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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

No Plans for Windows Mobile 6.5 on Xperia X1

Straight from Sony Ericsson’s Contact Center for Australia: Unfortunately there are no plans to release Windows Mobile 6.5 for the Xperia X1 at this stage. However the X2 is planned to be released in Q1 (quarter1) of 2010 with WM 6.5 pre-loaded. You know you’ve gone and got the wrong phone when you have to null your [...]
Friday, September 25, 2009

HTC Sense coming to Windows Mobile

HTC have announced the Sense UI used in Android will be coming to Windows Mobile so get ready to switch between Manila, Sense and Windows Mobile default user interface! 3 epic choices! According to this recent HTC press announcement… [...] all new HTC devices moving forward” will get the new system, which integrates Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and [...]

Quadronica games gets arcade touch on the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1

SPB Quads is the new arcade game from SPB Software that runs sweet on the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 in which one has to put together all his/her pattern-finding skills to score. There are two modes – a time-limited mode and an endless, “strategic” mode – in the game, my favourite is time-limited as you have [...]

Silvermoon for Windows Mobile developers

Silvermoon is rocking the WinMo news world seeing its first public light allowing developers to take advantage of  transitions, alphablending and other effects like the iPhone within their applications. Silvermoon is being developed on a Sony Ericsson X1 phone! This is the first beta release of Silvermoon, a collection of windows mobile compact framework 2.0 controls [...]
Friday, August 28, 2009

Touch-IT Leo 4 for Xperia Announced

True to his word, XDA Developer turned exclusive HTCPedia.com publisher, itje, has released the 4th edition to the Touch-IT LEO series for the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. Under the hood Touch-IT Leo 4 (latest version 4.2) is running Windows Mobile 6.5 and a modded HTC Manila 2.5 – with landscape support and experimental “gSpot” sensor-rotation support [...]

Hard Resetting the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1

If you’ve corrupted your stock Xperia ROM and want to recover or have installed a custom ROM and the publisher requires that you hard reset your Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 prior to using it here is how you do it… Turn off your Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Remove the battery and replace it back in Press and hold [...]
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Mobile Wi-Fi Router in HTC Comm. Manager

Massive cheers in order for AssassinsLamen’s effort integrating HTC’s Mobile Wi-Fi Router into the latest HTC Comm. Manager! Good news is the suite AL packed works great on Xperia’s Windows Mobile 6.1 and 6.5 and includes: HTC Bluetooth Wizard HTC Wifi Sharing Utility HTC Phone and Pin Utility HTC Wifi Wizard HTC Communications Manager HTC Scroll DLL …the bad news is it’s a [...]
Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Decompiling Planet Three Panel for Xperia

One of the great things I’ve noticed about Three’s Planet Three Panel is that within the CAB it’s basically one big HTML file, meaning I can finally dump all the URL’s to separate Planet Three services that their customer service reps don’t know: Planet Three – http://three.net.au/go/to/30017 Internet Packs – http://three.net.au/go/to/30018 My 3 – http://three.net.au/go/to/30019 Email & IM – [...]
Sunday, August 2, 2009

The Xperia Can Take a Serious Beating

I have now been using my new (2nd!) Black Xperia for about a month, in that time I’ve: Dropped my phone on the pavement more times than I can count Thrown my phone when drunk Dipped by Xperia into a cup of coffee (it was around my neck…) …and the damn thing still works. Every time the Xperia is dropped [...]
Thursday, April 9, 2009

Switching between ActiveSync and Flash disk mode

The Sony Ericsson X1 can connect to your Vista computer as an ActiveSync device appearing within Windows Mobile Device Center or alternatively make the storage card available as a standard flash disk drive. A few of the benefits of using ActiveSync when connecting to your computer is: being able to access the storage card as well as [...]