Over the years I have tried many PIM applications for my WinMo devices from SPB Diary, SBSH Pocket Breeze and many more, the one I kep going back and trying and seeing what was new was WebIS's Pocket Informant.
Since the begining of this year I have been using an iPhone 3G 16GB as my main device, it has been great, however we all know that the built in diary is only just adequate, I had seen Pocket Informant for the iPhone and held off for a bit just see how it developed.
I since installed PI on my iPhone and must say now that it is my main dairy & todo list. I was very impressed with how easy it was to use and enter my data.
On the Twitter board WebIS have advised they are close to nailing the Outlook sync most likely via Bonjour, this will make PI a killer app and a must for those people that need to stay in control of their day to day needs.
So far I have seen some great UI themes for the iPhone from the HTC Hero UI and now one from 6Mik over at DeviantART who designed the "Whitoken" theme and also Darren Coates who did some great Mods of 6Mik's theme.
Below is some screen shots of my iPhone 3G, with Wolfmans Mod theme, based on Darren Coates Mod.
Head over to Mac Themes Forum for up to date info and icons for these great thems
A couple of weekends ago I was at the Royal Perth Show and found a vender there selling i-wrapz, now since I bought my iPhone 3G back in Feb 09 I have been on the hunt for the ultimate case.
I have a number of cases from a full leather case & belt clip to standard hard & silicone cases with also a hip holster thrown in. Now my phone is fully protected as I use the hip holster and Flaming Skull themes i-wrapz.
The surprising thing about the Wrapz is thatthey stick to certin surfaces for example Glass, Plastic, Benchs, Tiles even one of my books. See below some pics, when they guy showed me at the Royal Perth Show I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it and now you can as well.
Imagine Bluetooth headphones an inch in size, with full music, call and volume control.
Today I received an email from an insider in the headphone industry, that a major company, possibly, Sony, Motorola, Jaybird or Altec Lancing will be releasing some brand new Bluetooth headphones.
I have been reading alot about this of late on the web, it now has been asked alot at work when I advise custoemrs... "By the way you can't send files (music, photo's etc) via bluetooth on your iPhone". The responce is pretty normal "What? My old Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson blah. blah ... could do that and that was over 5 years ago... oh well" and they still by it, just goes to show the power of the iPhone.
With the release of OS 3.0 most thought the Bluetooth issue would be resolved and we iPhone addicts would have one less joke the WinMo guys would throw at us.
But no It seems to me that Apple wants iTunes to be the portal to the iPhone and may be worried about music or other stuff (security threats) being transfered to the iPhone that they don't control or get a kick back from. I mean come on all of my old WinMo devices could transfer files some did very well.
If only Apple would allow sharing via bluetooth, it can be done for those who have jailbroken their iPhones you can via Cydia download (small fee now) iBluetooth it has a bluetooth stack included from most of the reviews it does what it states transfer files to and from the iPhone.
If they are so worried about iTunes media being transfered stop DRM files being transfered there must be some bright spark that could right a script etc for that.
Well I just hope that with the possible release of 3.1 OS (currently in Beta with developers) that they - Apple think long and hard about what their customer want - EVERYTHING!
Over the years I have been using Pocket PC's starting form my first iPaq rz1710 (rz1710 Review), it was a very nice little device, great for me to start with.
Then came the Harrier (for those in the USA - PPC-6600) came along with Telecom, which I bought I liked this phone / PPC because of the portrait slide out keyboard which was great for texting, it ran WM 2003.
After WM5 was released I was interested in the Apache (PPC-6700), I had seen on the website that the Apache had 64MB RAM and 128MB flash ROM, to my surprise it had less memory (RAM) than my Harrier, I went to my local Telecom store to enquire about the device, I asked them why it had less memory, their reply was less than inspiring... They knew NOTHING.
In the ending I had to go onto the Sprint website to find out that WM5 had a NEW memory management system that it used ROM rather than RAM to store programmes and that it used RAM to run the apps... You would think that a Telco would have staff trained and know what they are selling.
In the end I did buy it, I loved the compact size compared to the Harrier, the areal was a pain but got over that in a hurry, the slide out keyboard was so much better than the Harrier's and I just loved. Now here is the reason I sold it and said I would NEVER EVER would go back to a PPC / Phone device...
The ringing time! My wife would ring me and she would have 6 rings to my 1 ring, I did a registry hack and got it down to 4 rings to 1 ring, I just kept on missing calls and my wife couldn't get a hold of me, so went back to a standard mobile phone.
I didn't give up on PPC totally, I then bought my Dell Axim X51v (Axim X51v Review) which I loved, it was powerful and robust for what I need it for, Dairy, eBooks, Word Docs, Surfing the net on our Wi-Fi network at home.
Since the release of the iPhone (1st Gen) and then the iPod Touch, being a techno Geek I had to have an iPod Touch as I saw this as more than an iPod it was a Music Player, Contacts, Calendar, Wi-Fi, Internet and now much more with the release of the App Store, love this iPod and would recommend it over the Classic or the Nano also prices are coming down.
In 2008 I bought my first Smartphone a Motorola Q9h, now don't go and say but you stated you would NEVER EVER go back to a PPC / Phone, but the Q9h is a Smartphone, for those that have been mislead by Microsoft who coined every WM device with a phone a "Smartphone", they are not there are PPC Phones (Harrier, Apache) which have a "Touch Screen" and a Smartphone (Moto Q9h, Dash) which have a NON-Touch Screen and use the directional D-Pad to move through the screen.
Now the Moto Q9h (Vodafone - Yes I have moved) is very fast on picking up the call with in 1 to 1 1/2 rings, I found that the Qwerty Keyboard is a dream, even better than the Apache's which I thought was the best out at that stage. Even though there is a smaller amount of Apps for Smartphone’s compared to Pocket PC devices it is getting better as more and more companies are porting their main stay apps across to the Smartphone platform.
In February on 2009 I decided to move to Perth in Western Australia, in doing this I pretty much sold up my devices my old Axim X51v, Portable BT Keyboard and many other itmes to then purchase my iPhone 3G (16GB) one of the best purchases I have every made, I was thinking about going back to the windows platform however found that it has changed much over the years (might change once WinMo 7 is finally released), however with the release of apples new 3.0 OS for iPhone and iPod touch it has finally gotten us to the level of the WinMo devices.
Jace has been using WinMo devices for the past 8 years starting with the iPaq 1700 series PDA them moving through to conversion devices and also an Axim X51v, Jace has been working in the Telco industry for the past 5 years. His current devices are the iPhone 3G 16GB with OS 3.1, Motorola Q9h 6.0 smartphone & an iPod Touch 16GB (1st Gen) . Jason also enjoys reviewing products & being involved with technology.
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