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HTC Touch HD review by pocketnow.com

Despite economic woes, people are snapping up smartphones at a record pace. Shipments of smartphones worldwide hit a new peak of just under 40 million units in the third quarter of this year, according to the latest estimates from market research firm Canalys.

Smartphones now represent around 13% of the total mobile phone market, up from 11% in the previous quarter.

All but one of the top five smartphone makers increased the number of devices they shipped during the quarter, a couple of them substantially.

Apple Is Up, Nokia Is Down

Naturally, Nokia is still on top of the global smartphone market, a position it has held for many years. However, it’s competitors are cutting into its lead.

It had 39% of the market last quarter, down from 51% in the same quarter of 2007. It was the only one of the top 5 smartphone makers to see a decline in shipments, from 16.0 million in Q3 of 2007 to 15.5 million last quarter, a 3.4% decline.

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Earlier this fall, many were excited by the announcement of the HTC Touch HD, a device with a 3.8-inch, WVGA touchscreen and other high-end features. Then came the announcement a few weeks later that this smartphone isn’t going to be officially released in the United States.

Fortunately for those in the U.S. and Canada who want to get their hands on the Touch HD, grey-market retailers are stepping in.

eXpansys USA just received a shipment, and is taking orders for this Windows Mobile device on its website. The price is $800, which isn’t unusually high for a phone that is available on through a grey-market retailer.

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With this software, you will be able to control remotely your desktop mouse and keyboard, applications like Winamp, iTunes, the Windows Mixer, the Windows Media Player, PowerPoint, Media Player Classic, PowerDVD and the Vista’s Media Center. You’ll also be able to pause your favorite music software when the phone rings, then play it back when you hang up. You’ll also be able to extend the application to add your own application.

Here is what you need to use this software :

• An installation of the Windows XP Service Pack 2
• A Bluetooth enabled Windows Mobile Device (like the Orange E200/QTEK 8080, the C500, C550, C600, M3000/HTC Wizard/TyTN, Motorola Q9, and probably any Windows Mobile 5 and 6 device)
• A Bluetooth radio on your laptop/desktop supported natively by Windows XP (which is detected by the Windows XP Control Panel), or that is supported by the Broadcomm Stack (Formerly Widcomm).

  Note that BlueSoleil and Samsung stacks are not supported for now.

• The .NET Framework 2.0.

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I have been a fan of Vito’s new online task manager, Tas2Gather, for about 5 months or so; ever since they were kind enough to give me an advance look at the beta version.  Since then, a lot has changed in the program, as Vito continued to refine the interface.  Two things have remained constant, however: the unique hierarchical view, which allows you to quickly and easily organize tasks and sub-tasks; and the ability to share your lists with your team members.

Although the iPhone version of the program was released several months ago, Vito took some additional time to refine the Windows Mobile version, which they released earlier this week.  With this release, you can now access your Task2Gather account from any computer, iPhone/iPod Touch, or Windows Mobile device.  Watch for my review of all three versions coming soon in November.

And hit the jump to see the full press release.

“Spb Software, world’s leading Windows Mobile software developer releases Spb Traveler 2.0 - an expert mobile travel assistant application that is a pleasure to handle. The new Spb Traveler 2.0 offers a revolutionary animated finger-friendly user interface, a subscription-free flight search engine (powered by OAG), an animated 3D Globe with real satellite image of the sky, and a Geo Game for fun and learning. Winner in Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine’s Best Software Awards, Spb Traveler provides valuable tools and information to travelers such as world time and global weather service (powered by Foreca, the trusted provider of msn.com), tip calculator and multilanguage phrase book, as well as currency, unit, and clothing size converters. In all it does, Spb Traveler 2.0 has the speed and usability of an Spb Mobile Shell-powered interface, topped off with high-class 3D animation and gestures.”

There’s plenty going on today: the launch of Apple Thoughts, a certain election, and now, the introduction of Spb Traveler 2.0. This new version includes some great features such as flight search, a three-dimensional globe, a geographical game, an improved trip assistant, and a gorgeous, touch-friendly UI. If you own Spb Traveler 1.x, an upgrade to 2.0 will cost $14.95, or is free if you purchased 1.x within the last 90 days; otherwise,the  affiliate software store has a free trial version, or the full version for $29.95.

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“… Motorola will open a new office in Seattle “in order to work closely with Microsoft to deliver differentiation” via the Windows Mobile platform, he said. Motorola expects to release a phone based on Windows Mobile 6.5 platform in the second half of 2009, and an Android-based device for the 2009 holiday season… ‘Windows Mobile 6 has not delivered the experience that I think Apple has been able to deliver, but as you look at the plan that is Windows Mobile 7 and even 6.5, I think there are significant new added features which will help the platform,’ Jha said.”

Suddenly the wait for Windows Mobile 7 doesn’t seem as torturous as it once did. I am a little disappointed that we had to hear about a new version of Windows Mobile from Motorola and not Microsoft, but I am ecstatic for the news regardless. Not much is said about Windows Mobile 6.5 besides the fact that they are heavily working on “experiences,” which I hope is just marketing babble for “usability.” With Windows Mobile 6.5 devices slated for release around the second half of 2009, that hopefully means we can expect to start hearing some news on the new platform sometime as early as December or February. Hopefully now that the cat is out of the bag Microsoft will give us a little more to work with besides the usual tight lipped approach they have currently been taking.

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Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed a lot of interest in Windows Mobile 6.1. Specifically, people wondering how they can upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.1. Well, the following list might not be comprehensive, but it calls out a number of devices I’ve heard about lately and their update points.

If you’re interested in finding a new phone that runs Windows Mobile 6.1, check out this Microsoft Web site.

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Samsung has released their newest Windows Mobile phone the C6620 which is now currently available only in Italy and will be available in three flavors. The Samsung C6620 Windows Mobile phone is a Tri-Band phone exclusive to TIM with full Qwerty Keyboard and a non-touchscreen QVGA interface. The phone is quite slim so it will easily slide into your pocket without fuss and most notably it is easy on the eyes. Here are the specs of of the Samsung C6620 Tri band GSM connectivity 900

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