http://tamswms.tamoggemon.com The Windows Mobile Smartphone news and opinion source Fri, 09 May 2008 22:12:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Designing cases for flip phones has traditionally proven difficult due to the radical shape changing involved when such a device is put to use. Other companies have attempted clip-on and leather cases before - can Brando's silicone case stack up? Brando's products ship in envelopes from Hong Kong; they are delivered ... http://tamswms.tamoggemon.com/2008/05/09/the-brando-silicone-case-for-qtek-8500/ Samsung's low-end i200 was handled at this year's CeBit - the electronics giant now announced when it will be let loose on the masses: AkahibaraNews quotes Geesung Choi, the president of Samsung's Global Telecom Business: Samsung i200 will be launched in the European market in June and will enter other market within ... http://tamswms.tamoggemon.com/2008/05/09/the-samsung-i200-hits-the-road/ The Pantech Duo has seen a nice bit of blowout action a few weeks ago(AT&T paid you 50$ is you purchased such a box with a contract) - indeed, the nice little box seems to be pretty useful(pictured below): Engadget Mobile has now claimed that a successor called Pantech Duo 2 ... http://tamswms.tamoggemon.com/2008/05/06/pantech-duo-2-c820-in-the-works/ People following our sister site TamsPPC closely will probably already know the Celio RedFly(more info here) - in case you are new to the topic, it essentially is an "external screen" for Windows Mobile devices.: So far, RedFly support has been limited to touchscreened Windows Mobile devices. However, according to BrightHand, ... http://tamswms.tamoggemon.com/2008/05/06/celio-redfly-goes-windows-mobile-standard/ In case anyone of you wants a Samsung i600 and lives in the USA or the UK, Expansys is your friend. The box pictured above runs Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone and has 64MB of RAM/128MB of ROM. It includes a HSDPA radio, has BT 2.0 and a 1.3MP camera - other ... http://tamswms.tamoggemon.com/2008/05/02/samsung-i600-for-cheap/ The Samsung i640v was covered just a few hours ago - now, I am proud to bring you even more news on Samsung's QWERTY slider phones. The fine folks at MobileBurn.com managed to get their hands on a white SGH-i620 for VidaFone Italy(aka GSM) - Michael Oryl generally was pretty ... http://tamswms.tamoggemon.com/2008/04/30/white-samsung-sgh-i620-reviewed/ The folks at En gadget Mobile's managed to get their hands on a Samsung WMS device for VodaFone. The box(dubbed i640v) is like a Treo 500, but has the QWERTY keyboard on a slider: All those of you who hated the Treo 500v's UI as much as I did should now ... http://tamswms.tamoggemon.com/2008/04/30/samsung-i640v-handled/ Use the discount code FUNNYHEX to get 20% off Hexic in the TamsShop! AstraWare recently ported a few puzzlers from MSN Games to the Windows Mobile platform. Hexic is the second application(coming after Mozaki) that is unleashed onto Windows Mobile Smartphones - can this Bejeweled clone stack up? Like its sister product ... http://tamswms.tamoggemon.com/2008/04/29/astraware-hexic-for-windows-mobile-standard-the-review/ The office suite found on most Windows Mobile Smartphones is truly pathetic - hell, you can't even create new files... . DataViz's DocumentsToGo is considered the king of office suites for Palm OS- can it stack up on Windows Mobile Standard? General appearance People who know DocsToGo from the Palm OS are ... http://tamswms.tamoggemon.com/2008/04/27/documents-to-go-for-windows-mobile-smartphone-the-reviewpart-1/ Amusingly, the luxury phone maker Vertu has not seen the need to ask its mother company for a license of it's S60 operating system - instead; it uses a weird proprietary operating system that can do exactly zilch. A Russian company called Gresso has now set out to change this by ... http://tamswms.tamoggemon.com/2008/04/25/windows-mobile-standard-goes-luxury-phone/