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By: verizon wireless gps camera flip cell phone

verizon wireless gps camera flip cell phone — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:19:36 +0000

verizon wireless gps camera flip cell phone…

Basically, what blue tooth gps does is take the gps device and sends a signal to your blue tooth wireless laptop or your PDA….

By: Shadow of Legend

Shadow of Legend — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:31:00 +0000

Now that WM6 is out, you can play games and such better. There is one high performance game you can use as a test. It’s 2gb, but well worth it. I tried it out, and it works swimmingly as long as you have enough diskspace. The game is called Shadow of Legend. If you want to download the beta version, you can visit its website at http://www.shadowoflegend.com

By: Quek

Quek — Sat, 12 May 2007 18:41:47 +0000

I’m looking for a solution of how i can retrieve my backup data from wm 2003 os, into my current ppc running under wm5 os. can anyone tell me??
cheers!

By: CrunchGear » Blog Archive » Microsoft Renames Windows Media 6 to Standard, Professional, Classic

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:45:41 +0000

[...] horror that is Windows Mobile 5 currently comes in three flavors: Pocket PC edition (for non-smartphone handhelds), Phone edition [...]

By: CrunchGear » Blog Archive » Access Renames Palm OS, Fanboys Look On Accusingly

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:42:11 +0000

[...] more of an uphill climb for the manufacturer to make any headway against Symbian and POS that is Windows Mobile 5. Great. Thanks, [...]

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:09:29 +0000

Just a quick note that the Samsung Sch-i730 can now be upgraded easily to WM5.
http://download.vzwshop.com/vzw/samsungos/Samsung_i730_WM5_Upgrade.exe

By: CrunchGear » Blog Archive » Treo 750 Gets FCC Certified, Still Doesn’t Exist

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:42:29 +0000

[...] No. Leaked rebate forms and FCC filings are all we need. Look for this high-end Treo, running Windows Mobile 5: Phone Edition, and its 240×240 touchscreen, 1.3 Megapixel camera, and 3G data to hit sometime before Xmas, or I’ll eat my hat. At least a cake my girlfriend will make shaped like a hat. It will have espresso frosting. [...]

By: CrunchGear » Blog Archive » Cingular 8525 Hands On

CrunchGear » Blog Archive » Cingular 8525 Hands On — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:24:00 +0000

[...] If you read my 10 Things I Hate About Smartphones post last week, you’d discover that I hate Windows Mobile and that, even though they run Windows Mobile, I love HTC. So with that piece of cognitive dissonance in mind, I present my review of the Cingular 8525 aka the Hermes, a Windows Mobile Pocket PC smartphone with fold out QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen. It costs $399 with contract. The Dash vs. the 8525 [...]

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Bulk Email Masters – Smartphones Now: Windows Mobile 5 — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:56:45 +0000

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By: PDA Guy

PDA Guy — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:43:12 +0000

Great post, thanks for the chart including specs and prices.

One thing though is that you left out the vast array of ruggedized devices that run WM5 from companies like Symbol and Intermec. For the companies that we deal with here at http://www.pocketpcforms.com, they almost all are interested in something that can be dropped from 4 feet to a sidewalk and survive.

By: gr

gr — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:34:22 +0000

Well, on the VW5 points here are some of your errors…
I used to be a Psion user (3 different devices), moved to Palm with the Palm 5 and than the Treo 600, now I am planing on going to the VM5 with the 8525 (tried the 8125 in the past but the fact that there was no ’start’ and ‘ok’ buttons on the front just killed the phone for me).

Palm OS phones are not more expensive. Palm is issuing cheaper Palm OS phones every time (see Treo 650 and Treo 680) while VM5 keeps getting more and more expensive (see the 8125 at $250 and now 8525 at $350)

Syncing Palm OS with Outlook and Office application is always easy, ActiveSync (VM5 sync) is not there yet. You got multiple issues with firewalls, antiviruses and what not. Just looks at the webforums.

Having said all of that, VM5 is the way of the future, Palm OS is going away slowly but surly. I just wish VM5 will eventually become as easy to use as Palm and Psion.

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Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:16:17 +0000

[...] Smartphones Now: Windows Mobile 5CrunchGear, NY - 2 hours ago… recommend that. Between the other two, the Motorola Q runs WM5-S, but still has Verizon s fast EV-DO mobile internet. Grab this … [...]

By: CrunchGear over-simplify Windows CE/Windows Mobile OS relationship ? « Intraweb Software

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:53:55 +0000

[...] CrunchGear are running a series of articles on the current models in the Smartphone market. This article is good, but the description of the relationship between Windows CE and Windows Mobile is that Windows Mobile is a subset of Windows CE. Strictly speaking Windows Mobile 5 is an operating system which is built from Windows CE. Windows CE 5.0 is a product which allows manufacturers of various types of devices to build operating systems for their products. Microsoft have at least 3 internal customers who use it in this way. There’s Windows Mobile for Automotive (Operating system for Cars and the like), an OS for Portable Media Centers (I think its called Windows Mobile for Portable Media Center) and finally there is Windows Mobile 5.0 which is currently a pair of operating systems for handheld devices. When the Windows Mobile 5.0 team build their operating system, they start by selecting a set of functionality from Windows CE which they want to include, then they add Windows Mobile specific drivers and a whole load of additional functionality like the Pocket Office applications and such. [...]

By: CrunchGear » Blog Archive » Smartphones Now!

CrunchGear » Blog Archive » Smartphones Now! — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:37:03 +0000

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Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:36:06 +0000

[...] Smartphones Now: Windows Mobile 5CrunchGear, NY - 25 minutes ago… Couple all this functionality with an unlimited data plan and you get BlackBerry-like … Q, the slightly thicker Palm Treo 700w, the RAZR-esque Cingular 3125 flip … [...]