
01-15-2007, 10:50 AM
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| Re: ANN: REVIEW: Teksoft's brand new Pocket PC utility suite Smart Bar Thanks!!
Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen [MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices]
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> 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
> http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.
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> "Justin - SYNACS" <jcbrown******.com> wrote in message
> news:1162155439.970750.103260@m73g2000cwd.googlegr oups.com...
> > 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.
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> > 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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