At a press event in Taipei, Taiwan, SPB Software officially announced the release of SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 for Windows Mobile touchscreen devices.
By encapsulating support for gravity sensors and 3D hardware accelerators, the new version offers a thrilling, easy and fun to use interaction model with eye-catching 3D visual effects. For example, browsing email and text messages unfolds an intuitive animation offering both natural and engaging user experience.
Highlights from the announcement include:
SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 works well with Microsoft’s most recent Windows Mobile 6.5 release.
It presents several additional widgets supporting social networks like Facebook and Twitter, enhanced Internet searching with instant suggestions and many others.
“All in all, we are quite impressed with the updated version of Mobile Shell. SPB Mobile Shell has traditionally focused on putting more functionality at your fingertips and the updated version maintains that tradition really well. Add the vast amount of customization that is present and you get the flash with the functionality. Resulting in another outstanding application from SPB Software.”
Ready to have some fun? Bubble Defense v1.1 by Second Gear Games is the last Deal-of-the-Day for September. Normally $4.99, today you can get it for the Special Price of $2.99.
Bubble Defense was introduced for the BlackBerry Storm, Bold, Curve (8900 and 8300 series), Tour (9630) and 8800 series in July. From the creators of Bubble Army, this tower defense game has 5 levels of difficulty, 4 upgradeable towers, and 7 unique maps. There are 200 enemy waves to destroy.
If you haven’t done it yet, now is a great time to pick up an terrific app that will help you maximize the performance of your BlackBerry device. Aerize Optimizer is an advanced memory and performance optimizer that eliminates memory leaks, and provides automatic alerts at user defined thresholds.
Special pricing ends soon!
You can find the MobiHand Deal-of-the-Day by visiting your BlackBerry community desktop app store powered by MobiHand or on your BlackBerry — either through using the MobiHand On-Device BlackBerry App Store or the BlackBerry’s Web browser.
BerryBuzz extends your default Blackberry’s alert system by giving you numerous ways to customize the LED colors, create repeating audible reminders (60 seconds to 60 minutes) for many types of alerts, and actually get your BlackBerry to vibrate while it is ringing!
For the money, BerryBuzz is a highly useful application. The custom alerts save time, which is always a plus. It might be a matter of seconds, but it can extend further than that. For instance, if I’m working on a project and get an email to my for-fun email address which isn’t particularly fun (a bill, invoice, complaint, or an otherwise nasty email), I can ignore it while I forge ahead with my current work. If I had seen the email I probably would have read it, thus affecting my mood. But because it’s in a non-important email address, and because I can see that before even looking at the subject line, I can continue until the time is appropriate to read it.
Also, the vibrate plus ring function is something I’ve been wanting for a long time. Not that I miss a lot of calls because of it, but it’s something I’m used to. Three vibrations and then a ring just doesn’t cut it. Vibrations while ringing ensures that I can hear/feel the call even if my Berry is encased and shoved in my front pocket.
You can find the MobiHand Deal-of-the-Day by visiting your BlackBerry community desktop app store powered by MobiHand or on your BlackBerry — either through using the MobiHand On-Device BlackBerry App Store or the BlackBerry’s web browser.
MobiMadness has combined the original pen and paper game, with modern trivia questions, to make a Wild West Hangman both fun and challenging for all ages.. It features 800 trivia questions in 10 different categories, awesome graphics and cool western sounds.
With its list of more then 5500 alcoholic and nonalcoholic cocktail recipes readily accessible on your BlackBerry, you can become an instant expert — Know components of drinks, how to prepare and even what kind of glass to use for serving.
ZDNet associate editor, Andrew Nusca, posted a hands-on review of the Motorola CLIQ. Powered by Google Android, this QWERTY touchscreen smartphone is slated to join the T-Mobile family this fall.
Here are a few excerpts:
Hands-on with the CLIQ
My take: Motorola’s CLIQ is a game-changing device for T-Mobile.
To me, the CLIQ is a power user’s dream phone: it combines touch and keyboard for choice of input; it offers Microsoft Exchange support as well as built-in Google services integration; it’s got robust support for images, audio and video; it offers Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G GSM connectivity.
The CLIQ isn’t a revolutionary device the way that Apple’s iPhone was, but that’s part of its appeal. A clever refinement of the Android platform, the Motoblur-powered CLIQ manages to pair the robust feature set of a BlackBerry with the smooth visual interface of an iPhone.
Together, that adds up to a compelling smartphone that could, if not poach users from other carriers, please T-Mobile customers immensely.
The post includes a video where Christopher Conrad Edwards, a senior manager in Motorola’s consumer experience design department, runs through the main features of the CLIQ (Note: It is a little fuzzy).
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You can view ZDNet’s photo gallery for the Motorola CLIQ here.
Mytopia is a developer of multiplayer casual games that can play on numerous platforms (smartphones and social networks). According to Ohad Barzilay, general manager of Mytopia Inc., “The company aims to bring people to play the same games together regardless of what device they have or where they are.”
Along with apps for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms, Mytopia also has games that are available on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, Friendster etc. People playing from the Web can play together in real time with people from across all the mobile devices.
As part of a promotion celebrating Oprah Winfrey’s 24th year on the air, T-Moblie is taking $100 off the cost of the Google Android-based myTouch 3G. That brings the final cost down to $99.99 with a two-year contract.
The promo ends Sept. 24, so those interested need to act quickly. New customers who want to get their hands on the device can type in a special code–“KICKOFF24″– when buying online.
On September 8, T-Mobile played a prominent role during the kickoff party for Season 24 of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Check out the video with the Black Eye Peas singing “I Gotta Feeling” with what T-Mobile describes as a surprise flash mob of dancers on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue.
Of course, Oprah was dancing on stage while waving a myTouch 3G. That video has had over 647K views, which is great brand awareness for T-Mobile, myTouch 3G and Google Android.
From the top, we have:
There are a few hours left to Tuesday’s Deal-of-the-Day: 
EasyBartender v1.5.0 by Adorno
Mytopia is a developer of multiplayer casual games that can play on numerous platforms (smartphones and social networks). According to Ohad Barzilay, general manager of Mytopia Inc., “The company aims to bring people to play the same games together regardless of what device they have or where they are.”
As part of a promotion celebrating Oprah Winfrey’s 24th year on the air, T-Moblie is taking $100 off the cost of the Google Android-based myTouch 3G. That brings the final cost down to $99.99 with a two-year contract.
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