06:40 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Word came to us that ACCESS released a new version of NetFront, a highly funcational embedded web-browser for Pocket PC devices. With the up-to-date version, NetFront finally fully supports Windows Mobile 2003SE (including VGA resolutions)!

According to ACCESS, new features of NetFront v3.2 include:

• Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition for Pocket PC support
• Flash support
• Java support (through JV-LITE2 CE)
• Rapid-Render (renders Web page content while downloading it)
• Japanese domainname support
• Outlook Web Access support
• Client certificate-based authentication

The browser conforms to the latest W3C standards including: HTML4.01, XHTML1.1, ccHtml, XHTML Basic 1.0, WML1.3, CSS 1 & 2, EC$$MAScript 3rd Edition (JavaScript 1.5), DOM1, 2 and Dynamic HTML, GIF and animated GIF, BMP, PNG and JPEG and MNG, HTTP1.1, SSL2.0/3.0, TLS1.0, and Cookies.

Current registered owners of ACCESS NetFront V3.1 will have to buy a new licence (we're not sure about discounts). A trial with restricted functionality is available for download (in Japanese, English hopefully soon).

Edit: Direct download link (trial PID: NF32PPC3ARJR10D)

11:33 AM by divajess in Miscellaneous | Lounge

In celebration of the first anniversary of GMail, Google has increased the storage capacity for all GMail users to 2 GB! This is NOT in fact an April Fool's joke, because I logged in to my GMail to find the storage space going up slowly. Currently users are at about 1.4GB and they have a counter steadily going up on the GMail login page.

They have said that this is only the beginning, with plans to roll out even more storage in the future. They have also added great new features like the ability to send 10MB of pictures at a time, fonts, colors, highlighting and their new basic HTML view that supports almost every browser out there.

Thanks GMail, and Happy Birthday!!

04:55 AM by doctorow in Miscellaneous | Lounge

Reminder: Beware of silly 1st April jokes. No, Apple is not entering the PDA market (at least as of right now).

03:21 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Rob Reilly started a new series of tutorials at LinuxPlanet on WiFi networking with a Linux-enabled PDA. The first part includes instruction how to set up a generic WiFi PDA and how to connect to a Samba-based file server.

03:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Hot off the press: WebIS, Inc has just released Pocket Informant 2005, perhaps the best PIM replacement for PocketPCs. The list of changes, bugfixes and news is bigger than the valley of the Jolly Green Giant; rest assured this update is worth every penny.

Click here for the various download options.

02:25 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

PalmSource swung to a third-quarter loss, hurt by a 20% decline in revenue (to $17.2 million from $21.6 million in the year-ago period). The company also reported a loss of $721,000 in the third quarter ending Feb. 25. This compares with a profit of $597,000 in the same period a year ago. Excluding charges for stock-based compensation and the amortization of purchased intangible assets, PalmSource earned $600,000, or 4 cents a share, narrower than the $3.6 million the company earned last year.

For the next quarter, PalmSource expects to generate sales between $17.2 million and $18 million and estimates a loss in earnings between $13 cents and 18 cents a share.

01:23 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

PalmOne is finally going to release a new (not-killer) PDA unit next month. The palmOne E2 will be officially available for sale on April 10 for a retail price of $219.99. Datavision (a NYC store near Bryant Park on 5th which I never liked much - J&R is 10x cooler), has it already in stock, so every true Palm believer listen up: it is time for your preorder!

You heard it here first: Engadget via PalmAddicts (Sam as usual you rock!)

02:45 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

A new version of Skype for Pocket PC was released yesterday.

New features: ability to leave Skype Voicemail, SkypeIn support, centralized Contacts list, support for high-resolution display (!!), SkypeOut fixes (calling to France numbers), exit and close Skype application from Tools menu, additional languages (German, French), improved communication security, error message when calling from search result.

Bugfixes: blocked contact offline icon incorrect, incorrect message in case of password change, Skype was unusable on Chinese PPC

Click here for the downloads.