Welcome back to the new weekly feature here at Gear Diary! As noted last week, I will highlight the major Windows Mobile software releases and updates from the previous week as well as a couple of featured software for the week. Hopefully, you will join the discussion!

This week, I’m adding a new section, which will feature software of the week! Let’s get going!

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Welcome to a new weekly feature here at Gear Diary! Each week, I will highlight the major Windows Mobile software releases and updates, giving you a quick feel of what’s been going on in the Windows Mobile arena in the prior week. With the recent Windows Mobile 6.5 launch, I hope to provide an overview to you Windows Phone users out there so you can put your Windows Phone to good use. Without further delay, let’s get right to it!

First stop, let’s check out the new release by Wizcode!

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Got the mobile app craze?  Need to add to your growing collection of productive cool useful fun apps for your smartphone, but just don’t have the extra greenbacks in your wallet?  Don’t worry, Gear Diary is here to help!

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Slacker offers a popular radio service for BlackBerry and iPhone that allows users to select and create a wide variety of free music channels. This week they’re demonstrating versions for two new platforms, Android and Windows Mobile, at the CTIA show in San Diego CA. There is no set timeline for when the applications will be available for those platforms. You can create a free account and listen to Slacker on the web at the link below.

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Check out this cool demonstration from dynapocket that shows a Windows Mobile device running some lightning fast voice translation software. You speak the phrase, the device translates to both text and spoken word. I’m sure it would be a bear for lengthy conversations but for emergencies like “where is the nearest bathroom” it’s worth the money – whatever the ultimate price.

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Still hanging onto your Windows Mobile 6.0/6.1 device? Not sure about this whole 6.5 upgrade? Really jealous that people with 6.5 can use the totally awesome and well stocked Windows Mobile Marketplace? Well, first of all, it’s not well stocked, so you can drop your jealousy a tad. And if you head over to xda-developers, a kind soul has already stripped out the Marketplace cab and made it available to all of us that are still on 6.0/6.1, so you won’t have to shell out for an HTC Pure just to buy apps on your phones.

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Google Voice, if you have been missing out, is the Internet based phone forwarding service by Google. It gives you a separate phone number, which you can give out as if it is your regular phone number. You can then change your settings to have calls forwarded to any of your phones. Best of all, it is free except for international calls.

Now, OneTouch Solutions has developed OneDialer, a solution for Windows Mobile users to use this wonderful feature on their phone. It is a fully featured Google Voice dialer, SMS and Visual Voicemail client.

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One thing I didn’t realize would happen when I upgraded my Dell Axim x51v to Windows Mobile 6.1 recently, was that I would lose the ability to read my DRM-infested ebooks in Reader format because Microsoft Reader didn’t support the latest version of Windows Mobile. As far as I could tell Microsoft Reader was a dead product. I searched around on forums and blogs, and the only solution I could find was using utilities to transfer my Reader books to a format readable in Mobipocket Reader. I did that for one book I bought a while ago and had wanted to finish on a business trip this past weekend, but in general it wasn’t something I felt good about.

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The new Pantech Matrix Pro is a chunky and solidly built little smartphone, offered exclusively by AT&T. Measuring 4.17″ tall x 2.0″ wide x 0.85″ thick and weighing 5.34 ounces, it might be easy to dismiss this little beast as too thick and too heavy. But just like a story with a surprise twist at the end, there is more to this quad-band Windows Mobile Standard 6.1 device than first assumed.

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The lovely Alison graced my inbox this morning with the latest from Club Astraware; this month’s special is one you won’t want to miss!

Club Astraware offers for September 2008

The Club Astraware Member-only discount offer for September 2008 is Astraware Solitaire for just $9.95, that’s a huge saving of $10 off the regular price!

In addition to our regular offers for Palm OS(R) and Windows Mobile(R) device owners, this discount is also available to Club Astraware members who own Symbian(R) S60(R), and UIQ(R) smartphones.

Astraware Solitaire features 12 of the most well-known and best-loved single player card games, chosen based on direct feedback and suggestions from Astraware customers.

The games included in Astraware Solitaire are Klondike, Pyramid, Spider, Clock, Yukon, Canfield, Four Seasons, Sultan’s Harem, Idiot’s Delight, Golf, Calculation, and Freecell, and to make the playing experience both familiar and fun, each game has custom gameplay options so everyone can enjoy the games using their favorite variation on the standard rules.

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For those of you waiting on the WM 6.1 Standard update for your BlackJack 2, your wait is now over.  Samsung has re-re-released the update, and its now available for your consumption.  For those new to the BJ update process, you’re going to need to download a Samsung modem driver and install it before you install the software. 

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If you live by trialware, you’re going to die by trialware.  Guaranteed.  If you install it, at some point, you’re going to screw up your device (unless of course you take the No Reboot Challenge; but that’s another story and another post yet to come…

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If you’re like me, then you likely have your life on your mobile device. I am currently using the AT&T Tilt (HTC Kaiser) while I wait for the iPhone 3G to be released.  Like many, I use a lot of the fine products by Ilium Software.  One of my favorite apps, is eWallet. I just heard from my very good friend, Julie Van De Water that eWallet 6.1 has been released.

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Some of you may have seen me post about the greatness of Dashwire in the past. Dashwire is a service that runs on your Windows Mobile device that allows you to do a variety of things on your device through a web-based application on your PC. From Dashwire you can send/receive SMS’, share videos and photos and give the world a view of what you are doing at a particular time just to name a few.

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If you don’t already have Live Search for Windows mobile on your WM Pro or Standard device, then here is an opportunity to download it for free…

For a limited time, the Gear Diary Store has two great new products from Microsoft in our catalog – Live Search for Windows Mobile – Standard Edition (SmartPhone) and Professional Edition (PocketPC).  Both of these products are free to our users.  Live Search for Windows Mobile turns your Windows Mobile powered phone into a map (get up-to-date traffic conditions, detailed driving directions) or a city guide (find local business listing in your neighborhood or where you travel).  Find it, Map it, Plan it!  Free software is one of the most visited areas within your store and this major new application will help to attract many new potential customers. Continue Reading