Summer’s full in swing!  How is everyone doing with their summer book lists?  Oh, well, you don’t have to be a student to be reading in the summer.  And no, it’s not always about school / college work.  What about reading for some fun?  Yes – you heard me…for fun!  Well Audible will be giving you something to listen to if you don’t want to just cuddle up with a good book as you can now have that good book be read aloud to you.  45 titles in all with many being unabridged such as The Winnie-the-Pooh Collection, The Next 100 Years, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Great Gatsby (yes, required reading for some of you), you’ll get the option of choosing any one book you want – no credit card required!  Just sign up for an Audible account when you checkout with your free book and load it onto your favorite audio player (maybe an iPod?) and you are ready to listen to great books.

Which book will you take?  Decisions, decisions…..

Event ends July 2, 2010, at 11:59 PM EST.

What good is a party without people?  Back in the days of Windows 3.1, people actually had parties for such events and people flocked to actually see the latest in Microsoft technology.  Now, with millions of on marketing we see the KIN in Movement 2010 Electronic Music Festival in Detroit, USA to be well…almost a ghost town according to MS Mobiles.  The KIN phones which Microsoft is pushing is a closed to development allowing no 3rd party apps.  WHAT?!  Yes, you heard that right…no apps.  What is wrong with you Microsoft?  When you open up a platform for development, you not only create a spark which people will grab on to, but they will actually build your market for you.  Look at Apple, they have how many apps?  People even pay Apple to develop free apps with that $100 a year developer’s fee – which is no chump change.  Let’s look also at features – people are lining up with around 77% of the market being people who want to upgrade their phones to the iPhone 4 with 90% citing the main reason to be for the new features (ZDNet).  Apple listens to people and the people go crazy to buy.  Simple rules of customer service and development – give the people what they want, support them well, and they’ll be your customers for life.

According to Gizmodo, iOS 4.01 will be released on Monday.  The iOS update is said to resolve issues regarding reception where if the iPhone is held a certain way, the device reports “no service” rather than switching to the frequency with the best signal to noise ratio”.  I have no problems with my iPod Touch as it doesn’t have any cellular antennas in there.  I’m thinking that when it’s time to update, it’s probably again better to backup, upgrade, and resync the iPhone rather than just doing a straight up upgrade.  When it’s time to run the update, it would probably be best to be connected to a system with a battery like a laptop or a desktop with a battery backup.  The last thing you’d want is for a power fluctuation to occur in the middle of the iOS update.  We’ll see when Monday rolls around whether or not people will get their reception fixed.

Question of the Day:  What is your opinion of iPhone 4?

Perhaps you were one that braved the lines, that enjoyed the fanfare to get your hands on the iPhone 4.  If so and you’ve had the opportunity to dive in, to play with your new toy, how has your experience been?

Today’s JAMM Store Deal of the Day is Elecont Quick Desktop for Windows Mobile.  You can register Elecont Quick Desktop for half the regular price, so be sure to check it out.

You can download a trial and/or register your copy here.

The programs details and specifications are below:

Microsoft has invented wonderful conception of Home/Today screen for Windows Mobile devices. Elecont Quick Desktop extends this idea with three new features: contacts with ability to make phone calls and SMS; applications, web sites or documents with ability to start them; the bar with running applications with ability to switch between them. Alt+Tab function.

Using Elecont Quick Desktop you’re working with your Windows Mobile device in the similar way to Windows desktop. Now you can place on Today(Home) screen your favourite applications or documents and start them by touching the icon, or contacts and make calls or start SMS only in one touch. Using task manager you can always control which of applications are running now and how much of your phone resources are currently in use. Also you can switch between applications or close them in order to free some resources.

Despite of rich functionality the product has got the name “Quick” because of its high speed and small resource usage. Every feature has a rich set of options at the same time all of them are easy in use.

Features:

• Main features ==============================
• Make phone calls and send SMS directly from Today(Home) screen
• Start applications, web sites or documnets from Today(Home) screen
• Switch between running programs and controll how much of resources are in use
• Alt+Tab function
• Vibro Touch
• Access to any feature by touch (or by keyboard or stylus) Prevents accidental phone calls or application starts (caused by accidental touching)
• Displays animated effects, saves screen space with touch-controlled sliding effects and much more…
• Phone Dialer ==============================
• Dialer is fast and easy way to make calls directly from Home/Today screen. All of your favourite contacts can be easily accessed in one touch.
• Each contact can be displayed as photo from contact, custom image or text
• Single line display mode with sliding effect
• Supports phone dialing and sending SMS messages
• Protection against accidental clicks
• Animated and sound effects
• Multiple Home/Today screen layouts for different screen sizes
• Launcher ==============================
• Launcher provides fast and easy way to start your favourite applications, URLs, folders, documents or control panel items. It is friendly for touch usage because of its protection against accidental clicks
• Multiple Home/Today layouts for big and small screens with sliding effect
• Customizable animated and sound effects
• Built in Battery/Memory/SMS/EMail,Flash,Missed Calls indicators
• Phone Manager ==============================
• Phone Manager allows you to switch between running programs in touch-oriented manner. It also provides you with the information about running applications and their memory usage.
• Windows-like taskbar on Home and Today screen
• Overall CPU usage
• Estimated battery time to full discharge
• Memory usage information for each program
• Whole memory and battery usage indicators
• The easiest touch and joystick interface
• Exclusion list for running programs

Minimum Requirements:

• Pocket PC or Windows Smartphone without HTC Touch Flo 3D

Display Dimensions
240×240, 240×320, 240×400, 320×240, 320×320, 320×480, 400×240, 480×480, 480×640, 480×800, 640×480, 800×480
Operating System
WM5, WM6, WM6.1, WM6.5