Mobile Phone

Got one of those new HTC phones with a flashy touch-screen
interface? No ? Don't despair! You can now grab Touch Commander 3.
It'll give you the full finger-navigation functionality and this new version
offers a fresher interface with a bigger clock, weather info, media player
access plus indicators for e-mails, texts and missed calls.

Asus are launching some new models at CeBIT this week - this
is the Asus HTC Touch.. oh, sorry.. no, it's the Asus P320. Looks purdy no
?

Yesterday I read a few news stories about the launch of Back
in September we ran a story entitled Silverlight goes live,
where's the Windows Mobile lovin'? Simply put, Silverlight
allows web apps to be developed with animation, vector graphics and audio-video
playback. It'll compete with Adobe Flash, QuickTime and the like. Yesterday it

Looks like T-Mobile Germany are all set to release the MDA
Compact IV. It's got GPS, 3G and 7.2 HSDPA connectivity plus a whacking 4Gb of
storage and a VGA (yes, we said VGA) screen.

We love doing reviews. At the moment we're trying to get hold
of a Lexus
IS-F to test but they don't seem too keen, so instead we've managed to bag
our second HTC Shift. This one is a brand new retail unit with the cellophane
still in-tact, so I took it out on the road to test out the mobile
capabilities.

The Engadget boys have managed to grab a look at the new Asus
user interface tweaks for Windows Mobile 6.1. It's a smooth animated
experience with menus sliding into place, plus there's a nod to the HTC guys
with a spinning cube / triangle system.

Regular readers will be pretty familiar with the HTC Shift by now.
After all, we reviewed it way back in October last year and
I tested the portability of this Windows Vista / Windows Mobile "SnapVue"
device by taking it to the pub with me. To have a full version of Windows Vista
(just) in your pocket is pretty cool, plus the HTC SnapVue technology lets you

After a rather major product
announcement the last thing you'd want is for a 2009 release date to appear on the web. Alas, that's
what's happened to the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. Here it sits with a release
date of February 10th 2009.

i-Mate have always been an interesting company. We've been
impressed by some of their handsets and their rather splendid specs, however
there have been constant rumours about manufacturing and financial problems
within i-Mate. Despite reassurances from i-Mate, the rumours still
continue.

If you've got friends, relatives or other contacts living
abroad it's always a little tricky to remember what their local time is.
Sometimes you can accidentally call your contacts in the middle of the night,
which is never good if you're trying to close an important business deal.