Windows Mobile News, Reviews and How-Tos
Fast and powerful touch-friendly application launcher with unique features like touch protection and gesture controlled sliding effects.
Displays Flash card, memory and battery, SMS, email, Missed calls icons with fast access to the items. Elecont Launcher has multiple layout modes including one-line mode with small icons.
Review: Elecont Launcher including screenshots and a free trial link
Are you like me – lots of friends still living in the dumb-phone dark ages? There you are, sitting in front of your computer sending out a few emails to all your smartphone buddies when POW! – you run into the old this-buddy-doesn’t-have-email-on-his-phone problem!
Well, don’t panic. If you know your friends’ phone number, and you know what carrier they’re with… you can send emails to right to their cell phones right from your email program! And it arrives to their phone as an SMS!
Find out how to do this right here! Plenty of carrier emails listed.
There’s almost nothing I can say about this “luxury” phone that you won’t already be thinking when you hear it’s description.
Gresso’s Avantgarde Skeleton is a “skeleton” phone… and what does that mean? Well, you can see it’s circuitry through the back of the phone. And for $5000 each, what else could this phone possibly offer?
Gresso allows no compromises between luxury and functionality. This model Royal White Diamonds is destinated for those who have achieved everything and are accustomed to make great demands of life. The gadget is provided with Windows Mobile 6 Standard, 2 Gb memory, SMS/MMS/e-mail, Internet explorer, Outlook, WAP 2.0, GPRS, Bluetooth, USB-port, mini-USB, PC Synchronization, voice recorder, MP3-player, 2 MP camera.
If you find yourself making great demands of life, you should definitely have one of these. Hurry, though, they’ve only made 15 of them.
Read the rest of the phone’s description right here
Late last year, Papa John’s pizza restaurant launched a mobile pizza-ordering service which allows customers to order pizzas via SMS text message, widgets, or online. Reportedly, they have already seen $1 million dollars in revenue from these endeavors – that’s impressive!
Recently, Papa John’s mobile ordering has become so popular that they have launched a mobile-optimized size from which to order. Richard Wise, vice president of operations at wiseOutlook, the company that developed Papa John’s mobile ordering service, had this to say:
As these devices are getting more powerful browsers, we’re able to take advantage and offer upgraded features and better designs.
Watch out for Papa John’s planned mobile advertising push initiative soon — there might be some great deals on yummy, yummy pizza!
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Pocketnow has posted the above video of their software tour of the AT&T Fuze. According to them, the Fuze comes with a lot of extra trial-ware games and doesn’t come with Windows Live or Windows Live Messenger. Hrmm. That’s no good! But it does save a bit of grace, apparently, in that it includes an SMS based IM client that does log in to AIM, Y!, and MSN.
Be sure to check out the above video for the full run down of the AT&T Fuze’s software!
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It’s time for the second edition of WindowsMobile Cool’s sister site round up featuring the best of this week at BlackBerry Cool, the voice of the BlackBerry community!
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When you’ve got a Windows Mobile phone, telephone calls aren’t the only way to keep in touch with your friends, family and colleagues. Your Windows Mobile device offers many powerful text-messaging features! But if you’re anything like me, you barely scratch the surface of texting functions.
This Windows Mobile guide will show you how to get the most out of your text messaging and help you broaden your communication options!
How-to: The Complete Guide to Text Messaging
PDAStreet has discovered that Apple has released version 1.1.4 of the firmware for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and even better, the phones stay jailbroken after the update.
The update weighs in at a hefty 162 MB, but is supposed to be comprised mostly of bug fixes. Users have reported that some bugs related to SMS, Bluetooth, and email were indeed repaired, but a full list of fixes is unavailable. Also of note, while the phones remain jailbroken, unlocked phone were reverted to their original locked state, so be careful.