05:21 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

You know a gadget is on its way to mainstream when it's being reviewed by PC Mag. So if you want to get the critically acclaimed Nokia 770 for the mere reason of being l33t, you may already be too late. Also, the Nokia received only mediocre ratings from the reviewer:

Pros:
Convenient way to Web-surf at home. Awesome screen. Solid design. Good battery life.

Cons:
Buggy. No hard keyboard. Video player is picky. Text can be very small.

Bottom Line:
Though its many bugs may cause average consumers dismay, early adopters and developers will love this product.

06:18 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

The native PDF reader PalmPDF has been updated to 0.8. Among the huge list of changes and fixes we have a wider range of zoom factors, better memory utilization, and support to move the ARMlet to a memory card. For a full list, check out this PalmAddicts post.

06:02 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

A guy named Vijay made available a tiny software hack for the Windows Mobile remote desktop client (mstsc40.exe) to enable full-screen support.

WM2003 and WM5 compatible and works in QGVA or VGA, landscape or portrait.

Usage is easy, but this is only for advanced users right now for reasons forthcoming:
Load VJFullscreenTSC. I recommend putting it in your Start Menu or assign it to a hardware button.

For more information and the download visit his site.

05:35 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Astute readers will recall how we prophesized the eventual dominance of mobile TV. In South Korea mobile TV is already reality with both terrestrial and satellite-based digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) services hitting the markets. Hence it's not a surprise that it's a Korean company, LG Electronics to be precise, who has now introduced the first DMB-enabled Pocket PC. The LG PM80 features DMB with enough battery to power 2.5 hours TV playback on a beautiful 3.5-inch QVGA screen. It's almost beside the point to mention that the PM80 is also available with GPS.

• Availability in Korea: 11/28/05
• Windows Mobile 2003SE
• RAM 64MB / ROM 64MB
• Intel Bulverde 312MHz CPU
• SD Card slot
• 3.5-inch QVGA LCD screen
• Battery: 1,420mAh with 2.5 hours of video playback
• Stable DMB reception while moving at a speed of up to 100km/h
• In white (MF-PM80T1W) and black (MF-PM80T1B)
• Price: ~380 USD, ~570 USD (with GPS)

Press-release (googleized)

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Ok kids, time for the weekly roundup of what we've covered this week:

Announcements
A Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Browsers
Minimo for Nokia 770

Current E-Books Trends
Google Print becomes Google Book Search

E-Book Webstores
eReader's Best Sellers of 2005

eReader
eReader promo code to 29th Nov

General Chat
Harvard class available to the world as Podcast
Microsoft launches Live Search mobile (beta)
Reminder: RSS feeds for PalmGear and PocketGear
The Black Friday (after Thanksgiving) ads leaked online
Yahoo! Mobile synchronizes your mobile contacts

Link Swap
Your favorite web sites...

Other E-Book Resources
"Motion Mountain" - free physics e-textbook
Free e-book: God's Debris
UPenn's Online Books Page

Other Gadgets
Nokia 770 not making it into Asia Pacific region
Nokia 770 pre-orders delayed to 2006
T-Mobile Sidekick rumored product roadmap leak

Other Readers
New version 2.4.1 of Microsoft Reader released

Palm
Another Palm convert... maybe
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars for Palm OS
Custom Treo 650 ROM - step-by-step guide
Next-gen Treo rumors: more details
PalmAddicts all over the world
PalmAddicts Podcast #23 out
PalmFocus adds new forum categories
Palm investment shark shows its teeth
Palm is cheap, says investor

Pocket PC
Dell Axim X51v VGA system update
Minimo CE 0.011 released
NetFront 3.3 Technical Preview 1.02 available
PDAMill releases Anthelion 2, VGA-compatible
Resco Explorer 2005 5.30 introduces Recycle Bin
Simple 2-D game creation software
TCPMP 0.71 important bugfix release

Portable Audio/Video
PDA-friendly list of streaming radio sites
Read RSS feeds on your iPod

09:29 AM by Bob Russell in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...

From the University of Pennsylvania library, there is an Online Books Page which seems to be a listing of all online books in English that are freely available.

A quick browse shows that Gutenberg books are also linked to, so this might be considered a links-only superset of Gutenberg. Looks like a great source.

Update: This was discovered previously by Francesco more than a year ago! Still, it's worth bringing it back to our attention now.

09:22 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...

Useful if you're already looking for a christmas gift for your handheld-powered parents is eReader's Best of 2005 list which includes titles such as K. Follett's Whiteout and T.L Friedman's The World Is Flat (my personal two recommendations).

Related: eReader promo code to 29th Nov.

[via PalmAddicts]

08:56 AM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge

If you're a Cingular and T-Mobile subscriber, you can now use Yahoo! Mobile to save and synchronize phone contacts with your personal Yahoo! Address Book.

[via LifeHacker]