Today i’d like to share my impressions about the upcoming release of windows mobile 6.5. The first devices with wm 6.5 preinstalled should be available by the end of this year. OSNN.NET posted an interesting hands-on preview for windows mobile 6.5, where you can check out the new features and first impressions based on a leaked beta rom. Windows Mobile 6.5 start menu While the author of the article... 

Only a few years ago i couldn’t imagine that i could be ever surfing the net comfortably on my mobile device. But then apple launched the IPhone and set a new standard for mobile surfing and user interface with their safari browser. Soon afterwards the first HTC devices like the touch diamond emerged preinstalled with the newest opera mobile versions, but sadly my device (Xda Orbit 2) didn’t... 

When palm showed of their new device on the consumer electronics show in january i was very impressed. After viewing the key notes and checking out all new features of the palm pre i could even imagine switching from windows mobile to the new palm device and webOS, because windows mobile has stalled for the past few years, and microsoft wasn’t able to introduce any significant enhancements for... 

I didn’t realise that there was a native google maps application for windows mobile, until i reviewed the google mobile app which showed a lot of app shortcuts. Only after trying out some of them i noticed that there was a link to a native google maps app. So i installed it, started it up, and here we go with the review of google maps for windows mobile. The startup screen of google maps will... 

This is another review of an essential windows mobile today plugin for business user. We are going to take a deeper look into calendar plus, which enhances the standard calendar view on the today screen. I never understood why microsoft decided to give you only very limited options for the upcoming appointments on the today screen. On windows mobile 6.1 you can only decide if you want to see the next... 

Google is definitely pushing their mobile apps output recently. The new gmail app for android devices and the iphone is looking very promising. Since there hasn’t been any announcement for an windows mobile version yet, we have to be patient. But im hoping that there will be an opera mobile optimized version of gmail soon. In the meantime let’s take a look at the google mobile app for windows... 

Every windows mobile user knows this situation: you got a new device and now you have to transfer all the data from your old smartphone to the new one. There are a lot of backup applications out there, for example sprite backup, which provide different features for restoring system backups to new devices with newer rom versions. But those restore operations are never perfect on a completely new device,... 

One of my favourite utilities i’m using for some years now is called Batti. The standard wm battery indicator doesn’t really show any details about the battery status. Depending on the wm device the icon shows the status in 25% steps or even bigger. I want to know the status of the battery in much more detail, and i want to see it on every screen. This is where Batti can help out. Batti... 

Recently google released their free youtube application for windows mobile devices. Let’s take a closer look at this software, which i tested using my xda orbit 2 and the official windows mobile 6.1 rom. A lot of windows mobile users have problems with viewing flash content, because most browsers don’t support them. There are some hacks out there, but they never worked for me. Even the... 

We have to give apple credit for actually introducing a touch screen device to the mass market. In the pre-iphone era you could primarily find either geeks or business users working with touchscreen/stylus devices. There wasn’t any average mobile phone user interested in that kind of devices. But apple did the seemingly impossible: they developed a really innovative product, which shaked the...