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For Windows Mobile Standard users, your game selection just got a whole lot better!

PDAMill, makers of a long line of fantastic games, has released no less than eight titles for Windows Mobile Standard devices.  The list includes

* GameBox Asia
* GameBox Asia II
* GameBox Boards
* GameBox Solitaire
* GameBox Solitaire II
* GameBox Sudoku
* Glyphos
* Pachinko Go!

PDAMill makes entertaining and graphically pleasing games and offer a wide range of game types from first person to board games.

Today is a special day for the Windows Mobile community.  Ilium Software, makers of such great applications as eWallet, ListPro and NewsBreak is 11 years old!

Ilium is one of the "old hats" in the Windows Mobile community, having developed their applications throughout the history of the platform to provide users the best software for their devices.  I have had the privilege to review just about every one of their titles and consider everyone at Ilium to be good friends.

Congratulations to everyone at Ilium for 11 great years - and a special thanks to Marc, Ellen, Juile and Ken for their support of my sites throughout the years.

So what better way to celebrate an anniversary than by having a sale!  From June 2nd through the 6th you can save 55% off of all of Ilium's titles by visiting their special Anniversary site.

Happy Birthday Ilium!

BTW- you can get the latest news and information on Ilium from the company blog (and you can even subscribe to it via RSS!).  Right now, as part of their anniversary celebration, they are having a contest in which they are giving away software and Amazon gift cards!  Check it out!

Last week Astraware released another exciting game in their already outstanding line up - GTS World Racing!

GTS World Racing is a classic coin-op style racing game with an amazing 64 different tracks in 16 world locations.  The sports three different car types to race, four different play modes and difficulties so it should satisfy everyone's experience and expertise levels.

GTS World Racing is available directly from Astraware for $19.95.  It is available for Windows Mobile Professional, Standard and Classic as well as Palm OS devices.  For Windows Mobile Professional users, GTS World Racing does support VGA displays as well.

As reported by PC World, "Microsoft Windows Mobile 7, which is made for chips used in mobile phones, will be more laptop friendly than older versions of Windows Mobile, said Luis Pineda, senior vice president at Qualcomm, on the sidelines of a news conference in Taipei."

This news contrasts with our previous thoughts on Windows 7's Ultra Mobile PC operating system potentially replacing Windows Mobile Professional. Now it sounds more like Windows Mobile 7 will be replacing or overlapping with the Windows 7 UMPC operating system.

We've already seen plenty of UMPC sized devices running Windows Mobile (HTC Advantage for example), so it's not much of a stretch to see the next version of Windows Mobile adding more support and functionality in these devices. The user interface may have to change a bit in order to give you more data access on the larger screens, as well as easy keyboard access for navigating commands.

My guess is that the leaked Windows Mobile 7 screenshots, were only for the Smartphone/Standard version of the operating system. Here's to hoping that the next version of the more-powerful Windows Mobile Professional edition will offer better usability and more features for the keyboard-enabled smartphones and ultra-mobile PCs.

All the results are here if you cannot reach a TV…

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This may be a little off topic, but I just wanted to post a message about some of our friends in cyber-space. Sites like PocketPCThoughts, MobilitySite.com and even my favourite comedy site - b3ta.com have been pulled off line following an explosion and fire at ThePlanet which has destroyed part of the building. It appears that, although no servers were damaged, the explosion in the electrical equipment room caused walls to move several feet from their original position. This is affecting around 9000 servers, so you may find quite a few other sites off-line today.

Whilst I'm here, the HTC Touch Diamond videos should be online later today. Apologies for the delay!

Link - ThePlanet Status

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The soon to be released Verizon i770 is reported on Engadget Mobile. From the looks of things, it is a candybar QWERTY that runs on a touchscreen Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional platform, much like the European release of the Samsung i780 but without the trackpad. Instead, Verizon's iteration will come with a traditional directional pad. The i770 is like the Palm Treo 800w mixed with a little Samsung BlackJack/Samsung i780.

The device will feature GSM for global roaming, although it will operate on CDMA/EVDO for US operations. Along with Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, and 256/128 RAM/ROM, this will be a great addition to Verizon's smartphone lineup.

The device is said to be launching in the third quarter.

The highly anticipated HTC Diamond is getting shipped. In fact, over 10,000 units have shipped according to a report from DigiTimes, which has been featured on SlashPhone.

The first 10,000 units were delivered to Hong Kong. Shipments to Europe will continue through June.

Unfortunately, because of the tri-band GSM support of the phone, US customers should not expect the phone stateside. Perhaps a quad-band GSM phone or tri-band phone with US frequencies will be released in the future.

An unboxing of the phone could be found on SlashPhone if you're interested.

Wondering why our sites were down for most of the weekend? Just when I thought our significant down-time days were behind us, something crazy happens:

"An explosion Saturday evening at a Texas-based, privately held server hosting provider has caused server outages effecting 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers. According to The Planet's website, at about 5 p.m. Saturday electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding their electrical equipment room. No injuries were reported and no servers were damaged or lost. The Houston company, which provides servers for small and medium sized companies, said it has its entire support team working around the clock to get the servers back on line. They estimate they will be up and running by Sunday afternoon."

I spent most of my weekend checking this forum thread hourly, trying to determine when my server would be brought back online. It didn't happen Sunday afternoon - late Sunday night everything was still down, but this morning when I woke up I was happy to see things were loading again. Big thanks to our server admin volunteer Jorj Bauer for keeping a close watch on all of this and getting us back to live status while I was just waking up (and to Janak, Darius, and Jon for their help). Back to our regularly scheduled programming...

Ilium Software, makers of such great Windows Mobile applications as eWallet, ListPro and NewsBreak is celebrating its 11 years in business this week. During the week long celebration, there will be a contest each day. They will be giving away Amazon gift cards, as well as copies of their software. The contests will be run on their blog from Monday, June 2nd, through Friday, June 6th.

They will also be offering offering a 55% discount off the regular price of all of our software during the five days. You can find the savings on the anniversary sale page.