Sometimes there is no better way to demonstrate that what a company is saying is pure rubbish than by putting it to a simple test. Apple’s Siri was released to simultaneous cheers and yawns – cheers from those who use it and yawns from Microsoft and Google (and their fanboys) saying that they already have [...]
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First Complete Spanish-English Dictionary for Windows Phone Now Available
While I may not personally a big fan of Windows Phones, that doesn’t mean that I don’t want them to succeed. And part of succeeding (these days) means to have a big enough app base to make moving to the platform desirable. Living in Texas, one of my favorite apps on my iPhone is a translation program, [...]
It’s All About Voice: Nuance Unveils New NDEV Mobile Developer Program w/Free Access to Dragon Mobile Voice Technology
Earlier today I was IMing with Judie. Both of us have ditched our iPhone 4s in anticipation of the next generation iPhone. We are both looking forward to it and want it NOW. At one point I IMed “You know, as much as I am excited about the possibility of an update to the hardware [...]
Review: Microsoft Releases Windows Phone Mac Connector Update on Mac App Store
Much has been written about how the biggest winner in two recent events – HP dumping webOS and the success of patent infringement cases against Android handset makers by Apple and Microsoft – is Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. For me, one of the issues I have had with Windows Phone 7 is connectivity. You need [...]
Let the WP7 ‘Mango’ Feature Cutting Begin: No In-App Purchases
When Windows Phone 7 launched a year ago, it had lost several features from when it was announced. Those features were promised within a month … and ended up coming within 6 months via the disastrous ‘minor update’ and later NoDo update. I say disastrous since it was rolled out slowly yet bricked devices, failed [...]
eWallet Go! Available on Whatever Durn Platform You Want, Pretty Much!
See, this is the kind of thing I like to see. ”Where do you stand on Android vs. iOS, Mr. Software Maker?” ”Why, we develop for both of the them, of course!” That’s right; they do the software, and you the happy consumer get to decide which platform is best for you. That’s what I [...]
eWallet GO! for Windows
Too much information Runnin’ through my brain Too much information It’s driving me insane . . . Is that you The Police are singing about? Do you have a Windows machine? Well, Ilium Software wants to help you out (and make money, too, of course; this is Capitalism, baby!): they’ve just release their eWallet GO! [...]
Mobility Minded Offers Up a Wish List for the Windows Phone 7 Update
Johan with ProClip’s new MultiStand for iPad One of the friends we got to hang out with at CES was Johan van Mierlo of MobilityMinded. Johan spent the better part of one evening explaining to me why I NEED to get a Windows Phone 7 handset. Truth be told, it was the first time I [...]
SPB Software Releases
Back in the days of yore, when I was running Windows Mobile (ack! thpt!) on an HTC Universal (the phone of a thousand names), one of the companies whose products I came to trust was SPB. While I’m not quite as fond of their apps on the iPhone, they’re a solid software outfit, and I [...]
Ilium Software Launches eWallet GO! – Their First App for WP7
Well established mobile software companies are slowly rolling out apps for Windows Phone 7. Ilium Software, a long-standing mobile software company, has just released its first WP7 app, eWallet GO! (the ! is theirs – not [necessarily] an indication of my excitement). eWallet is a secure information manager (password protector, etc.) that has been around [...]
Nuance Dragon Dictation at the Heart of New LG Voice-to-Text App for Windows Phone 7
I am a big fan of Nuance’s series of mobile voice-to-text apps. It is one of the most used apps on my iPhone and iPad and I can’t wait to see how it develops in the coming months. Nuance isn’t just interested in iOS however and they are proving it as this year’s CES begins. [...]
Windows Phone 7 Lands an Amazon Kindle App
It’s practically a given that apps make or break a smartphone platform. And Amazon’s Kindle apps are incredibly popular on Android, Blackberry and iOS devices. Now Amazon is announcing Windows 7 will also be rocking a Kindle app! This is big news. Considering how long it took Amazon to expand to Android and Blackberry, jumping [...]
Simplify Your Windows Mobile Calendaring with TrineSeries
Usually your humble Gear Diary news guy (i.e., me) posts our little news items based on info received from the game/software/hardware companies themselves, or from their press folks, or whatnot. But once in a while we get a satisfied user–often a GD person!– saying, “Yo, this is one sweet piece of work.” In my time [...]
Microsoft Kills off the KIN, Never to See the Light Of Day in Europe, World Heartbroken
Original Image courtesy of microsoftfeed It’s no shocker when the news hit the net yesterday that Microsoft pulled the plug on the KIN line of social phones. Verizon will continue to carry and sell the current line on KIN, but Microsoft will not be shipping them to Europe as planned in the Fall. Microsoft also [...]
Got a Windows Phone? Need Great GPS? Mobile Navigator 7 Is On Sale Through July 5th
Let’s face it. There really isn’t a whole lotta love thrown out to Windows Phone users these days. Everyone (who hasn’t long defected to iPhone, Android, or even BlackBerry by this point) is cautiously optimistic about Windows Phone 7. But what about current Windows Mobile users? Where’s the app love? Well, now through July 5th [...]
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