Thanks for the link, Werner. I enjoyed the review, but I am confused
about the record to phone feature. You don't mention it anywhere after
the second paragraph.


Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen [MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices]
wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> ...
>
> more at:
> http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ind...&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
>
> --
>
>
> --
> Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices
> Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) at
> http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.