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A recent report published by comScore shows the top five mobile manufacturers for mobile subscribers and not only is there no sign of Windows Mobile devices or Windows Phones, but Apple, HTC and other Android device makers are nowhere to be found. Moreover, feature phones have 4 of the top 5 spots, with BlackBerry being the only smartphone maker to crack that list.

Samsung, Motorola, LG, RIM and Nokia round out the top 5 OEMs for the first quarter of 2010.

The report found that SMS still reigns supreme in mobile content, with 63.7 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers using text messaging on their mobile device, up a hair from last quarter. Mobile web browsing was used by 30.1% of U.S. mobile subscribers (up 2.6 percent), while subscribers who used downloaded applications made up 28.6% of the mobile audience (also up 2.6 percentage points).

Access of social networking sites or blogs continued to increase, posting gains of 2.8 percentage points to 18.7 percent of mobile subscribers, showing the most improvement over any other type of mobile content.

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Here is another app from XDA called PPC Configurator that allows you to tweak your Windows Phone without having to hack through the registry. Man, these guys are helpful!

PPC Configurator features:

• SIP Configurator which allows you to select which of the on screen keyboards are active and shown in the list to choose the SIP from.
• SMS Configurator allows you to easily switch between threaded and classic text message display, as well as enable or disable the SMS Sent Notification.
• SIM Contact Configurator for enabling or disabling the ability to show Contacts from SIM card.
• Calendar Configurator for enabling Lunar Calendar.
• Lock Configurator for enabling Auto Lock on the device.

Very useful, especially the SIP Configurator – somehow my Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 always switches over to the symbol pad when I’m not looking…

Microsoft has posted a list of no-no’s for the Mobile Marketplace; 12 items that will get a developer’s app rejected or pulled from their app store.

Among the more interesting things, some of which we knew before:

• no competing app stores (i.e. Mobihand can’t distribute a WinMo app client through the Marketplace)
• no VOIP over carriers’ networks, although no mention of WiFi
• nothing that changes the default dialer, SMS, or MMS interface (interesting…)
• no changing the default browser, search client, or media player “on the device” (does this mean beloved apps like CorePlayer or PocketMusic? New browsers like Skyfire and Opera? I can’t imagine…)

This list really begs more questions than it answers and will surely be followed up by a more comprehensive distributor’s agreement of some kind. See the full list of faux-pas after the jump.

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OneTouch Solutions has just released OneDialer, a fully featured Google Voice dialer, SMS and Visual Voicemail client. The features list looks like this:

• SSL encrypted communications.
• It’s fast!
• SMS and voicemail notifications.
• Native dialer interception.
• Use your own contacts for dialing and SMS. NOW VERY FAST!
• Threaded SMS conversations.
• Visual Voicemail with transcripts.
• Audio voicemail streamed directly from Google.
• Voicemail and SMS management. Archive, delete, mark as read, reply, and callback from the client.
• Option for silent notifications.
• Highly configurable.

Looks like a handy application; give it a download from OneDialer’s website.

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!

So, what’s awesome this week on BlackBerryCool?