Rejuvenated the Windows Mobile Phone

My aging phone, a Mogul running Windows Mobile 6.1, has been giving me a lot of grief lately. I can handle the occasional lock-up (yeah, Windows has trained me well! #conditionedResponse) but it got to the point that I was missing text messages and locking up just as calls were coming in. Very annoying and

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Skyfire 1.0 Released

My favorite portable browser, Skyfire, announced their 1.0 version earlier this week. What was already a pretty solid product has gotten even better with this release.

For instance:

Thumbnail interaction. Now you can click on links immediately after the page loads without having to zoom in. This enhancement is especially helpful for high resolution phones, and for

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Windows Mobile Browsing Updates

Two of the more full-featured mobile web browsers have offered upgrades recently. I’m not sure which has the edge and think both are worth a look if you’re running a supported device.

Today the Opera folks announced an update for Opera Mobile beta – now with Opera Widgets support. I’ve just started to play around with

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Skyfire and Opera Mobile Browsers

Earlier this week I [finally] received a beta invite to try the skyfire browser beta. There are two betas going right now: one for Symbian and one for Windows Mobile. I’m trying the Windows Mobile variant on my HTC Mogul phone.

skyfire rocks video

Skyfire is an alternative mobile browser that does an incredible job displaying

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