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.
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.
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.
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.
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 product landscape. The 416MHz Dell Axim X51 is currently $224 and the HP iPAQ rx1955 is $299.99.
According to the Flickr news blog, the new Nokia N Series phones have a Flickr upload application built-in. The Flickr site below provides the details.
The apparent difference between using this built-in application and emailing the photo to Flickr is that the application allows photographs to be uploaded at its full resolution. Some phone email applications (including mine) limits emailed photographs to 640×480 (0.33 megapixels).