C-motech Mangrove – Best Windows Mobile device/MID ever?

Here is a MID from C-Motech that comes with the mighty 1GHz Snapdragon CPU. It is powered by Windows Mobile 6.5. The most interesting thing about this MID is its 7-inch display that has WVGA (800×480) resolution (which is the maximum a Windows Mobile device supports).

C-Motech has worked hard to make this look as sleek as possible. Its huge 3200mAh battery should keep your device running for days. If that was not enough, there is an optional 4000mAh battery, which we think is way too much for a device that is based on ARM-platform. Despite its huge dimensions, it still manages to stay light at 300gm.

It is every single radio that you can imagine: 3G, WiMax, WiFi and GPS. For storage, you get 512MB and for running apps, there is 256MB RAM, which is more than enough for any Windows Mobile application out there.

CONFIRMED: No Apple Netbook coming

After months and months of rumors about the Apple netbook, Apple’s chief operating officer finally confirmed in harsh words that Apple will never produce netbooks as they do not deserve the MAC brand. Here are the exact words,

When I look at netbooks, I see cracked keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware, very small screens. It’s just not a good consumer experience and not something we would put the Mac brand on. It’s a segment we would not choose to play in.

He further said, if you want smaller screens, you can go ahead and buy iPhone/iPod for that. This makes me wonder how can an iPod Touch replace my netbook. I own several Windows Mobile devices along with iPod Touch (latest 2G version) and I firmly think that in no way they can ever replace my EEE 1000H.

iPod Touch and Netbooks are both two very different devices. Both of them have their own specific use. I like iPod Touch and WM devices as they are way more mobile than any netbook in the market. But, when I need to do some serious work, I always look up to my EEE 1000H (which is still very portable as compared to normal notebooks).

What this actually shows? This shows that Apple’s Chief operating officer, Tim Cook has actually never used any of the modern day netbooks as none of them have cramped keyboard, ‘junky hardware’ or terrible software.

SMS Minder [Windows Mobile]

SMS Minder is a small application which replies to SMSes for you automatically with the message you set in the application. Current features: Auto reply to received SMS messages Blacklist contacts that would be replied to via SMS SMS reply to missed calls with the ability to filter out the first two digits of their [...]

Backup those favorites! [Opera Mobile 9 Tip]

Unfortunately, Opera Mobile does not give you an easy to backup the favorites that you’ve made on your device. The odd part is that unlike Netfront which shares it’s favorites with the Internet Explorer mobile and vice-versa, Opera manages the favorites separately. If you are going to buy a new device or updating the ROM [...]

Windows Mobile: How to force an application to run in VGA-mode

Here is a simple but very helpful trick. We see so many VGA devices around. Many of the applications are VGA-ready, but the developers have not made tweaked their applications to use the VGA resolution. For example: There are two adobe reader versions for Windows Mobile. One is already VGA-aware, which means that you don’t [...]