March 3rd, 2008, Tel Aviv - SBSH Mobile Software announced today the official launch of its new web site, available at: http://www.sbsh.net. The new SBSH Mobile Software web-site introduce new navigation experience for mobile users packing the most advanced utilities that ensure ease of use and confident navigation experience!

SBSH Mobile Software new web-site brings Device-Based and Platform-Based navigation helping users to find applications designed for their mobile device easily, providing an optimized solution for one of the main problems in the third-party mobile applications market. Automated RSS news feeds about new application updates and announcements and much more!

"We've kept ourselves busy for the past year going through major designing and thinking process and we are excited to introduce today our new web-site!", says Amit Regev, SBSH Mobile Software CEO.

"Our goal is to improve the every day user shopping experience by providing easier ways to find third-party content and provide users with confidence when browsing for mobile content. Using the new SBSH Mobile Software interface we focused on doing exactly this!" he concludes.

Good news for all of you out there with an iMate Ultimate 6150 or 8150.

Details of the rumoured forthcoming patch for these devices, said to sort many of the niggling issues, appears to have surfaced on certain sites, and the patch itself might even be lurking out there too (Try at your own risk!)

Rumoured improvements include:

• Improved battery to 6.5 hours of talk and 4.5 videocall
• Faster wake-up from stand by
• xt9 for 8150 disabled by default
• Improved Wireless Manager
• Better WiFi, Bluetooth
• Better responsivness when answering calls
• Improved performance in terms of speed and stability.

My review of the 8150 is due out soon (assuming Mike nags me enough) - watch this space.

It is a frustrating experience reviewing a new Palm smartphone, and especially frustrating in the case of the Centro. It took a few days for the battery to settle down and the GPS issue has been solved.

The form factor is brilliant and this is the first Palm device, since the Palm V, that I really like the look of. The OS is still the best in the market in my opinion and allows me to do the crucial PIM stuff while many other devices fall flat. The keyboard is indeed small but perfectly usable and overall I was impressed with how quickly I could input data. Call quality is excellent and it genuinely does feel like a phone, rather than a smartphone compromise.

The Centro is a consumer orientated device that on the face of it should do very well- it looks good, is easy to use and has something very special about it. Almost everyone I show this phone to likes it and some 'really' like it. At last Palm has built a phone that people do want and managed to find a design that is different enough to create widespread interest.

I re-wrote this article over and over again as I gradually solved the little niggles that annoyed me at first with the Centro, but have come to the following conclusion. I was sitting at home the other night and just looking at the Centro- it has the potential to become and iconic smartphone and has already produced the kind of emotional response from me that no other phone has in the past year. It's not perfect by any means, but it is special and one of the best smartphones I have used to date.

PDA247 is 6 years old!

As is traditional, we are going to celebrate by holding a competition, and this time you can enter whatever content you like!

It's completely up to you what you send in, but there are some specific areas that are worth remembering. We need a new forum banner (400x45 pixels maximum size) which should fit the current design, we are tempted to try new web site banners (1 for each site needed) and besides those you can send in software, hardware or accessory reviews. You can send in articles about the PDA world in general or maybe a few items that are newsworthy.

Whatever you choose to send in please make sure that you title your email "6th Birthday". You can also enter via the forum thread detailed below. Here's the prizes so far-

To enter please send an email with your entry (entitled "6th Birthday") to shaun (at) mailstm.co.uk or post your entry in this forum thread.

The closing date is midnight (UK time) 21st March 2008, so you have some time to think up a good entry.

Vehicle Manager for Windows Mobile Pocket PC v3.5 has been released with the following changes-

Having dependable, reliable transportation is something we all need. And when it comes to our car, any breakdown will end up throwing us for a loss of time and money. The best way to avoid problems is to stay on top of “simple things” like changing the oil and rotating the tires. That may be easier said than done…until now.

With iambic’s Vehicle Manager, you can proactively track all this and more in the palm of your hand. It can handle information about one or more cars. Along with helping you keep track of your car’s maintenance schedule, it also does a great job keeping track of vehicle-related expenses (such as fuel, mileage) and insurance data.

Best of all, Vehicle Manager for Windows Mobile is something you can carry along with you, enabling you to make changes on the fly instead of waiting until you get home (or whenever you remember to do it after you get home).

ageet Corporation, the experienced Japanese producer of VoIP software products such as the Vista Sidebar and Google Sidebar VoIP Gadget "AGEphone Gadget" and possibly the world's smallest and lightest VoIP engine "microSIP Stack", today released a completely revised version 2 of "AGEphone Mobile" softphone. This program can be used to make VoIP phone calls on a PDA or Smartphone that is based on Windows Mobile 5.0 (for Pocket PC or Smartphone) or Windows Mobile 6 (Standard or Professional) and utilizes the fully SIP compatible VoIP engine "microSIP Stack" developed by ageet, which is extremely small, fast and therefore suited for mobile devices. AGEphone Mobile 2 has been enhanced to also support keyboard-only control on devices without a touch screen and has been optimized for portrait and landscape mode on a wide range of screen resolutions, so devices such as HTC MTeoR, AT&T 852, Motorola Q9 and many more are capable of taking full advantage of the features the program has to offer.

The dynamic interface went through a major overhaul to guarantee easy and finger-friendly use of the product. Whether AGEphone is installed on a touchscreen device or one limited to keypad input, navigation through the softphone's GUI is quick and fluid. Context sensitive menus change according to what the program is currently doing, mapping the best action to the soft keys of the device and making it unnecessary to navigate through endless sub-menus. On touchscreen devices, there isn't much need for a stylus because most of the interactive buttons can be pressed with your finger.

When dialing a number, the user is supported by an intelligent auto complete function, and recent incoming or outgoing call's numbers are quickly accessible by a single click. Numbers that are inputted scale themselves to screen size to guarantee best readability. Both in portrait or landscape mode the available space is being used to its best.

infoSync has published a comparison of $100 QWERTY keyboarded phones- "A $100 smartphone was previously equivalent with a refurbished smartphone. Now you get brand new QWERTY smartphones for the same price.

Since Palm introduced the Centro at a $100 price point, there's been a significant price drop in similarly targeted Windows Mobile smartphones. We won't speculate whether Microsoft has taken matters into own hands and decreased its licensing fees for this kind of phones, or if carriers are hungry for more data plan customers. It's regardless nice to see a more healthy pricing policy across the market on such mid-range devices nowadays.

A side-by-side comparison of the contenders' specifications can be found here. All three of them features high-speed networking by means of either HSDPA or EV-DO, but we've also put together a comparison between four QWERTY smartphones with EDGE networking (and Wi-Fi on some) that can be found here."

I have not had time to test Navi2Go UK for Pocket PC yet, but is it a real contender in this market? You tell me if you have tried it...

Navi2Go is the best way to travel. It's intuitive, visual and personal. Navi2Go brings 3D aerial imagery with real landscape elevation to your Pocket PC, giving you the most convenient navigation experience. Travel over real life images of the entire UK, easily identifying turns, exits and buildings. Navi2Go lets you choose your perspective angle and zoom level.

Today's free eBook is The Support Technician Tango by Daniel Abraham- "By its nature, a self-help book is written by someone who thinks they know what to do and read by someone who doesn’t; there hasn’t been a better setup for the pompous to fleece the credulous since Rome stopped selling indulgences. The saving grace is that the bad advice of the authors is almost always ignored, misunderstood, or abandoned by readers who go ahead and do whatever they would have done anyway. Some people knit lace, some people improve themselves; self-help is a pointless hobby but harmless.

There are, however, exceptions.

In among the hatchet-faced, unhappy women who advise on matters of love, the avuncular sports nutrition PhDs who advise on matters of love, and the Jungian analysts whose advice on love may perhaps pay off their divorce lawyers, there is a deadlier breed."