Spb Mobile Shell - cool pocket pc app
I installed this pocket pc application yesterday and I’m loving it. So much friendlier than the native experience. Works on Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 6 Classic or Professional device. Any other good pocket pc app recommendations out there?
Spb Mobile Shell introduces the next generation user interface while keeping all advantages of a Windows Mobile device. It is the first program a Pocket PC user needs to install. It dramatically improves the standard user interface and adds features that most users expect from a modern PDA phone.
August 13th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
i’m a big fan of this too. best advantage is it’s version of contacts. you just start typing any part of a contacts name on the kepad and it refines the displayed results. works like you know it should. you need to go into options and tell it to display a link to the spb version.
August 13th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
good tip hugo! But I can’t find the options you’re talking about, unless it’s the one that makes the soft contacts button on the today screen point to spb contacts?
August 13th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
yep that’s the one. i’ve got the left soft key as spb contacts and the right one as internet. and not a sign of outlook anywhere… it’s all google reader, gcal and gmail in the cloud baby. very liberating
August 14th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
“you just start typing any part of a contacts name on the kepad and it refines the displayed results. works like you know it should.”
Er Hugo, the standard contact app does that anyway, or am I missing something…
That said, I hardly use the contact app for calling people anyway. My O2 has O2 Phone Plus, and on a Dopod I believe it’s called Smart Dial - basically, just start typing any part of the contact’s name using the numeric keypad (tap once for each letter) in the phone screen and any matching contacts will appear, allowing you to choose phone numbers too.
The other app worth installing is Magic Button (http://www.trancreative.com/mb.aspx), if the default WM ‘I decide when an app closes, not you sucker!’ behaviour pisses you off.
August 14th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Sam, right you are. Spb lets you use just a finger a lot more easily and quickly with it’s big buttons right there on the first screen you get to.
August 14th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
I hate smart dial!!! It’s slow. I prefer to use voice commands but the system that comes with the Dopod sucks. It’s slow and unreliable. The Microsoft voice system is much better.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Is the msft voice system in WM5? How do i get it?
Have you tried mylifeorganized yet Cam? I live off the windows mobile version of it which syncs nicely with the PC version. There’s almost no functionality not included in the WM version which makes it a dam powerful tool. I’ve posted some screen shot sof how i’ve implemented GTD into MLO on flickr here. There’s also some explinations.
ps - You can also sync via a network or ftp i think.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Hugo, no mate, I’m just getting used to using Mindmanager for my planning, don’t want to swap tools… yet.
Microsoft Voice Command:
http://tinyurl.com/38q827
August 14th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Cheers
August 14th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
“I hate smart dial!!! It’s slow. I prefer to use voice commands but the system that comes with the Dopod sucks. It’s slow and unreliable. The Microsoft voice system is much better.”
Really? Can’t say I’ve used the Dopod version before, but the O2 version works great, really fast and accurate. Saying voice recognition is better is definitely saying something lol.