TimesToCome Mobile

Ok, so there is really a geeky girl hiding behind this forum who knows next to nothing about sports.

But I can tell you all the guys over at PPC Geeks are raving about this Sports application for your phone.

Scottymomo’s Pocket Sports Center is a free download for your Palm or WM phone. (see the bottom of the first post in the thread )

You can track your favorite sports scores, teams and it will auto update the scores for you. If you are a sports geek go check it out. The interface is well thought out and painless to use.

The iPhone visual voice mail is one of my favorite things about the phone. Now you can get visual voice mail on your other smart phones, Palm, Windows Mobile etc. This is a free service.

YouMail provides consumers with a free cell phone voicemail service that allows them to better express their personality and be more productive. YouMail users can personalize greetings based on caller ID – recording greetings themselves, or easily choosing from a large and growing library of user-generated greetings and away messages. YouMail lets users express themselves differently to their friends, family and co-workers, while maintaining a standard greeting for unknown callers. YouMail users can also access their cell phone voicemail over the Web or in their e-mail, to easily share special voicemails and save them forever.

You Mail

Then check out Grump’s Iphone interface

He’s written:
Main Screen Interface
Contact Manager
and a Slide to unlock programs.

I prefer the HTC interface to the Apple interface but the contact list is hard to beat. These look and behave just like the iPhone applications.

Jott works on any phone and it’s free.

Sign up for a free account. Call Jott ( 1-877-568-8486 ) and state your message. It will let your record reminders to yourself. It will let you send text and email messages to other people by voice.

Example:
jott: “who would you like to message?”
you: “Alice”
jott: beep
you: “bring home milk”

Jott then texts Alice a message to bring home milk.

So you can make voice calls to send texts instead of texting while driving.

Saguaro is a widget manager for Palm OS. PdaPerformance has a beta test version out you can test.

I had to reboot the phone it froze the first time. Otherwise things went smooth. There is not much there yet. It features OSX style widgets, a weather and CNN widget are in the beta version. It is gorgeous eye candy, and nice.

What isn’t clear is if it keeps your data connection open, which would kill your battery right quick or if it only does updates on demand?

I didn’t see any of the other features in the demo but the software looks promising and I’ll be checking out a full demo as soon as it’s available.

AOL IM Palm the older version is free, it does all the things I need.

I don’t often use the IM on the phone. SMS is more practical. But sometimes you need AIM to contact people. I keep it on the phone. I’ve used it maybe a dozen times in 4 or so years. But it is one of those things that when you need it, you need it. So better to have it set up and ready to go on the phone even if you don’t think you’ll need it.

If you need a map go to Yahoo Maps. Set your browser Options to ‘Wide Page’ and you’ll even be able to read the map.

Google maps does work in your smart phone browser despite the error message it gives you. Put your location in the box and hit ’search’ and your map will show up. Dragging does not work so get as close to your location as you can, it is slow using the n/s/e/w buttons.

But of course now you can just download the
google map application directly to your phone.