www.TheDigitalLifestyle.com Windows Vista introduced Sideshow gadgets, a way of interacting with Windows from hardware devices like 2nd displays, remote controls on Windows Mobile phones. In this video I look at the Windows Media Center Sideshow gadgets on a Windows Mobile phone. I show how you can browse guide data, cue music, browse pictures and get the now playing information

The HTC Touch Pro2, for sprint, is a windows mobile power house. Sporting a large, vivid touch screen and the best mobile keyboard I have ever used, this device works well in all regards. It features everything a business user needs such as a quality email client, a decent browser, mobile office, and a good phone. It even offers some good media elements such as beautiful playback of videos and images on the screen. Everything isn’t good however. I really hate resistive touch screens and the screen on the Pro2 hasn’t changed my mind. If you are making a touch screen phone, use capacitive technology please! Also, user created content is adequate at best on this phone. Pictures are decent, for a mobile phone, but video is barley watchable. When you consider other similar devices, such as the Nokia N97, the camera is simply garbage. And why did the diamond2 get a new, 5MP camera, when the more expensive Pro2 didn’t? Overall, I really love this phone. Aside from the poor camera and limited internal memory, the device did everything I needed it to flawlessly. If you are on sprint and are looking for a business class device with a great keyboard, look no further than the HTC Touch Pro2. For exclusive content follow me on twitter at twitter.com and check out my blog at michaelsherlock.com

This has been a long road, right? Well, in some respects, it was not – in fact, only about two years since the development of Windows 7 Phone started when we know it today – but if you think this product will be replaced Windows Mobile 6.5, which puts things in perspective. founded in fact, even the latest news keeping the good old WinMo on the same shaky ground as version 5.0 was back in 2005 at a time, WVGA Smartphone displays have been science fiction, 4G networks have been two Gs good understanding on the average American and Engadget seems. Today it is a game completely different than eight years have access to mobile e-mail, you understand the German mobile phone and “Yelp is a verb (okay, actually Yelp is a verb ). In fact, mobile devices, new computers – and companies like Apple and Google dominate an industry that once delivered to Microsoft almost on a silver platter. Nobody – neither in nor out of Redmond – argued that the change is not desperate (and fast) necessary because there is simply not enough control is not on the desktop. In light of everything that we could call a phone Windows 7 to move the despair in the bag again relevant. Call it what you want, but regardless of brand loyalty is not to save this product – it simply has to be good to sell. Scratch that, it’s almost flawless in a world where iOS to play 4 and gingerbread. Microsoft has a few months before the first flight of Windows 7 based telephony products will be available on the market, but we …