Tag: WINDOWSMOBILE5.0

Last week we let you know about an amazing hack that brings Windows Mobile 6 to the Dell Axim X50v. What makes this hack so amazing is the fact that Dell has no plans that we're aware of to offer Windows Mobile 6 for this discontinued PDA. In fact, Dell's Windows Mobile 5.0 "upgrade" for the X50v was pretty widely panned for being buggy and slow. Windows Mobile 6 runs better than Windows Mobile ...

Microsoft announced two Windows Mobile updates today. First, a Japanese version of Windows Mobile 6 will be available starting in June on devices from HTC, Sharp, and Toshiba. The bigger news is that Office Mobile 2007 will be available as a free download in the third quarter of this year. It doesn't sound like there will be a ton of new features in the updated version of Office Mobile. But it ...

From the "why didn't Microsoft just go and do this themselves" file: Hackers have liberated the Mobile Office features of Windows Mobile 6 and wrapped them up into a nice installer that runs just fine on Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphones. Since Microsoft decided that Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone users didn't need word processing, spreadsheets, or presentations, the only way to get those features up ...

Do you switch your Windows Mobile device to landscape mode every time you open a web browser? Would you like a way to make sure your PDA never shuts off when you're reading an e-book, even if you haven't pushed a button in a while? CommManagerPlus is a program that lets you create application shortcuts on a PDA. But it also allows you to assign properties to those shortcuts. You can create a ...

If you're a Mac user, but prefer Windows Mobile PDAs to Palm, you've probably heard of The Missing Sync. It's one of the best known 3rd party applications for synchronizing a Pocket PC with a Mac. It also claims to be the only Mac synchronization program that will work with Windows Mobile 5.0. Version 3.0 throws a few new features into the mix. Notes synchronization: Since Mac OS X doesn't sort ...

Sometimes you just get sick and tired of staring at appointments and phone numbers all day, and you think to yourself, wouldn't it be great if I had an aquarium scene on the Today screen of my PDA? Okay, maybe not, but Animated Today has come up with a solution to the problem that you never knew you had. For $14.95 you can add a system resource hog to your Pocket PC and add animated visuals to ...