I’m not a Blackberry user. So, I was quickly reading through MSNBC’s Gary Krakow’s review of the new Blackberry Pearl from T-Mobile until I hit this sentence in his review: Aside from its size, Pearl’s best new feature is its revolutionary pointing device — a tiny, full-function trackball. A trackball makes so much sense. Every smartphone needs one for navigation. And, every phone peripheral maker should add one to their Bluetooth or Infrared wireless keyboard.
Author: todd
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Windows Mobile 2003 Support Lifecycle
Microsoft’s Jason Langridge has a brief blog item about the support life cycle for Windows Mobile 2003 devices.
Windows Mobile Support Lifecycle
He says that official mainstream support for Windows Mobile 2003 ends in mid-2009. Of course, as Jason points out in his blog, everything really depends on the hardware manufacturer. Case in point: HP released the popular iPaq 2215 in 2003. It was a feature rich device in a nice small form factor. However, HP never provided an upgrade path from Windows Mobile 2003 to 2003 Second Edition (let alone Windows Mobile 5).
According to the software and drivers downloads page for the iPaq 2210/2215, there were three patches/utilities released for it in 2005 and nothing in 2006. So, it is pretty safe to say that this particular model had about 2.5 years of firmware support (mid-2003 to end-of-2005).
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Sprint Treo 700wx Pocket PC Phone Edition
Palm’s announcement for the Windows Mobile 5 based Treo 700wx Pocket PC Phone Edition for use on the Sprint PCS network includes a couple of interesting offers such as a free 1GB memory card, free shipping, and a $125 trade-in for Treo 650 owners. The Treo 700wx sells for $499.
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Nintendo DS MP3 Player
Gizmodo reports on the sighting of a Nintendo DS MP3 player option that will be in available in Europe soon.
The Mysterious Nintendo DS MP3 Player
MP3 audio files are stored on a SD card (up to 2GB). Using Apple’s estimate of 1,000 songs on their 4GB iPod nano, the Nintendo DS option could store up to 500 songs when using a 2GB SD card.
There also an earlier reference to a Nintendo DS Opera Web Browser cartridge.
This links to a YouTube video review of the Opera Browser cartridge available in Japan.
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i-Mate Provides EDGE Indicator for K-JAM Pocket PC Phone Edition
i-Mate announced the availability of a free utility for their K-JAM Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Phone Edition that provides an indicator for whether a GPRS or higher speed EDGE network is available. A G is displayed in the status bar if a GPRS network is available and an E is displayed if EDGE is available. The free utility is available as a CAB file. You can find it in the K-JAM support area of…
I just tried it on my K-JAM and found a E displayed indicating EDGE network availability.
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Yahoo! Go now supports Windows Mobile Pocket PCs and Smartphones
Yahoo!’s mobile synchronization service moved beyond its Nokia-only roots and now supports Microsoft Windows Mobile based Pocket PC Phone Edition and Smartphone devices.
It’s too bad that the cameraphone photo sync feature syncs with Yahoo! Photos but not with its other web photo-property Flickr.