One of the most loved UI for Windows Mobile has reached the 1.0 mark. APBilbo has put a lot of work in to this UI and has been actively developing the app. The app supports widgets and kinetic scrolling of pages. Here is a video of the previous version. If you have not tried it yet, give it a shot now

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SPB software has been by far one of the best Windows Mobile software developers, they have recently shown interest in the iPhone market as well with the release of SPB Wallet for the iPhone ( only US I guess coz I cant get it from the Aussie Store ), but they have not forgotten about us Windows Mobile Windows Phone ( .. um this is going to take a while to get used to ) users. After the huge, huge success of SPB Mobile shell 2.0 we have the next version shown off in a youtube video by PavelKleinSpb

Features :

• Multi-page Home Screen
• Professional and Classic LifeStyle layouts
• Widgets Support
• Kinetic Scrolling
• Fully Customizable
• Integration with sites like Facebook
• Finger Friendly

New video after the break

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Engadget gsts a closer look @ Touch Pro 2 , enhancement to TouchFlo 3D, Speakerphone mode , etc is showcased in these videos.

More videos after the break

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Ever got frustrated when you are connected to Wifi and you get disconnected because your device goes to sleep mode? Then this application is for you.This little application won’t allow your Pocket PC to go to sleep. Just launch DontSleep and either click on CLOSE to exit the application or HIDE to use it. If you want to auto launch WiFi when you run this application get DontSleep Wifi.

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WkTASK shares features of both Task Manager and Program Launcher for Windows Mobile. You can switch all running programs smoothly like desktop Windows, and launch applications easily. Not only stylus operation but also key operation is available. Although the look & feel closely matches the theme color and make the 3D gradation, its CPU and memory usage are low.

Features

• Task-listUsing the upper bar, you can watch, switch, close and force termination running programs.To exclude a task from the list, tap&hold it and select ‘Hide’.
• X buttonUsing the X button, you can use some actions as follows:
  • Tap: really close
  • Tap&Hold: show context menu
  • Drag: some gestures (To show a program launcher, drag toward down. To show Today, drag toward left.)
• Program LauncherUsing key or tap, You can launch some applications, functions and contacts(phone call or e-mail).
• Key operationTo shift the Key operation mode, double-execute WkTask.exe or WkTaskCmd.exe(recommended because of smaller size). Some start options are available too.
• Brightness/Volume controllerYou can control them in real time with key or tap.
• Battery GaugeThe battery gauge shows up on the upper bar.
• Other functionsrotation, suspend, reboot, network connection, etc.
• PreferencesTo customize, it has a great deal of parameters. Enjoy your self!

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S2U2 (Slide2Unlock2) is a simple lock/unlock application which has the iPhone style slide unlocking. It can be used as a screensaver while you don’t use your device. And it’s has a CallerID function (some devices may not work, so please try it first); and S2P control plugin.

Prerequisition:

- WM5 Phone or WM6 Professional devices
- free RAM: at least 1M for QVGA; 3M for VGA

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iContact is designed to be an all-inclusive finger-friendly contact manager for Windows Mobile PocketPC phones and it does a gr8 job of the same. Its one of the best Contact Managers out there and best of all its free and customizable. It is highly recommended that you replace any older version of iContact with 0.73, there are many bug fixes.

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go2contact is a command line utility for contacts. In most of the launcher and today screen plugin we have contacts tab but its to call a contact directly. what if we have multiple number for the same contacts ? This is where go2contact comes in handy , we can create a shortcut to go2contact with the command-line parameter as the contacts “File as” field in the Contact’s information. When you click on the shortcut it will display the Contact Summary screen.

eg:

To get Summary Screen for Saijo George
Create a short cut to go2contact.exe with the command-line parameter as “George, Saijo”
Assuming Saijo George is filed as “George, Saijo”

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Well Opera Mobile doesn’t need an intro , Its was one of the best browser but with the new verson 9.0 more people were having issues with it then with the introduction of Diamond and the version 9.5 from opera many issues were tackled. Now here is the latest bulid apparenly ropped from the latest Diamond ROM.

Home page has been set to google.com/m

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Its a finger friendly music player for windows mobile. Pocket Melody was initially a .net application and the developer decived to release the .net code to the public and started to develop a C++ version. Some of the features :

Finger Friendly
Album art support
Scrolling Music List
….

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