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Did Steve Ballmer Hint That There Is a SmartZunePhone on the Horizon?

Tari Akpodiete — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:42:14 -0500

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was recently interviewed by Martin Veitch, editor for CIO.com directly after his keynote speech at Microsoft's London conference “Technologies to Change Your Business: How Customers Are Implementing Tomorrow’s Strategies Today”.

One statement made by Ballmer might be of extreme interest for Windows Mobile enthusiasts:

Another 3D Arkanoid clone, Arkanoi3D released

Werner Ruotsalainen — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:24:16 -0500

You may still remember my roundup of 3D Arkanoid titles (if you haven’t read it, do it now; note that the chart has bad HTML markup, which will soon be fixed). A brand new 3D Arkanoid clone, Arkanoi3D has just been released for both touchscreen-enabled Pocket PC’s and touchscreen-less MS Smartphones (the latter even including 176*220 ones).

Multiplatform review: new vertical scroller Dragon Bird

Werner Ruotsalainen — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:21:31 -0500

U Mobile Game have just released a brand new vertical scroller shooter Dragon Bird for both Windows Mobile (both Pocket PC and Smartphone) and Symbian (both S60v3 and UIQ3).

Major multimedia article updates!

Werner Ruotsalainen — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:38:28 -0500

I've updated the following tutorials / bibles:

The Multiplatform Lyrics Bible (info on the just-added lyrics-displaying capabilities of Conduits Pocket Player 3.7)

The Multiplatform Podcasting / Podcatching Bible

Werner Ruotsalainen — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:18:15 -0500

Listening to or watching podcasts is great fun. If you think they are boring, meaningless or can’t entertain you during, say, a long fight, you’re wrong. For example, watching all the clips of X-Play, played back on my VGA HP iPAQ 214 (thanks to Smartphone & PPCMag / iPhone Life’s Hal Goldstein for the gift!) could entertain me for long-long hours.

The Definitive Multiplatform Multimedia Metatag & Library Tutorial & Bible

Werner Ruotsalainen — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:22:23 -0500

Compared to the capabilities of desktop multimedia players (see for example the excellent WMP vs Winamp vs iTunes vs MediaMonkey for more info on their capabilities), the mobile ones certainly lack when it comes to fetching, searching for, editing, storing and, in several cases, even accessing / displaying different kinds (album art and/or other images; textual genre / composer / title etc. info; lyrics etc.) of information in audio files.

The Multiplatform Lyrics Bible

Werner Ruotsalainen — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:06:58 -0500

Along with tags and cover arts, lyrics are also highly sought-for and widely used metadata, particularly with non-English folks who would like to know the lyrics of the songs they listen to.

A true web camera app for Windows Mobile and Symbian: OctroVideo

Werner Ruotsalainen — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:33:16 -0500

In my last Bible of Windows Mobile, Symbian and Blackberry webcamera applications directly usable in desktop messengers like Live Messenger, I haven’t elaborated on the apps that are a bit different: they let for using your camera-equipped handset as a camera for your messaging application running on your desktop PC (connected to your handset). OctroVideo is radically different: it allows for your handset to be used as a Web camera in itself, without running any external application.

At last: File transfer in WM 6.1 RDP client

Werner Ruotsalainen — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:21:22 -0500

As has been explained in the Remote Desktop Control Bible, in the pre-WM6.1 days, Windows Mobile was clearly worse than WindowsCE .NET running on clamshell devices in that the Remote Desktop Mobile client couldn’t make any file transfer in the former, while it could do in the latter (for years).

Legendary game Another World (& Flashback) released for Windows Mobile – for free! A MUST!

Werner Ruotsalainen — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:23:46 -0500

Many of you may already have heard of Another World (also known as Out of this World in the US and Outer World in Japan; Wiki page HERE; Abandonia page HERE), which was one of the best vector-graphic action-adventure games back in 1991-1992.