Dave sent this one in: While everyone is waiting for the promising SkyFire browser there is yet another mobile browser to check out. TeaShark operates a bit like Opera Mini. It runs through the Java Manager and has a good range of features including some promised yet not implemented yet.

Features:

• Full Web Page Browsing
• “Intelligent Mouse” for navigating
• Landscape Mode
• Multiple tabs
• History
• Bookmark management with color tagging (soon to be manageable via desktop browser as well)
• Click and Search
• Phone number recognition
• Smart web address entry
• Find text
• Built in web search
• RSS Reader
• In-line text editing
• 2 level zoom

While it seems to be a bit more responsive than Opera Mini there is an occasional error (just press No when you encounter them). Additionally when mousing over an image or link it disappears and is replaced by a gray box that makes browsing a bit tedious. To get hold of TeaShark just go to www.TeaShark.com or point your mobile browser to wap.teashark.com

Ah, I love free. TV Guide offers a free mobile application to get TV listings. To download, point your Shadow to tvguide.handmark.com and follow the instructions. You can install the program on your storage card, which is what I did, to save some space on main memory.

The program has snappy performance, and entries load speedily over EDGE, and certainly WiFi. It even lets you select a program, get a summary of it, and set a reminder for that particular episode, or the entire series. You’ll receive a reminder via SMS, though I wish the program would integrate itself with Outlook Mobile and set reminders that way.

TV Guide Mobile isn’t perfect, though. It only shows four entries at a time, has a big advertisement at the bottom of the screen, and is a bit ugly. But hey, it’s free.

I give it Three out of Five Shadows

That’s right. New York City is now enjoying Voice and Data on T-Mobile’s new 3G network. T-Mobile plans to accommodate most metropolitan areas by year’s end with the new network. Customers with compatible phones will enjoy faster download/upload speeds and better mobile data experience. No public calendar is available yet for the roll out of the network per city but be rest assured it is a welcome change.

Source: Matthew Miller at ZDNET

Remember The Milk is best described as a super Task/To-Do list organizer with many advanced features to help you stay on top of your important items. The only reason I am mentioning it here is that there is an application that will Sync your Remember The Milk lists with Windows Mobile. Specifically, there is a Smartphone version available and that means we can use it on the Shadow. Remember The Milk is a Web 2.0 service that is free to use for basic features but $25 dollars will grab you a year’s worth of Pro features including use of MilkSync. If you want to give it a try you can have a 15 day free trial of MilkSync to see if it fits the bill.

Some of the features of Remember The Milk (RTM) are:

• Be notified via Instant Messenger, Email, SMS and more.
• Use tags for as many lists as you want
• Locate on Google Maps locations for tasks
• Share, Send and Publish your lists
• Add tasks from anywhere (browser, via email, mobile browser)
• Synchronizes with Google Calendar and Gmail

MilkSync features:

• Synchronizes with Mobile Outlook Tasks application
• Two-way sync between Smartphone and RTM
• Cradle sync or Over The Air
• Scheduled Synchronization
• Specify which lists to sync or all of them

For anyone that uses RTM, we’d love to hear what you think about it in the comments.

Back in April, we posted about a really inexpensive rubberized case for the Shadow selling for $5.39. About a week later, Mike reviewed the case, and found it to be a fantastic value.

I just checked up on the case on Amazon.com, and found the price to decrease another 50% to $2.68! At this price, you could get 12 for $32 and have a fresh case for each month of the year =).

Ok, so I know that the amount of information we have on the Shadow II is scant right now, but I thought this would be an interesting poll. If you haven’t read, this is what we know so far, and this is what it is going to look like. We’re getting trickles of information about a release time frame of the Shadow II and more concrete specifications details, and as soon as we’re confident enough to report something, you’ll be the first to know.

As of this morning the newer beta of SkyFire arrived with many enhancements:

• Multi-Line Text Entry (2,000 character limit) (Good!)
• Auto-complete text entry (YAY!)
• Paste into URL or search (Life has just gotten easier)
• Ability to delete bookmarks (Thank you)
• Multiple zoom modes for touch screen phones
• Double Tap to Zoom In and Zoom Out (not important to us Non-Touchscreeners)
• Support for custom virtual keyboards (again non touchscreen)
• Web Search Shortcut in softkey menu (Thank you again)
• Access to the Windows Mobile Taskbar in softkey menu (Easyiness)
• Persistent Settings for SMartfit, Mute and Zoom Size (Good!)
• Support for 12-key and 1/2 QWERTY devices
• Password Masking (for those curious eyes)
• Backlight usage based on system settings
• Ok button sends SkyFire to the Background (Great!)
• Additional sites listed on the Featured:Info and Media tabs

If you don’t know what SkyFire is check out our initial preview-review video or everything else we have on SkyFire.

For those of you with an existing beta copy it will stop working on May 7th.To update, simply fire up SkyFire > Click the Upgrade Now link and an SMS will be sent to your phone with a download link. You will need to use the original email you signed up with. If you aren’t on the beta, sorry. If you signed up already stay patient as they open up to more users all the time.

If you want to sign up for the SkyFire beta visit Skyfire.com. The download is 466KB and the installed size is 1385KB.