Bratislava, Slovakia (September 5, 2008) — Resco, a leading provider of end-user mobile applications, announced today the release of Resco Bubbles version 1.0.
 
Resco Bubbles is an action puzzle game where the idea is to clear the grid of bubbles in order to advance to the next level. You are given a sequence of bubbles, which should be quickly and efficiently popped. Numerous explosive, speed-up, slow-down and damage bubbles keep the game play exciting and challenging.

Features:

G-sensor support
30 challenging levels
various surfaces
calibration
best score
realistic ball-bounce feeling

Pricing and Availability:

A free playable trial version of "Resco Bubbles", allows players to test the game out before actually purchasing it. The current version costs USD 19.95 and can be found at: http://www.resco.net/pocketpc/bubbles

Thanks to Clove for loaning the Touch Pro, which is currently available for £504.08.

I have two phones in my life, a Nokia E71 and a 2G Apple iPhone, and they are meant to serve separate purposes. The E71 is used for email on the go, my calendar, financial monitoring, contacts and a few other ‘serious’ activities. My iPhone is used for my work SIM and was not supposed to be for anything else apart from listening to music.

Within a week or so of using both full-time, the iPhone is starting to quickly encroach on territory that my E71 should be owning. eBooks display so much better on the iPhone and the eReader software has now become stable enough to offer a simple and rich eReading experience whenever I need it. The screen brightness allows for complete flexibility to read in all weather conditions and the size does help to give more of a real book experience than most other devices can offer.

Video playback on the iPhone is also one its star features and watching a full length movie on another phone feels silly once you have experienced iPhone movile playback. Music is obviously catered for already and so none of the above is that much of a revelation.

What is surprising is that SplashMoney actually feels good on the iPhone now and offers a clear view of what’s happening with some half decent reporting included. I have been testing it alongside Money Manager for Symbian and there is a clear gap between the two.

I then a look at calendaring (is that really a word?) and I’m even starting to like the built in iPhone calendar. The more I use the software the more I can appreciate the simplistic interface of the iPhone.

At is stands the E71 still wins on the web front (3G, HSDPA etc.), for email and for many other activities, but I am learning that not having one phone that does it all is not the end of the world. These two phones compliment each other, with each covering the other’s fallibilities very well indeed.

UPDATE: The more I use the iPhone, the slower it gets. I have 10 third party applications installed and it crawls to a halt after a few applications have been opened and close. Ignore everything I wrote above:)

A new version of award-winning handwriting recognition software for Windows Mobile features improved performance and compatibility.

Mountain View, CA (MobilityNewswire) September 4, 2008 - PhatWare Corporation, a leading provider of software products and professional services for mobile and desktop computers, announces the release of the CalliGrapher 8.7. The award-winning handwriting recognition software has been optimized for better performance on the latest Windows Mobile devices and features a reduced memory footprint.

Named the best software for handwriting recognition for Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs by industry experts for six consecutive years, CalliGrapher converts your handwriting into digital text and sends the recognized text to the target application. Employing advanced fuzzy logic and neural net techniques, CalliGrapher recognizes all handwriting styles: cursive, print, and mixed.

To address the customer's needs in a fast-growing market of phone-enabled Pocket PC devices, the new version of CalliGrapher has been optimized for better performance on latest Windows Mobile devices and includes improved handwriting recognition engine. The new version also addresses several compatibility issues reported since the previous CalliGrapher release.

"PhatWare is constantly listening to its users' feedback and staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in hardware devices," said Stan Miasnikov, president of PhatWare. "We are thrilled to keep improving CalliGrapher to benefit the handheld community."
CalliGrapher 8.7 supports devices running on any Windows Mobile based device equipped with a touch screen. During the Back to School offer though September 15, 2008 CalliGrapher 8.7 can be purchased from the PhatWare Web site with $15 discount for only $24.95. It is also offered free with a purchase of PhatWare's PhatPad or PhatNotes applications as a part of the same offer. For more information about CalliGrapher or other PhatWare products, visit www.phatware.com/calligrapher.

Mobile ad agency, Crisp Wireless has published a quarterly overview of mobile internet traffic and reports that mobile web usage grew significantly with a 29.4% increase from 1Q08 to 2Q08.

According to the 2Q08 CWI, the following trends have emerged:

Local news is viewed mostly in the morning, while national news is viewed continuously throughout day.

Sports fans check scores and highlights during their favorite games, with highest traffic on evenings and weekends.

Women visit the mobile web late at night and early in the week mirroring their online habits; and young girls are browsing late night, especially on the weekend.

Entertainment and online services are accessed most in the evenings, primarily on the weekends as visitors are making their weekend plans.

The latest report also shows that the percentage of traffic driven from carrier decks is falling, while mobile search driven traffic continues to rise. According to the report, search engines are driving 9.45% of overall traffic in 2Q 08 - a 25.8% increase - versus 7.51% of overall traffic in1Q08. Google continues to dominate mobile search engine traffic, driving 82% of mobile search... More at cellular-news.