| Suddenly, the mobile phone industry is inundated with | | | | image to size. Resizing, rotating, sharpening, smoothing, |
| operating systems: iPhone OS, Google Android, Palm | | | | noise reduction, brightness, contrast, gamma, RGB |
| WebOS, Symbian, Maemo, BlackBerry, Samsung | | | | controls – XnView just does it all! |
| Bada, and of course, Windows Mobile. Microsoft | | | | 2.Dashwire – What would you do if your phone |
| recently released WinMob 6.5, in a sign that the | | | | were to suddenly conk off and wipe out all your data? |
| company has not yet called it quits and is willing to fight | | | | The problem with backup tools is that most users |
| it out. There are still lots of phones that run on | | | | don’t do it often enough, and with the amount of |
| Windows Mobile, including the upcoming HTC HD2. So | | | | data we receive everyday on our Mobile Phones, |
| here are three applications that no WinMob phone | | | | we’re bound to miss out something important. |
| should be without: | | | | Dashwire is a wonderful app that syncs up your phone |
| 1.XnView Pocket – With mobile phones doubling up | | | | to your very own Dashwire portal on the Web, and |
| as cameras, a smart and robust image viewing and | | | | lets you access common phone features through it |
| editing tool is essential on all handsets. Once you install | | | | too. Pictures, music, calendar, SMS, contacts, email, |
| XnView Pocket, you won’t require anything else. | | | | Twitter and lots of other features are easily supported, |
| Along with five super-cool photo-viewing modes (you | | | | making sure your data is always safe. |
| simply have to try out the ‘FilmStrip’ mode), the | | | | 3.T9 PhonePad – Hate the Qwerty keyboard on |
| app lets users convert images to different formats | | | | your WinMob phone? Wish you could just go back to |
| such as JPEG, GIF, BMP and PNG (TIFF and RAW | | | | the comfortable 10-digit number pad and your trusty |
| files are read-only). If it’s cropping that you desire, | | | | T9 dictionary? Just install T9 PhonePad and start |
| simply use your stylus to draw out a box and cut the | | | | tapping away. Goodbye, annoying stylus! |