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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.

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.

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

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.

http://www.flickr.com/nokia/

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).

Here’s the link to the MobileViews MobileWiki page with links to websites discussed on Tom D’Auria’s IMI TechTalk radio program on KFNX 1100am in Phoenix, AZ.

MobileViews MobileWiki IMI Tech Talk 2006.08.13 Show Notes

The topic Tom and I focused on was running Microsoft Windows on Intel-based Apple Macs using virtualization technology.

According to the IEMobile Team blog, the next version of Internet Explorer Mobile for Windows Mobile will have a different user-agent string. Read their blog entry for details.

Detecting Internet Explorer Mobile’s User-Agent on the server

You’ve probably gotten those calls (or seen them in your Caller-ID history) with unidentified phone numbers. Some are from telemarketers. Others never say anything or leave a message. This interesting web site might be able to help you figure out who is/are behind those phone calls.

http://whocalled.us/

Note that this is a user-contributed information site and that the language is PG-13 sometimes.

Socket Communications, long known for providing early access to communications technologies on Windows Mobile devices, released a 802.11g WiFi SDIO card for Windows Mobile 5 devices.

Socket Communications Delivers Go Wi-Fi! P300 802.11g WLAN Card

Most current WiFi enabled Pocket PCs and Smartphones use the relatively slower 802.11b protocol.

Arne Hess over at the::unwired has a good review with lots of photos of the HTC MTeoR (aka Breeze) Smartphone running Windows Mobile 5.

Review: HTC MTeoR UTMS Windows Mobile Smartphone