With the introduction of many new smartphones in to the market , smartphone sales grew 27 percent, but the sad news is that Windows Mobile’s share of the smartphone market had dropped 2.7 percent in the second quarter of 2009.

	2Q ‘08	2Q ‘09	Comment
Smartphones sold in	32.3 million	41.0 million	27 % increase over 2Q ‘08
Windows Mobile units	3.87 million	3.81 million	9.3 percent of the smartphone market in 2Q ‘09

In short, smartphones are selling well, but Windows Mobile smartphones are having a hard time catching up with the new boys in town. With Windows Mobile 6.5 devices which should be hitting the shelves soon, and rumors that Windows Mobile 7.0 will come out sometime in the 1st 2010 there is still some hope for Windows Mobile. via arstechnica.com

The new Intel smartphone prototype has said to sport the Moorestown Processor, its the code name for the successor to Intel’s current Atom processor. During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona LG Electronics and Intel were planning to announcing a device based on Intel’s Moorestown silicon and the Linux Moblin v2.0 software platform. The LG device–which is being described as a smartphone–is expected to be one of the first Moorestown designs to market. We are NOT sure if these videos are showing of the so called device but the concept looks pretty good.

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If you use a custom ROM, chances are you might have used schap’s RSS Hub @ some point of time for RSS feeds. But are there any free alternative for those who are reluctant to Flash their devices. BeyondPod is an Open Source, RSS feed reader and podcast manager for Microsoft Smartphone and Pocket PC. Using BeyondPod you can subscribe for RSS feeds, read the feed content, download and listen to associated podcasts directly on your mobile device.

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SpeakerPhone – Auto On v1.04 will automatically turn on your speakerphone. While the application is running, when an incoming call is received, the speakerphone of your device will automatically turn ON when you receive the call.
You can also automatically activate the speakerphone when you are making an outgoing call by checking the Outgoing ON in the menu.

It should work on smartphone and PocketPC WM5/WM6

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This new gem from Qisda supports 802.16e WiMAX as well as GSM / GPRS / EDGE networks. Reportedly, the smartphone is a test device used in the M-Taiwan initiative to promote WiMAX, and aside from handling voice calls via (almost) any flavor of wireless protocol, you’ll also find the underlying OS is  Windows Mobile 6.1.

Source : engadget.com

Keepass has a PC application , 2 Windows mobile application ( KeePassSD [ppc and smartphone] & KeePassPPC [ pocketpc only] ) and a Java application. The applications are opensource so u can get the source and play around with it to bend it to your needs.

So whats KeePass and why do you need it?

Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, your homepage’s ftp password, online passwords (like CodeProject member account), etc. etc. etc. The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password you have a problem… A serious problem. The thief would have access to your e-mail account, homepage, etc. Unimaginable.

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SpeakerPhone – Auto On v1.03 will automatically turn on your speakerphone. While the application is running, when an incoming call is received, the speakerphone of your device will automatically turn ON when you receive the call.
You can also automatically activate the speakerphone when you are making an outgoing call by checking the Outgoing ON in the menu.

It should work on smartphone and PocketPC WM5/WM6

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Pocket SMS is a desktop SMS Manager designed to interface directly with Pocket PC or Smartphone.

Key features:

Full Backup of All text messages
Chat history by Contact
Send Text Messages from the desktop
Distribution Lists for sending Scheduled text Messages
Folder Management
Telephone a contact

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Call Firewall basically rejects unwanted call , it acts a call and SMS filter program and based on the rules set by the used it can reject incoming calls and sms . It can also enable call barring. Imagine you have this really annoying friend and don’t wanna attend his/her call , then you set that persons number in Black list and as soon as they call you the call disconnects. It also lets you reject a call with a predefined SMS , which is sent to the caller.

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SpeakerPhone – Auto On v1.02 will automatically turn on your speakerphone. While the application is running, when an incoming call is received, the speakerphone of your device will automatically turn ON when you receive the call.
You can also automatically activate the speakerphone when you are making an outgoing call by checking the Outgoing ON in the menu.

It should work on smartphone and PocketPC WM5/WM6

 

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