High Tech Computer corp., aka HTC, announced their new device Shift. No, this is not under their Pocket PC lineup. Its an UMPC. Yes, the biggest Pocket PC device manufacturer now introducing their first UMPC device. Not powered by Windows Mobile, but by the Ultimate Windows Vista!

So today there's been a tectonic shift: A brilliant new paradigm for true mobile computing. By melding the power of Windows Vista with hyper-fast 3G connectivity, the HTC Shift delivers extraordinary functional clout in a sleek, light-weight design. Remember when a high-volume hard drive and a comfortable keyboard took up a lot of room? That was then, this is now. Make the HTC Shift, to the ultimate in smart mobility.

E-TEN Information Systems has announced that it will offer owners of its own-brand Glofiish X500 and M700 Pocket PC Phones the ability to upgrade to Windows Mobile 6, the latest platform for mobile devices. The upgrades will be delivered via downloads which will be available from the Glofiish website. The updates are currently scheduled for release in the second quarter of 2007.

E-TEN has revealed that it is working to deliver a series of language-localized ROM updates that will allow owners of Glofiish X500 and M700 Pocket PC Phones to upgrade their devices to Windows Mobile 6. The first of the updates are expected to be released in May. These updates ensure owners of Glofiish devices will be able to enjoy the benefits of the Windows Mobile 6 platform without the expense of having to purchase new Pocket PCs.

Microsoft Live Labs announced the limited public availability of Deepfish, a preview of a technology that can be used to improve mobile browsing. In its current form, Deepfish provides users of mobile phones or other small screen devices a full ‘as designed’ view of websites on their mobile device. Because the site looks as you would expect it to on your desktop, pages are easier to navigate than the typical experience with mobile browsers today. The interface lets people zoom in and out on the parts of a web page that interest them in an intuitive way, making it easy to use these large screen formatted pages on a mobile device.

As you likely know, it can typically take up to a minute or more for a webpage to render on a mobile device--however, Deepfish’s unique architecture retrieves the information needed for a particular view, significantly reducing that time to load. To optimize for faster load times, Deepfish takes a snapshot of the selected page reduced to fit on the mobile screen and sends that view to the mobile device. When a user zooms to a particular portion of the page, a more detailed version of only that specific portion is sent down to the device. This provides a much faster page load experience than many traditional mobile browsers.

Have you ever wondered how many mobile minutes you've used this month?

Hudson Mobile is very pleased to announce the availability of Phone Dashboard 2.0, which helps to save you money because it keeps you from going over your monthly minutes. Also saves your time by allowing you to easily view, sort and export your calling history for expense tracking on your Pocket PC.

With release 2.0, they extend Phone Dashboard to track SMS and MMS message usage as well as call usage - a feature that has been in popular demand. Other new features include more options to customize your phone plans including flexible weekends and call rounding, and improved logging, usability and performance. Now more than ever, Phone Dashboard gives you a complete picture of your phone usage.

Last week, Pocket PC Mag gave a Tip for Adding or Subtracting a Series of Numbers easily on your Pocket PC Calculator.

If you are adding or subtracting a series of numbers on the calculator, it can be a pain to enter all of them, and the possibility of a typographic error also increases. An easy way to do such a calculation is to type the series of numbers with the plus (+) sign or minus (-) sign between them, and an equal to (=) sign at the end of the series, in a Word document or in a note. An example of a series and the format it should be typed in is as following: 224+342+235-100+90+235=

Highlight the series on numbers by dragging the stylus across them, nd then tap and hold on the numbers and select Copy from the resulting menu. You can then paste them in the calculator application by tapping Edit >Paste. The calculator application will perform the necessary calculations and display the result.

Features:

• Simple, one-hand usage for PPC’s with keypad/keyboard and Smartphones.
• Skinnable
• Supports most popular screen types: 176×220, QVGA portrait, QVGA landscape, Square (240×240).

How to change skin:
You can change skins by downloading any of skins like this one, or you can create your own.

• Just download any of the sample skin files.
• Extract the archived file on your pc hard disk.
• Transfer the folder of the extracted files to the \Skins\ folder of the application directory (where you installed gCalc).
• Launch gCalc from your Start Menu, go to About by pressing the right-softkey (Shift) and pressing About (or keypad #8).
• You will then see all installed skins on your \Skins folder.
• Choose the desired skin and press [Select].

Any Winamp user out here? If so, you might be interested in Winamp's latest soft launched, which AOL (now the parent company of Winamp) soft launch today for its Winamp media player called Winamp remote (Beta). In partnership with Orb, Winamp remote lets anyone with a mobile phone or Windows Mobile smartphone access the music collection stored on the home PC (similar to what Orb's MyCast service also delivers).

First, users needs to install Winamp and Winamp remote, the remote access software for Winamp that was already available before this announcement. Then, users point their mobile browser to winamp.orb.com to access the songs in their Winamp library at home. The service supports multiple mobile music playback codecs including 3GPP, Real, Windows Media and Flash.