Wendong’s Smart Phone Weblog

Via Jason Langridge’s WebLog
How to make Windows Mobile more like Windows

My favorite is SimpleOS, the one with Gnome and KDE-inspired backgrounds.

This site provides a lot of links:
http://mobile.surrealnetworks.com

Here is the link for T-Mobile Dash:
Applications for Dash

T-Mobile now provides Windows Mobile 6 update for Dash and MDA device. After updating you will need a little patience for the first boot up and wait for the “Cool Boot Config” screen for some final configuration. Other than that the firmware update itself is very smooth and takes only a few minutes.

Windows Mobile 6 Product Reference Guide [PDF, 11.5MB] is a good document for complete feature list. Besides the HTML email support and fixes of a few annoying bugs, here are a few differences I noticed immediately:

- Windows Live services (Live Mail and Live Messenger) are more integrated in. When you launched IE, the default page is a Live search page
- Live Search for Mobile application is pre-loaded
- Microsoft Office Mobile and Voice Command are included.

Silverlight on Windows Mobile

Kevin Daly: Silverlight for Windows Mobile - Some items from my wish list

In the past month or so there are a few mobile news interested me but I did not get the chance to write about it. So I just listed them here just in case one day I want to find the links.

1. Nokia’s free remote device access service

Nokia offered a free remote device access service. For now it focuses on S60 3rd Edition devices. Matt Croydon has a nice review with screenshots.

2. Nokia’s S60 Widget

Powered by Web Run-Time, you can write widgets for S60 devices using standards-based Web technologies such as HTML, CSS, AJAX (JavaScript). Here is an audiocast on this topic.

Microsoft is working on similar stuff - Windows Gadgets on Windows Mobile handsets.

3. Microsoft Deepfish

Microsoft Deepfish offers you full desktop browser experience on your Windows Mobile phone. I did not get the chance to download it and try it myself. MobilityToday has a video review.

Is iPhone the first one offers this kind of full mobile browser experience? No. It is the S60 Browser. The best feature of S60 Browser is not only full web experience, but also a paragraph of text will always perfectly fit in full screen width when you zoom in to it. So you do not have to pan it left and right to read it. From the MobilityToday video, it seems that it is not the case for Deepfish. But I did use it myself so I am not 100% sure.

The Adobe PDF Reader is painful to use on my E61 because it is almost impossible to fit a block of text to the screen width. This tiny little thing ruins the entire user experience.

4. Palm goes Linux

No. It is not the PalmSource - ACCESS Linux Platform. It is the Palm hardware company, which was saved by Treo handsets from HandSpring. The Palm - HandSpring - PalmOne - PalmSource - Palm story is much simpler than AT&T - … - AT&T Wireless - Cingular - at&t one.

Anyway, Palm officially announced that it will deliver a new mobile Linux platform combined with Palm OS Garnet technology on new products later this year.