4Pinball - Version 1.51

Umer — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:45:54 +0000

4Pinball takes pinball on the Pocket PC to new levels with fast, smooth, vertically scrolling hi-colour tables, much larger than the screen area of your PPC. This addictive and highly challenging game is possibly the most fun you’ll have on your Pocket PC.

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Moonfighter [WM 5.0 - Pocket PC] - Version 1.00.00

Umer — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:43:16 +0000

Moonfighter is a fun gravity-based shoot-em-up that challenges players to pilot their spacecraft around lunar terrains and blast aliens whilst collecting energy spheres to extend their mission time. Players can progress through thousands of Moonfighter levels, each one offering more challenging terrains and more enemy attacks.

Moonfighter offers three types of alien enemies: Turrets - static units placed at strategic points around the terrain; Spiderbots - walking units that climb the cavern walls and Saucerbots - anti-gravity platforms that can float around. Enemy attacks take the form of Guns - unguided laser bolts with unlimited range; Missiles - medium range guided torpedoes; and G-weapons - short range gravity distortion fields that either attract or repel your craft. As players fly around the alien terrains they will encounter narrow valleys, lunar peaks, and underground caverns many of which are protected by heavy-duty blast doors.

Pilot your Moonfighter through enemy terrains
Blast alien enemies whilst avoiding their weapons
Full ‘Flight School’ tutorial and ‘Training Missions’
Collect energy spheres to prolong your mission
Thousands of levels to play!

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Runes - Version 1.20

Umer — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:35:22 +0000

The game Runes is an amazingly simple and addictive brainteaser which features a wide variety of stone shapes and colors plus several game levels and options to suit various tastes and abilities.

The playing field consists of a board containing 64 rune stones and a store of 8 stones. The goal of the game is to create rows or columns of three or more identical rune stones by picking a matching stone from the store.

Runes Features

* 2 modes of playing - Relax and Timed
* 3 difficulty levels - Easy, Mid and Hard
* Built in High Score table - different for each difficulty level and each playing mode
* Pen play is enabled
* Amazing graphic design
* Excellent sound

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New Hope in Windows Mobile Web Browsing

Umer — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:00:23 +0000

There are several new and upcoming browsers which show a lot of promise. To me, the gold standard (at least in terms of what’s available in the here and now) of mobile web browsers is Apple’s Safari application which runs on the iPhone and iPod touch. Here’s hoping that at least one of these new WM browsers can deliver nearly as well as Safari.

KeyPlus [WM Pocket PC] - Version 2.1

Umer — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:51:45 +0000

An innovative password manager packed with unique features and great value. It securely stores sensitive data such as password, credit card information, and much more. A Windows desktop companion is included.

KeyPlus is the ultimate solution for secure information storage on Windows PCs, Palm OS devices and Window Mobile Pocket PC devices (Windows Mobile Smartphone version and Symbian OS version coming soon). You can use KeyPlus to securely store the following information:

Usernames and passwords
Credit card and bank account information
Confidential contact lists
Memberships, PIN numbers, and much more

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Microsoft looking for ways to converge Windows Mobile, Zune

Umer — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:33:35 +0000

Microsoft appears to be looking for new ways to tie Windows Mobile phones and Zune media players together, although a Zune phone remains unlikely. Over the weekend, Microsoft developer “Mel” asked an open question on the Windows Mobile blog: “What are some ways the Zune player and a Windows Mobile device can work better together?” Since then, more than 50 commenters have suggested ways that Microsoft might converge the two devices. The most common idea is to essentially replace the Windows Media Player on Windows Mobile devices with Zune software. “I proposed that WMP should be fazed out in favor of a combined WMP/Zune player which will synch with both Windows Media AND Zune, instead of having to have two separate apps with two different libraries for each device,” wrote one commenter using the name Colin Walker.

Soccer Pinball [Smartphone] - Version 1.1

Umer — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:28:16 +0000

GOAL! Break through the opponents defenses and score in this fast phased soccer pinball action. Advanced graphics, created with DieselEngine®.

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Windows Live Mobile Developer Program updated

Umer — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:54:39 +0000

Last week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft launched a new version of its Windows Live Mobile Developer Program, enabling developers to create mobile versions of Windows Live services designed for virtually any mobile phone, independent of its OS. According to Microsoft, updates include new Mobile Services Protocol features and a new SDK enabling development of mobile versions of Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Spaces applications. Debuted two years ago, the Windows Live Mobile Developer Program now boasts more than 70 independent software vendor partners creating apps for deployment across more than 800 Windows Live for Mobile-equipped handsets.

Windows Mobile 6 wins GSMA award for Enterprise

Umer — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:17:35 +0000

It may not be as intuitive or attractive as OS X on the iPhone, it may not be as new and zeitgeist as Android, but someone has still seen fit to laud Windows Mobile: version 6 of the mobile OS this week won the GSM Association’s 2008 award for “Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service“.

“A leading platform for business owing to the ease of integration with Microsoft Exchange infrastructure. For the SMB market in particular, Windows Mobile 6 is an attractive proposition” GSM Association judge’s comments

A cynical man, woman or child might note that, since Microsoft Exchange is also made by, well, Microsoft, it would be both a surprise and non-inconsiderable oversight if WM6 was incompatible with it. In my experience, setting up a smartphone running WM6 to access an Exchange server is still frankly too complicated: why can’t the server give me a unique code that I plug into the handset, which promptly retrieves all the settings itself?

If I sound harsh, it’s only because I care (a bit); the iPhone’s ease of activation and setup has shown users just how straightforward a cellphone can be, and Windows Mobile needs to catch up if it wants to retain market share. It could also do with some plastic surgery: as the screenshots of version 6.1 show, Microsoft still haven’t quite got the hang of putting together a pretty mobile OS.

Congratulations Microsoft; now go and work harder!

Google Android vs Windows Mobile

Umer — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:48:53 +0000

Today, Every mobile manufacturer has its own operating system for phones, This makes it difficult for handset components makers, application developers, and the handset makers themselves to develop new products and services quickly because they have to design functionality for each software iteration.

Google Android is a portable Mobile OS which can solve this compatability problem, However such Mobile OS already exists, for example Windows Mobile.

14.3m Windows Mobile phones sold in the past six months alone, so Google Android would have fierce competition over Windows Mobile.