Here’s Verizon’s advertisement for the new Blackberry Storm 2. According to them, lightening can strike twice; hopefully it’ll hit the right spot this time! I say this as we reflect on the bugs that were well documented on the web with the first Blackberry Storm.

Not only are those bugs fixed, but Verizon is also pushing its new WiFi capabilities, ultra-responsive touch screen and tons of applications available.

Let’s keep our ears to the ground to see how this version fares.

YouTube – Lightning

If you’re after one of the best Windows Mobile smartphones of 2009, check out this video on the HTC Touch Pro2.

Earlier this year we reported that it would be available in quarter 2 this year meaning that its availability is anytime now.

Once you see this video you’ll agree that it’s manufacturers like HTC who are still giving viability to the Windows Mobile operating system. Although it’s got some very droolworthy specs, it’s still not enough to sway me from my new found love for the iPhone OS.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this device in the comments below.

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This one’s for those financial types who like to have the functionality of a HP-12C calculator at their fingertips wherever they go. Could also mean that you’ll have one less gadget to carry around in your shirt pocket. Also a lot cheaper!

Try it for FREE today: Pocket 12C SE Financial Calculator [Windows Mobile]

Features of the Pocket 12C SE Financial Calculator [Windows Mobile]:

• Time value of money (n, i, PV, PMT, FV)
• Cashflow analysis (NPV, IRR)
• Amortization (Interest, Principal, Balance)
• Depreciation (Straight line, Sum of Years Digits, Declining Balance)
• Bonds calculations (Price, Yields, Accrued interest)
• Odd period calculations
• Automatic orientation adjustment (Portrait, Landscape)
• Manual orientation adjustment (Portrait, Landscape)
• RPN and ALG data entry
• Main, status, and stack Display
• Finance registers display
• Storage registers display
• Storage arithmetic
• Recall arithmetic
• Math operations
• Statistics functions
• Linear Regression
• Coefficient of Determination
• Factorial
• Normal distribution
• Date calculations
• Copy and paste functions
• Programming (999 lines, 2 conditional tests)
• Line number addressing
• Pause
• Single step

Try it for FREE today: Pocket 12C SE Financial Calculator [Windows Mobile]

Resco Keyboard PRO is a powerful input method for Windows Mobile devices. It gives you the ability to write texts and control your applications faster than ever before. In addition to the system keyboard, there are three numeric layouts, including a “Writing Calculator” for typing numbers or numerical expressions. In addition, there is a special keyboard that allows you to customize your Pocket PC for fast insertion of frequently used phrases. The keyboard is fully skin able and supports more than 20 national keyboard layouts.

Features of Resco Keyboard Pro:

• Skins – can be installed separately. Choose your favorite keyboard design to feel more familiar with your device. (Additional skin packages will be available soon)
• National keyboard layouts – give you the ability to write in more than 20 languages (including Belgian, Canadian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss, Ukrainian).
• Gestures & Auto-repeat – Keyboard supports standard Gestures with selectable sensitivity and Auto-repeat with selectable repeat delay and repeat rate.
• Three numeric layouts including Calculator – In addition to the standard text layout it supports three numeric layouts including calculator with formatted text output.
• Frequently used phrases “Fx” mode allows you to write the frequently used phrases by just two stylus taps.
• Custom keyboard layout – Skilled users will be able to customize the keyboard layout by editing the textual description defining the characters assignment.

Try it for FREE today: Resco Keyboard PRO [PocketPC]

SBSH Facade is a highly customizable tab-based Home screen plug-in for Smartphone devices. With Facade, you can view your upcoming appointments and tasks directly on your Smartphone Home screen, keeping you up to date on all your important appointments and tasks.

Additionally, Facade puts a launcher tool right onto that same Home screen, allowing you to launch your favorite applications directly from your Home screen with just a single click and monitoring your Smartphone battery and memory status using special meters.

Facade comes with three different professional layout designs.

NEW RELEASE! - Facade 1.4 is here! Introducing exciting new integration with the new PocketWeather 2.0! Bringing your weather forecast to your Schedule tab display!

Try it for FREE today: SBSH Facade 1.4.1

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If you’re thinking of getting a HTC Touch Diamond 2, I highly recommend you check out this review featured at 4WinMobile.com. The reviewer name “windows” gives a thorough photo journal of his experiences with this exciting new HTC phone.

Here’s what he thinks after the first day with the HTC Touch Diamond 2:

Firstly if I had to pick a few words which has to describe the D2 I’d say ‘sleek / sparse / stylish’ would cover things. It’s a well featured device mainly black in colour with a silver fascia and side edge trim, with minimal buttons and other protrusions.

So far he’s given it a 88% score – very promising!

Let us know what you think of he’s review.

Via 4WinMobile.com

Are you irritated with how Windows Mobile removes your WiFi settings? WiFi Hero to the rescue. Never lose your WiFi passwords again!

WiFi Hero allows you to quickly save and restore your WiFi access point settings.

Features of WiFi Hero for PocketPC:

• Simple interface
• Cost effective
• Unlimited number of access points can be saved and restored
• Will save and restore all access points stored on your device

Wifi Hero – Personal Productivity Pocket PC Software

Spb have just announced that Spb Mobile Shell 3.0 has just been released.

They have worked for more than a year on this version and they claim it is the single most important product release for SPB ever.

Look at this new version: Spb have added widgets to give you almost unlimited home screen customization, Facebook integration will help you to find photos for all your friends, 3D carousel is a new cool way for switching between screens.

New Features in Spb Mobile Shell 3.0:

• Widgets (Lifestyle Home Screen)
• Facebook integration
• 3D carousel
• Widget-based photo contacts
• Ringtone management
• Wireless Manager
• Finger friendly agenda view
• Improved task manager
• Now works as a true home screen!

Try it for FREE today: Spb Mobile Shell

Next month at Tech Ed 2009, Windows Mobile 6.5 will officially be released. To be honest, I don’t really know how to react to upgrades of the Windows Mobile platform having been burnt by so many other releases. It also doesn’t help that I have come to love the iPhone OS over the last year or so.

Let’s see how this iteration will turn out. Who knows, Microsoft may have learned from the past and will present us with something worthy of our spending. Bring on Tech Ed 2009!

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The award-winning PocketTV Enterprise Edition plays any MPEG movie file (.mpg or .mpeg) in full screen on your Pocket PC Phone with unsurpassed quality. It is one of the best movie players for Windows Mobile devices. Get it for business or for fun (or both!).

Note: Built-in Windows Media Player cannot play MPEG movie files.

Free tools are available to convert your DVD’s.

Optimized for all the latest Windows Mobile 5 and 6 Pocket PC Phones!

Use it for amazing Video presentations or to watch entire movies on your Pocket PC Phone!

Download thousands of free MPEG video clips from PocketMovies dot net! Or use available free tools to convert your DVD’s into MPEG to view them on your Pocket PC Phone.

Features of PocketTV for Windows Mobile:

• Free trial.
• Now Available in English, German, Spanish and French.
• Full support for Windows Mobile 6 or 5 (Landscape display, Screen Rotation, SoftKeys, VGA display etc)
• Play or stream high quality MPEG video on your Pocket PC (built-in Windows Media Player cannot play MPEG movie files).
• Capture and Email images from movies.
• Optimized to take advantage of video accelerator hardware (2700G, ATI) and can play in VGA resolution on VGA Pocket PC’s (e.g. Axim x51v).
• You can convert your DVD’s to MPEG with available FREE TOOLS! – Check our Simple Guide for making MPEG”s optimized for PocketTV on the PocketTV dot com website (under “Make your own MPEG’s”).
• Unlimited free upgrades!
• Update Description: Fixed display issue on Verizon Samsung i760. Added BlueTooth earphone synchronization. Added localization for German, Spanish and French. Worked around firmware bug on O2 xda zinc and some Eten devices. Added support for HP Rx5900 series. Fixed issues with backlight dimming and button assignment. Added new OnLine menu. Fixed issues with button assignment. Improved button assignment dialog. Added support for Windows Mobile 5. For details check the Release Notes on the PocketTV dot com website.
• Support only available via the form on the pockettv website (sorry, no email, please use this form!)

Try it for FREE today: PocketTV Enterprise Edition