Great stuff Werner as always.



Clinton Fitch, MVP-Mobile Devices
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On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:19:01 +0100, "Werner \"Menneisyys\"
Ruotsalainen [MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices]" <!ei.maileja@kiitos!>
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
>
>--