WebIS is having a great sale for all of you who have always wanted their products but have been waiting for the right moment!  Well that right moment is here, right now!  WebIS Pocket Informant for Windows Mobile and Blackberry are on sale along with Flexmail 4 for Windows Mobile.  Both of these programs are top performers in the Windows Mobile and Blackberry arenas.  They both have features and customizations that simply cannot be found in the base apps or in most feature applications for this use.

Pocket Informant ,in particular, really kills anything out there, especially the default Blackberry calendar.  I use Pocket Informant personally on my Bold and can tell you that it will give you more than you need.  For you business users out there, this is definitely the one to check out.  It will handle most, if not all of your needs.  My Bold is actually the company phone.  I travel a lot and have to have an awesome calendar to schedule my business and personal calendars.  It does it beautifully.

Pocket Informant has received awards year after year.  If you want more power and demand more from your calendar app, click this link to get the discount.  Don’t believe me?  Go and search the web.  Check out Smartphonemag Awards.  Do yourself a favor and celebrate your independence from apps that don’t give you the functionality that you want.  If you need to check it out first, I will post the WEBIS link below; but check it out fast!  Deals this good don’t come along that often!

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Tech MSNhas done a very quick, selective comparison of four of the newest smartphones to hit the market:  the Apple iPhone 3GS, Nokie N97, Palm Pre, and the T-Mobile myTouch 3G.  You have the Apple OS, Symbian, WebOS, and Android.  Anybody see anything wrong here; no Windows Mobile. 

I really question whether this article should be listed as the hottest smartphones or the newest smartphones.  Anyway, I have always believed that if something was classified as the hottest, it should be something that is selling like hotcakes fresh off the griddle.  Also, that the hottest should be something that can do more than the rest as well (you know, the new and improved idea).  This is not the case here.  Windows Mobile is just simply being ignored because, in this writer’s opinion, people just see it as old-hat.  This is so sad.  Windows Mobile may not be the fastest; and it is certainly not going to fit everyone.  However, Windows Mobile will and can do more than all of these put together.  There are more applications and customization for Windows Mobile than any other operating system.  This alone should be enough; but no, we have to go and get the latest thing to be “up with Jones’” or to be better.  The problem is that the latest and greatest are not all they are chalked up to be.  Read up a little bit and you will find that each operating system has its strengths and weaknesses.  Why are we doing this?  It seems to me that image means more than functionality.  I own a Fuze because of what it can do; not what it looks like.  The whole purpose of the smartphone is to be able to do things on the go.  Here lately there are more people buying smartphones.  Is it because they need to get things done on the go or is it just to look smart?  Alright, I am off the soapbox now.  Check out the article for yourself, and see what you think.

Great news for all of our netbook users out there running XP.  Microsoft announced this week that XP will live on a little bit longer.  If you ever thought about, looked at, or purchased a netbook, you probably are very aware of how well XP runs on these machines.  More than likely, you are also staying away from Linux for the time being.   I don’t blame you. 

The article found at the link below tells of Microsoft giving in and giving us some more time to enjoy our netbooks.  For those of us who are still debating on whether to get one of these little miracle devices, it gives us a little more time to think about it.  This is also great news considering the reception that Vista has received.  Microsoft is extending the availability until 2011 and the end of security updates and patch development in 2014.  Well, just for me, that helps me not have to go out and buy a new laptop for at least another year; but that is also because I am really liking the looks of the HP Mini.

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Just in case you missed it, EverNote has just released version 3.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch.  I caught this over at PalmAddicts.  The new version supports a nice thumb-oriented voice recorder with double the recording time.

Also included is what looks like a geocache system of your notes.  It appears that in order to use Evernote 3.0, you will have to update your device to firmware 3.0.  Evernote has been a great resource for me.  I use it to store webpages and emails from where I have bought different pieces of software.   Audio notes are also life savers for those in the business world, especially if you need to store meeting notes for future meetings;  or if you want just to type it in and send to your evernote email address.  Evernote is a particularly good find.

Have a look at the YouTube video to see if you want it.

Small note:  The iTunes App Store still may show version 2.0 until all the servers update.  Here is the link.

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