The Mobile Minute 152

Software / Hardware

• The FCC has approved the Treo 750 for use in the US.  This means we'll being seeing it soon at.. Cingular?
• Also from PocketPCThoughts.com, MissingSync 3.0 has been released for the Mac crowd. and..
• the ETEN X500 glofiish - Samsung 400MHz CPU, quad-band GSM - GPRS/EDGE, GPS, FM tuner, 802.11 b/g, BT 2.0, 2.0 mega-pixel camera w/flash, miniUSB, microSD, WM5.0/AKU 3.2.
• Cingular has just announced the Samsung BlackJack (better known as the SGH-I607).   CoolSmartPhone.com has news as well (check out the phonescoop.com review that is linked to).  What's it gonna be folks - T-Mobile Dash or Samsung BlackJack?
• CSP also has a brief on the Motorola Q Norman (aka Q Pro). Speaking of the Q, it looks like Bell Canada has one in black.
• Want a T-Mobile Dash?  Enter to win one at the T-Mobile Dash-a-Day Giveaway (now until 12/15/2006)
• I saw this MoDaCo story first at SmartphoneThoughts.com.  Here's the MSKB link. It looks like MS Voice Command 1.6 drops on Dec. 15, 2006
• I'm not sure why you would, but for those who would, WinMobile Torrent 2.1is released.

Development

• Microsoft is having a webcast tomorrow (Nov. 14, 2006) on UMPC development on Vista. (via Loren)
• Chris Tacke has posted his presentation material from MobileConnections
• CodeMash  January 18 & 19, 2007.  Register.  Jim has pictures of the venue (via Josh).
• Neil Cowburn announces the beta of OpenNETCF Telephony Library 1.0
• Steve Lasker has posted a whitepaper that compares SQL Server Compact Edition (SQLce) with SQL Server Express (SQL/e).  I agree with Nick Randolph, a bit more guidance in the whitepaper would have been handy.

In Other News

• UPS SMS package tracking in the Phillipines