Android Already Facing Security Concerns

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The week-old Android operating system that powers T-Mobile’s G1 smartphone is off to a rough start as a team of experts from ISE have identified and successfully exploited a security vulnerability on the device. The vulnerability is located in one of the 80 open source packages assembled by Google for Android. Further, the vulnerability is [...]

Customize the New Sliding Panel Home Screen on Windows Mobile 6.1

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I’m sure that everyone with a Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard (non-touch screen) device has been busy playing with the new sliding panel home screen. The question routinely comes up on how to modify the panels and their order as well as add new panels. The answer was easy – simply edit the corresponding xml and [...]

The New HP iPAQ Voice Messenger Smartphone – Take 2

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Jack Cook posted about a new voice messenger device from HP earlier today. What’s interesting to me, is that HP might have learned from their past mistakes on this device. The original Voice Messenger device from HP was a horrible unit with poor screen, low memory, and no real appeal or wow factor to speak [...]

Change the Maximum Size for Ringtones

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I’ve never had a problem loading my ringtones onto my Windows Mobile devices. Typically I use files that a small and sharp so they can easily grab your attention. Recently I was point to some free ringtones being offered by Cisco (Thanks Clinton!) and I thought I would give them a try. Only problem was [...]

Google Says "No App For You!" with Remote Kill Switch

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Just yesterday I posted about Matt Miller’s G1 Android phone review (you really should read it if you haven’t already) and was pretty surprised to see Bryan’s comment about the inclusion of an application kill switch by Google. An application kill switch isn’t a bad thing, in and of itself. I spend a lot of [...]

Matt Miller Looks at the T-Mobile G1 Google Android Smartphone

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I’m certain that you’ve read and heard a thing or two about Google’s new Mobile operating system – Android, unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last while. Google and T-Mobile recently made things official with a kick-off party in New York and some devices have started to ship to customers. Matt Miller [...]

Windows Mobile on an iPhone – Why?

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A number of web sites recently posted about a new video that appeared to show an Apple iPhone dual booting Windows Mobile with Apple’s OS-X for the iPhone. A lot of people seemed to get excited at the thought of running both operating systems on the iPhone hardware. As it turns out, the video is [...]

Palm’s Treo Pro Reviewed

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A couple weeks ago, Palm began shipping their latest Windows Mobile Smartphone – the Treo Pro. I was fortunate enough to have a chance to play with this device prior to it’s release. I’m not going to review the device here – plenty of sites have already done that. I will, however, share a couple [...]

Bad News on the No Reboot Challenge

Back on August 19th I kicked off the “No Reboot Challenge” by inviting others to join me in not rebooting or forcefully stopping any applications on their Windows Mobile devices. There’s been a number of sites that joined in and took the challenge to their readers. Sadly, after 51 days my BlackJack II decided it [...]

Free Halloween Ringtones From Microsoft

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It’s getting close to Halloween and why decorate just your house when you can outfit your smartphone as well. Microsoft has released a collection of Halloween themed ringtones and wallpapers. I didn’t care to much for the wallpapers, but the ringtones are actually pretty good. Check them out for yourself – they’re all free to [...]