Five popular apps from developer SBSH are available for half off today and tomorrow (February 25 and 26).  This is a great opportunity to get a hold of productivity enhancers like SBSH Calendar, SBSH PocketBreeze and SBSH PhoneWeaver.  Also, information oriented apps like SBSH GoNews and SBSH PocketWeather.

Click here for details.

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SHAPE Services, a leading developer of mobile social networking and productivity apps, is the focus of this Mobile Heist for all platforms. Deep discounts, up to $19.95 off, are available on such apps as IM+, IM+ for Skype, Business Card Reader, Barcode Reader, RDM+, Mobiscope, xPlayer and other bestsellers.

Here’s how it breaks down per platform.

BlackBerry Heist includes IM+ All-in-One Messenger (Lists for $39.95), IM+ for Skype (Lists for $29.95), GPSed Pro (List price $9.95), RDM+: Remote Desktop for Mobiles (Lists for $39.95), Mobiscope: Video from webcams on mobile (Lists for $19.95), Business Card Reader (Lists at $9.95), VNC+: Virtual Network Computing (Lists at $29.95), Mobiola xPlayer – a powerful multimedia player (Lists at $19.95) and Mobiola Video Studio for watching your favorite Videos, DVD, YouTube, iTunes on your mobile (List price $24.95).

For the Android Heist, you’ll find IM+, IM+ Skype, Mobiola Video Studio and Mobiscope.

For Windows Mobile PPC, apps include: IM+, RDM+, Mobiola Video Studio, IM+ Skype, Mobiscope, GPSed, Translator+, AllReader+, Mobiola Remote Phone Control, and Sky Racer.

For Windows Mobile non-touchscreen, apps are IM+: All-in-One Messenger, Mobiola Video Studio, Mobiscope, GPSed PRO, IM+ for Skype for WM Smartphone, AllReader+, RDM+, and Mobiola Remote Phone Control, Mobiola Screen Capture and Mobiola Web Camera for Smartphone.

The Symbian Heist has IM+, RDM+, IM+ Skype, Mobiscope, GPSed, Mobiola Remote Phone Control, Mobiola Headset, Mobiola Headset for Skype, VNC+, and Mobiola Video Studio.

For the Palm OS Heist, the apps are IM+, IM+ Skype, Mobiola Video Studio, Mobiscope, and RDM+.

This Mobile Heist takes place Friday (February 12) and Saturday (February 13) only!

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Don’t let stormageddon get you down.  There are apps for staying on top of the weather.

BlackBerry Weather Apps

BerryWeather by Bellshare GmbH
$9.99

e-Mobile Weather by e-Mobile Software, Inc.
$16.95

AirWX Aviation Weather by Mobile Dev Group LLC
$9.99

BB Themes with Weather Slots…

Storm Edition Hidden Dock Weather Bug Edition by Mothy Enterprises
$3.00

!In The Park + Weather Slot by berrygoodthemes
$3.99

Android

Weather Forecast USA by Binary Solutions
FREE

Weather by Michael Bachman
FREE

Symbian

Handy Weather for mobiles by Paragon Software (SHDD) – Symbian
$14.95

SPB Weather Symbian – Weather On the Go! by SPB Software
$14.95

Windows Mobile

Elecont Weather 10-day and hourly weather forecast with Barometer and Alerts (WM 6.5 Titanium ready) by Elecont
Special Price: $9.95 until Feb 28 (regular price $14.95)

Handy Weather for Windows Mobile Pocket PC I by Paragon Software (SHDD) – Penreader
$17.95

Palm

4cast by ShSh software
$9.95

Weather ( infinity subscription ) by Deluxeware
$14.95

Plenty of options for all platforms.

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This week, Resco unveiled Resco Explorer 2010 (also known as Resco Explorer Version 8), a new version of the company’s popular file manager that has been tuned to unite and utilize all the key features of each Windows Mobile device. In fact, it is being referred to as the “Totally Touchable File Manager.”

Per the the company’s press announcement, most of the changes go head to head with improvements of not a long time released new version of Resco Photo Manager.

New features in Explorer 2010:

• Image Upload to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Picasa, MySpace and Photobucket — the program is now able to upload image files to the most popular social networks including the largest web image database — Flickr.

• Thumbnails View Mode — The new view mode displays previews of images. It becomes handy (improves the navigation) while seeking in folders with many image files.

• Interaction with Resco Photo Manager — The new Explorer can utilize tools and strengths of Resco Photo Manager. If users have both of these programs installed on a device, they will sense that the thumbnail loading is faster as well as the fact that it supports all the photo manager image types.

• Totally Customizable Today Plug-in — Today plug-in gets new shape and becomes totally customizable — add or remove phone tools, applications or documents. The eventual size of the plug-in, therefore, depends only on your choices.

A FREE trial is available, so you can take Explorer 2010 for a spin before committing your $29.95.

Note: If you purchased an older version less than a year ago, the upgrade is free.

To learn more about Explorer 2010, go here.

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This month, Bubble Wrap turns 50.  According to a write-up by AP’s David Porter in a Manufacturing.Net, in the late 50s, Marc Chavannes and Al Fielding were approached by a New York City designer to create textured wallpaper.  It was a flight into Newark Airport that triggered the “bubble wrap” moment, as Fielding noticed how the fluffy clouds seemed to cushion the plane’s descent. The rest, as they say, is history.

Manufactured by the Sealed Air Corporation, Bubble Wrap has quite a following — mostly for the popping sound it makes when being destroyed. Many consider it a stress reducer. It is so popular that there are more than 250 Facebook pages devoted to Bubble Wrap.

There are quite a few game apps that found inspiration from Bubble Wrap. In the MobiHand catalog, there are four dozen bubble-related apps, such as:

Bubble Bust – Virtual Bubble Wrap Popping Game! – Lots of Fun! v1.7.0 by Cleric Software Solutions, LLC.  This $2.99 app is designed for BlackBerry Storm or BlackBerry Storm 2.  For the Curve and Pearl, there’s Bubble Popper FREE GAME v1.0 by AIM Productions which has a FREE and a paid version.  Another BlackBerry Storm/Storm 2 option is Bubble Wrap v2.2.1 by Leetcom. It runs $1.99.

Bubble Thriller

For Windows Mobile Pocket PC, there is an arcade game called Bubble Thriller v1.02 by Absolutist Ltd, where you pop color bubbles for points. It runs $12.50.

Bubblet for Android

On the Android platform, there’s Bubblet v1.1.3 by Mesa Science & Technology, LLC.  This port of Bubble Breaker of Windows Mobile offers a gameboard with differently-colored balls arranged in a matrix. There are five different colors: red, blue, green, yellow and grey. The player clicks on any two similarly-colored balls to eliminate them from the matrix, earning an appropriate amount of points in the process. The more balls eliminated at once, the higher the points added to the player’’s score. It sells for $4.95.

So why not take time and celebrate the birth of Bubble Wrap with a fine new bubble app?

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Here’s a brief rundown of some of the apps that are hot this week in the MobiHand Network.

BlackBerry

BerryJoose v1.15 by The Jared Company – Working seamlessly, silently in the background, BerryJoose delivers improved BlackBerry functionality and fewer hassles.

• Memory leaks are minimized.
• No more BlackBerry freeze.
• Super-charged for speed.
• Optimized performance all day.
• Deploy more apps simultaneously, increasing productivity.

Special Price: $2.99 until Jan 10 (Normally $9.95)

SmartWiFi for BlackBerry v1.5 by S4BB Limited – Helps you save battery life by remembering cell tower information and detecting when you leave your hotspot area (e.g. home or office). It will turn off WiFi automatically.

Check out this video from CrackBerry.com.

Special Price: $4.99 until Jan 29 (Usually $9.99).

Android

Blocked Traffic (Android) v1.1 by Team 5 Soft – This Puzzle app is an implementation of a famous puzzle game Rush Hour invented by Nob Yoshigahara in the late 1970s.  The goal is to get a car(s) on third line out of a six-by-six grid full of automobiles by moving the other vehicles out of its way. Cars and trucks can only be moved within a straight line along the track. They cannot be rotated.

Now available at a great price, just $2.99 until Feb 14 (normally $4.99).

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“To” means “Through” … as in January 1, 2010 is the LAST DAY!

Why wait until the last minute and then be distracted with college football and other New Year festivities?

For the Touchscreen version of Windows Mobile smartphones, here are some terrific deals:

Pocket Informant 9 WM – Editor’s Choice and Winner of 2008 Best PIM award
Regular price $19.99. Heist price is $9.99.

PhatNotes 5.4 – an award-winning Mobile Notes Organizer
Regular price $39.95. Heist price is $19.97.

Ringo Mobile – Lets you set custom MP3 ringtone and text tones for friends and groups.
Regular price $9.95. Heist price is $4.97.

SBSH PhoneWeaver 2.0 – An intuitive phone profiling application that lets you define manual profiles or automatic profiles based on time, agenda or power to control your phone sounds, radios, Wi-Fi and much more!
Regular price $14.95. Heist price is $7.47.

SecuBox – This encryption apps enables you to create a secure storage for all important and business critical files, including Pocket Word, Excel documents and other files.
Regular price $39.95. Heist price is $19.97.

Elecont Weather 10-day and hourly weather forecast with Barometer and Alerts (WM 6.5 Titanium ready) – this best seller is WM6.5 Ready.
Regular price $14.95. Heist price is $7.47.

USB Modem (WM) - Lets you use your Windows Mobile device as a USB/Bluetooth modem.
Regular price $19.95. Heist price is $9.97.

InterKey Professional - a multilingual on-screen keyboard with 60 national layouts for accurate text input. Includes a Word autocomplete function for simplifying ext input by suggesting words as you type.
Regular price $34.95. Heist price is $17.47.

CallBlock Basic Edition 2.0 (B3) (for Pocket PC) – Automatically filters unsolicited incoming calls and block off irritating ‘junk’ calls for a more productive day.
Regular price $12.95. Heist price is $6.47.

Astraware Sudoku for Pocket PC – popular game.
Regular price $9.99. Heist price is $4.99.

The Windows Mobile Touchscreen Mobile Heist can be found here.

For Windows Mobile Smartphone, go here.

Know someone with a different type of smartphone?   Check out our other Mobile Heists…

• Android
• BlackBerry
• Palm
• Symbian

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From now through January 1, 2010, SHAPE Services is offering special pricing on apps for the BlackBerry and Windows Mobile platforms.

IM+ All-in-One Messenger v8.3.1 by SHAPE Services
Regularly $39.95. Special Price: $29.95 until Jan 1
You save: $10.00 (25.03%)

RDM+: Remote Desktop for Mobiles v4.0.117 by SHAPE Services
Regularly $39.95. Special Price: $29.95 until Jan 1
You save: $10.00 (25.03%)

>>  Window Mobile

IM+: All-in-One Messenger v7.0.1 by SHAPE Services
Regularly $39.95. Special Price: $29.95 until Jan 1
You save: $10.00 (25.03%)

IM+ for Skype for WM Pocket PC. Now with MySpace IM! v3.60.1 by SHAPE Services
Regularly $19.95.  Special Price: $14.95 until Jan 1
You save: $5.00 (25.06%)

Check store for details.

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This Thursday, December 17, MobiHand will be doing a special pre-holiday Mobile Heist promotion — offering 10 top selling apps at a phenomenal price… 50% off

This Mobile Heist will be held for multiple platforms:

• Android
• BlackBerry
• Palm
• Symbian
• Windows Mobile

Stay tuned for details…

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SBSH Mobile Software is a rapidly growing software firm with apps for Windows Mobile, Symbian Series 60, BlackBerry, iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Below are some examples of their Windows Mobile Pocket PC offerings.  All have Free Trials!

SBSH Calendar Touch
Powerful and innovative information manager. Features smart tools with touch-design that help you manage your agenda in one place.
$24.95

SBSH GoNews Touch
GoNews Touch is a newsreader application that aggregates the latest news from across the internet directly to your Windows Mobile smartphone.
$14.95

SBSH PocketWeather – Weather Reports In Your Pocket
This weather tracking utility for Windows Mobile includes both a Today plug-in and WeatherConsole utility, 10 day forecast, Custom Layouts, Earthquakes and more.
$14.95

SBSH PocketBreeze – Your Personal Information Manager
A powerful Today plug-in that replaces the built-in Calendar and Tasks on your Today screen.
$19.95

SBSH PhoneWeaver
An intuitive phone profiling application. Define manual profiles or automatic profiles based on time, agenda or power to control your phone sounds, radios, Wi-Fi and much more.
$14.95

SBSH iLauncher 3 – Best Selling Utilities Package
An all-in-one application that brings the most powerful tools to your Pocket PC smartphone in one package. Includes tab based today plug-in, safe mode, meters, task manager and more.
$14.95

Got a non-touchscreen Windows Mobile smartphone?

For those of you with non-touch, Windows Mobile smartphone, check out the Facade home screen replacement.

Facade brings all vital phone and agenda information to one front-end display that is accessible each time you power on your device. When SBSH announced the latest release on December 7, they also unveiled the Facade Skins Arena — an online catalog for free skins designed for use with Windows Mobile Smartphones and Facade.

Facade runs $14.95.

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