Mini-Review: TORQ P120 Pocket PC Phone Edition

"The TORQ P120 arrived in a very attractive white box displaying images of the device, the TORQ logo, and P120 words in high gloss color. You will find the device, cradle, battery, stylus, leather case, headset, CD, Quick Start Guide, AC adapter, and USB sync cable inside the box."

Missing Sync for Palm OS Goes Universal

Mark/Space announced today that a Universal version of The Missing Sync for Palm OS is now available. Universal applications for Mac OS X run natively on both Intel and PowerPC processors, providing the best performance on Apple's latest Macs, including the iMac Intel Core Duo and MacBook Pro. Version 5.1 is a free update for owners of version 5.0.

Why All the Trouble with NVFS?

Seems like NVFS (non volatile filesystem) is currently the #1 source of problems for Palm users and this Palm user thought it would be nice to give users some background information why it's causing all those problems and why Palm still decided to use it.

GPS SiRFStar III (with SiRFInstantFix) Mio A701 under Mobile Windows 5

"Available to the sale for a few days in France, first PDAPhone GPS built by the Taiwanese MiTAC, Mio A701, has seemed to have many assets with a chip GPS SiRFStar III, a processor INTEL Xscale given rhythm to 520 MHz and a form Factor of most original. Which are the advantages and disadvantages again PDAPhone GPS?" Obviously, this is an automatic translation of the french review of the Mio PDA phone.

Ten years on, revisiting Palm's first Pilot

Ten years ago, Palm's Pilot 1000 made mobile computing simple and affordable for millions of people--a revolution, said one early employee, born of frustration, a direct challenge and balsa wood.

Graphics with DirectX in Windows Mobile 5.0 Games

Learn how to develop graphics with DirectX in games for Windows Mobile 5.0 powered devices, and learn the differences between the Windows Mobile 5.0 implementation of Direct3D and DirectDraw versus their desktop computer counterparts.

Amanda Backup project announces new release

The Amanda project has released a major new version (2.5) of the popular open source backup and recovery software. Overall the focus of the release is on security of the backup process & backed up data, scalability of the backup process and ease of installation & configuration of Amanda.

Review: Samsung's Super Skinny SGH-D800/D808

Samsung is one of the companies that have been pursuing the slim handset style, made popular with the Motorola V3. The company's D810 was criticized as being unoriginal, but nobody could complain when Samsung announced the thin D808. The D808 (also known as the D800/D807) that it is reviewed today was the thinnest slider in the world before it was trumped by Samsung's own D870, announced at CeBIT in 2006.

ImCoSys Linux Smartphone Live Photo

The ImCoSys linux smartphone is one of the recent linux smartphone that comes with well connected modules like WiFi, Quadband, GPS and bluetooth. Other than the hardware, the linux OS also support push email solution from IBM Lotus and Microsoft Exchange server. It will be able to read Microsoft office documents, including Word, Excel, Powerpoint. Adobe PDF file is compatible too. The smartphone is planned to be available in June for Europe and US.

Opera Mini on Palm OS 3.5 and 4

Wap Review has posted instructions how to get Opera Mini working on your old Palm PDA.

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