SBSH Facade 1.4.1 Home Screen Plugin
By admin | May 11, 2008
Facade is a highly customizable tab-based Home screen plug-in for Smartphone devices. With Facade, you can view your upcoming appointments and tasks directly on your Smartphone Home screen, keeping you up to date on all your important appointments and tasks.
Additionally, Facade puts a launcher tool right onto that same Home screen, allowing you to launch your favorite applications directly from your Home screen with just a single click and monitoring your Smartphone battery and memory status using special meters.
Facade comes with three different professional layout designs.
NEW RELEASE! - Facade 1.4 is here! Introducing exciting new integration with the new PocketWeather 2.0! Bringing your weather forecast to your Schedule tab display!
Features:
- Facade Calendar Tab
- View all-day appointments indicator icon and note indicator icon for items including notes
- Optionally delete appointments using the appointment context menu actions
- Preview appointments using Pocket Outlook on WM5 devices in addition to Papyrus
- View 30 days or more of your upcoming appointments right on your Home screen
- Scroll through your appointments directly from your Home screen using your Smartphone joy-pad
- View appointment status icons next to each appointment item
- Choose from various possible actions when clicking the joy-pad action button. Customize the joy-pad action button to perform the actions you want.
- Seamlessly integrate Facade on your Home screen with SBSH Papyrus, our powerful time management system for Smartphones.
- Facade Tasks Tab
- View note indicator icon for tasks including notes
- Optionally delete tasks using the task context menu actions
- Preview tasks using Pocket Outlook on WM5 devices in addition to Papyrus
- View a list of all your tasks right on your Home screen
- View task status and priority icons next to each task item on your Home screen
- Complete and activate tasks directly from your Home screen
- View tasks grouped by due date, including undated and overdue tasks
- Facade Launcher Tab
- NEW! - Battery, memory, storage card, signal and battery temperature skin-able meters for tracking your Smartphone system status!
- NEW! - Simplify Smartphone actions - add Facade’s special pre-defined action shortcuts for: Reset, Power Off, Configure, Screen rotate and Reload
- Use the launcher bar as a stand-alone single bar or as a Facade tab
- Create unlimited shortcuts to your favorite software directly on your Home screen
- Create multiple tabs to group your applications into categories within the Home screen launcher
- Easily select any installed program for the launcher tool using Facade settings
- View launcher icons in large or small sizes
- Facade Settings
- NEW! - Special plugins-import utility allowing to easily add additional existing plugins to your Facade layout and control plugin order on your Home screen!
- NEW! - Use shadow fonts for clearer text display! Customize font size, style, color, background color, layout parameters and more!
- Customize and control Facade display using Facade settings
- Automatically insert Facade into any existing Home screen layout
- Facade offers advanced customization capabilities using direct XML layout writing for advanced users. Users can download the Facade XML reference guide from Facade’s support section
- General Features
- NEW! - Supports Smartphone 2002, Smartphone 2003, Windows Mobile 5 and new Windows Mobile 6 Standard devices
- NEW! - Supports all Smartphone device resolutions and orientations, including devices with changing orientation support
- NEW! - Three optional professional layout designs
- Facade offers powerful customization and skinning capabilities in the Home screen XML file, allowing you to redesign Facade’s entire look and feel. Simpler design and layout options are accessible using the Facade configuration tool
- Many great downloadable Facade skins are available for download from our skins page, and on the Facade resources forum at our web-site
Minimum Requirements:
- Smartphone device running OS 2002, 2003 or WM5
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a new BlackBerry flip
By admin | May 11, 2008
Looks like business-minded RIM are exploring a new form factor. A novel flip phone is expected to be officially unveiled in the coming weeks. Live photos of the first-ever clamshell by RIM leaked at BoyGeniousReport. Codenamed Kickstart, the newcomer is likely to get launched by the end of 2008.
RIM BlackBerry Kickstart
With specs still to come on the record, some BGR leaked images should do for a taster. TrackBall navigation and the proprietary SureType keypad look the right BlackBerry purists stuff. The form factor is another story. The clamshell features a secondary external display and will be among the imaging-enabled BlackBerry devices.
Stay tuned as we hope the Kickstart will pick up the pace and go on the record.
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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1
By admin | May 10, 2008
The highly discussed Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 PocketPC based on Windows Mobile 6.1 finally got closer to the public thanks to a video preview, which became available today.
Just as a refresher the high-end X1 has a 3-inch WVGA touchscreen display (800 x 480 pixels), as well as the optical joystick navigation - the navigation solution is cool and you can see that on video.
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1
Almost all connectivity features are present on the Sony Ericsson X1 - from a 3.5mm audio jack to GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, everything is on board.
Typing is sweet with the slide-out QWERTY keyboard, while the 9 available home screens should suit every scenario and all user preferences. The multimedia set includes FM radio without RDS and Media player.
The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 also has a 3.2 megapixel camera and will come with 400MB of internal storage available to the user. It is expandable through the microSD card slot.
The handset will have support for all the four GSM network bands and four 3G network bands as well. HSDPA and HSUPA ensure the quickest data transfers around.
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 will be powered by a Qualcomm 7200A 528MHz CPU and has 128MB of RAM. Unfortunately, as you would see from the video, the X1 desperately cries for some dedicated video acceleration.
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Nokia midrange roundup
By admin | May 10, 2008
Almost a dozen of new Nokia handsets have been announced recently. They are by no means high-end devices, however many of them have the potential of gaining some serious ground on the budget-oriented or mid-range market.
We had the opportunity to spend some time with most of the Nokia latest models - we’ve managed to take some live shots and gain some initial impressions. We had a limited timeframe so forgive us if this article is not as detailed as you are used to. We still think that you would appreciate this brief overview of Nokia and the gang.
Thanks to our partners in MobilMania.cz we can now offer you an exclusive live preview of the Nokia handsets that are yet to come this year. We will present the featured models in the chronological order they were announced.
First off, we start with the early-April batch:
- Nokia 1680 classic
- Nokia 2680 slide
- Nokia 7070 Prism
- Nokia 5000
Nokia 1680 classic • Nokia 2680 slide • Nokia7070 Prism • Nokia 5000 XpressMusic
Then we spin along with the mid-April batch:
- Nokia 5220 XpressMusic
- Nokia 5320 XpressMusic was unfortunately unavailable
Nokia 5220 XpressMusic • Nokia 5320 XpressMusic
And finally, we conclude with the late-April batch:
- Nokia 3600 slide
- Nokia 6600 fold
- Nokia 6600 slide
Nokia 3600 slide • Nokia 6600 fold • Nokia 6600 slide
So as you see there’s a lot to see so don’t waste anymore time and hit the jump for our live overview of all these Nokia handsets.
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Sony Ericsson T303
By admin | May 5, 2008
A sexy minimalist slider, Sony Ericsson T303 gives the low-end a new edge with looks and construction well above its rank. Even if not a full-house in terms of skill and style, the basic multimedia coverage and solid feel in hand are well worth it. The FM radio with RDS, MP3 player and the 1.3 megapixel camera make sure the T303 will be kept busy. After all, many will likely find it too sexy for a call-and-text device only. The smooth sliding, the sharp chrome-highlighted exterior and the diminutive size are still the undoubted winners when it comes to the attraction of Sony Ericsson T303. Way beyond any of the features it offers.
Sony Ericsson T303 Shadow Black official photos
Sony Ericsson T303 Shimmering Silver official photos
Key features
- Very compact, sturdy build
- Smooth sliding mechanism
- FM radio with RDS
- MP3 player, TrackID music recognition
- Bluetooth v2.0
- 1.3 MP camera
- 1.8″ 65K-color TFT display, 128 x 160 pixels
- 500 phonebook entries, photocall
Main disadvantages
- Meager 8MB of built-in memory, no memory card slot
- Poor screen quality
- USB for charging and mass storage only
- No zoom in picture gallery
- No A2DP Bluetooth profile
Sony Ericsson T303 views
Sony Ericsson T303 is definitely a phone for those who don’t want to give too much thought to what pocket to put it in. With its dimensions of 83 x 47 x 14.7 mm it will fit even in the smallest of pockets. There are virtually a handful of phones currently on the market to come close to T303 in terms of compact size.
T303 next to iPhone and Samsung D880 Duos
Its excellent build quality and solid feel in hand are strong advantages, considering how low-end phones usually suffer in both design and quality of materials used.
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