Teksoft, developer of the excellent BlueMusic application (see for example
this article & the links), has just come out with a brand new suite, Smart
Bar, of system management applications. I decided to give it a try as it's a
pretty capable suite of utilities with some really excellent modules.

They even promise an application capable of recording both (!) parties in a
phone conversation (so far, this has been impossible with all Pocket PC
Phone Edition devices of both HTC and ASUSTeK (Fujitsu-Siemens T8x0)); I
think it'll work by directly "tapping into" the Bluetooth unit as can be
seen for example in here.


Availability, price

The suite is available here. To review the (pretty good and recommended)
manual, visit this link. There is a(n unfortunately, pretty restricted)
trial version too.

The "price" of the suite is 200 credits; that is, between 20 and 25 euros
(depending on the amount of money you transfer to your online credit
account). The registration is a one-device only (that is, CPU ID- and not
PPC owner name-based); licenses can be transferred to other devices in case
of a device change (for example, when the previous one bites the dust and
gets exchanged).

Install

Use smartbar_setup.exe for pre-WM5 and the CAB files for WM5; see
install.en.txt for the latter case.

Compatibility

It's stated to be compatible with strictly QVGA devices with at least the
WM2003 operating system. (I've also tested it on Pocket PC 2002; it indeed
doesn't work.)

You can, of course, try to install it on VGA devices, but I don't think you
should give it a go. I've tested it on three different VGA devices (Dell
Axim x51v A12, WM5 iPAQ hx4700 2.01, WM2003SE Pocket Loox 720). On the
hx4700, the PowerPlugin Today screen plug-in was absolutely useless; on the
two other devices, it was shown, but not anything else. On the Dell Axim
x51v, I've received frequent gwes.exe crashes after a reboot, because of
which I had to entirely disable PowerPlugin.


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more at:
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ind...&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

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