OK I’ll have to admit this is a teaser, from SPB. With the Mobile World Congress about to kick off on the sixteenth of this month, the leaks have become a gusher already. So thanks to SPB for  letting us know what they are up to, and no thanks for the hair pulling tension that they are creating by not giving us any screenshots of Mobile Shell 3. When Doug reviewed Mobile Shell 2 I deigned not to update, but I might have to now. The evil thing SPB have done is included a map to their stall/booth at MWC, rather than showing us the app as such.

At least you’ll be able to find them if you are there.

One thing I do know, if you are a fan, you’ll want to be having a look at this when it’s released. One thing that SPB do well is update, they start their apps with a strong core and build on them, you can look at one of their applications and still find the original program at the core. I can’t wait to try this out. Oh did i mention I’m an SPB fanboy!

Just hit the link for the full release!

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Anyone who has ever tried to read labels or compare prices at the supermarket has probably experienced the problem I am about to explain.  The freaking units of measurement are never the same.  This brand of paper towels cost $9.95 for 10 towels and you have a 50 cent off coupon.  That one comes with 15 rolls, but costs $ 17.99.  But you have a coupon for that second  brand: $5 off if you buy 2.  So.  Which one should you buy?  Maybe not the most difficult math in the world, but when you are staring at the shelf in the aisle with angry looking customers trying to maneuver their carts around you…you need something fast.  You need Ilium’s latest foray into the iPhone world: Apples 2 Oranges.

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It seems like there really hasn’t been much love for Windows Mobile, as far as Twitter goes. Whilst there seems to be a bevy of iPhone apps, that actually do it stylishly as well. Brandons posted about different ways to follow us on Twitter before, and mentioned a windows mobile application called Tiny Twitter, which I’ve been using in conjunction with another application called CeTwit. Until now I’ve had to cycle between the two apps to get all of the Twitter functionality, everything that you can get from Twitter on a desktop/laptop.

Considering that they are both free applications, they are, shall we say sufficient, but they haven’t covered all of the bases as far as I’m concerned. So I’ve been hearing whispers, that turned to murmurs, that became hubbub, and eventually turned into a roar, about another application, that does Twitter for WinMo, that’s got it right. And looks good doing it…

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I don’t have a lot of disposable income, and I definitely wont enter into a two year contract to have the latest and greatest Windows Mobile device. So coming from a pure Windows Mobile background, well maybe not so pure, I have flashed my Axim up to WM 6.1, a couple of times to try out some of the cooked ROMs from certain developer sites. Hey I’m definitely one of those try before you buy sorts of guys.

So recently I, well some people I know wouldn’t think so, upgraded to my first Windows Professional  Mobile phone. I was fascinated by the Tytn II/Tilt/Kaiser upon it’s release, and picked one up on Ebay, used, for a price I could afford. Unlocked, of course, and the first thing I did was update the ROM. To my chagrin, HTC’s customised today screen, not the way I want my device of any kind set up. It just doesn’t offer me the versatility, or application access I’m used to. Being a long time WinMo user I have a repository of favourite applications, and a way of configuring them, that suits my needs, and of course I replicated this on the Tilt. What if though, some of the HTC plugins could serve me, and I could save some system memory by not running them on my preferred today screen setup.

In steps a tiny application called Second Today, oh, did I mention it’s free?

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Ha. Ha. Ha. I’m very funny today.

Thanks to that stupid App Store and its stupid racing games I’ve been in a real car-ing mood lately. I stumbled across this good lookin’ Vertu phone over at BGR and really dig the look. Instead of studding the things with diamonds or silk they made it out of metal, gave it a 3 MP auto-focus camera, and just made it a very good phone. I’m really impressed that they put an auto-focus cam in, though –- even my iPhone doesn’t have autofocus…but then again, it doesn’t cost $11,500 either. How much is auto focus worth to you?

I suggest you check out the BGR post and the included gallery – it’s about as close as lot of us will get to a Vertu phone!