphone's this user interface puts 
shame on microsoft. And above all, the generous pointui.com gives it for free, but dont forget donate. To watch a video on youtube click this.

Imate 9502

Imate Ultimate series is one of the finest in windows mobile devices, all the device comes with XGA video output, 128mb ram and 256 rom. Imate 9502 of the Ultimate series is the leader of the all the phone because of it over-the-top specification. Most user(if not all) will like this PDA phone, it has all topnotch feature that includes high speed download-upload, 128 mb ram for multi task operation, GPS to assist you
on your travels, higher resolution VGA display and XGA TV Out
for presentations and Qualcomm 400mhz processor, that surely belittle other
PDA's inthe market. However it is seen that kaiser with same qualcomm chip
is not a good performer, we will have to wait and watch how this PPC
equipped with VGA display performs with Qualcomm chip.
It is expected to be launched by Jan 2008.

Specification:
*128 mb ram-256mb rom
* Windows Mobile 6 Professional
* 3.5G-HSUPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0
* Integrated GPS
* Dual-camera, 3 Megapixel in the back with flash
* 2.8” VGA (640x480) touch display
* XGA video output
*Full qwerty keypad
*Qualcomm 400mhz processor
Imate 9502 video

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