According to Amazon, you’ll soon be able to read more than 725,000 ebooks on your Windows Phone 7 device using their Kindle software. They have a place to sign up for a notification when the app is released. Hit the link below to sign up!
Curious about how the new Zune 4.7 software works with Windows Phone 7? Check out the Engadget hands-on video above.
A handy new app has popped up on XDA forums for those of you who are experimenting with Google Voice: introducing Google Voice Mail for Windows Mobile. Google Visual Voicemail allows you to view and play your messages, mark them as read or unread and delete them. GVV is what the developer – Sl4sher – calls a semi-offline app, and at the moment you need to sync manually for now (in the pipe!).
This version of GVV (0.4) includes Google Voice dialing, so you can actually make or return calls via Google Voice. It also looks up numbers in your real contact list as you’re dialing, making the app much more usable.
If you’re Google Voice user, go download the Google Visual Voicemail for Windows Mobile at the XDA website.
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Microsoft’s Bing for Windows Mobile has been bumped up to version 5.1 and has some terrific new features! Key among the new goodies is real, full, voice prompted navigation, which might bump it above Google Maps in terms of functionality. They’ve also (re)added the ability to bring in address from your contact book (as if that wasn’t already there…?).
You can download the new version of Bing for Windows Mobile at m.bing.com/download. Report back if you like the new full navigation feature, I’ll be trying it out myself!
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Two new themes for Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.3 have popped up: Sketch (above) and GTX Sense (below). Intended to resemble an artist’s sketchpad the Sketch Theme (from XDA users DOC3000 & Warhammer83) includes several cool widgets, including an analog clock, black temperature, weather, sound profiles, notifications, lock, SPB Menu shortcut (elephant or tree drawing), and link backgrounds (note or sketch).
You can download the Sketch theme for Spb Mobile Shell from the XDA forums here.
GTX Sense is a port of the GTX theme from the HTC Sense UI, now made for Spb Mobile Shell. This theme, also from DOC3000, is not released yet, but you can keep track if the development of the GTX Sense Theme for Spb Mobile Shell here. Looks very cool
I just came across a little post on coolsmartphone.com about FPSEce: a PlayStation emulator for Windows mobile devices. FPSEce lets you run PlayStation games in the form of ISO files right off your memory card.
You can grab a free copy of FPSEce over at their website, where you’ll find some instructions too. They also have some info on PocketISO, an app you can use to compress your own game images. Here’s a video FPSEce PlaySstation emulator for Windows Mobile in action:
Grab a copy of FPSEce Playstation emulator for Windows Mobile here.
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Some new videos have surface showing off the Windows Phone 7 Office Hub and other cool apps and features. The first video below demonstrates the email capabilities, some calendaring, and how it syncs with the Live Tiles. The second video shows off the Windows Phone 7 Office Hub, where you can get quick access to recent docs, SharePoint files and other office goodies.
This all looks promising… clean, smooth, and pretty intuitive considering how much data they’re showing off. What do you think?
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Blade0rz from XDA has released a final version of his very neat IMDB app. Packed with features like user and external reviews, trailer support, trivia, quotes and more, this finger-friendly app is a must-have for any film buff or movie know-it-all.
The full feature list from XDA:
- Screen/Orientation Independent
- User Ratings/Reviews
- External Reviews
- Search Movies/TV/Video Games/Actors
- Finger-friendly interface
- DVD Covers
- Actor Headshots
- Trivia
- Quotes
- Photos
- Top 250
- Coming Soon List
- Videos/Trailers
- Goofs
- App-To-Date Support
- TV Episode Listings
- Parental Guide Info
- Movie Certificates
Read more and download about the IMDB Mobile for Windows Mobile devices at XDA. The app needs .NET CF 3.5 to run.
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I just saw a post on PocketNow about this cool, free app that lists all the tweets of people near you. If you’re a regular twitterer and want to know what’s happening around you, give Tweets Near Me a download and try it out. You can specify the distance from you and keywords to search for, and then Tweets Near Me shows you all the tweets that match
Download Tweets Near Me for free at the SynergeTech Solutions website.
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Mary Jo Foley has just posted that the first Windows Phone 7 devices out of the gate won’t have browser support for Silverlight. We already knew that Silverlight 4 won’t be ready in time for the Windows Phone 7 launch, but Microsoft had been distributing version 3 with SDKs anyway.
Well it turns out devices compiled for Windows Phone 7 written in Silverlight will run fine, but Microsoft doesn’t plan to support in-browser Silverlight plugins until a later release:
“In its first release, the Windows Phone browser does not support a browser plug-in model. We are evaluating this for future releases of Windows Phone. It is very straightforward to take an existing Silverlight browser based application and re-compile it to target the Windows Phone. Silverlight 4 has not yet been released. We will be sharing more details on Windows Phone support for Silverlight 4 once both products are in the market. Stay tuned.”
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Bet you forgot Microsoft would never look back at us poor 6.1 schmucks, eh? Not so!
Microsoft recently released Outlook Mobile Update 1.0, an update for Outlook Mobile on Windows Mobile 6.1 devices. This Outlook Mobile update introduces OTA update capability to Outlook and adds a bunch of Exchange Server 2010 capabilities. Some of the new features are:
- conversation view
- free/busy lookup
- SMS sync
- enhanced voicemail view
For people who need those features, that’s great, but for the rest of us the key improvement is this slick new UI, with a quick-actions bar, easy folder changing, and quick access to search, all features that come with Windows Mobile 6.5x.
This update will only run if you have an Exchange 2010 account. If you want it, download the Outlook Mobile Update 1.0 here.
Microsoft has just released Fusion Voicemail Plus 2.0, a pretty full-featured visual voicemail software for Windows Phones… and it’s free!
Even cooler – for those forced to work with companies that are stuck in the 90’s, is that Fusion allows you to receive faxes right on their mobiles. Some more info straight from Microsoft:
Fusion Voicemail Plus 2.0, a free, downloadable visual voicemail application by PhoneFusion, gives Windows Mobile phone users with wireless data and text messaging plans the ability to centralize all of their voicemail boxes and see—right on the device screen—a list of their voicemail messages. It also allows users to listen to voicemails directly from their phone.A new feature—exclusive to Windows Mobile users—is that for the first time mobile consumers can receive faxes right on their smartphone. Users can use their existing mobile number or register a new number to receive faxes.Another feature developed exclusively for Windows Mobile users is the ability to easily forward voicemails to any e-mail address or another Fusion Voicemail Plus mailbox. Fusion Voicemail Plus 2.0 also integrates with the user’s address book and expands the ability to use touch screen gestures to navigate through messages.
Fusion Voicemail Plus comes with many features, including:
You can get yourself a copy of Fusion Voicemail Plus 2.0 from Microsoft’s Total Access site
Panoramic Calc Pro offers more power, more features and the most accuracy than any other mobile calculator. With 10 powerful calculators and 10 additional Financial calculators, Calc Pro is by far the top choice to replace your default Windows Mobile calculator. With five calculator modes, five display options, and five skins, Calc Pro works the way You want. You can use Panoramic Calc Pro to perform any of the standard or advanced operations for which you would normally use a handheld calculator.
Back by popular demand, I will be posting about various Twitter applications for your Windows Mobile device!
Since my post about Twitter applications I’ve become even more of a Twitter addict. Check out my profile! I have well over 2000 updates now!
Still searching for a decent Facebook application for your WinMo phone? Well, in case you’ve missed this, some developers at XDA have recently supplied a rather awesome Facebook app.
Now, apparently this app is actually made by Microsoft themselves and has been stripped from the yet-to-be-released version of Windows Mobile - 6.5 (Build 21169). That being said, this app is in fact a pre-release version with ‘many known bugs’ (though, I couldn’t personally tell you what those bugs are as I’ve not actually run in to any myself, but see the list of known problems after the jump). I can tell you, I’ve been using it for a bit now and I really love it!
Click here for an overview and screenshots of this Facebook app from XDA!
PhoneAlarm is your complete communication center, never overlook a missed call, voicemail, email or SMS again. Plus 10 powerful phone profiles to control all your important settings.
PhoneAlarm is a Today screen plugin giving you total control over your Pocket PC phone. Never miss an important call, SMS or email again. Automatically switch profiles and quickly access Inbox, call history and control the state of bluetooth directly from the Today screen. It’s also optimised for one-handed and in-car use.
phoneAlarm was a winner in the Smartphone & PocketPC Magazine Best Software awards in both 2007 and 2008!
Intelligent Designs Group, LLC developer of cellular software has just announced the initial launch of their Total Control suite of software solutions covering Android, BlackBerry, iPhone – iPod Touch, and Windows Mobile.
With their Windows Mobile video surveillance software you can enjoy the ability to view & control live video streams from supported IP cameras and video encoders. Over 15 manufacturers and 170+ models are supported as well as direct connections with your device. No 3rd party servers are involved and there are no monthly or annual subscriptions.
Check out the above video for more information or head on over to their site for a free trial version!
Purely touchscreen devices such as the Touch Diamond and the new Touch Diamond2 rely solely on a good onscreen keyboard.
The Touch Diamond’s on screen keyboard (available in T9, SureType, and QWERTY) is quite usable as an alternative to a hardware keyboard. Well, it’s no surprise that the new Touch Diamond2’s on screen keyboard has been even more improved over the native WinMo built in onscreen keyboard! Check out the new images of the HTC Touch Diamond2’s keyboard after the jump – elongated space bar, smaller number function key, d-pad button inclusion. Sweet!
Now this is cool! BOMGAR helps you virtualize your IT helpdesk with Windows Mobile remote control software!
A virtualized IT helpdesk enables you to achieve greater support staff utilization and provide assistance to all of your end users – wherever they are from wherever you are. Support virtualization is especially important for your mobile workers, a group that often gets left out in the cold in a traditional remote support environment. Your mobile workforce contains some of your most productive employees. Whether they’re high-octane, front line sales reps or travelling executives, your people need your support when they’re on the road. That’s why Bomgar™ enables you to gain remote desktop control of Windows Mobile™ systems from Windows, Mac, or Linux without any pre-installed software client.
Check after the jump for screenshots and where to find this great software!
BOMGAR’s Windows Mobile remote control software (with pics!)
Looking to expand your vocabulary? Want to bring out the intellectual in you? Word of the Day 2009 by Enigma Games promises to do just that.
Key Features:
- A different word every day
- Hand picked so that you are provided with only the most practical words
The software is very simple – just as its title states. If this is what you’re looking for, go ahead and download it right here. And if you’re curious, here’s a selling point: it’s only $2.95! What have you got to lose?
