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The Google search results for BlackBerry has changed to adapt to these devices.

Basically the results have been adjusted to a simple page including all kinds of elements in addition to  longer summaries and related searches.

To access these developments simply visit google.com homepage from any Blackberry terminal.

Vlingo has launched a new amazing application for Blackberry research-in-motion-4q-profit-soars Apr-3-2008 that allows you to control tha main features on the device by using your voice. Vlingo walks you through setting up the software so that one of your convenience keys (left or right) can provide access to Vlingo. Once that is done, holding down that key allows you to issue voice commands to your Blackberry to perform common tasks like emailing, text messaging, making calls, and searching the Web.
While the voice recognition if far from perfection it’s better than the basic voice dialing that comes pre-loaded with most Blackberries. Vlingo promises that the voice recognition improves over time.

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A Demo Video of Vlingo Application

Nokia, the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world, have announced that they will buy the remaining 52% of Symbian they don’t own and will be releasing the complete Symbian platform under the Eclipse open source license.

“It offers us an opportunity to innovate faster on a more united and accepted platform said Kai Oistamo, head of Nokia’s device business. “It also allows us deliver new products to market faster.”

Symbian is present in approximately two thirds of smartphones (mobile capabilities similar to those of a small computer) market, and 6 per cent of all mobile and has its closest rival in the Windows Mobile from Microsoft, although open source platforms as Google Android or Apple iPhone could challenge his leadership.

Minimo is a small and powerful web broser for Mobile Devices and PDAs. Minimo uses Mozilla Technologies to produce a highly usable web browser for advanced mobile devices.he browser uses small screen rendering technology to reformat Web pages for pocket-sized displays. The user interface is also designed to take up as little screen space as possible Some of the features include in this fast web brower are Social bookmarking, tab browsing, RSS Support, proven security and widgets and extension support, among many others.

Download Minimo v. 0.2 for Windows Mobile 5.0

Minimo from Windows PC Exe file.

Or click here to download a Minimo CAB file.

For Windows Mobile 4.2, dowload these files

Install Minimo for Windows Mobile

CAB installer for Minimo.

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run classic graphical point-and-click adventure games. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins; Westwood Studios’ The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more.

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SJphone® is a Free VOIP softphone that allows you to speak with any other softphone running on a PC/PDA, any stand-alone IP-phone, or using Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSP) with any traditional wired or mobile phone. It supports SIP and is fully inter-operable with most major VOIP vendors and ITSPs.

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The new version of the iPhone comes in July with support for faster 3G networking. The good news are that this new version of the popular smartphone will be available for a lower price.

The new iPhone will sell for US$199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB model. That’s a $200 discount from the previous $399 and $499 prices for the 8GB and 16GB iPhones, respectively.

First launched in 22 countries, the iPhone will reach to 70 countries at the end of the year. The 3G iPhone will enable faster data downloads over AT&T’s 3G network. The handset will also include built-in GPS.According to Apple, Web pages will load up to 2.8 times faster.

Physical changes to the new iPhone include a curvier design, full plastic back, solid metal buttons, and a flush headphone jack.

In addition to the new features, iPhone 3G offers an improved battery life of 300 hours of standby time. Users will also be able to switch between 3G and 2G in case they wish to save battery life. On the new iPhone, 2G talk time has improved to 10 hours (from 8 hours); for 3G talk time, the phone will have a battery life of 5 hours.

The 8GB model is available in black and the 16GB iPhone now comes as a white phone.

PocketXpdf is a no-frills viewer for native PDF files for the
Pocket PC platform. The rendering engine is a port of Xpdf. PocketXpdf has been tested on an ASUS MyPal running Windows Mobile 2003 and on a Dell Axim X51v running Windows Mobile 5.

It has not been tested on earlier versions, so it cannot be guaranteed that it will work on these systems. The Screenshots on this page are taken from the Windows Mobile 2003 SE and Windows Mobile 5 emulators provided with Visual Studio.

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In the past few years, a great number of businesspeople, professionals, and ordinary consumers have been purchasing “Personal Digital Assistants,” electronic devices designed to organize and simplify one’s life.

The first PDAs, which hit the market in the mid 1990s, were little more than glorified notepads, making it possible to store a record of notes, phone numbers, calendars, and day-to-day appointments on an electronic device. These devices gradually evolved over the years, and Palm Inc.’s popular Palm Pilot devices gained a loyal following of both consumers and enterprise-level users.

New features, including 3D games, multimedia applications, and even Wi-Fi internet access have become commonplace on modern day PDAs, making them both practical and entertaining.

As time goes by, however, the functions performed by PDAs are being slowly but surely integrated into the many advanced cellular phones and mobile email devices now on the market.

This has led to a significant decline in demand for standalone Palm Pilots and Pocket PCs, which are increasingly being replaced by smartphones, converged devices which integrate mobile computing with wireless communication.

Most new smartphones serve as fully functional cellular phones, while integrating many of the features of a laptop computer. Each device comes equipped with its own operating system, along with a wide range of software applications specially designed for mobile devices. They are also capable of accessing the internet, usually over a cellular broadband connection, and can be used to check one’s email when on the go.

Although the cost is somewhat prohibitive for the majority of consumers, smartphone PDAs have become an institution among enterprise users, and are now a necessity for many mobile businesspeople.

All in all, PDA manufacturers are doing a good job of evolving with new technology, and providing users with an increasingly efficient and functional experience.

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Jeremy Maddock is a well-known technology blogger, and owner of http://www.pdareviews.ca/