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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.

Nintendo DS Browser Review

This links to a YouTube video review of the Opera Browser cartridge available in Japan.
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September 4, 2006
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…

http://clubimage.com/

I just tried it on my K-JAM and found a E displayed indicating EDGE network availability.
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August 31, 2006
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.

Yahoo! Go Mobile

It’s too bad that the cameraphone photo sync feature syncs with Yahoo! Photos but not with its other web photo-property Flickr.
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August 30, 2006
Synchronica Mobile Manager lets Windows Mobile phones scream for help
CNET’s News.com reports on Synchronica’s Mobile Manager that can remotely make a Windows Mobile-based handset emit an “annoying and embarrassing high-pitched wail,” so it can be found after it has been stolen or misplaced.

Stolen smart phones scream to be found
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August 30, 2006
MSNBC’s Krakow Calls Nokia e62 “Best Smartphone Ever”
MSNBC’s Gary Krakow says the new quad-band GSM Nokia e62 is the best smartphone ever. The camera-less phone has a QWERTY thumb keyboard and looks like a Motorola Q or stretched out Blackberry. Krakow strikes me as platform agnostic based on past reviews. So, I’m taking his opinion at face value. I wonder, though, how well the phone syncs contacts and calendar data with, say, Microsoft Outlook or Apple’s iCal. The article also doesn’t mention how well its web browser works (probably Opera) or if it has an RSS feed reader.
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August 23, 2006
Upgrade an HP iPAQ 2215?
Reader I.I.B. asks: I wish to know if my ipaq 2215 can upgrade to windows mobile 5.0?? or windows mobile 2003 2nd Edition????

Unfortunately, HP did not provide any kind of upgrade path for the iPAQ 2215 Pocket PC. However, current generation Pocket PCs (without phone capability) are reasonably priced as they slowly disappear from the productÂ landscape. The 416MHz Dell Axim X51 is currently $224 and the HP iPAQ rx1955 is $299.99.
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August 22, 2006