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Old 01-15-2007, 10:50 AM
Werner \Menneisyys\ Ruotsalainen [MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices]
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Re: ANN: REVIEW: Teksoft's brand new Pocket PC utility suite Smart Bar

It'll be a separate application from the Teksoft folks.

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Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices
Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) at
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"Justin - SYNACS" <jcbrown******.com> wrote in message
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> 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
>>
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>>
>> --
>> 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.

>



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