Today SBSH announced that their popular front-end replacement application for Windows Mobile Smartphones has been updated to version 2.1 and this new version includes many updates including an Analog Clock Display and Home Tab, as well as performance and stability improvements.

Along with this update SBSH has also opened up a brand-new online catalog for free skins, SBSH Facade Skins Arena. The convenience of this new innovation is that the skins can be downloaded directly onto your phone.

We are looking forward to reviewing these new enhancements to an already great product, in the meantime, check out Brandon’s review of an earlier release here: Review: SBSH Facade – Another winner for the pros of useability?

Press Release:

Tel Aviv, December 7th, 2009 – SBSH announced today a new update release for it’s best selling front-end replacement application for Windows Mobile Smartphones, SBSH Facade, to version 2.1. Along with this release, SBSH unveiled Facade Skins Arena – an exciting online skins catalog for your Smartphone and Facade.

SBSH Facade Skins Arena for Windows Mobile Smartphone devices announced Facade Skins Arena is an online catalog for free skins designed for use with Windows Mobile Smartphones and Facade. Loading new skins for your smartphone using Facade Skins Arena can’t be simpler! Simply browse for skins and click the skin you wish to load and the skin is loaded automatically to your smartphone!

In addition to Facade Skins Arena, The new Facade update brings additional exciting new features such as analog clock display to the Home tab and more! Click here to read our development team release post for complete details

Pricing and Availability

Facade is available for Windows Mobile devices without touch screen. Facade costs $14.95 and can be registered via our online store at the following link:

https://www.mobihand.com/cart1.asp?posid=362&pid=30309

Facade registered users are entitled to upgrade to the new version free of charge, simply download and install new version and enjoy all new version features.

Downloads and Support

Facade FAQ and user manual are available at the Facade support page:

http://www.sbsh.net/products/windows_mobile_smartphone/facade/support

For additional support we invite you to contact our support team, or, visit Facade forum and get in touch with our development team and other Facade users.

About SBSH Mobile Software

SBSH Mobile Software is a rapidly growing software firm specializing in the mobile market, developing software solutions for Windows Mobile, Symbian Series 60, BlackBerry, iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

SBSH Mobile Software offers a variety of best-selling applications for the fast growing mobile market enhancing end-users experience and providing added-value for mobile devices.

SBSH Mobile Software LTD is a privately held company based in Tel Aviv, Israel. SBSH Mobile Software was founded in February 2002.

http://www.sbsh.net

Nothing better than some leaked images and specs of new cool smartphones to start a hardwork week.

The new HTC productt line for the first half of 2010 was presented back in October, and now we can enjoy the leaked images and specs online.

Menay devices are there, grouped in categories (I.e. Design, Performance, Social and Productivity) and sporting Windows Mobile 6.5 or Android.

Here we show only some of the devices. Below you find the “Salsa”, an Android candybar.

HTC Salsa image (courtesy of BGR)

HTC Salsa specs (courtesy of BGR)

Then you find the HTC Bravo, which falls into the “Performance” category. This beast features a Snapdragon QSD 8250 1GHz CPU, a 3.7″ WVGA AMOLED screen, and a 1400 mAh battery. A 16GB MicroSD card is included, too. Expect this to go official April 2010.

HTC Bravo image (courtesy of BGR)

HTC Bravo specs (courtesy of BGR)

Finally the HTC Trophy cna be found under the “Productivity” category. It mounts Windows Mobile 6.5 and is coming May 2010. It features a front facing keyboard while still mounting a 3.0″ capacitive screen.

HTC Trophy image (courtesy of BGR)

HTC Tropphy specs (courtesy of BGR)

We suggest you to visit Boy Genius Report to see more devices.

Via: Boy Genius Report

Let me tell you about my day.  You know things have gone terribly wrong when you are required to open up your stuff like this…

In my case it was late at night and I awoke to help one of my boys who needed to go to the bathroom. During the night I use my Palm Centro as a flashlight attached to my neck with a lanyard, and thus I took it  to the bathroom with my boy.

While leaning on the toilet, for some unknown reason, the lanyard unlocked and…SPLASH…there went my Centro…into the water.  At which point, of course, my son started to pee…

After putting my beloved son back to bed, I rescued the phone and discovered that the device had set itself to full brightness entering into water and started syncing.

Wait!! You mean “sinking” right? No, I mean “syncing”. The Palm Centro started syncing, maybe in an extreme attempt to save its will (and my data…).

I dried it, opened it and dried it again et voilà! Believe it or not, it’s working again. There is only a minor problem with the volume of phone calls, which is way too low.

Maybe now I have a good excuse to buy a new one (and it’s Christmas time too!!).

Tell us if you had similar experiences together with your tips and tricks to solve this kind of accident.

I got to play with a Magic Mouse for about a week before I had to hand it back (to the original reviewer, tee hee), but I’m still not completely sure if I want to pick one up for myself. I love the flat design, the intuitive (if meager) multi-touch, and the Bluetooth responsiveness…but at the end of the day, I’m still too scared that Apple will never really capitalize on this cool piece of tech.

Comfort
I was actually almost daring the mouse to give me some sort of hand ache. The thing lies so flat against the desk and is so small that you actually palm it instead of grip it. However, in my week of use, about 5-8 hours a day, the Magic Mouse was nothing but spectacularly comfortable.
I have medium-sized hands, and they’re used to holding a Logitech G9 gaming mouse at my desktop, but the Magic Mouse only took a day or so to get used to. Clicking is satisfying and easy, and I actually like the way you right click (lift your index finger up, and click along the right side with your middle finger). Strangely enough, it reminds me of the way cats do their business, but that’s another story altogether.

Hardware
The Magic Mouse really feels like a premium accessory. The build doesn’t feel cheap, and as I mentioned earlier, it’s satisfying to *click*. At least 75% of the top surface is touch-sensitive, and the entire front half of the mouse is one giant button. Along the bottom you’ll find the battery hatch (stick ye the AA batteries in here), power switch, and the laser tracking eye.
The whole mouse slides along two plastic rails that are fine on a mouse pad, but just a little too rough on my sorta-wood IKEA desk. I’d have preferred if the rails were made of rubber or silicone or whatever is stuck onto the bottom of my Logitech G9.

Software
Here’s where the Magic Mouse gets a little disappointing (but a little less so with a bit of modding). First of all, the default sensitivity on the mouse is absolutely horrific. It positively crawls across my 13″ MacBook screen, and I had to download a free utility called MouseZoom to get any work done.
Left clicking is done on almost any portion of the mouse, except for the right-most side. A single finger click on the right side is a right click. One finger swipes activate momentum scrolling and two finger swipes to the left and right function as back and forward, respectively.
There is no middle click, no gesture to trigger Expose — just the features I’ve listed above. The iPhone has had a multi-touch screen for about three years now, and Apple still hasn’t taken full advantage of the technology with the default applications, and I’m worried that buying a Magic Mouse right now might very well lock me into a cool, but essentially featureless little accessory for a while to come. There are some cool little 3rd party utilities on the horizon, but I’m wary of cluttering my Mac workspace up with even more processes. I wanted a nice, simple set-up, and trying to juice the Magic Mouse for everything it’s worth might well make things more complicated.

It’s the features you leave out?
I’ve read just a little bit on the subject of Apple design, and it seems to me that they’re just as conservative as they are revolutionary. I love the iPhone interface and I love how it changed the smartphone landscape, but what kind of stupid smartphone doesn’t let you change wallpapers, edit the auto-suggestion dictionary, or create shortcuts to toggle the wireless radios?
One big reason I’m scared of the Magic Mouse is that Apple might have a ridiculously plain vision of the technology: “here, public, take a mouse with all of two multi-touch gestures and get used to the idea for a few years…then maybe we’ll talk.”
The thing is, I believe I’m ready right now for some extra features and smarter customization, but it just isn’t being offered.
I haven’t called this a review because I’m still not really sure about what I think of the Magic Mouse, despite having thought about the purchase for a good three weeks now. At the end of the day, I still think the Magic Mouse is an amazing design accomplishment, but it’s really all up to Apple to provide the back-end support to make it a practical accessory that is worth $70. As it stands right now, buying a Magic Mouse feels more like an investment in multi-touch technology rather than an actual accessory purchase.

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The Magic Mouse is available at your local Apple Store or Best Buy for around 70 dollars.

Geek.com is reporting that Google has now officiallyentered the online dictionary service.  For about as long as I can remember Google being in existence, it has been possible to look up a word using the “define: …” formatting when entering a search term.  This would pull in definitions from all over the internet.  Google’s new dictionary service, found at http://dictionary.google.com, is a bit more streamlined as the picture above illustrates.  Simply enter the word you need defined in the search box and off you go.  You will be presented with definitions from both Google’s repository of answers and those found on the web.  Also handy is the ability to search in multiple languages, and to perform language to language searches.  Be sure to check this one out and add it to your Google toolbelt!