New investment tools for Windows Mobile have been released by Acquasys that, for once, goes beyond just watching stocks:
Pocket Investor is an innovative investment manager designed for Windows Mobile Classic and Professional (touch-screen enabled) devices which combines many features in a compact and powerful solution especially designed for small and medium investors in a mobile scenario.
With Pocket Investor, you can build portfolios with different types of investments, maintain records of their prices and activities, be alerted about price changes, relevant news and events, analyze them using 17 different charts and track their performances towards your goals.
To learn more, visit Acquasys.
[via Windows Mobile Cool]
We might have caught a glimpse at the BlackBerry Thunder, but we’ve got a bit more eye candy, and is it looking slick, or what? The shots look like they came from a document detailing some of the OS 4.7 multimedia functions of the unreleased touchscreen BlackBerry due out sometime before Christmas for CDMA carriers. The BlackBerry Thunder will apparently be packing a glass 360 x 480 screen, which seems like more than enough for full videos. The media player will also feature carrier music stores, which would be a great way to grab tunes wirelessly to your device. When recording video, you’ll be able to preview the whole thing in landscape mode, too. Not too shabby at all.
The touchscreen has been a point of contention, both among handheld users as well as RIM’s execs, but one way or the other, there’s a market for touch devices, and with the BlackBerry Thunder, RIM is clearly on board. Between the flip BlackBerry Kickstart, the Curve-style BlackBerry Javelin, the upcoming Bold, and now the BlackBerry Thunder, it’s clear that there’s a wide array of tastes BlackBerrys can reach out to. So, who’s salivating?
[Via BlackBerry Cool]
At the beginning on June, Chris Craft set out to write 30 mobile applications 30 days and to publish both the executable and the source code for each application on his blog for new developers to use as learning guides.
Most of these applications aren’t anything you haven’t seen before, but the ‘Trippr’ seems to be very interesting:
That’s right it takes your current GPS position and pulls back pictures that are geotagged for the area you are in. So while you are riding down the road you can flickrscan for photos taken near you, possibly as close as the block you are on.
Really cool idea I think. I’ll probably hook this up to the dashboard of my car and just let it run while I drive around. It should be lots of fun to just see what I see.
The UI is basic sterile white, but I wanted the photos to be the star of the show so I went with the one uber true neutral color.
Control are very simple: Update, Menu, GPS, GPS Start, GPS Stop, About, and Exit. Update is the main feature. Any time it is pressed new photos are downloaded.
To learn more visit the post about the Trippr Windows Mobile application. See also the summary posting about other Windows Mobile applications of this developer.
[via msmobiles]
There is a rumor circulating the internet that Sprint’s HTC Touch and Mogul will be receiving WinMo 6.1 upgrades. The news originally came back in April when Sprint said it would be releasing them but did not specify an exact date.
Now, the seemingly official upgrades have been posted to xda-develoeprs.com and are available for download. With the download, you get a new rendering engine for IE and the “Zoom Out” mode for full page preview. On top of that, you will get Microsoft’s threaded text messaging app.
[Download the upgrade from XDA-Developers]
[Via Windows Mobile Cool]
As an official Sprint firmware update, the HTC Vogue will get a Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade. Along with the update, users will get a quicker GPS fix and overall improved stability. This is an official update so feel free to head over to XDA and download it.
[Follow this link to XDA-Developers for the download link]
[Via phoneArena]
Engadget Mobile has a great in-depth look at Dashwire, a digital content sharing from mobile to desktop application.
Dashwire is completely free and it’s broken into 2 parts: the web component, which supports any OS you choose and a Windows Mobile 5 or 6 client. The product will basically sync your entire life between both your mobile and computer. Pictures, SMS, ringtones, Visual Voicemail, contact management and social networking statuses are all synced with Dashwire.
[Via Engadget Mobile]
The “Elite 1.0″ ROM image for the HTC Touch Diamond has been released and features various tweaks. Among those tweaks, The “Elite 1.0″ ROM image will give the user enabled HSUPA, and a newer version of the .NET Compact Framework. This newer version of the .NET Compact Framework apparently eliminates some of the sluggish performance that reviewers of the device have been complaining about.
[Via Engadget Mobile]
BoxTone partnered up with Neverfail just before WES, and now they’ve got one more buddy to add to their friends list. Interchange works on SalesNOW, a CRM solution, and will be distributing BoxTone modules and services across the UK. BT and O2 are among some of their shared customers, big names both, and will surely work to both of their advantages. After getting back from the UK, I was actually kind of surprising how few people had heard of BlackBerrys…
Qik is a mobile video streaming platform that was initially only available for the Nokia NSeries, but is now available for other platforms such as Windows Mobile. We’ll keep you updated on this piece of software because it seems an iPhone version is available and we’d love to see how it works.
The Windows Mobile application is still in “alpha invitation only” stage and at the moment only available for the Samsung BlackJack and Motorola Q.
Ramu Sunkara, Qik’s CEO, commenting on the announcement said: “We look forward to an ongoing relationship with Microsoft. In the meantime, Qik continues to provide a service that helps keep friends and families stay connected, features breaking news from professional media and citizen journalists, and fosters a totally new kind of communication.”
[Via PhonesReview]