Thaddeus Computing to Publish iPhone Edition of Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine

For those familiar with Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine and who pined for a similar offering for their iPhone, Thaddeus Computing will soon publish a print magazine and a companion web site targeted at  iPhone users.  Per Thaddeus Computing CEO Hal Goldstein:

“Given the incredible interest in the new iPhone, extending our Smartphone & Pocket PC brand to cover the iPhone and iPod touch is natural for us. We’ve been doing enthusiast mobile computing publications since 1985.

“We look forward to helping users get the most out of their iPhone or iPod touch and have already identified over 100 hidden tips about using built-in software and iTunes. Each issue will cover new software, top accessories, and best Web applications. Our ‘iPhone at Work’ section will assist both professionals and large organizations.”

The premier issue of the iPhone Edition of Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine will be available mid-August on newsstands worldwide, followed by three more iPhone editions in 2009.

Visitors can find editorial contact information, special advertising rates, and a table of contents at http://www.pocketpcmag.com/iphone/mediakit/. Through special arrangement with texterity.com, a Web-based digital version of the premier issue will be viewable for free for anyone with a PC, Mac, or iPhone.

NB: The iPhone Edition will not be sent to Windows Mobile subscribers. However, yearly iPhone Edition subscriptions will be available for $14.99. For the latest information about Thaddeus Computing’s iPhone efforts, including a listing of the best available iPhone Web sites, visit http://pocketpcmag.com/cms/iphone

Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine Seeks Your Input

I feel very honored this year to join the ranks of our very own Julie and warthog, who are both current and prior Board of Expert Judges for Smartphone & Pocket PC Software Awards.  This will be a busy summer for us as we sift through loads of excellent software in our respective categories and recognize those companies producing superior software.  We’d like your help, though.  The Nominations Manager, Werner Ruotsalainen, better known to many as Menneisyys,  has along with many of the Board of Experts created the nominations list.  This tentative list of nominations of Windows Mobile software is now available for public viewing and commentary. 

This is where we’d appreciate your input, from end users and developers alike.  By following this link, you can make suggestions to improve the quality of the pool of items to be judged.  Your suggestions can be for  a new category, un-nominating products you feel are not deserving or even changing the category of a given product.  You can also discuss these and other items related to the 2008 awards by stopping by Smartphone & Pocket PC’s Best Software Awards Forum.

If you’d like more information about the awards for this year, go to http://www.pocketpcmag.com/cms/forums/best-software/best-software-awards

Winners of Callpod Dragon BT Headsets Contest!

Here at Mobilitysite.com we take our social responsibilities seriously, and with this contest conclusion we hope to promote safer hands-free driving for the winners.  Yes, yes, we’re martyrs to our own generosity…. I consulted with fellow humor experts such as my immediate family to help judge which two submissions were worthy to receive the two Callpod Dragon BT Headsets, an lo! we have our winners! <insert trumpet fanfare for old Imperial Margarine commercial>

Oric

and

Chris Selvage

Congratulations, ye of singular wit!  To claim your prizes, send me, breley,  a PM or email and I will work out the nitty gritty shipping details with you.  Thanks to Callpod for these units, and thanks to Steve Laser (Stevenator65) for suggesting the contest and going to the trouble of sending me these.

Win One of Two Callpod Dragon BT Headsets!

If you’re like me, you might well be melancholic about not winning one of the HP HDX Dragon supercalifragilisticexpialidocious laptops from participating sites in the 31 Days of the Dragon sweeps from last month, but never fear!  I’ve got a couple of gently-used dragon-titled devices, namely Callpod Dragon Bluetooth headsets that I’m going to give away to two lucky (and hopefully funny) winners.  Steve Laser did a fine review that you can peruse to see what he had to say about the unit.

How to win? 

Submit an entry with a clean joke of your own creation—a using mobile tech or PDAs  as subject material.  I’ll pick from the submissions the two funniest jokes and the winners will be the proud owners of a Callpod Dragon BT headset.  Easy as pie, right? 

Consult your comedy Muses and let the jokes begin!

Official Rules:

1. Submit an original joke to this thread
2. Material must be mobile tech or PDA-related (and family-friendly)
3. One entry per person
4. Staff may enter

Deadline for entries is midnight, 6/22/08.

PDAMill Rats!! Contest Winners

We have our contest winners for the PDAMill Rats!! game.  Thanks to all those brave souls who answered, and thanks again to PDAMill for their generous contribution!  The 5 winners picked for some wacky answers to what might make Morty’s power pack biohazardous are (in no particular order):

smwoodcrafts

lodai

bob hagen

JohnPan

daddybfree 

Congratulations!!

Winners, kindly contact me, breley, so I can send you your license key.

PDAmill RATS!! Game Contest

 

It’s the last day in April, and it’s been a cold, miserable last couple of days in my neck of the woods, so I thought, "Why not brighten things up with a contest?"  So, here we are with a contest!  Our friends at PDAmill, skilled in the craft of fine mobile games, have been kind enough to provide me with 5 copies of their excellent platform game, RATS!!.  I reviewed this game a while back, and it was a blast to play.  My oldest boy kept asking to watch me play it on my X51v, so it’s been a family favorite.  It was also a Finalist in the Smartphone and Pocket PC Awards for Best Platform Game of 2007, too!

Want to take a shot a winning one for yourself?  Here’s all you need to do.  Did you notice something odd on Morty’s (that’s the rat above) backpack generator?  It’s biohazard symbol.  Post below what you think might be powering Morty’s backpack generator that would be biohazardous, and you’ll garner yourself an entry…something like "Leftover Coquille St. Jacques that was left in our hot garage for a week."  Winners will be picked from the most creative answers, so there’s no "right" answer I’m looking for.  Just keep it clean, please. ;-)   Here are the nitty-gritty rules:

1. Suggest what’s biohazardous in Morty’s generator backpack in a comment on to this post
2. One entry per person
3. Staff may enter

Deadline for entries is Thursday, May 8 at 12:00PM

Contest Winners for SOTI Pocket Controller-Pro!

 

 

And now the moment some of you have been waiting for…the list of winners for the SOTI Pocket Controller-Pro Contest:

Drumroll please…and the winners are:

• kinmont
• srvtec
• katwoman
• jvenables
• spmwinkel

Congratulations, winners!  I think you will be very pleased with this excellent application.  I just couldn’t imagine doing my software reviews without it.  Contests and giveaways are a lot of fun…so I hope everyone who participated keeps their eyes peeled…there will be more contests/giveaways in the future!

A big thanks to our friends at SOTI for providing these applications for our contest.

Winners, I will contact you shortly to get the prize awards out.  Thanks again!

Resco Keyboard Pro v5 Contest WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

The results are in, and here are the winners for our Resco Keyboard Pro Contest!
jslanger
asbmp1
mousearoma
pgp66
spud42
Congratulations to the winners, thanks to everyone who participated, and a big thanks to Resco for providing the software!
I will contact the winners shortly and forward their information on to Resco to expedite prize distribution.

 

Resco releases Keyboard Pro Version 5.0, and we’re offering up 5 copies for a Contest!

Resco today just released an upgrade to their Soft Input Panel, Resco Keyboard Pro.  This improved version offers a finger-friendly iSkin keyboard layout.  The keyboard is fully skinnable and supports over 20 national keyboard layouts, and permits customization of your mobile device to allow quick insertion of frequently used phrases.

The new and improved features offered in this update include:

• The new Thumb mode is ideal for one hand use.
• Preview mode always shows the letter you are typing.
• Correction mode ensures you enter only letters you really want
• Multi-language keyboard support
• Sound addition with the possibility to add any sound
• Less memory usage
• Easier addition of own skins

Resco Keyboard Pro v5 offers gesture support as well, along with auto repeating and even typewriter sounds of yore.

And now…here is the contest!

Download and try out Resco Keyboard Pro.  Tell us what you like about it or suggest a wishlist of features or improvements.  At the conclusion of the contest we’ll choose five entries submitted, and the winners will receive their very own free copy of Resco Keyboard Pro! 

Follow this link to submit your entry via forum commentary.

Rules:

1. No Staff (sorry!)
2. Members must have 5+ posts
3. One entry per person
4. Provide feeback about Resco Keyboard Pro v5.0

CONTEST ENDS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23 AT MIDNIGHT EST!

 

Start the New Year off with a chance at one of Five SOTI Pocket Controller-Pro Licenses!

We’re at it again, offering up some post-holiday goodies courtesy our friends at SOTI Inc.  This week and next we are offering our members a chance at winning one of FIVE (5) licenses for SOTI’s award-winning mobile device remote control application, Pocket Controller Pro V6.  Let me say this was one of the first applications I purchased when I joined the Review Staff here at Aximsite/Mobilitysite.  It’s an amazing piece of software that brings your mobile device to your desktop.  Virtually all my mobile device application screenshots came via using this excellent program.

How do you enter for a chance to win?  Go to SOTI’s website for the Pocket Controller-Pro app and post an answer to the following three questions:

1. Name 3 of Pocket Controller-Pro’s 10 tools
2. What are the system requirements for Pocket Controller-Pro?
3. Name two major improvements of version 6 over version 5

When the contest completes, we’ll pick 5 winners from the correct entries and announce them on Aximsite/Mobilitysite.

RULES:

1. Must correctly answer the three questions listed above
2. One entry per member
3. Staff may enter
4. Members must have 15+ posts

PLEASE USE THIS THREAD TO RESPOND

CONTEST ENDS SUNDAY, JANUARY 27 AT 12:00AM EST.

PDAmill Fun Factory Review

Reviewer: breley (Bryan Eley)

Product: PDAmill Fun Factory v1.0

Price: US$14.95

Device tested:  Samsung SCH-i760, Windows Mobile 6 OS

 

All work and no play makes Jack (not to be confused with our own Jack Cook, mind you!) a dull boy, so the good people at PDAmill have devised a way for people at the end of a long work day to, well, do some more work.  Wait! Wait! It’s not what you’re thinking.  No, it’s not more endless hours of toil, but rather a condensed 5 day work week of 5 unique “jobs” for you to do.  No goofing off, though, or you might get a virtual firing from The Boss.  Each day at the Fun Factory entails a different job:

Monday - Unscramble pictures as a sort of Graphic Designer in Slider

Tuesday - Quality Control by removing defective toys in Crane

Wednesday - Quality Assurance by matching identical items in Memory

Thursday - Logistics by directing shipments to their destinations in Selector

Friday - Environmental Remediation by popping Balloons (it prevents animals from devouring released balloons)

Click the link to read the rest…

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The Arcade Best Five (Plus Two) Freeware Games

Like freeware games?  Unsure which ones might suit you best?  Well, Doug Goldring over at Just Another Mobile Monday has just published his monthly roundup up his favorite top five, well, top seven if you do the math, freeware games. 

Hop on over here to the JAMM blog to see what he said and why he picked the freeware he did, then decide for yourself if you’d like to go out and take them for a spin yourself!  Since they’re all free, what have you got to lose?

Aximsite/Mobilitysite 5th Birthday Bowling for Burger Game Winners!

 

We have 5 winners as we wind up the contest!  Those lucky five are:

• shabicht
• Eddie Hines
• swissphoenix
• Jake_Speed
• simonuca

Congratulations to the winners and thanks for playing as well as sharing your thoughts about Aximsite/Mobilitysite.   Many more thanks for making Aximsite/Mobilitysite a superb online community!

I will contact the winners soon to begin prize transfer.

Thanks again to PDAMill for supporting our contest!

PDAMill Fun Factory Contest Winners!

 

And now for the list of FIVE lucky winners!  Drumroll, please…

And the winners are:

1. artwoof
2. tazzytalia669
3. ricjaywhit
4. Jogga
5. dogfood

Congratulations to the winners! I will contact all of you shortly to work out the registration details.

Thanks to everyone who played!

Celebrate our 5th Birthday with a chance to win one of 5 PDAMill Bowling for Bugers games!

We love parties, and we hope you do too!  To help kickoff our 5th anniversary/birthday party we are offering our members a chance to win a copy of PDMill’s fun bowling game, Bowling for Burgers as a thank you for making this a great community! Keep your eyes peeled as other goodies might be popping up soon! Stay tuned!

About Bowling for Burgers:

Compete against the champion bowlers in a game full of Pins, Strikes, Spares, Gutter Balls, and Turkeys!

It’s the Annual Bowling for Burgers Tournament! Where the hippest Burger joints prove their superiority by competing in the only competition that matters: Bowling!

Choose your Character, each with different strengths and weaknesses, then pick out your Ball and head to the alley!

Bowling for Burgers is intuitively designed to be enjoyable for anyone to pick up and play. Beginners and die-hard sports fans alike will be rolling Strikes in no time!

Bowling for Burgers features sleek graphics, fifties music and audio, intuitive controls, and of course, Balls, Pins, and Burgers!

Rules:

• Staff may not enter
• Members must have 5+ posts
• Only one post per member

To enter, simply reply to this post and tell us what drew you to joining Aximsite, Mobilitysite or one of our other sister sites.

To give folks time to put their thoughts together, the contest will expire Sunday, December 16 at 12 midnight EST.