Smartphony.net

Welcome to Smartphony.net, a ressource website for all smartphones using the Windows Mobile operating system, providing free smartphone games, themes and more. Now, what can you fellow smartphone owner find here on this site? Well, it offers you a guide to all the important ressources for your smartphone. You could for example learn how to:

Transform Your Smartphone

Yes, with just a little help you can transform your precious smartphone into a dangerous monster, capable of performing many different tasks to help you in your day to day's life. Just by using some of our free smartphone software your smartphone could become a mobile office, stuffed full of useful applications, or, with the help of some free smartphone games, a powerful multimedia machine entertaining you for hours.

Style Your Smartphone

We have also built a very complete list of free smartphone themes on this website. Those themes, also called smartphone homescreens, make it possible to change the look of your whole phone with just one simple file and considering the huge amount of free smartphone themes availabe here you could probably customize your home screen daily for many years.

Improve Your Smartphone

Besides all the different ressources for your phone, like the free games and applications, we also offer many possibilities to learn more about how your smartphone works and how to get the most out of it. Smartphone tutorials, articles, news and a weblog all help you to improve your knowledge of Windows Mobile phones and tweak your cell phone to even better performances.

Below you can find the five latest smartphone news and articles releases on this website. To view all of them please go to our smartphone weblog.

Jim Karpen?s Web Guide: Apple iPhone, CES News, Treo 750 Reviews

I had assumed that this week's column would be dominated by news about the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. But frankly, it seemed like Apple's iPhone announcement dominated the news last week. We'll look at that briefly, plus give links to CES coverage and reviews of the major new Windows Mobile device launched last week: the Cingular Treo 750....

Asus Pegasus Pocket PC Phone

This is the Asus Pegasus Pocket PC phone and comes with GPS on board. It's a slim device with numeric keypad and jog dial for speedy navigation.

Asus are already responsible for a large number of laptops and their skills for design and build are shown in this handset. Exact specs aren't known as yet and we're not even sure if this device ever become fully available, however it's looks were enough to win over judges for the IF Design competition, who have deemed it good enough for their design award in the electronics / telecommunications category.

Link - IFDesign.be

Lobster 700TV sales prove disappointing - Maybe because..

I'm both annoyed and frustrated by this Guardian story which states that Virgin Mobile UK have sold less than 10,000 of their Lobster 700TV handsets, despite dropping the price heavily and launching a massive advertising campaign with Pamela Anderson. You may remember our review of it - although the keyboard proved a tad wobbly we hoped it would do well, however the Guardian seem to believe that customers aren't interested in the handset.

So, why am I annoyed? Well, I still see far too much emphasis on looks and design by customers. To be honest, even if the Lobster 700TV could cook you dinner and get you free beer people would still go ahead and buy an LG Chocolate because "it looks cool". A case in point would be the Nintendo DS I was attempting to buy for Emily before Christmas - all the colours were available...apart from pink. That was sold out. Why? Street cred, style, fashion.

HTC Vox - Sneak shots

The lack of a multi-touch screen on a Pocket PC secretly causes people to curse daily when they try and tap a number in quickly using the dialpad. Perhaps a way around this is to combine the slide-out QWERTY keyboard with a standard numeric keypad on the front of the device. The result of this idea is the HTC Vox, which has now appeared in photographs here in the UK, courtesy of this Google page from Guri.

The pictures, unfortunately, don't get much better than what you see here, however you can see more of this device, which is rumoured to have Windows Mobile 6.0 for Smartphone, a TI OMAP 850 200MHz CPU, quadband GPRS / EDGE (alas, no 3G), 2 megapixel camera, WiFi 802.11b/g, 128Mb ROM / 64Mb RAM and a MicroSD card slot. The keyboard is an automatic slide-out QWERTY and looks very similar to the HTC P4350 one.

Link - Guri
Credit - Ian Jones

Vodafone v1210 / VDA IV Coming February to UK

Keni has once again emailed following my recent rant at the Vodafone UK Press Team whilst trying to get news of the Vodafone v1210 / VDA IV. It turns out that he's got several contacts within Vodafone and they've confirmed to him that this handset should appear on Voda during the first week of February. Huzzaah!

Link - Keni @ Conchango

Vodafone v1605 Updates on the way

Keni has emailed in after spotting recent news on upgrades to the HTC Hermes / HTC TyTn handsets. He's had a chat with the guys at Vodafone and they've advised him that the AKU3.3 Firmware is currently being tested and should launch soon.

If you've got a Vodafone v1605, keep an eye on this Vodafone website or visit Keni's blog for more information.

zaTelnet - Remote telnet and SSH access for Windows Mobile

If, like me, you need telnet or SSH access into a server then you'll be used to using tools like Putty and secureCRT on your PC. For Windows Mobile you should definitely check out zaTelnet, which has support for telnet, SSH1 and now SSH2. There's two versions available, both Freeware and Shareware to bring you more features. You also get support for portrait and landscape screen orientation plus many resolutions. The on-screen keyboard will also help with the various escape-codes you'll be using within Unix etc and you can change the font size too.

This is ideal for anyone with a dedicated server or a system administrator who's on the go and needs to make a quick alteration, run a script or reboot a server whilst on the go.

Link - zaTelnet

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