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Verizon Releases Firmware Update for XV6700…Finally!

Verizon has finally released its update to the UTStarcom smartphone XV6700. The nearly 40 MB download will zap your current install so back everything up as there is no way to restore your old ROM install. For the most part, many are reporting easy without-a-hitch installs; however, one comment we read turned their […]

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Eurosoft’s Got You Under The Gun With A ClayGun Special

If you’re into shooter games more of the Galaxian days of video games than the Doom of today, then you may be interested in ClayGun. Makers Eurosoft calls it a “score-based shooting game,” which, “consists of six levels you should pass through to defeat the evil SOB. Your goal is to accomplish it […]

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More Fun with Windows Mobile 5.0

Now that I’m back from my business trip, I tried to re-install Pocket Informant onto my device that decided to crap out on me earlier this week. When I did, the joys of Microsoft’s new way have handling memory bit me in the arse.
I had about 5 MB left for program storage. […]

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The Joys of Windows Mobile 5.0

I often wonder while resetting my Pocket PC how in its fifth generation Windows CE is still so unstable. Just this morning, I wake up at 4:00 a.m. to go off to work and I pick up my UTStarcom XV6700 out of its cradle and there it says on the Today screen “Please insert […]

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Palm Treo 700w Update: Nice, But Bumpy

With much excitement, the world found out with glee that Verizon and Palm had released an update to the Treo 700w last week. Version 1.10 was packed with a bunch of new features, according to Palm, with the most anticipated one being the Messaging & Security Feature Pack (MSFP). This long awaited feature […]

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Spb Diary Gets Bumped Up To 1.7.5

I use Spb Pocket Diary daily and can’t live without it. It is a must have for any PocketPC and now it’s been updated to 1.7.5. With better integration with Spb’s flagship product, Pocket Plus, vertical tabs, improved synthesis with the number one PIM software for the Pocket PC, Pocket Informant (which itself […]

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Free Tetris Clone for your PocketPC

I’ve always enjoyed Tetris since it first game out. Who would have thought one could waste so much time with just falling blocks? Oh ya, Pong use to waste a lot of my time, too. :)
Welp, now you can get the latest version of Kevtris, from Caywen. It supports Windows Mobile 5, […]

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Review: UTStarcom XV6700


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Spb Diary Sees New Life

Dear Diary,
I wish you would be able to handle being installed on storage cards more gracefully in Windows Mobile 5.0 as well as stop letting that Bluetooth icon disappear. It’d be nice if birthdays didn’t show a day late and failed voice notes would delete automatically. If you could only load notes […]

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Mozilla for PocketPC Gets New Clothes

I wasn’t too impressed with the last release of Minimo (Miniature Mozilla,) the open source browser for Pocket PCs, so I don’t know if I’m ready to dabble with the latest version that just turned lucky 013. But if you’re into a new interface that includes a HomeBase sidebar, download support, tighter support for […]

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Enter Text Faster With TenGO’s New SIP for Windows Mobile

I’m always looking for a better way to enter text into my Pocket PC. Since the days of my Casio Cassiopeia and Palm Pilot, I thirst for a near perfect way to enter E’s, 8’s, S’s, and many other characters that seem to get mixed up with other things from the alpha beta soup […]

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Resco Brings Back Christmas

Resco, makers of some excellent Pocket PC software, is bringing Christmas back and giving you some sweet deals on its software.  For one week only, you can take off 30% the cover price of such titles as Resco Pocket Radio, Sudoku, Diamonds, and my favorite file explorer, Explorer 2005. 

This is a SvenOnTech and Lockergnome […]

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Sprite Backup Updated For Windows Mobile 5.0

Sprite has just updated its excellent backup utility to run on Windows Mobile 5.0 devices.
With two releases made available today, one for VGA and one for QVGA PDAs, you can now back up your entire Pocket PC with confidence once again!

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LA Cops To Ticket Speeders With Pocket PCs

You know, technology ain’t always a good thing for us. The Los Angeles Police Department can’t really beat speeders like they used to, so now they just want to get on to more fun things like hanging at Krispy Kreme. (Come on, watchin’ the doughnuts being made is darned cool!)

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A Week With the XV6700

We’ve had the UTStarcom X6700 for a week now and since our first post, things have bettered. First thing we can tell you that is if you’re running legacy applications written for anything but Windows Mobile 5.0, you may find trouble like we did. It’s that trouble that made us make the comment, […]

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Opera Arrives To The Pocket PC

Weighing in at nearly 5MB, Opera 8.5 for Pocket PC 2003 and Windows Mobile 5.0 is here. But be warned, it is a beta and it does not allow you to install it anywhere but the Program Files directory. So if you’re low on room on your device, this won’t be the way to go. […]

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Add Instant SMS or Dial to Your Today Screen

One the most powerful features of Windows Mobile (or Pocket PC…or Windows CE) is the Today screen. You can go nuts with adding a bunch of plug-ins to the point of making it useless but if you’re careful not to abuse the screen, you’ll be mighty productive. VJPhoneTools understands that concept and has […]

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Do Podcasts on Your PocketPC With Ease

If you don’t have an iPod (gasp!) yet you still want to join in the podcast revolution, then there is good news for you. No, Steve Jobs isn’t giving away iPods for you poor saps, but if you have a Pocket PC, you can get these podcasts on them as if it was an […]

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Treo 700w Manual Give All the Info You Need to Know

The FCC’s at it again and this time it’s giving the Palm public a full — and complete — look at the upcoming Verizon Treo 700w. The manual details many of the features of the next generation Palm including a nice screen capture of the Today screen. Palm has done a nice job […]

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Skype for PocketPC Updated

If you’re a huge Skype user and have a Pocket PC with networking capabilities, then you’re going to dig the updated version