Mobility Guys #6
Mobility Guys Show #6. We talk about what went on at TechEd- what we saw as well as some of the devices we got to play with there. We also talk some more about Symbian phones and Smartphones at the request of one of our listeners and some applications that will work well on any internet enabled cell phone. Don also mentions a bit about Windows Mobile Developer Virtual User Group and the new applications he is working on.
TechEd 2006:
New Mobile Devices:
- UBiQUiO aka Gigabyte gSmart Pocket PC Phone-check out the awesome review of it here by msmobilenews
- Samsung SCH-i320
- Qtek 8500
Our Pictures and review of Tech Ed here and here.
Tablet PC’s at Tech Ed:
Jack’s experience with the Symbian OS and Nokia N series phones - N91
Mobile Services
Some great services and applications that will run on any web enabled phone:
- Google Mobile
- Yahoo Mobile
- Bloglines- online RSS reader
- Traffic.com - traffic alerts
- Weather.com - weather alerts
- WeatherNet
- Windows Live Mobile - search, messenger, mail, maps, etc
- FREE411- free directory assistance
- MobileBlog- how to blog from your phone
- Mobile leap- mobilizes webpages for phones
- Mobile Speed Test
- FlyteSource-Mobile
- 4INFO SMS flight status tracker via text message - just send a text message to 4INFO (44636) like “jetblue 497″ and you receive back a text on your flight info Yoiu can get other info like weather, horoscope, sports scores, movies,etc all via SMS
Favorite apps on the Smartphone
- Weather Bug
- SBSH Software
- Papyrus
- Facade- great launcher and today screen plugin with tabs for tasks, calender, launcher.
- Pocketweather
- PocketMusic ( Free Registration code here: http://www.pocketmind.com/reg.htm )
Chris mentions his experinece with the Q with a full write up coming soon
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