Windows Mobile has a nasty little habit of hiding things in plain sight.
Want your clock to appear in analog mode as seen above? Try this. Tap and hold the digital clock in the top system bar on your phone. You’ll see the option to change from digital to analog there. This will display in all programs, assuming you have this setting enabled.
Want to enable this setting? Just as easy! Tap on Start then Settings then System then Clock & Alarms - select the ‘More’ tab and put a check in the box that says “Display clock on the title bar in all programs.” Presto!
Being a history graduate (go on, make your nerd jokes now), I pride myself as being the Queen of Trivial Knowledge - but even I need a refresher now and again. If I’m lucky enough to be sitting by a computer (which I’ll admit is quite often) the internet has almost every answer I could possibly need in seconds thanks to Wikipedia. But what if I’m not in front of my computer?
Here’s the perfect solution: Wikipedia… on your Windows Mobilephone! I know what you’re thinking. Data. Data is expensive! And Wikipedia is full of images and links and then you have to worry about having the right browser to view it in properly… grah! So here it is… How-to: Get Wikipedia on your phone (without an internet connection!)
This video (via Popular Mechanics) should get you up and surfing the web in no time!
You’re right - I’ve already posted a how-to on connecting your WinMo phone to your laptop (see “How-to: Internet Sharing - love between a laptop and a Windows Mobile phone“) but many people are still confused as to how to get this up and running. The above video outlines the steps needed to turn your smartphone (the video uses a Samsung Jack Windows Mobile phone) into a wireless modem via Bluetooth. It’s very easy to follow and should have you connected in no time!
Tired of the bland look/feel of your Windows Mobile device’s Comm Manager? Check out this guide to easily customizing your Comm Manager with skins and styles — for FREE!
When you’ve got a Windows Mobile phone, telephone calls aren’t the only way to keep in touch with your friends, family and colleagues. Your Windows Mobile device offers many powerful text-messaging features! But if you’re anything like me, you barely scratch the surface of texting functions.
This Windows Mobile guide will show you how to get the most out of your text messaging and help you broaden your communication options!
Ever wondered how to get your pretty picture to display inside forums, comment threads and blogs? Well, look no further!
A Gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs? Signing up for a gravatar.com account is FREE, and all that’s required is your email address. Once you’ve signed up you can upload your avatar image and soon after you’ll start seeing it on gravatar enabled weblogs!
Speaking of web forums… have you seen ours? What are you waiting for? Head over to our forums now - ask a question, make a suggestion, draw a pretty picture of what your ideal phone would look like!
(No, seriously. I’ll put it on my refrigerator if that helps.)
Two awesome hacks from XDA-Developers in one day! Woo hoo!
This time one that allows you to ‘enable’ (read: re-enable) Internet Sharing on your HTC Touch Diamond, Sprint Touch Pro, AT&T Fuze (Touch Pro) and the Samsung Epix!
Now, this is a registry key edit so use at your own risk as we’re never 100% sure of how these things will turn out sometimes.. but if you’re desperate for Internet Sharing (or brave and up for a challenge) try out this trick…
The good folks over at XDA-Developers have created a hack that brings full TouchFLO 3D capabilities to the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1! TouchFLO 3D on the Xperia means a more finger-friendly UI, YouTube usability and a ton of other awesome enhancements.
If you’re an Xperia user, I suggest heading over to the XDA-Developers thread now and downloading this for yourself!
If you’ve purchased a Vodafone HTC Touch Pro, one of the first things you’ll notice is that there is no YouTube application. This is a shame considering
The eForum team on Vodafone’s help forum had this to say:
I expect the Youtube app has been removed due to the amount of data you could potentially use when streaming videos. I appreciate you can still do it via the web browser, but navigating to the Youtube page in your browser is much more difficult than just loading the app, so it rules out people opening it by accident and running up a large bill.
This is strange for 2 reasons: Vodafone users have access to unlimited data and if you’re buying an expensive smartphone, you surely know about data costs and getting an appropriate plan. Secondly, the YouTube app comes with the HTC Touch Diamond, so why not the Pro?
If you want the app, all you have to do is go here and get the CAB file for the YouTube app. Remember, you won’t need the HTC Streaming Media CAB file as it comes with the device.
You can use your Windows Mobile device’s Calendar to schedule appointments, including meetings and other events. Your appointments for the day can be displayed on the Today screen. If you use Outlook on your computer, you can synchronize appointments between your device and your computer. You can also set the Calendar to remind you of appointments with a sound or a flashing light, for example.
Bambi Blue on the post SkyFire mobile browser updated to 0.8.5: The browser does hiccup a bit from time to time on my device but I would put the blame squarely on my device in that case (it's geriatric, heh).
I'm a big fan of the browser, even besides flash and all that. It's got a really useful home screen, a great bookmarking layout, and the zoom and view functions are the best I've seen.
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RSSGlad that existing AT&T Premier customers are screwed out of this deal!!! ARGH!!! :( Seriously Epix or Fuse for FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm pretty sure there are two different handsets, one for WinMo, one for Android. http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/12/01/qigi-6-offers-windows-mobile-61-or-android-but-not-both/
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The browser does hiccup a bit from time to time on my device but I would put the blame squarely on my device in that case (it's geriatric, heh). I'm a big fan of the browser, even besides flash and all that. It's got a really useful home screen, a great bookmarking layout, and the zoom and view functions are the best I've seen.
Actaully i was looking for sharing the Internet on my laptop to be used on my mobile. I'm using O2 XDA atom life.