Motionapps' mDesktop (homepage HERE) has got pretty much press coverage in
the last weeks; it's been frontpaged at PPCT / SPT (link), Dial.ca (link),
PalmAddicts (link) etc. As it was me who has published the most thorough
comparative(!) reviews of all the comparable solutions (see the last one
HERE, making sure you follow the links to the earlier ones), I've given the
new title a very thorough try so that I can find out whether it's worth
checking out - that is, the question no one has answered so far. Also, I've
thoroughly tested the new features of the recently-released, 2.1 version of
Jeyo Mobile Companion, the most important, directly comparable application
and compared it to mDesktop.

In a nutshell, mDesktop has the following features:


a.. Control your smartphone from your desktop computer or laptop with
mouse (on PPC devices), scroller and/or keyboard

b.. General info on you device displayed on the screen of your desktop
computer or laptop (info on network provider, battery state, received SMS or
e-mails etc.)
Do all of this by using your desktop computer or laptop screen and
keyboard:


c.. Simple file management - view images and files on your device or
transfer some from your desktop computer or laptop to it (or vice versa)

d.. Tasks and appointment management (view and change existing ones or add
new ones)

e.. Search contacts, send SMS or e-mail

f.. Call someone or respond to a call, click to put a call on hold or
speakerphone, ignore call

g.. Chat - no more browsing received SMS or typing in replies on your
smartphone. mDesktop also saves all the words you wrote or received from
someone.

h.. Install applications by drag and drop - no more endless typing,
tapping and clicking on your smartphone

i.. Get all the system info on your smartphone displayed in one convenient
place
OK, let's see how it fares in practice and how it compares to the
alternates. (Please DO read the above-linked articles; here, I will NOT
present you an explanation of every single issue I list.)

First, some demo shots of the capabilities of the app:



more at: http://www.pocketpcmag.com/cms/node/6617


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