Michael Burks, a fellow Shadow owner, posted in the forum a new CAB he made that enables the Shadow to take Panoramic Photos. Install and Setup is easy enough. Read the forum post on it and download from his site.
It seems that the Shadow’s style is becoming quite popular. This time a Chinese Company, Santek, has cloned it with some minor changes to the DNA. This time it is an actual Windows Mobile phone. A shadow of the Shadow. Has anyone else seen any other Shadow wannabes?
 
 Sources: Pocketnow.com, msmobiles.com, Santek
If you’re like us, you dislike proprietary jacks that require you to use different cables or different equipment with your device. Case and point: the Shadow has no Standard 3.5mm headphone jack. Luckily you can buy a miniUSB to 3.5mm converter plug which will let you use your favorite headphones. The part is just $10 and you can snag one from the pocketnow.com accessory store.
Or maybe you just are away from home and need to look up something real quick. AllShadow.com is providing the T-Mobile Shadow User Manual as a download. Great reading by the way.
The Shadow takes microSD cards, which is fine for sizes up to 4GB, but once you get above that, the format changes to microSDHC (which stands for Secure Digital High Capacity). The difference is that in order to achieve higher capacities, microSDHC has a slightly different memory addressing method than microSD and a theoretical maximum size of around 1TB. That’s a lot of storage. To learn more about SD memory card formats, check out the article at Wikipedia.
You may be wondering if you the Shadow is compatible with this different type of memory, and as reported by forum user Picasosz, they are. He is using an 8GB microSDHC card to store a handful of music and several movies on his Shadow. Right now, you can buy an 8GB SDHC card for about $119 over at the AllShadow.com Store.
I’m talking ringtones, wallpapers, applications and games. What? Who? You? Okay, it’s really easy. Head over to the Microsoft Owner’s Circle and just register. Then you will be able to take advantage of all the free stuff you can download there. Every month or so the content is updated so we’ll let you know when new applications show up.
Right now they are offering the following for FREE:
So go ahead and check out the Owner’s Circle
The forums were opened and the crowd rushed in. In less than 24 hrs, over 26 Shadow owners registered and posted more than 52 posts in 13 different topics. AllShadow.com is proud to be of service and to provide a place that everyone can learn more about their Shadows. Congratulations everyone!
Finally, our forum is alive and ready for posting! As with any new forum, there will be little activity to post. What can you do to get it going? Just post! The forum is a place for ideas, questions, and comments about the Shadow, plus it’s a great way to meet fellow Shadow owners.
So what are you waiting for? Enter the forum!
As an aside, you should still comment on news posts directly with the comment link.
The MyFaves application is great, from one location you can communicate effortlessly with your favorite five people without having to navigate through endless menus. In less than a minute you can send a picture to one person, a voice message to another and a video to the next. In honor of efficiency, we present an overview of MyFaves on the Shadow along with some tips and tricks to make life even easier.
If you have MyFaves, you should see the familiar five circles on your home screen. Selecting any of these will bring up an additional menu.
If you’re like me and read a lot of internet news everyday, it can get cumbersome to keep up with it all. Thanks to RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, it’s easy to check multiple news sources quickly to find the stories that I care about. Have you subscribed to our RSS feed yet? I know many of you have.
You can also get RSS right on your phone. My favorite news reader for the Shadow is NewsBreak by Ilium Software. Not only can you read any RSS feed, but you can also listen to and download podcasts. Another cool feature is that it will alert you when a certain word is found (such as “Shadow” or “Windows Mobile”). The program will work over your EDGE or WiFi connection.
A trial is available for download, and the program costs as reasonable $19.95 should you decide you like it enough to buy.
If you’re on the T-Mobile network and are looking for a new phone, you’re probably also at looking at other smartphone devices in addition to the Shadow. The below graphic should be of some help in giving you an idea of how the Shadow compares in size to some other T-Mobile devices on the market now.
Seen above front left to right is the T-Mobile Dash (yellow), the Wing (green), Shadow (red), and BlackBerry Pearl 8100 (purple). If you’re looking for the thinnest device, the Dash is the clear winner. That said, the Shadow has very similar dimensions to the Pearl, a device that many consider to be easily pocketable.
If you find yourself traveling a lot or needing to know the status of flights while on the go, then I have a site for you to add to your favorites.
http://mobile.flightstats.com
It is optimized for the mobile screen, has great load times and easy to use navigation.
Do you have a favorite mobile site, besides AllShadow.com, that you find useful? Let us know!
Chuong Nguyen over at pocketnow.com has a summary on the NetFront Browser 3.4 technical preview. From the specs and screenshots I have seen it looks to be a promising alternative to the native Pocket Internet Explorer. I headed over to NetFront’s site and downloaded the preview. My intention was to give you a good look at what it is all about. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work correctly on the Shadow. The rendering is wrong and it doesn’t even show the webpage. Which is unfortunate. Let’s hope these snags get worked out and we can have another browser to choose from. We all like choices, right?
Awhile back Danny asked about Opera Mini 4. In this video we go over a quick install of the alternative browser Opera Mini 4 and a few features. If you just want to jump right into it, you can get Opera Mini 4 here, download the High Memory Version.
Note: Opera Mini 4 should work right out of the box with default T-Mobile settings. If it doesn’t you might want to review them with customer service.
If you go to Start > Accessories you will see an application called Internet Sharing. Up until today I hadn’t paid much attention to it as it seems that everywhere I go today there is an internet connection in one form or another. Well Murphy’s Law went into effect today. I am actually away from the office today at a location where there isn’t a shred of an internet connection when I get a text from Brandon saying the site is down.
“Oh No!” I said, “How will the Shadow fans unite? I must do something!”
I fired up my laptop only to discover no wifi anywhere. What was I to do? A Shadowy image floated in my mind, it said “…internet sharing…oooooo…”
Of course! I hadn’t used Internet Sharing yet and I hoped for a simple setup. I pulled out my USB cable and connected the Shadow to the laptop. Activesync connected, and I activated Internet Sharing. After a minute Windows XP fully recognized everything. I opened Internet Explorer and voila! The connection worked!
It was 100% plug and play. The only thing I had to do was enable it from the Shadow. I was able to download some files and compare changes to troubleshoot the problem. 5 minutes after I knew the site was down, it was back up. The mobile internet isn’t the fastest available but it’s enough to get the task done. Thank you Shadow!
We’d love to know if anyone else has attempted to use the Internet Sharing, and if so what is your experience?
