What were these thieves thinking?

Saw this on the nzherald site last night. What a bunch of idiots. after all the hard work in breaking into the shop, made off with only dummy phones.

Hey guys, I have of a dummy phone of a Sony Ericsson W800, are you gonna come and break into my house & take it?

Stupid thieves flog fake phones

10:31AM Thursday Jul 09, 2009

MORELIA, Mexico - Call it the case of the dead cells - both telephones and the ones in the brain.

Employees at a Telefonica Movistar cell-phone store in Morelia, Mexico say they arrived one recent morning to find that the store had been broken into.

An examination of the shop revealed the only items missing were hollow replica phones for display that are completely useless for making calls.

Employees say the clueless thieves overlooked real mobile phones and cash in another part of the shop.

Store owners nonetheless reported the theft to local police, who are investigating.

- AP

Read it here

Eten Glofiish X610 part 1

A few weeks ago I saw an ad for the Glofiish X610 in one of the free weekly papers. It was on 'sale' at $340 (my Touch Pro was $1300 in comparison). After doing a bit of research and asking the missus if she wants a windows mobile phone, we went to the shop on a saturday morning.

Man, I wish I was still building my own PC's again, it was like going into a candy store. We had a look at the X610, the shop didn't have a 'working model' but the sales girl had one, so we played with hers for a few minutes.

Eventually we bought it. I'll make a review of this windows mobile pda phone in the next few days/weeks. Until then, here's the specs & an unboxing video by Matt & Tracey

General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Announced 2008, June
Status Available. Released 2008, December
Size Dimensions 107 x 58 x 15 mm
Weight 136 g
Display Type TFT resistive touchscreen, 65K colors
Size 320 x 240 pixels, 2.8 inches
- Handwriting recognition
Sound Alert types Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
Speakerphone Yes
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 64 MB RAM, 128 MB ROM
Card slot microSD (TransFlash), microSDHC
Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
HSCSD No
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G No
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0
Infrared port No
USB Yes, miniUSB
Camera Primary 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels, LED flash
Video Yes
Secondary No
Features OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
CPU Samsung S3C2442 400 MHz processor
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser HTML (PocketIE)
Radio No
Games Yes
Colors Black
GPS Yes, SiRF Star III chipset
Java No
- Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer)
- Windows MPlayer 10
- Direct push technology
- Organizer
- Voice memo
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion

e-Natives Showcase - Finger Friendly Task Switcher + X Button Enhancement

Talk about wow! This is a very nice looking & finger friendly task switcher. It also has an add-on for a finger friendly X-button as well that you can use to close any open apps. It supports most resolutions, just give it a try. It is now RC3 - release candidate 3 version.

Get it via xda-developers

Tough times ahead for Windows Mobile?

I saw this article today. It's with regard to Windows Mobile and how it is or will be doing against the 'new boys' of the Mobile OS.

I do believe Microsoft is lagging behind compared to... dare I say it, the iphone and even now with webOs for the Palm.

One of the main reasons for this according to that article is that Microsoft has not developed its own hardware to go with its software. Palm previously had a relationship with its Treo range but now has gone back to developing it's own os - WebOs. Motorola as well has backed away from Windows Mobile.

Windows Mobile 5 was released 4 years ago. With WM6 & 6.1, it was all the same with just a few updates. WM6.5 is not officially released but thanks to the good chefs at xda-developers, we have been able to test drive it. Even then, it's not as finger friendly or efficient as Mac OSX for the iphone.

Hopefully with the release of WM 7, things would change and put Windows Mobile back at the forefront of things, but I won't hold my breath.

Windows mobile to me is far superior to Mac OSX and WebOS in my opinion. It's been around the block a while and highly customizable. Lot's of apps are made for it especially for my medical field. Mac OSX to me is more eye candy than anything. I really do hate the fact that Windows Mobile is in fact buggy - programs don't work and the occasional soft or hard reset, just like your Windows PC I assume.

One new OS that is making waves is Google's Android and companies are taking notice - HTC for one.

Microsoft really needs to make a big leap forward to make Windows Mobile back in the limelight, but I sometimes feel they have missed the boat.

Whatever the future holds, I will stick to Windows Mobile, since I owned my first Windows Mobile device - the Dopod 818pro or the HTC Prophet. But then again, if something new is being offered and maybe better than Windows Mobile, I might go for it then.

What do you guys feel?

News via msmobiles.com via Total Telecom

WM 6.5 build 21501 Titanium Neo Shadow WWE for Prophet

Here is a WM6.5 ROM that I am using at the moment on my Prophet. It is called Titanium Neo Shadow from wapvirus. It's based on Build 21501. It's a really nice ROM. Everything works, even wifi - but the Comm Manager is still based on WM6.1. I'm using the boa background as in the thumbnail above and it looks fantastic! If you want to test drive a WM6.5 Rom for your Prophet, try this.

Get it here

Free shipping and free cleaning cloth with Body Guardz

Just got this news today via email. Body Guardz are offering free shipping and a free cleaning cloth with every order until midnight, July 4th. The cleaning cloth is already included in this offer, so don't add it in your cart.

I am currently using Body Guardz on my Touch Pro and I think they are very good and good value as well - you get 2 Body Guardz for the 1 price and a lifetime guarantee!

Get it here

Skype 3.0 for Windows Mobile

Skype has just released version 3.0 for Windows Mobile. New to this version is the ability to send files Skype-to-Skype and SMS.

Get it here