Its been a long wait for LG Expo owners, but the Snapdragon-totting smartphone is now finally able to join in the custom ROM flashing fun, thanks to the efforts of Dark9781.
The ROM runs the latest 23563 build of Windows Mobile, and has been stripped of superfluous AT&T apps.
Read more about the new ROM and any associated issues in this XDA-Developers thread.
SK Telecom's new smartphone additions to counter KT's iPhone
The iPhone has been a quiet success in South Korea, selling around 500,000 units in 4 months on the smaller KT carrier there. SK Telecom, who dominates the cell phone market there, is however not taking this lying down, and has promised to introduce a slew of attractive devices, including the HTC HD2.
Samsung, Korea’s biggest cell phone company, has taken KT’s adoption of the iPhone rather personally, and has withdrawn the supply of new handsets to the carrier, and even stopped supporting current handsets there, for example not releasing a Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade for the Samsung T*Omnia, called the Show Omnia on that network, where it only sold 40,000, while doing joint promotions for the same handset on SK Telecom, where the T*Omnia sold 470 000.
“The Show Omnia is an illegitimate son who can’t call his father, father,” said KT’s Chairman Lee Suk-chae, using the old Korean folklore of Hong Gil-dong, the Joseon Kingdom equivalent of Robin Hood, as a metaphor.
Despite iPhone’s popularity, SK Telecom still has a larger number of smartphone customers thanks to its vast line-up of premium handsets, and Samsung seems hell bent on assuring that things stay that way.
Since it released the iPhone in November last year, KT admits it has been experiencing “serious difficulties” trying to add wealth to its smartphone line-up, with Samsung Electronics and other major vendors channelling their products through SK Telecom. SK Telecom is said to have no plans to release the iPhone.
Read more about the growing feud at KoreaTimes here and here.
Remember that old board game your parents would make you sit down and play sometimes when you have relatives round? Well, throw in some style, cartoony graphics and interesting gameplay and you’ve got CLUEDO for Windows Mobile.
Read the rest of the review and see part 2 of the video at BestWindowsMobileApps.com here.
Before the trend for tiny screens started there were some great and also very snappy Windows Mobile 2003 devices. Not all of them were upgraded to Windows Mobile 5 (and it usually made them slower).
Windows Mobile 2003 did not have the best browser however, which often meant the Java-based Opera Mini was installed. Opera has recently released a native version of the same browser, which unfortunately will only install in Windows Mobile 5.0 and up devices.
Fortunately Smartphone Magazine’s Werner Ruotsalainen repackaged the CAB installer so that it works perfectly on devices running Windows Mobile 2003 and 2003SE.
Mobicomputing.com has published this video showing it running perfectly on a Dell Axim X50v PDA.
Get full instructions at Smartphonemag here.
[Windows Only] UltraSurf is a tool that hooks your web browsers up with a free anonymous proxy. It hides your true IP address. Why is that important? I found a good answer at about.com:
When connecting to the Internet, your home computer (or network router) is assigned a public IP address. As you visit Web sites or other Internet servers, that public IP address is transmitted and recorded in log files kept on those servers. Access logs leave behind a trail of your Internet activity. If it were possible to somehow hide your public IP address, your Internet activity would become much more difficult to trace.
UltraReach, the group behind the UltraSurf application, talks about a another good reason for their service. Their purpose is as follows:
UltraReach is the first company with a mission that offers Internet technology and service immune to the national Internet censorship in China. The outstanding performance of our service has made UltraReach Internet well known among the users who seek the Internet freedom in the censored country, and at the meantime attracted heavy attacks from Chinese Internet police.
In other words, UltraSurf allows users to get past internet censorship. I don’t know exactly how it works, but I’ve tried UltraSurf and so far I’m impressed with it.
It’s easy to use. Just download it, double click the EXE file to run it, then start surfing.
Once it’s running, you’ll see a simple interface.
It will also launch Internet Explorer and you can start surfing if you want to. If you don’t want to use Internet Explorer, just close it and use your other web browsers. You can also go into the settings and tell UltraSurf not to start Internet Explorer.
If you’d like to, you can check your IP address at whatismyip.com to find out what it is. You’ll see that running UltraSurf changes your address after it starts up.
You can download UltraSurf here.
In the past, the writers here at Techie Buzz have shared some other surfing tips with you. Here are a few:
Are Web Proxy Servers Safe To Enter Passwords?
How To Access Blocked Websites
How To Access Blogspot Blogs From China
Unblock and Access YouTube From China
I’ve also written about two free web browsers that let you surf anonymously.
Techie Buzz Verdict:
UltraSurf is one of the easiest ways you can find to surf the internet with anonymous freedom. I can’t tell you if it can bridge the great Chinese firewall, but the authors of this program are dedicated to doing that.
Techie Buzz Rating: 4/5 (Excellent)
Having the right look and feel on your Windows Phone can become hard when carriers love to add totally unnecessary crap on your device. Well… the next version of Windows Phones will not have any of those anymore, they will 
become a thing of the past. A member over at XDA found a little something that explains it as fallowed:
Regarding preloaded applications by OEM/MO: Requirements are much more strict in this regard now due to frequent end-user complaints about "slow, laggy, etc" Stock ROMs. I know every one of you reading this knows what I mean Preloaded App Requirements (which will be distributed as .xap) as follows:
– Maximum of 6 preloaded applications on the device, not to exceed 60MB
– All preloaded apps must pass Marketplace submission process (some extended APIs are available to OEM/MO so the process is slightly relaxed in that regard)
– The application(s) and all future updates must be free of charge.
– The apps must launch without dependency on network availability.
– The apps must persist through a "hard reset".
– The apps must be updatable and revocable (!!!!) through the Marketplace.
– The apps must notify the user at first launch of any capabilities to be utilized and get user consent (to access compass, accelerometer, network, etc.)
This is simple great news for people on AT&T for example, the company that always has the most crapware filled devices. I guess this might make people a little more happy with Windows Phones, because your memory is not going to waste, and with carriars being lazy these days, we might see the end to stupidware.
Via:PN
Como su nombre lo indica Opera mobile emulator nos da la facilidad de tener en nuestro escritorio un emulador para ver como se ve una pagina web en cualquier celular que lo ejecute. Algo similar al emulador de opera mini 5 que se ejecuta desde su web. Con la diferencia que aquí podemos redimencionar la pantalla y ajustar a la resolución del navegador a nuestro gusto.
Su descarga esta disponible tanto para windows, mac o linux.
As requested, here’s a quick video of the HD Mini and the HD2 running some OpenGLES demos. The HD2 seemed a lot more temperamental, not running some of the demos.
The two devices both features an AMD z430 GPU, and even with the much lower resolution on the HD Mini, the rendering is a similar speed on both.
Guía rápida y sencilla para aquellas personas que todavía no se animaron a entrar al mundo GNU/Linux y quieren comenzar con algo fácil, intuitivo, amigable y no morir en el intento con instalaciones engorrosas.. aclaro que esta instalación la hago en una maquina virtual con Virtualbox así que si alguien no se anima a probarlo directamente en su maquina lo puede probar con virtualbox hasta que esté totalmente seguro 
Primero debes conseguir el cd de Ubuntu, descargandotelo o haciendo un pedido para que te lo envíen de forma gratuita a tu casa.
Ahora que tienes el cd/dvd de Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx lo pones en tu lectora, reinicias la maquina y la configuras desde la bios para que booté desde cd.
Comienza a iniciar desde el cd y automáticamente veremos la siguiente pantalla
Una vez que carga elegimos nuestro idioma y hacemos clic sobre “Instalar Ubunu 10.04″
Nuestra ubicación horaria ..
Distribución de nuestro teclado.. automáticamente el instalador selecciona uno, si es el correcto seguimos, sino selecciona el que corresponda para tu teclado.
Esta es la única parte de la instalación ”complicada” y en la que deberías tener conocimientos previos mínimos sobre particionar un disco rigido.
Si tienes un disco “fisico” libre para ubuntu puedes seleccionarlo y tildar la opcion “Borrar y usar el disco entero”.
Lo mas recomendable es especificar las particiones manualmente. Así que seleccionamos y clic en adelante.
Bien ahora asumiendo que leíste algo o tienes una idea de lo que es instalar un windows xp o vista y sobre como crear particiones en un disco, quiero que vean en la siguiente tabla como Linux nombra a los disco y a las particiones..
Tipo de disco———–Nombre por disco fisico —————particiones SATA ——————————sda (primer disco fisico)———— sda1, sda2, sda3,etc.. ——————————sdb (segundo) ————————-sdb1, sdb2, sdb3,etc.. ——————————sdc (tercero) —————————sdc1, sdc2, sdc3,etc.. PATA ——————————hda (primer disco fisico)————- hda1, hda2, hda3,etc.. ——————————hdb (segundo)————————- hdb1, hdb2, hdb3,etc.. ——————————hdc (tercero)————————– hdc1, hdc2, hdc3,etc..
En Linux todo es un archivo. Desde los archivos de datos hasta las particiones de los discos pasando por el ratón y la tarjeta de sonido. Los directorios también son archivos. Existe un directorio raíz (/) del que cuelga todo de la siguiente manera:
• /: Raíz.• /usr: Aquí se encuentra la gran mayoría de los archivos existentes en un sistema Linux, tales comodocumentación, casi la totalidad de los comandos de usuario, juegos, librerías, etc.• /bin: Aquí están los comandos que pueden usar todos los usuarios (incluido el administrador o root).• /sbin: Aquí están los comandos que sólo puede usar el administrador o root.• /dev: Ahí están todos los dispositivos de nuestra máquina.• /home: Lugar donde se almacenan las cuentas de usuarios.• /lib: Enlaces a las librerías que se necesitan para el sistema.• /var: Contiene información variable, como por ejemplo los logs del sistema (/var/log), correo local, etc.• /tmp: Directorio temporal.• /etc: Configuración global de los programas.• /root: Cuenta del administrador.• /boot: Aquí está todo lo necesario para arrancar el sistema.• /media: Punto de montaje para sistemas de archivos montados localmente.• /mnt: Antiguo punto de montaje para sistemas de archivos montados localmente. Hoy en día está en desusoy se conserva por razones históricas.• /proc: Sistema de archivos virtual de información de procesos y del kernel.
Para instalar aquí voy a usar 3 particiones: “sda1” para el directorio raíz (/) ( que seria donde va ir todo mi sistema operativo.. ) , “sda2” que seria la partición swap ( esto seria el disco de intercambio.. el cual Linux utiliza como si fuera memoria RAM..) para elegir el tamaño que tendrá esta partición lo mas recomendable seria seguir los siguientes valores en base a la cantidad de RAM que tengamos..
128MB hacer una partición de 256MB256MB hacer una partición de 384MB512MB hacer una partición de 640MB1GB puede ser una de 640MB como una de 1024MB, hacer una partición mas grande seria totalmente en vano y nos jugaría en contra..2GB o mas de ram, con esa cantidad casi no necesitaremos de la partición swap, así que una de 1024MB estaríamos bien..
Y la tercer partición ”sda3” seria (/home) donde estarían todos nuestros datos, imagenes, themes, musica, etc, etc..
Ahora que masomenos quedo explicado el porque de cada partición podes ir creando segun el tamaño que dispongas libre en tu disco..
El sistema de archivos que utilizaremos sera ext4 y con darle un tamaño de 7 a 15 GB a el raiz estaria mas que bien.
El punto de montaje es donde elijen que partición va a ser.. si la raiz (/) 10GB, swap (area de intercambio) 1024MB o (/home) mas de 8GB.
Una vez que tengamos correctamente particionado como la imagen anterior.. seguimos con la instalación..
Aquí ingresamos nuestros datos, contraseña y si queremos que nos pida la contraseña al iniciar o inicie automáticamente..
Miramos si esta todo bien y le damos intalar..
Comenzo a instalar. Esta parte va rapida, es recomendable mantener conectada la pc o notebook a internet porque mientras instala desde el cd tambien busca alguna actualizacion o paquete de idioma si es que los hay e instala.
Cuando termina el proceso reiniciamos, sacamos el cd y listo el pollo..
Con ustedes Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, espero lo disfruten.
[Windows Only] Coming from the same guys who made CCleaner and Defraggler, this one called Speccy from Piriform sure takes a hit at being simple and doing just what it should. Speccy is a hardware information tool that scratches your system for details and lists down everything about your hardware in a neat and tidy interface.
For people using Windows, CCleaner has been a clear favorite when it comes to quick system maintenance. Falling in the same league, Speccy allows you to have a glance of all the system details swiftly without any fuss required at the user-end.
The application caters to all aspects of hardware, from the CPU to Network to Graphics and whatever comes in between. There’s a summary page where you can see all the details in brief and then click through them to have them explained. If you’re the regular forum bird, Speccy can come in handy in a lot of situations where you need to hand over your system specs to another party, for Speccy allows you to take a ‘screenshot’ of your configuration and have it saved to a file. This screenshot is not a jpeg as many would have assumed. It is a .speccy file which you can send over to another party and can only be opened with the Speccy application. When opened, it will present a duplicate copy of configuration as snapped from your PC.
Like other Piriform apps, Speccy is available as an installer and a portable zip file which, again, can come in handy if you’re the de facto tech support for everyone around you!
Thanks to Lee at DownloadSquad for the hat tip!
When you move to a new area or go out to vacation… finding places to eat or visit becomes a hard task, 
but this application called Next2Me can help you. The application is a very complicated, easy to use application that uses your GPS to find things around you. It works a little similar to augmented reality on Android devices, but a lot less attractive and intuitive.
In a recent update, the application added some fixes and even brought in some new features:
I recently released version 1.2 of my latest App "Next2Me" to the US Windows Marketplace.
Next2Me uses GPS and shows you all available businesses around you from over 30 categories. You can view the results on a map, show detailed information. You can also call the target business, send the detail information to your friends by Mail or SMS or save the business to your contact list all by only one click!
And here is the latest BETA version of the upcoming Next2Me 1.3.
[UPDATE]
You can now manually choose between miles and meters. And for all US and Candians, Next2Me is now searching for "Gas stations"[UPDATE]
I changed the GPS code a bit because some users get an exception on some devices.[UPDATE]
Again changed the GPS device detection.[UPDATE 04/25/2010]
o RC1 released
o Next2Me languages: DE, EN, FR, NL
o A menu to tell Next2Me how to search for your GPS device (this will solve several issues, like the exception told by some users and the unwanted bluetooth dialog which is automatically poping up)So, have fun with Next2Me and send me your suggestions, critics, etc.
You can download this application in Windows Mobile Marketplace or over at XDA-developers for free.
A big problem with for developers deciding whether its worth creating applications for the Windows Mobile Marketplace is the secrecy surrounding the actual performance of applications in the market.
Fortunately Chris Rae, a hobbyist developer, has decided to share his own experience and provide a bit of information and guidance for other developers.
He writes:
Right now, I have two applications on Marketplace.
The first app I wrote was Carlos. This is a pretty simple app intended to help you keep track of where you parked your car, using either your GPS or some sort of text-based tag you write yourself (in case you parked underground or can’t be bothered waiting for a GPS fix).
My second app is Proximity. This is a fairly generic app intended to “do something near a given location”.
He notes that he spent about 270 hours on both apps together, and about $280 to develop the apps.
On the earnings from the apps he says:
To save you doing the math here – Microsoft take a 30% cut of the purchase price, so I’m left with 70%. This means that for Carlos I’ve made a total of around $280 since the end of January, and for Proximity I’ve made about $350 since mid-March. It’s hovering somewhere around the $10/day mark for each app now – around $500/month in total, although it’s obviously somewhat early to start giving out per-month figures.
Obviously more in the range of pocket money that a retirement fund, Chris compares this to similar android applications which make 50 times more in the same period. He notes however that competition is a lot more fierce on the Android and iPhone platforms, and require adaptations and investments such as learning new programming languages or buying new tools which he did not need to do to develop on his existing device.
Clearly it is up to developers to draw their own conclusions from the information provided (and make sure to read the full post here) but it is clear, given his investment in time and money, his apps will still be owning him money for some time, and I cant help but see it as a failure of Marketplace and Microsoft.
In my opinion Microsoft could have done a lot more to promote the service, but is clearly preoccupied with Windows Phone 7 to the detriment of Windows Mobile.
Do any other developers want to take the opportunity to share their Marketplace performance with others? Let us know below.
There are many graphic designers working hard to grab your attention with great looking graphics, but this one is my favorite. This theme was created by XDA member julianfx, who seems to have achieved something truly amazing with his new graphics. The icons are very general, they are made for the most popular Windows Mobile applications and functions, and all of them look amazing.
I would love to have this on my HD2, but since I do not know how to edit files and all of those things, I will have to wait till NRG finds the time to change his icons and add this(NRG if you are reading this, you have my vote to add this.) I do wish there was any easy way to add this to my phone without requiring a ROM flash.
If you cook ROMs or know how to add this to your device download it here.
First there was Windows 95 on an iPad. People cringed, but apparently they did not cringe enough, as someone else has managed to get Windows XP up and running on an iPad. Macheads, avert thy eyes! More »
We know HTC’s Sense UI is pretty attractive, such that HTC even transplanted it onto Android.
Jailbreaking iPhone owners have however not been left out of the game, with quite a few HTC Sense themes for iPhone around. Here is another, which takes the hack even further, to include animated.
Obsessionxyz writes:
To begin, YES i know there is tons of this modded theme here, but none has satisfied me, so I have rewritten the alot of codes and combined various javascripts to make this work. ok the theme now, it has a working animated flipclock, and animated weather, so far the same as others, but, this one you can actually tap on to update. which is the way i want it.
I have recreate all weather elements myself, and compare to the original (Weather Elements v3) the file size was huge, mine is only 5MB big, (the whole theme)
As for the animated flipclock, that also have i recreated the images. if you want to have the theme i will also create AM/PM images.
If you succumbed to the dark side, this hack which gives you a UI which is actually a bit more than a grid of icons may make you feel a bit more at home.
Read more at ModmyI.com here.
Citrix is the granddaddy of remote access, and the company has now released a remote desktop receiver for Windows Mobile 6.5 that supports the gestures on the platform, including swiping and scrolling.
The software allows zooming, unfortunately not via multi-touch, and features an extended keyboard with function keys to improve compatibility with desktop software. The software also features accelerometer support on select devices, and for others allow rotation via the menus.
The full new feature list in 11.5 include:
The software can be downloaded here, and is also now available via Marketplace.
via Dabcc.com
We brought you the review of SMobile System’s Parental Control, and we announced the news when they partnered with Net Nanny to create a powerful solution for your child’s safety and piece of mind. Net Nanny has generously given a discount for our readers through the end of May. Check it out…
SMobile’s software had me surprised. I couldn’t believe how well you can monitor your child on their phone. See their texts, their pictures they’re sharing, who they’re talking to, who they are, emails, social networks, know your kids. With the dangers of sexual predators and sexting, it’s a scary world out there. You can also wipe your child’s phone should it get lost, track it, so much available. And another great feature, Anti-virus and Anti-Spyware. Be assured that spyware won’t be a worry as well.
The partnership has created this incredible guardian for your child’s safety called Net Nanny Mobile. Features include:
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This is something you might have missed. This theme is a little something that is pretty amazing and looks fantastic on the HD2. The theme is called Windroid, and is a combo of the Windows Mobile and Android 
look, all in one.
The theme changes the top notification icons, and even some aspects of your menu, and all with one simple install.
Update 16.03.2010
– sound profile icons with update functionality
– replacement of many icons
– BT, BT-Headset, Stereo Headset, L1&L2 and GPS-Icon with round corners
– added some missing iconsUpdate 24.03.2010
– added some missing icons like "multiple notifications"
– fixed roaming-icon
– integrated icon bar font color-fix
– integrated font
– added third button bar
– added HTC Scrollbar-Enhancement!
– fixed popup-window in the white theme
The theme is a freeware like every other, and all he asks is a donation if you appreciate his work.
If you were looking for a more Android-esk look for you Windows Phones, you can download this one here.
GRemote is one of the greatest application to connect your device and your computer in a better way 
than any other program even activesync can do. The application has been reviewed by us before, but it will be re-reviewed very soon because this time… it comes with HTC HD2 support.
Yes that’s right HD2 support. The application comes with multi touch support, so if you are using Windows 7, or MacOSX ( I think), you can now use multi touch gestures to pinch and zoom, and other multi touch related features.
This application can do it all, and now you can too, by trying it out for 14 days or even buy it now and only now for $9.95. This deal is for April only and you get this great application for 70% of the price.
The features consist of:
-special price $9.95 (regular $14.95) only in April 2010!!!
-use your PDA as mouse, keyboard, joystick or remote controler to PC
-control your PC over WiFi or Bluetooth
-enjoy with GRemote and create new skins specially for your favourite application
-define profiles for many applications in one applet
-use your build-in GSensor as an analogue joystick to PC and mouse control
-control any application you want!!!
-browse your PC files using exprorer extension – new!!!
-manage Winamp playlist directly from your phone – new!!!
-define many actions to one button (e.g. change resolution, display OSD and Run application)
-works with Windows Mobile and Android devices
-compatible with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7
-lifetime updates free!!!
You can download/Buy this application for $9.95 today, Here.
Windows Mobile base is well known to be very unattractive, and a lot of development power is undergone 
everyday to bring Windows Mobile into the attractive ages. Well those development is mostly for the newer WVGA devices but this one is specifically for QVGA.
This is a Livven special that goes with the recently canceled GTX skin done by a friend of mine El Condor. The Skin remakes GTX’s look and design, with the all white slider and clock, and the transparent outlining and calendar.
The theme does not come with much details except it will only work with QVGA, but if requested he will make it capable with other screen resolutions.
Note it’s not final, which means the notification sliders have not been skinned, but they’ll show up with the default look. Otherwise it should be working fine on 6.5.3, although I’m not sure with 6.5. Please provide feedback telling me if it’s working.
If you have been looking for a new look for your device, please go here and download this Livven special.
