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

Missed some of our big mobile stories this week? Time to catch up:

Avantgo
What AvantGo channels do you have?

Current E-Books Trends
Creating eBooks Isn't So Hard After All

E-Book Readers
Seiko Epson unveils flexible e-paper for handhelds
Sony Librie wins Gold Award at SID 2005

E-Book Webstores
An E-Book "webstore" used for phishing?
eReader.com is expanding and forming new partnerships
Fictionwise 25% on MultiFormat e-books through June 2

General Chat
Google Print book search enhanced
Mobile RSS could be the next state of SMS

Link Swap
GreatNews - great & free RSS reader for Windows

Other Gadgets
Dedicated Nokia 770 blog launched
GoodLink firing a warning shot at BlackBerry

Other Readers
Wikipedia files with image support for TomeRaider

Palm
Best Palm game you have ever played
Continuing Coverage of PalmSource DevCon Still To Come!
Handango offers reduced handheld software to club members
Mike Rohde's Day 3 at PalmSource DevCon
Mike Rohde's PalmSource DevCon coverage
MyUAE 0.8 - Amiga emulator for Palm OS 5
PalmOne LifeDrive software compatibility list
Why PalmAddict stands out - my three reasons

Pocket PC
Dell Axim X50v $399 deal
Dell Axim X50v taken apart
E-Ten M600 Windows Mobile 5.0 phone in Q3 2005
Hitchhiker 0.2 - free WiFi hotspot finder for PPC
HTC Magician successor: HTC Wizard
HTC Universal Pocket PC first hands-on preview
HTC Universal Pocket PC more close-ups
Resco Viewer V5.32 and Explorer V5.15 updates
Virtual Pool Beta for Dell Axim X50v
WebIS discounts for Pocket Informant and more
Windows Mobile 5.0 Emulator install guide
WordNetCE V2.7 for PPC released

Portable Audio/Video
End of the Apple iPod fad?

WiFi / Bluetooth Technologies
New pairing hack seizes control over Bluetooth devices

05:41 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

There are many Palm-related websites out there, but here is why I believe PalmAddict to stand out from the crowd:

1) PalmAddict is fun. Whether you want to participate in healthy discussions on just win a contest with great prizes, there is always something new going on at PalmAddict making it a worth a visit several times a day.

2) PalmAddict is complete. There is no other site that keeps track so well of the latest news and software releases for Palm handhelds. Posting is done by Sammy himself or by one of his Associate Writers, and it is not unusual for a scoop to appear first at PalmAddict.

3) PalmAddict is personal. PalmAddict is not only about news, but also about experience. Average Palm users (and Palm fanatics alike) from across the globe tell their stories of joy and grief related to Palm computing. The read is sometimes funny, sometimes serious, and definitely always informative.

05:24 PM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Dale Coffing managed to get his hands on a pre-production unit of the HTC Universal, one of the first Pocket PC devices that will run Microsoft's recently announced Windows Mobile 5 software. It's most distinguishing feature is definitely the clamshell mode which offers landscape display above the keyboard, ideal for surfing the Web or writing long e-mails.

10:17 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book Software | Reading and Management

SirOops informed us today that image support in TomeRaider 3 is stable now. You can download English and German Wikipedias with images for PPC and Palm. File sizes for the English version range from 1 Gb to 2.6 Gb, depending on size and number of images.

More on this site.

10:10 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Interested in what software works and what doesn't with the LifeDrive, PalmOne's latest handheld? PalmAddicts has posted a link to a Brighthand forum thread where people are collecting their compatibility findings.

10:04 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

MyUAE is a working Commodore Amiga emulator based on UAE specifically written for the Palm OS 5 platform. The most important enhancement of version 0.8 are:

• smaller emulator core, allows work on T5 and Treo 650 with UMDH
• less need of dynamic memory
• auto save/restore of emulator state
• packed state files, saves some space on your memory card
• faster virtual disk access
• gfx polished
• bug fixes

Download from Sourceforge.

[via PDAArcade]

09:42 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

A new hacking technique may allow evil doers to hack into any Bluetooth-enabled device, even when security features are switched on. New Scientits reports that two cryptographers, Avishai Wool and Yaniv Shaked of Tel Aviv University in Israel have worked out how to force devices to pair whenever they want. The pairing process is the first communication between two Bluetooth devices where a secret encryption key is exchanged. Once pairing succeeded, one person could theoratically, for instance, make phone calls on another person's phone.

Shaked and Wool will present their findings at the MobiSys 2005 conference next Monday. Update: Here is a link to the actual presentation. Thanks Alex!

09:29 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Portable Audio/Video

By now Apple has sold more than 10 million iPod MP3 players, and the company's stock has surged 270 percent since the iPod was first introduced in October 2001. But these days analysts are wary of the player's future success.

An AP article appearing at BusinessWeek online yesterday reports that unlike in the past, when Apple has always shipped more iPods to retailers than expected, Goldman Sachs analysts now predict that Apple would likely only meet expectations and iPod shipments to be flat this quarter. The AP article is also quoting an AppleInsider report saying that shipments of most iPod models are "flat or declining" for the first time since the device was launched in 2001 and that, as a consequence Apple is overstocked on most of its MP3 players.

After these news Apple stock fell $1.80, or 4.5 percent to close at $38.24 last Friday.