Opera Mobile on WM Supports Flash Based Video

Now watching YouTube, Google videos and play some basic Flash games are possible with Opera Mobile browser for Windows Mobile. The HTC Touch HD comes with a version of Opera browser capable of playing Flash based video contents.

But if you don’t have the latest goodies from HTC, rest assured, folks from XDA-developer can come to your rescue. Read this thread at XDA-Developers. Download the latest build (click here for QVGA and here for VGA), and Adobe Flash lite. Install both CABs to your device,

You’d need a newer device running WM6.1 and 3G or WiFi connection to fully experience the goodness! 

• Flash Lite
• Video Demo

Adobe Flash Lite 3.x Highlights

• FLV support—including H.264, On2 VP6 and Sorenson video codecs
• Enables a more complete web experience on mobile devices by providing access to content and video created with Adobe Flash
• Faster performance
• Object-based extension mechanism for accelerated UI design
• Integrated authoring environment
• Multiplatform support

[via PocketNow]

iDialer & iContact for Windows Mobile

Two free utilities that will instantly offer great clean look to your Windows Mobile phones.

 iDialer is a finger-friendly dial pad for Windows Mobile PocketPC phones. It’s simple, easy to use, speedy, and well integrated with iContact ! It works with both VGA and QVGA, in both portrait and landscape mode! The included "default" skin has an iPhone feel with diamond-like menus.

iContact is a simple contacts applications for your Windows Mobile device which will help you scroll your contact list in iPhone style by sliding down your finger in the screen! (Video demo)

[Courtesy FreewarePocketPC]

Live Hotmail Released

Microsoft has started releasing new updated Live Hotmail.  The most noticeable change will be streamlined the inbox and as promised by Microsoft, the performance is considerably improved.

The first few changes you’ll see

• Simpler, cleaner design. A streamlined design that makes your everyday tasks easier.
• Faster than ever. Signing in and seeing your e-mail will be up to 70 percent faster* than before.

Microsoft promises More cool stuff coming soon. “You can look forward to even more great Hotmail updates, like ever-increasing storage, the ability to send instant messages right from your browser, and new calendar features that make it easier to share your schedule with family and friends.”

Microsoft Mobile Media Beta Leaked

With the recent disappointing announcement of the Windows Mobile 7 delay, don’t think that Microsoft is sleeping. They are building infrastructure for the new OS, essentially the “meshing” your devices for universal access.

The latest tool that I have been testing for few weeks is the Mobile Media Beta (works on IE only for PC side interface). MM essentially allows you to quickly and easily access your personal content – pictures, music, and videos – on your personal computer from your mobile phone.

You cannot directly download the content from your PC to your mobile phone. The content you access from your PC is streamed to your phone in real-time. Pictures are streamed as a slideshow, while music and video are streamed to your phone’s Media Player. For pictures, individual small files are saved locally in a temporary storage area (similar to your browser) and you can also save individual small images to the local phone memory. Music and video streams cannot be saved to the phone and are not cached.

With offline photo storage, your photos are also store in the cloud so you can access them from the mobile phone even your home PC is off.

You can have as many as you want on the PC side but only 1 phone in the “mesh ring”

A nice touch here, is if you have a Windows Mobile device, you can take pictures and they will be  automatically and transparently sent pictures to your PC.

To use Mobile Media, you’ll need to download and install client applications on both your PC and Mobile phone. Download them HERE! View the Desktop side HERE!

Skydeck: Search Your Cellphone Calls Like Email Inbox

With your email inbox, you can store a very large number of messages and  you will be able to go back to search easily. For the cellphone is completely different matter. Most cellphone can only store a limited number of calls, and search back who called you or who you called 4 days ago could be a daunting if not impossible task.

For the first time, Skydeck enables you to search your cell phone calls the way you’ve always been able to search your email. You can check who you spoke to yesterday or last week, see how long it’s been since you last spoke, and make notes about what you need to do next. You’ll never forget an important phone call again.

Manage your calls and texts the same way that you manage your email. Check who called yesterday, the last time you spoke, and use notes and tags to remind yourself to follow up.

Skydeck’s secure software combines your call records with your address book to map your true social network: the people that you talk to and text every day. Based on how often you communicate, Skydeck re-organizes your address book and your network around the people who are most important to you, and lets you share that network with people you trust.

Skydeck is free to individual consumers and always will be.

Team Spirit

A friend just sent me this incredible video showing team spirit at its best.

(Note: I don’t particularly support the sport, but this video is to be seen!) 

Motorola is Getting Cozy with Google Android

The ailing mobile division from Motorola just woke up after Google and T-Mobile opened the floodgate last week with the first Android powered phone. Motorola is staffing up its Android team to about 350 employees from the previous 50 team members.  According to TechCrunch.

The rumor is based on an Android developer approached by a headhunter to join the team. So please take it with a grain of salt.

Not Playing in Netbook Arena Might Hurt Apple?

With the proliferation of the subcompact notebooks or Netbook, Apple still choose not to play in this arena. Today, you can not by any Macbook under $1,000 and this seems to be noticeable by Wall Street.

Apple’s shares fell 17.5 percent in early trading Monday, as brokerage firms scaled back their recommendations to a "hold" from a "buy."

Morgan Stanley not only revised its recommendation for the stock, but also lowered its fiscal 2009 earnings estimate to $5.47 a share from $5.91 a share.

In listing its reasons for its revisions, Morgan Stanley said in a research note:

The update of new MacBook and MacBook Pro should be around the corner. We will see if Apple could change the outcome.   [Via CBS/News]

Sprint’s WiMax XOHM debuts in Baltimore

Sprint has kicked of the new era of 4G broadband with the launch of its XOHM network using WiMax technology. The service covers just in the downtown area for now.

The prices reportedly  will start at $10 for a 24-hour unlimited pass and $35 for monthly service. Without contract needed. The Aircard for XOHM network starts at around $45.   [Via USAToday]  Learn more about XOHM HERE!

BeeJive IM Goes Live for iPhone

The best Instant Messenger for iPhone has been released on Apple App Store. The app unifies and supports  AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, GoogleTalk, ICQ, Jabber, and MySpace IM. And you can use multiple accounts.

Highlights:

• Real-time chats: quick switch between multiple simultaneous chats.
• Customizable chat skins & emoticon support.
• Click to browse, call, or send an email directly from the chat screen.
• Full Unicode support, chat in any language supported by your iPhone.
• Manage your buddy-list, including add/remove, nicknames, groups, block, approve/deny requests.
• Control your own availability: set auto-away and custom status messages and be invisible.
• Full 128-bit encryption of all over-the-air data transmission.
• automatically reconnection after data service disruption.

BeejiveIM has been very popular with Blackberry users and a beta program is underway for Windows Mobile

Download HERE! (Native $16 & Web app Free)   [Source Beejive]

Apple TV Might Get an Update on Sept 30th

TUAW.com reported an alleged unnamed Apple reseller had received some instructions from Apple to remove old Apple TV stuffs on a possible Tuesday Sept 30th Webcast.

Use Android handset to Charge Your Visa Account

In the not-too-distant future, Visa credit cards may merge with cell phones. The card giant announced Friday that it is developing applications for Google’s Android operating system and upcoming Nokia smart phones. Visa’s Android application will allow the holders of Chase Visa cards to make mobile payments and receive real-time financial information.

In Japan and Europe have been using their phones to buy goods and services for some time. Similar uses in the United States have been slower to catch on, he said, because consumers are not enthusiastic about processing such payments through their telecommunication carriers.

[Via ducknetweb]

HTC S740 Got Hands-on Review

The UK based Coolsmartphone has started posting a daily series review of the only non-touch screen smartphone from the latest crop of WM devices.

The S740 (codenamed Rose) is running Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard . The form factor sports a narrower candy-bar style with frontal numeric keyboard and a side sliding QWERTY keyboard for horizontal typing..

Highlights

Slide-out four-row keyboard for quick and easy text entry
2.4-inch TFT-LCD screen housed within a slim and elegant design
Mobile Internet - surf and download at broadband speed with HSDPA and Wi-Fi®
3.2 megapixel camera for quality stills and video
microSD™ slot for expandable storage

You can watch the day-1 review HERE!

Go FetchIt! RSS, Podcast Weather for Windows Mobile

The one size fits all, FetchIt, the  RSS/Podcast,Weather aggregator designed for Windows Mobile   5/6 Standard or Professional. The app uses SlickUI technology lets you flick between views. It’s clean, effortless and beautifully animated. super-threaded design lets you download feeds, listen to a podcast and read news all at the same time! FetchIt gives you up-to-the-minute 7 day forecasts straight from WeatherBug! Over 200 channel presets with stunning visuals and detailed information. Feed suggestions based on category.

Free download HERE!

When YouTube Video is too long to get to the Point

We indeed live in a fast lane, sharing a quick YouTube punch line might require the recipient to watch from the beginning to certain elapsed time. Splicd has a solution for you.

Select the YouTube video you want. Write down the portion you want to show (e.g. 0:35 to 0:53). Copy and paste the YouTube link/URL to Splicd. Splicd will then provide another link/URL you can use to share.

The link takes you to Splicd site, from there you can play the “Splice” or play the original. Embed of the newly created video does not work.  [Via DownloadSquad]