Question of the Day:  If you are a Windows Mobile or Android user, is your ROM stock or cooked?

At present, my Touch Pro is running the stock Windows Mobile 6.1, although it is heavily tweaked for my liking.  Previous devices have had cooked ROMs installed and a part of me is starting to want to explore my options for upgrading.

What’s your experience / preference in this area?  Let us know in the comments below.

Here we are at the end of another week at JAMM. Below you find the highlights from the past 7 days in case you missed them.

Reviews

• Review – Case-Mate’s Barely There Gay Pride Cases for iPhone 3G/3GS

Opinions

• Where Are We Headed?
• iPhone 4 vs. EVO 4G
• Random Thoughts: Signal Strength Misleadings and False Network Satisfaction

Tips ‘n’ Tricks

• MicroSim Solution

News

• HanDBase for iPhone Updates
• SBSH Updates Calendar Pro for Blackberry
• Google Outs new-improved Mobile YouTube Website
• Samsung Intercept from Sprint for $99.99: Starting July 11
• AT&T’s response to iPhone4 upload issues
• Resco Explorer 2010 for Windows Mobile Gets Updated
• Dropbox Update for iPad

Today’s JAMM Store Deal of the Day is Aces Texas Hold Em’ – Limit for Windows Mobile.  You can register Aces Texas Hold Em’ – Limit for half the regular price, so be sure to check it out.

The price of the software on sale is $2.49

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

The programs details and specifications are below:

“Limit style” Texas Hold’em is most often played in casinos where betting limits are set by the house. Setting limits retains more players per round and more action to the game. See if you can beat the pros of Aces Texas Hold’em® – Limit! Features: Amazing intelligence specifically created for limit style Texas Hold’em. Play up to 22 Hold’em opponents at a time. Incredible hi-res graphics! 4 game speeds. Highlights winning hands. Manual scrolling to view players previous moves Great sound effects with on/off option. Game proceeds faster after you fold. Amazing player intelligence. Display 3 opponents at a time (4 using landscape). Player scrolling – automatic and manual. Use your favorite poker nicknames for yourself and other players. Create/Modify opponent names, faces, intelligence, and holdings. Blinds stay the same, increment on a timer, or by number of rounds. Customize blinds and time increments. Play Tournament style or have players automatically sit in. “Deal’em Button” reveals next card after folds. Tons of statistics (hands played, folds, raises, tournament wins, etc.) Automatically saves game.

Minimum Requirements: Works for all Pocket PC 2002/2003/2003 SE/Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 devices. Display Dimensions 240×240, 240×320, 240×400, 320×240, 320×320, 400×240, 480×480, 480×640, 480×800, 640×480, 800×480 Operating System WM5, WM6, WM6.1, WM6.5

I’ve always been an application-junkie with every WinMo device I’ve ever owned, but I have to admit I’ve never liked the way each device eventually gets bogged-down and needed to start over from too many installs or conflicts. It has always bugged me, so I have watched with interest as applications and development began to move toward “cloud-based” use. The other development that has fascinated me is the growth of Android and the iPhone native applications in the handheld arena, which brought along with it a whole argument/conversation about Flash and it’s future.

Today I found what I think is a pretty interesting perspective and summary by Ryan Stewart, who is an Adobe developer. Whether you agree with him or not, I think it’s an interesting and timely read. It also gives a nice explanation as to the distinctions between some of these terms and perspectives of various companies and camps.Check out his thoughts and tell JAMM what you think. Read it HERE.

If you are familiar with HanDBase you already know it is a fast and light database manager for desktop and handheld devices. It allows you to create your own databases or select from a huge gallery of templates, all with the ability to sync between your device and desktop. Today they have announced an update for the new iOS4 iPhone. This is what they say about it:

With the release of iOS4 (formerly iPhone OS4), the iPhone now supports various forms of multitasking.  We’ve done our work and updated HanDBase to support this, and submitted the update to Apple.  As you can imagine, with 225,000+ apps in the App Store, it’s likely they have a huge backlog of apps to review right now.  But hopefully the 4.6.5 update will be approved and live in the store soon!
Multitasking support is not all that’s new with this version.  There is a whole list of new features and bug fixes including:

• Supports fast app switching in iOS4
• Supports sharing of database files via iTunes (under the Apps section under a device that is connected)
• Supports opening PDB file attachments in email and in other applications.  In fact, if the database already exists in HanDBase, the attachment will be merged/synced with the database already existing!

• iPhone4 optimized Hi-res program icon and splash screen
• Auto save: Previously databases were only saved when you closed the database back to the Choose database (or parent database).  Now they are saved automatically in the background.
• Direct editing of fields in the Edit Record screen- no more jumping to another screen to edit

Available from the App Store for $9.99