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Windows Mobile 6.5 is no iPhone killer

The media has made much of a Microsoft iPhone killer prototype handset being stolen during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. iTWire ponders if it all might just be a publicity stunt for the failing Windows Mobile OS?

As we reported a couple of days ago, a supposedly ‘top secret’ HTC Touch handset running a new beta version of the Windows Mobile OS was stolen from a Telstra executive at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona.

We already know that, deep down, Microsoft prefers the iPHone to its own Windows Mobile devices.

We already know that Apple is moving forward with plans for a $99 iPhone to tackle the real threat from 40 Android handsets.

Perhaps Microsoft knows it has to do something to get the public interested in Windows Mobile, to take an interest in what has pretty much become a non-event in the world of mobile operating systems?

That would certainly explain the whole ‘top secret’ nonsense surrounding this theft, and why the more gullible media outlets have been spun and grabbed hold of the notion that it concerns an iPhone killer handset.

Let’s look at some of the evidence shall we? For a start, anyone who attended the Mobile World Congress will gladly tell you that Microsoft was not exactly doing much in the way of Windows Mobile 6.5 puffery.
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Review: iConvert for iPhone

The App Store is awash in conversion utilities. Count iConvert as one of the better ones. Future Apps’ $1 utility will save you from mental math calculations or Google trips whenever you want to know how many miles are in a light year or how many square meters are in a hectare. iConvert effortlessly puts this information at your fingertips.

iConvert

The program is capable of converting length, area, temperature, currency, weight, volume, pressure, and energy. It has an exceptionally user-friendly interface: Just select from one of those categories and use the scrolling wheel to select your measurements. Whether you are an engineer, physicist or a businessman traveling internationally, iConvert provides comprehensive and functional conversions.

The app could stand to be more stable, as iConvert crashed a few times during my testing. I’d also like to see a future update that included more categories—computer data like gigabytes and data transfer speed, say, or scientific formulas. Still, the current version of iConvert offers more than enough conversion tools to satisfy most users’ demands.

iConvert is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.x software update.

[Daniel P. Sama is a systems administrator, network administrator, IT consultant, writer and entrepreneur from Philadelphia.]
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