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Happy Halloween to all from the staff at PPCzone. Astraware managed to slip in another game called Mars Needs Cows.

“Mars Needs Cows is the wacky puzzle game from the famous online masters,
PopCap Games!

Stretch your brain muscle in a series of increasingly challenging
puzzles, as you maneuver stupid earth animals into the middle of a field
so that you can beam them to your ship!

An out-of-this world music track, and all-new comical sound effects
makes this an essential download!

Mars Needs Cows is available for Palm PoweredT Handhelds and Pocket PC
Devices from www.astraware.com at $14.95″

Related Link: Astraware

“Candy Train is a superb conversion of the original web based game developed by PopCap, which puts players in control of their own candytrain, as they flick the squares to join up pieces of the train track to help navigate the little train.Collecting the candy themed bonuses whilst taking care to watch out for the switching tracks and the danger of crashing into the edge of the scenery or running out track.”

Related Link: Astraware

“Cellular network provider O2 will launch its second-generation wireless Pocket PC, the XDA II, on 1 November, the company said today. The device was launched earlier this year, but until now, the company has not said when it will offer the product to customers. The XDA II is based on a faster, 400MHz Intel XScale PXA263 processor and contains 128MB of SDRAM - twice that of the original XDA - and 64MB of Flash ROM. It has a 3.5in 16-bit colour transflective LCD screen. The device runs Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC, tweaked to add voice telephony features. As a phone, the XDA II is a tri-band GSM handset with GPRS support for data. In addition to the new OS, the XDA II incorporates a 640 x 480 digicam and supports multimedia messaging - both missing from the first XDA, as was Bluetooth, now included. The new model also sports a removable battery and an SD/MMC card slot. Having seen the XDA II, we can report it is a big improvement over the original. O2 will initially offer the XDA II in the UK for £349, including sales tax and 12 months' subscription fees. O2 quotes a battery life of up to five hours talk time, and 180 hours standby time”

I have been in contact with O2 ireland and hope to get one of this devices for review as soon as possible.

PocketPC Club have put together a review of the E400 and specs on the latest Toshiba PPC's. The most interesting thing is the fact that toshiba's latest high-end device is capable of running at a resoultion of 640*480. The page is in dutch but you can get an idea of the specs of these devices.

Source: http://www.pocketpc-club.nl/content.php?id=2073

“In conjunction with today's U.S. availability of the Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Smartphone, Handmark, the number one publisher of consumer software for handheld devices*, announced that they will launch five productivity applications for Windows Mobile software for Smartphones. The Windows Mobile-based Smartphone introduces anentirely new mobile phone experience through the integration of smart software and small, stylish handsets, all within an experience that is familiar to Windows users.”

Related Link: Handmark

“Based on the success of the iPAQ Lil' Syncs and enhanced stylii, we have
expanded both lines.”

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Here is a new program that allows you to record streaming videos or audio from the Internet on your Pocket PC. A demo version is available at the following link. The demo has a recording limit of 2 minutes.

“WM Recorder operates as a PC-based application. Using it iseasy: You just open WM Recorder, click Record, and then playthe videos or audio you want to record. Files are saved onyour PC automatically, and will play on any Pocket PC withWindows Media Player installed on it. As long as the videois not protected by Digital Rights Management, you can playit anywhere without an active Internet connection.”

Related Link: WM Recorder

We at PDAmill just updated TopKey and EZ Note. The new versions are fully Pocket PC 2003 compatible and fix some quality problems we had earlier. TopKey now also features two tools for the PC, a Data Backup utility to save and restore the learned words database and most importantly a Skin Editor - so you can create custom skins easily from your pictures.

Those who have purchased these products at Handango or PocketGear can download the new version free of charge from the respective online store.

Also, as a sidenote, they have recently released the second public beta of Anthelion.

Related Link: PDAmill

What do you get when you put Spb's creative programmers in a room with a bunch of Pocket PCs? A Pocket PC Supercomputer! As a part of our continuing research at Spb Software House, we have assembled and tested a computing cluster based on Pocket PC devices. Twelve Pocket PC devices have been joined in a cluster to perform distributed calculations - the devices share the load of a complex calculation. The concept was to compare the performance of several Pocket PC devices linked into a cluster with the performance of a typical Pentium II-class desktop computer.

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Related Link: Spb Software

Worms World Party for the Pocket PC is available! Already a hugeinternational gaming success in the PC and console markets, the PocketPC version of the immensely popular title retains the wacky gameplay,eye-popping graphics, outrageous sound effects that made Worms aninternational success in the PC and console markets.

Worms World Party is a turn-based strategy game in which the playercontrols a squad of military-trained worms that battle each other in afight for global domination. Combatants annihilate invertebrateopponents using different weapons, tools and utilities until one teamsstands (or wriggles) victorious.

Related Link: Hexacto, Buy the Game