Mobile

When I bought the HTC Touch Smartphone I was never told by the reseller that it was locked onto Airtel Network in India. Only after seeing some of the comments left on my earlier post, I realized that it was a SIM locked phone.

Recently when I traveled to Beijing, I felt the pain of having a SIM Locked phone. I had all my contacts and other details on this phone and yet it wasn't useful when I needed it the most.

When I inserted the China Mobile SIM onto the phone, I was prompted to enter the "Unlock Code". A search

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SPB Mobile shell is an extension for the boring default user interface of a Windows Mobile powered Pocket PC phone. Key feature include:

Phone style menu Weather forecasts  Photo speed dial World time Launcher Big dynamic tabs on Today Color based themes Smart contact search

The SPM Menu based navigation loads faster and you can quickly launch application of your choice.

Even the Now Screen is pretty detailed and gives a quick overview of

Messages - Email/SMS Missed calls Volume level Weather Date and time Appointments/Meetings.

More

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The default calculator that comes bundled with Windows Mobile 6 isn't made for touch phones. Also the application hasn't received an upgrade from a long time. Even my 5 year old Casio Pocket PC is running the same calculator application !

gCalc

gCalc is a simple calculator application which works great on a touch based phone and  is also good for one-hand use. The operator dial pad saves you the trouble of searching operators while doing the calculations.

The user interface looks so much better compared to the dull interface of the default

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The camera on my old Sony Ericsson T630 was totally hopeless. Also the amount of memory was so low that after every few photos, I had to move it out to make some space for new ones. However the same is not true with my new HTC Touch. The 2MP camera doesn't take the best of the pictures but its a very handy feature to have in a mobile device. The 1GB memory does take care of storing the photos for a long time. (God! I am talking about HTC so much these days; For those who are bored with these HTC posts, please bear with me :) ) Here is a look at the HTC Camera Interface: ...

ActiveSync, a synchronization program developed by Microsoft allows a mobile device to be synchronized with a Desktop PC. Other than syncing your contacts, calendar, tasks and notes you can also sync the Emails on the Exchange server.

ActiveSync also allows you to

Copy files between PC and the Mobile Device Install/Uninstall Mobile Applications

ActiveSync can also be used to connect to a network or Internet. The connected device can use the computer's network connection as if it were its own. You can use this feature to perform tasks such as downloading non-Outlook e-mail messages or to browse the Internet.

The above feature was the primary reason I

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This video is a follow up on my previous post covering the popular keyboard applications for Windows mobile powered devices.

If you found the earlier post too lengthy, you would definitely appreciate this video :)

Youtube seems to have again crushed the video and it does look odd compared to the original video.

If you do find it difficult to follow the above video you can

Download the original WMV File Watch the video in Full Screen Mode

RSS Readers: If your Reader isn't showing the video, please do take the

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One important feature expected from a Touch screen based Windows mobile Smartphone is the ability to quickly input text.

Be it composing a SMS/MMS or taking a note or composing a word document, a powerful keyboard application is a must on a Smartphone/Pocket PC.

I quickly got adjusted to the Touch based navigation on my newly purchased HTC Touch Smartphone, however when it came to composing a SMS using my fingers, I failed miserably !

I had to either take support from the Stylus (which I didn't want to) or I had to search for a better powerful keyboard alternative for my phone.HTC did market the Touch phone as the first touch based Smartphone, but they forgot to

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After launching the Internet browser on my HTC Touch, the first site I opened was of my own blog. The browser almost came to halt while loading the home page. When I loaded other sites such as GMail, Flickr, Google Search one thing I noticed was that all these sites had a page compatible with the mobile browser. The content fitted exactly to the bounds of the handset display. Images were kept to minimal, so was the content ! A search for Wordpress+mobile on Google took me to Alex Kings Wordpress Mobile Edition plug-in for Wordpress. The package consists of a Wordpress plug-in which detects requests from Mobile Browsers. It also has a Wordpress theme which ...

Plaxo is an online address book service founded by Napster co-founder Sean Parker, Minh Nguyen, and two Stanford engineering students, Todd Masonis and Cameron Ringand. I have been a loyal user of this service from some time now.

I happened to meet a person named Ghanshyam Dass in Shanghai airport (during transit), who later turned out to be the Nasdaq Director for Asia Pacific !! We exchanged cards and the next day I received a Address Update request from him.

This was when I was introduced to Plaxo (By the way this was way back in 2004) !! I immediately signed up for the service and even downloaded the Plaxo toolbar for Outlook (which was the E-Mail client used

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Consilient has brought its free mobile E-Mail application called Push to  India.

Using this application you can retrieve E-Mail's from your Yahoo!, Hotmail, Gmail AOL or any POP3/IMAP E-Mail account.You can also send and receive photos and read your work email using Consilient Push.

The Push service also has attachment support (ZIP, MS Word, PDF & Excel) and uses 128-bit encryption.

The help section of the Consilient web site has pointers to the User Guide and FAQ

Unfortunately I don't have data connection on my Airtel mobile and hence wasn't able to download the "push" application and use it.

If you have

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