My Windows Mobile smartphone serves many purposes to me - just to share with you guys
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1) Normal phone - Features ultimate connectivity with quadband, EDGE, Bluetooth, Infrared, WiFi

2) My webcam (Powered by WebCameraPlus )- I could use the camera of the phone as a camera, even a wireless camera using WiFi, which means I can turn on my webcam on my computer and bring the handphone around the house, even to my neighbour's house. The latest version also doubles up as a wireless microphone so you can do webconference everywhere.

3) My Skype phone (Powered by Skype Mobile )- Save that USD200 to buy a dedicated skype phone. This smartphone serves as a Skype phone so I can talk for hours if I wish to.

4 ) My Live Messenger (Powered by Windows Live Mobile )- I can chat at whichever hotspot I come across, or connect via EDGE/GPRS if I'm really desperate

5) SMS becomes easier (Powered by MyMobiler ) - Once my phone is connected to the PC, be it through USB, Bluetooth or WiFi, I can reply to SMS instantly and quick if I am infront of the computer using the keyboard. No need to use that two little thumbs. SMS are also synchronized to Outlook express using Jeyo Mobile Extender

6) My personal organizer, never miss anything anymore (Powered by Outlook Express) - I used my phone to set important dates, schedules, important meetings, assignments, etc. With Windows Vista and XP, all these can be synchronized between the computer and the phone using Microsoft Active Sync or Windows Mobile Device Centre

7) My media centre, powered by Windows Media Centre Mobile - I store hundreds of musics in the storage card.

8) My document reader (Adobe Reader LE & Office Mobile ) - With Office Mobile and Adobe reader, reading and editing documents on the go is easy

9) My Internet browser - powered by (Internet Explorer Mobile ), WAP sites are irrelevant, view sites in full bloated HTML

10) My Sideshow (Coming soon) - Soon, the device would be able to function as a sideshow device for Windows Vista, being able to control Vista gadgets on the phone.

11) My call recorder (Powered by PMRecorder ) - thinking of blackmailing me? All phone conversations are automatically recorded. Another good reason for you not to borrow my phone to call someone else

12) My entertainment centre - with games such as Scrabble , Tetris , Fishopolis , Worms World Party and many more high quality games , I'll never get bored anymore.

13) My flash drive (Powered by WM5torage ) - now this device can also act as a universal plug and play flash drive, using the SD card as the storage device. Carrying files around gets easier.

14) My pocket dictionary, with MDict , I can install as many downloadable databases to my phone such as Language translators, list of countries and it's capital, and many more

15) My modem, the phone can act as a GPRS/EDGE modem or even dial up modem (but the charge would be too high) so I can hook it to my laptop and go online wherever there is a cellphone reception.

16) There are also other useful applications, such as :


* BMI Calc , use to monitor one's fitness by calculating the BMI (Body Mass Index) value, just key in your height and weight, and with a push of the button, you know your BMI.

* Moblue , use to manage incoming Bluetooth beams, to specify the location where the received file will be saved.

* FizzBill , ever eaten with a friend at a restaurant, wanted to split the bill but calculations were confusing with all the surcharge and taxes thrown in? With FizzBill, just key in the actual amount, tax rate, and the number of people sharing the bill and the amount will be generated instantly.





This and many more features are available to you when you use a smartphone powered by Windows Mobile. While many of you are crazy over Symbian phones like Sony Ericsson and Nokia, why not give Windows Mobile a try? Windows Mobile has the largest user contributed softwares, applications and games which makes your smartphone a very powerful device.

Not to mention, every single things in the phone can be configured and tweaked using registry, just like a normal computer

This post has been edited by karhoe: Sep 3 2008, 07:18 PM

I'm using Dopod 577w powered by TI OMAP 850@ 200mhz

I close unused applications via Task Managers, so it's sufficiently fast enough to run these applications

This post has been edited by karhoe: Sep 2 2008, 11:09 AM

It's the sliding panel available on Windows Mobile 6.1 devices.

I changed the colour theme and the background only

By default, the phone doesn't act as a storage device, you transfer file via Microsoft Active Sync or Windows Mobile Device Centre.

So if you go to your friend's house, you need to install the above mentioned software in your friend's house to access the files in your phone.

By activating WM5torage, the phone storage card would function as a universal USB plug and play device, hence no need to install any softwares, just plug and play

It seems like Microsoft Reader is not available for smartphone devices, or they do?

Yeap, Windows Mobile device are pretty basic at stock, you need to install softwares to spice them up.

My Dopod 577w is a very basic smartphone, but till now, i'm very satisfied with it, it have many functions and really helps me alot.

Well no

Well, as for the wireless webcam thing, you install on the desktop and then it will transfer a cab file to be installed in your phone. After that you can choose to connect the webcam via Active Sync (USB or Bluetooth)

If you want to use Wifi, you just configure the sofware in your phone to connect to your LAN IP.

If you want to do web conference, let's say through msn, just start a video call, then you will see a rainbow screen on the webcam window in your MSN, activate the webcam software and it will change to your camera image

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Added on September 3, 2008, 7:13 pmNope le, it's a smartphone, not a PDA

It is the standardized home screen for Windows Mobile Standard 6.1 (not professional). Any WM6.1 smartphone comes with it as a default theme.

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Added on September 3, 2008, 7:14 pmPDA running TI OMAP 850 is really a little laggy, for smatphone, it's just sufficient Time to move on? If you have time to play with new device

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Added on September 3, 2008, 7:16 pmIf you are talking about the black thing with those round buttons , it's not part of the phone screen ,it's part of desktop client, MyMobiler, used to view the phone screen, and on top of that, I can use the keyboard to input characters into the phone as well as using the cursor to navigate the phone

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Added on September 3, 2008, 7:16 pmOk, added.

It's too bad it doesn't work as a WiFi adapter, I think there is a work around somewhere, but it works well for PDA, not sure for smartphone

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Added on September 3, 2008, 7:22 pmSmartphone doesn't have that options as far as I know

This post has been edited by karhoe: Sep 3 2008, 07:22 PM

I'm not sure about that, but the black bar you see is from the software MyMobiler, try using it, very useful

http://www.mymobiler.com/

I thought it's a well known application haha, you can even enable mouse cursor and if you move your mouse to the left of your monitor, you can move 'out' of the monitor and the cursor moves to your PDA ^^

Sorry, I'm WM fanboy lol

Frankly speaking, WM have the most softwares available to it compared to Symbian as the way of programming WM softwares doesn't run too far away from programming PC softwares

Lol, once you connect through WMDC, it will sync via Outlook

Well, the most important thing for a long battery time is to keep RAM usage to min. Always remember to close unused application..

I am totally against your statement that WM is not robust or well built.

One needs to really know how to 'exploit' the function of the phone.

May I know what does handling chemical stuff got to do with having a WM phone?

Yeap, WM5 onwards

WM6.1

Funny that it doesn't work, it works with other PDA though

Lol guys don't get mixed up

The softwares are tested on a WM smartphone, not PDA, PDA and smartphone have slightly differente interface and menu structures.

Ahha, did you flash to WM6.1?

Erm, modem, are you talking about dialup modem?

Must flash to WM6.1 Go read my blog, there's a tutorial there.

There's this tool called Internet Connection Sharing in WM6 that allows you to do that

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This post has been edited by karhoe: Nov 3 2008, 09:52 PM

Huh, why not, it's perfectly fine.

WM5 was last used 2 years ago, I think there's similar application, but the one iN WM6 just works perfectly, can work via BT as well.

Flash is as simple as ABC, provided you follow my guide accurately step by step, 20,000 people has used my guide and only a fraction of them screwed up because they did not follow some part properly.

WM6.1 is much faster

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Added on November 3, 2008, 9:59 pmTry this link

http://karhoe.net/content/view/21/1/

This post has been edited by karhoe: Nov 3 2008, 09:59 PM

Get an XP pc, i'm sure your friend would have it, borrow only, the only installation you require on your friend's pc is ActiveSync

I havent used WM5 for ages. No need to add my MSN, I won't be using MSN these few days, you can check the comments they posted, or post a comment, don't worry, its 99% safe

Some people have tried flashing it on Vista, the only thing you can't do on Vista is the SuperCID procedure is vital, installing the ROM on Vista is possible, I posted it in my tutorial.

Well, there has to be someone