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March 31st, 2008

Fighting Scrollbars

Windows Mobile 6 introduced scroll bars to some core OS applications - in case anyone of you feels like getting rid of them, use the following registry keys:

Go to HKLM/System/GWE and change the following values

cxHScr=0
cxVScr=0
cyHScr=0
cyVScr=0

In case you don’t want to totally remove the scroll bars, but thin them out a bit, you can set these values:

cxVScr=3 (original 6)
cyHScr=3 (original 6)

via allShadow.com

March 31st, 2008

Windows Mobile grows fast, version 6.1 coming tomorrow

Here is the latest scoop on Windows Mobile:

Market share grows
Reuters reports that Microsoft sold 20 million WM powered devices in this fiscal year(ending in June) - 2x as much as sold last year. Additionaly, Reuters claims analysts stating that Microsoft earns 8-15$ per sold device(which I consider too low - my sources speak of values around 50$).

New screenshots
The Boy Genius Report managed to get their claws on yet another Motorola Q9 running WM 6.1. Here is a quick list of new features:

  • Support for AT&T’s Video Share
  • New thumbnail browsing
  • New Albums feature
  • Send to your space (upload to your Windows Live account)
  • Updated camera UI
  • Updated home screen (more music and multimedia features)
  • TV out

WM 6.1 comes on April the 1st
The folks at Pocket-lint claim that version 6.1 of Windows Mobile will ship on the 1st of April. Even though I am not sure if this is true(could be linkbait/an early April’s fools joke); WM6.1 has been running for quite some time….

March 31st, 2008

Samsung ACE - video review

Samsung’s CDMA/GSM crossover device ACE has been mentioned on TamsWMS some time ago. However, news services based in Austria do not have much of a chance to get a sample - instead, all I can do is offer you links to interesting reviews.

Anyways, the folks at PhoneScoop.com managed to get their hands on an ACE - and have posted a thorough video review to YouTube:
http://tamswms.tamoggemon.com/2008/02/19/samsung-ace-launches-on-sprint/

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