Ajige has created a thread for custom widgets for Androkkid. Androkkid is the popular user interface that acts like Android and Sense UI. The interface itself comes with a few widgets, so users have taken on the role of creating custom user widgets. So far they’ve created a couple weather, battery, Bluetooth and task widgets.

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Androkkid is a Windows Mobile interface with a lot of customization and a fully graphical design and animations for Windows Mobile 5/6. It’s completely writed in .NET and works fantastically for all resolutions. The latest release has a Hero flavor to it that many users are finding attractive.

Version 0.8.0 – 09/10/2009:

* Created Battery and Signal Widgets
* Created Photo Frame Widget
* Added Hero Theme
* Correct problems with wallpaper slide
* Correct bugs with QVGA resolution and notification icon
* Correct bug when click on icons more sensitive now
* Added option to show balls page in Settings
* When press center button in D-PAD now you go to start page selected
* Redesign the bottom bar like Sense UI of HTC Hero with 2 new buttons, 1 to open menu and 1 to add icon or other objects
* Added Show menu for contact when click on a contact in settings

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Androkkid is an Android interface clone for Windows Mobile. It’s a little slow to boot up, but has Android’s page swipes and app launcher. The video is of the last version. Latest version has a couple widgets and enhancements (available in all resolutions, portrait mode only).

Version 0.6.0 – 29/09/2009:

* Added Widgets dialog
* Added some widgets (Hero clock, Analog Clock, Digital Clock and Next Appointment)
* Added AndrokkidSettings.exe to program directory to change settings
* Added Settings in program menu
* Added Pages balloon only when touch screen to show where you are
* Taskbar now disappear if you modify Settings
* Correct bug with missed calls log opening
* Added slide gesture from first page to last page and viceversa
* Added keypad movements to slide pages, open programs list
* Added another method to load icons (old method used in iFonz), change option in Settings
* Added StartPage option to set which page you want load at start
* Bug fixed
* Released the source code of my widgets

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Windows Mobile is our bread and butter, but you have to admit that Android has its perks. With this Emulator, you can probe Android and see what it has to offer. Some functions will not work correctly for obvious reasons (GPS and Phone), but you can still use widgets and browse the web using its mobile browser. xda2_haseeb has packaged the emulator for easy installation.

Instructions:

1.Extract the *.rar file
2.Rename Extracted Folder to “Android-Emulator”
3.Download and Copy Fixed EXE files into it
4.Run

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In a recent question-and-answer session at the company’s Public Sector CIO Summit in Redmond. Chris Kemp, the CIO at NASA’s Ames Research Center, credited Microsoft for its work on security and raised this issue

“With platforms like the Google phone and iPhone coming out, it’s really tough to continue to stand behind Windows Mobile when our employees are bringing these consumer devices into our environments. And in your presentation you put Windows Mobile right in the center there, but it was a phone that doesn’t work in America and an operating system that you haven’t released. I’m wondering what your commitment is to continuing to get newer versions of the operating system in our hands so that we don’t have to fight this battle on the ground.”

Here’s what Ballmer said in response.

“We have a significant release coming this year. Not the full release we wanted to have this year but we have a significant release coming this year with Windows Mobile 6.5. I think that would look a lot like the phone that I showed that was in the slide, but very good catch, very impressed. (Laughter.) He was right on both scores, very good.

“But I think with Windows Mobile 6.5, there will be phones in market this year. We still don’t get some of the things that people want on the highest-end phones. Those will come on Windows Mobile 7 next year. Certainly I’m not, um — there’s opportunities for us to accelerate our execution in this area, and we’ve done a lot of work to really make sure we have a team that’s going to be able to accelerate.

“With that said, we did sell more Windows Mobile devices last year than Apple did iPhones — just an important factoid to have. Blackberry was a little bit ahead, and Google was nowhere to be seen, except in Silicon Valley, I’m sure. But we’ll do our best to help you with that challenge.”

Good ‘ol Ballmer never passes a chance to ridicules the competition. But things are looking good for WM7.

[ via techflash.com ]

First look of G2 Android phone, it looks good and sleek. New G2 is supposed to operating on upgraded version Google Android, which looks similar atleast the home screen. The new G2 has 3.2 megapixel camera and do not have Keyboard and is supposed to be available by mid May according to the sources of Gizmodo. Well the G2 will definitely be liked by large audience because of its sleek design.

Its designed by HTC and it definitely looks prettier than the G1. Hopefully wont end up as the vaporware Kogan Agora.

[via gizmodo.com]

Do you want to see a faceoff between the major Mobile operating system and hardware. The Gadget Show from five.tv has done just that. I for one am not convinced with their test method. They had 4 test in total and each test saw one of the device eliminated, so the 1st handset that got eliminated had no chance to prove itself even if it could have won in the later tests. How about graphic performance test instead of how fast you can type an SMS ?

Lets meet the contenders
1) HTC Touch HD – on Windows Mobile 6.1
2) G1 – on Android
3) iPhone 3G – OS X iPhone
4) Blackberry Storm – Blackberry OS

Who do you think should be the winner ?

via wmpoweruser.com

ThrottleLock 0.3 is a Pattern Based Lock like on Android. ThrottleLock is a little app to lock your device. It will only be unlocked when a pattern is drawn on a grid of points.
Important: the default code is to click on the first point (the one on the top left corner).

By default the device will be locked automatically when goes into suspended state. Optionally you can also turn it on by executing the link at Startmenu > Programs > ThrottleLock. If you don’t want the device to automatically lock remove the link placed at \Windows\Startup. The app is fully skinable. You can change the skin by replacing the png files and modifying the config.xml to change the fonts and

The app supports multi-language. Spanish and English translations are included. To translate the app to your language just copy the texts.txt file to a file called texts_XXX.txt where XXX is the 3 chars ISO code for your language and then translate the texts included in that file. Careful with the line orders and line breaks, also take care to keep the UTC16 encoding. Check the youtube video for more info

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ThrottleLock 0.1 is a Pattern Based Lock like on Android. ThrottleLock is a little app to lock your device. It will only be unlocked when a pattern is drawn on a grid of points.
Important: the default code is to click on the first point (the one on the top left corner).

By default the device will be locked automatically when goes into suspended state. Optionally you can also turn it on by executing the link at Startmenu > Programs > ThrottleLock. If you don’t want the device to automatically lock remove the link placed at \Windows\Startup. The app is fully skinable. You can change the skin by replacing the png files and modifying the config.xml to change the fonts and

The app supports multi-language. Spanish and English translations are included. To translate the app to your language just copy the texts.txt file to a file called texts_XXX.txt where XXX is the 3 chars ISO code for your language and then translate the texts included in that file. Careful with the line orders and line breaks, also take care to keep the UTC16 encoding. Check the youtube video for more info

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You guys might have read the post on android working on HTC devices. Now be_vigilant from xda-dev has putup a cab file for easy installation of Android on the HTC Touch Cruise. Remember that this is just a preRelease buid , so as times goes by and when android gets released we might be able to get a fully working version of android on our devices

Features reported to be working are: ( not tested by me personally )
1) Radio was detected and carrier signal acquired.
2) Adding a contact.
3) Calling the contact. ( The call was working through the loud speaker. )
4) Incoming call works. It displayed on screen “incoming call”. ( no ringtone though )

Bugs Found:
1) Android might disabled the touch screen after a call so you couldnt press on “hang up” on the screen to disconnect the call. You have to scroll through to hang up using the dial pad.
2 ) No ringtone was played on incoming call.
3 ) Calls were routed throughthe loud speaker on polaris ( HTC Touch Cruise )
4) SMS seems to crash the application.
5) hardware keys doesnt respond

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