SplashData has released SplashMoney for the PocketPC, letting you see how poor you are in real time:
From their website: Manage your money anytime, anywhere. Connect to your online bank from your desktop computer or wireless handheld and download transactions directly into SplashMoney. Create budgets and then track and analyze your spending with customizable reports and charts. Synchronize your phone with your desktop PC to Includes free desktop companion software for Windows.
It’s $30 with no trial, but it looks full-featured. This PocketPC version is new but it is also available for Palm and on the desktop. Maybe we’ll give it try - keep you posted.
Research firm In-Stat is reporting that the world smartphone market will grow by an average of 33% each year through to 2012. In-Stat predicts the strong growth based on several factors:
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Softick has announced the release of version 1.20 of their Auido Gateway software for Palm handhelds, reports PalmInfocenter.
The software allows any Bluetooth-enabled Palm OS device to link up to a pair of Bluetooth headphones and listen to any audio played by the handset, from music players to games to audio books. Version 1.20 adds support for AVRCP connections and fast forward and rewind buttons on some headsets, and fixes some problems with mono sound as well as other minor bug fixes.
The update is free for all registered users.
A company named StyleTap has a demo of Palm applications being run on an iPod Touch, reports PDAStreet.
The company has long offered software to run Palm apps on Windows Mobile devices, and has plans to offer the same functionality for Symbian phones. Now a video has appeared on their website showing off some Palm apps being run on an iPod Touch. The demo is just that, a demo, and is not indicative of any plans to release the software, as they explicitly warn:
This is an EXPERIMENTAL version – it is NOT a product, nor is its presence here a commitment of any kind, express or implied, that StyleTap Inc. will ever release an official version of StyleTap CrossPlatform for Apple iPhone or iPod Touch.
Still, there is a definite possibility of seeing something like this if Apple ever gets around to releasing the iPhone SDK.
Our friends at BlackBerry Cool noted that Palm has modified their home page and saturated newspaper everywhere with a new ad campaign that make fun of RIM for the recent outages on the BlackBerry network.
The new ads say:
Palm smartphones include voice, email, text, web, calendar and contacts.
And more importantly, uptime.
Connect to your Microsoft Exchange Server.
No third-party servers and no nationwide blackouts.
Considering their customer satisfaction levels, amongst other things, I’m not sure they’re in a position to take cheap shops.
The PalmInfocenter found that Access has released a Software Development Kit (SDK) and other development tools for their Access Linux Platform.
The SDK features Eclipse-based development tools, the Glade 3 interface editor, a simulator for easier debugging, headers and libraries, full documentation, and quite a bit more. It also includes a Garnet VM Compatibility Kit to test compatibility with Palm’s Garnet OS.
They’re also joining the LiMO Foundation. It’s a good time to like Linux!
Our friends at BlackBerry Cool got the scoop on another report that looks at the present and future of smartphones.
The report from ChangeWave shows Apple’s large lead, with 17% of mobile phone users polled saying they plan to buy an iPhone in the next six months and 16% planning on buying a BlackBerry. Motorola has continued their downward plunge, with 11% of users planning on buying one of them in the next six months compared to over 30% in July of ‘06.
Apple again topped the charts with 72% customer satisfaction, followed by RIM with 55%. Most other manufacturers hovered in the mid-30s, and Palm sat dead last with only 30% satisfaction.
After only a few months of exclusivity in the US, the Palm Centro will be heading to Europe on the 14th, reports PDAStreet.
The Centro has only been available in the U.S. since its release in the fall, and only on Sprint, despite speculation that other carriers might get the device. Unfortunately, Palm has opted to include the EDGE standard in the European release rather than the faster 3G standards.
A lot is happening in the realm of Linux-based mobile platforms today.
The LiMo Foundation is planning to launch their Linux-based mobile OS sometime this March, according to IntoMobile. As if that weren’t enough, IntoMobile also found that Google is all set to release a new SDK for Android, which will include a new UI interface, amongst other things.
Between these two and Palm’s upcoming Linux-based OS, it’s certainly a good time to like open source software.
PalmInfocenter found an article on PCMag where the author manages to get a few details on Nova, the new OS from Palm.
Stephanie Maes, director of product management at Palm, said the company is getting back to their roots with “simplicity and elegance.” According to Maes, Palm is still going to be using a Linux-based solution for the OS, but has ditched the Access Linux Platform they said they’d be using last October.
“There were things in that platform that were focused on a different set of customers than what we were looking to do, and there were things in that platform that do not support things we would like to do going forward,” Maes said.
She also mentions some other aspects the OS would be going for, such as unifying the myriad places users store their data.