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BrightHand quotes a Microsoft spokesperson stating:

We recently gave Windows Mobile device makers the final updates to our new browser. It’s now up to our partners to roll out Internet Explorer Mobile 6 on their handsets; we’re expecting some of the first phones with IE6 to be available in Asia and Europe by the end of calendar year 2008, with U.S. offerings to follow.

Unfortunately, it looks like existing Windows Mobile handsets will not receive this upgrade. Customers on recent HTC devices will not be annoyed too much (they get Opera for free – everybody else will be less than happy.

As Microsoft gives up a large part of the market by not supporting legacy devices, I consider it highly possible that an aftermarket upgrade of some sort will become available.

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Like that virtual keyboard you’ve seen in those iPhones your friends have? Well now you can get something similar from Spb. It’s the Spb Keyboard 4.0 which was just released. All you need is a Windows Mobile device to install in ton. And it would be very useful if you had a touchscreen to go with that. Spb Keyboard 4 offers bubbles or “slkding pop-ups” which will let you see what you are typing. Here are some other features of this application: • Three modes of text input: Full-Screen, Half-Screen, and Standard • New finger-friendly interface and skin engine • Built-in support of 35 languages • Sliding Pop-ups • Smart Gestures • Better Auto-complete • Wise Memory Consumption The application comes with a trial period but after that it costs just $14.95. You can get it right here.

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Weather is a Windows Mobile software for getting weather forecast right on your device. It has intuitive and finger-friendly interface. In Winterface weather icon shows either the degrees of the first city in the list or the image that shows whether it is cloudy, snowy, windy etc. Download

Weather for 100% USA cities & all major world cities Forecasting for up to ten cities at the same time Fahrenheit or Celsius temperature

Opera Mini 4.2 beta installs next to any existing stable Opera Mini version on your device and will not overwrite any of your data.

Alternatively, you may download Opera Mini to your computer for a manual installation.

• Standard Opera Mini 4.2 beta JAR (124 KB)
• Standard Opera Mini 4.2 beta JAD (4 KB)
• BlackBerry Opera Mini 4.2 beta ZIP archive (104 KB)
• Palm (requires JVM installed) Opera Mini 4.2 beta PRC (316 KB)

There has been a lot of requests from forum members asking “How do I view YouTube content on my Tilt, Mogul, Touch, etc”. There are several options to viewing YouTube on your device, and below there are three options. If anyone has any additional sites that have proven useful for viewing YouTube content, please feel free to add it here. If you do add any information, please follow the format shown below, provide a description of the service and cost if any, include step by step down/installation/configuration instructions and verify that any hyperlink you reference is functioning.

HTC Streaming Media Player

Recently, YouTube had updated their site so that additional mobile devices could view their mobile website, so long as you had the appropriate media player. More recent HTC devices like the TyTN II and the Touch came with an application called HTC Streaming Media Player, which allowed users to view sites like YouTube. Unfortunately, a lot of the carrier branded devices (such as AT&T Tilt as to HTC TyTN II) did not include this application. Fortunately for us, the great folks at www.xda-developers.com have extracted this application and created a .cab file out of it. You can find that file here.

Installation:
After you’ve downloaded the above file, you’ll find that the file contained in this .zip file is a .cab file, to install this file, extract it out of the .zip file first, thencopy the .cab fileto your phone (any directorywould be fine, but preferbly in My Document folder, just remember where you put it). This file is intended to work on AT&T 8525 and the AT&T Tilt, other device users should use at your own risk. Still, it’s worth a shot. Now go to your windows mobile phone, open “File Explorer”in your programs folder, navagate to the folder where the .cab file is resting, click on it, the program should install, and when it’s finished, it’ll ask you to restart(accept any warrning messages, if any). Once installed, when you go to http://m.youtube.com and click on any of the video, the HTC Streaming Media Player should automatically pop open, and start buffering and playing the videos.

Troubleshoot:

• If, while browsing m.youtube.com’s contents, RealPlayer poped up, that means you didn’t properly install the HTC Streaming Media Palyer or you haven’t restart your phone after install. Double check on above instruction on how to install the player, and soft-reset your phone.
• If, HTC Streaming Media Player poped up, but it’s not buffering and shows “Connecting” forever, your network setting might be wrong. Click on Menu->Options-> and double check “Connect via:” option, see if it is correctly targeted to your interent connection(AT&T GPRS ISP, The Internet, T Mobile DATA etc, etc.). Switch different connections and try them one by one, till you get one that would allow the player to buffer the content

YouTube Pocket

YouTube Pocket is a free PocketPC portal of YouTube that was created by a gentlemen named Anthony Capobianco. He runs the site free of charge to all users and is basically just a port of the full YouTube to PocketPC/Windows Mobile Devices. To use this site, you just need to go to www.ytpocket.com and start browsing.

Required applications for this method:
Install any .cab file follow the installation method described in HTC Streaming Media Player installation instructions above.
Two applications are needed for this site to work. The first is TCPMP Core Player. Choose download Touchscreen Pocket PC version orNon-Touchscreen smartphone version. You will also need to download a Flash Plugin for TCPMP Core Player. All of the instructions to set this up as well as the TCPMP Core Player are on the site. This application works pretty well and is been used for quite some time. Just remember that you have to visit www.ytpocket.com if you want to view the YouTube content.

vTap

vTap is a solution created by Veveo. It aggregates several different video sites into one application. So instead of just viewing YouTube, you can also view ESPN, ABC News, CNN etc. on your device. This also a free service and the client can be downloaded from their website. The client offers incremental search and does a good job of buffering to offer smooth playback. It is also possible to type search terms in ‘number mode’.

vTap also has a site http://m.vtap.com which provides MMS based streaming for Windows Mobile devices. The Windows Media player on your HTC phone is capable of playing this stream. This website does not require any additional software to be installed.

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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.

Have you ever wanted to mix your own ringtone out of your favorite audio files If you answered yes and you happen to own a smartphone with Windows Mobile 5.0 or later then we have the perfect application for you. Mixx Mobile 2.0 will let you edit music files record sounds and create your own ringtones. Mixx Mobule 2.0 will let you play with music while on the go so your commute can turn into an interesting ringtone creation process. The application is available for a demo trial

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Manila 3D is a theme skin for Windows Mobile’s Media Player. You would need Windows Mobile 5.0 or later to make it work. The theme seems good looking from the distance. Hopefully you will get a better experience from your Windows Mobile Media Player.

Manila 3D is a TouchFlo-3D-like theme which comes for free. In case you want to stick to the default Windows Mobile has to offer then forget all about Manila 3D. In case you were looking for something like this then this is your lucky day. We have a download link below. Feel free to follow it and ask more questions later! Download Manilla 3D skin for Media Player