Windows Vista has built-in programs for email, contacts and calendar, so why can’t Windows Mobile devices sync with these solutions?  As it stands, Windows Mobile can only sync with Microsoft’s  Outlook.  The answer is simple: Microsoft wants you to buy Outlook.

Well, now you can sync your Windows Mobile 5 or 6 (touchscreen and non-touchscreen) Smartphones with Windows Mail, Windows Calendar and Windows Contacts in Vista (as well as Outlook Express in XP) with Sync Express 4. 

Sync Express 4 is a sync plug-in for ActiveSync and Windows Mobile Device Center which expands your syncing options to include select built-in Windows PIM applications. 

If syncing with Windows Vista’s Mail, Contacts and Calendar apps is something you’re interested in, give SyncExpress 4 a go.  It’s free to try for 30 days.

D-Link is now shipping the industry's first all-in-one home network router that combines powerful 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity with network attached storage (NAS), USB device-sharing, digital photo frame, Internet content player, FTP server and Green technology in a sleek, compact desktop design. The D-Link Xtreme N DIR-685 sports a stylish upright design for easy viewing of a vibrant 3.2-inch LCD screen. Powered by FrameChannel, it displays device status via graphical gauges and serves as a digital photo frame by showing digital photos, streamed video, weather forecasts and other live streaming Internet content in up to 1.6 million colors. The network attached storage (NAS) feature supports both UPnP server functions and BitTorrent downloads with the ability to store up to one terabyte of data on a 2.5-inch SATA drive that mounts easily into the side of the DIR-685. The D-Link Xtreme N DIR-685 All-In-One Router is now with a Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of $299.99.

“This router is the ideal solution for power consumers who want the ultimate 'all-in-one' networking device,” says Daniel Kelley, senior director of marketing for D-Link Systems in Fountain Valley, Calif. “Not only does it offer full functionality as a router/NAS storage/print server/FTP device, it is attractive on any desktop, environmentally friendly and Internet secure.”

T-Mobile is really betting on Android.  At a time when the other three U.S. wireless carriers have one or no Android-powered smartphones in their respective lineups, T-Mobile has announced that it will soon begin carrying a fourth Android phone, the Samsung Behold II.

The press release was short on release details, other than to say that the Behold II would be available “in time for the holiday season.”

Features include a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen, Samsung’s TouchWiz UI overlay, 3G network compatibility and Android’s full array of Google apps.

We’ll let you know when we have a firm release date.

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A shortage of 55nm-made GPUs is expected to last through the first quarter of 2010, as both AMD and Nvidia are focusing their attention toward DirectX 11-based 40nm-made GPUs, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report citing sources from the retail channel.

Since Nvidia plans to speed up adoption rate of its next generation GPUs after the launch of Windows 7, the company currently does not plan to increase its GT200 series GPU supply, as it wishes to avoid surplus inventory in the future, added the paper.

Active Media Products, manufacturer of SSDs and innovative USB drives, today announced the Aviator 312 line of SuperSpeed USB 3.0 external SSDs. SuperSpeed USB 3.0 supports transfer speeds up to 4.8Gbits/sec — ten times faster than USB 2.0. A312 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 external SSDs take advantage of USB 3.0's massive bandwidth, delivering unprecedented transfer speeds in an extremely compact mobile flash storage device. Measuring less than 3 inches long and only 0.2 inches thin, the A312 is smaller than a credit card and is designed to fit in a pocket. A312 SSDs can save a 25GB full-length HD movie in about two minutes. What used to take an hour to save will take only seconds with the A312 thanks to its scorching write speeds of up to 160MB/s and read speeds up to 240MB/s.

Aviator 312 SSDs are designed for external use, and include a carrying pouch and a USB 3.0 Micro-B cable for connection to any USB port. The 312 is fully backward compatible; it works in any USB 2.0 or 1.1 port, but requires a SuperSpeed port to reach its full performance capabilities. Unlike many other high speed external storage devices, the A312 does not require a separate power source. It draws all the power it needs directly from the USB bus. The A312 will be offered in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities.

QNAP Systems today expanded their Turbo NAS lineup with the addition of the TS-410 desktop NAS server targeted specifically at the SOHO and Prosumer market segments. The TS-410 features 4 hot-swappable SATA hard drives with up to 8TB of total capacity (with 2TB drives) and supports 2.5″ or 3.5″ hard drives, giving users more flexibility in selecting drives for installation. The TS-410 features a Marvell 800MHz CPU and 256MB DDRII memory which provides sustained high performance with low power consumption. The TS-410 can be configured for RAID 0/1/5/6/5+ spare, and JBOD with online RAID capacity expansion and online RAID level migration for high data redundancy. The TS-410 also supports iSCSI Target service with Thin Provisioning and dual Gigabit LAN ports, features generally found on much higher end NAS servers. The TS-410 also features 4 USB ports (1 front, 3 back panel) and 2 e-SATA ports for expanding the storage capacity or backing up the TS-410.

The TS-410 is a smart choice for installation in home or home-based business as it's fully compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and UNIX networks and features a built-in UPnP/ DLNA media server (with TwonkyMedia enabled) supporting a wide range of DLNA media players such as Sony PS3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming consoles. By installing the DLNA/ UPnP application on your iPhone or iPod touch, users can access the TS-410 on the home network and play videos, music, and photos from the server over the network. In addition, the high-speed PC-less Download Station with the unique QGet utility enables users to manage the BT/ FTP/ HTTP download tasks remotely over the local network or the Internet. The TS-410 can perform centralized backups of all computers attached to the network to protect valuable paid downloaded music & video content, digital pictures, and documents.

At Adobe MAX, Adobes worldwide developer conference, Adobe Systems Incorporated and NVIDIA Corporation today announced that both companies are bringing uncompromised browsing of rich Web content to netbooks, smartphones and smartbooks built with NVIDIA GPUs. The companies have been working closely together as part of the Open Screen Project to optimize and dramatically improve performance of Flash Player 10.1 by taking advantage of GPU video and graphics acceleration on a wide range of mobile Internet devices. NVIDIA customers embracing Flash Player 10.1 for their new devices include HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Acer, Asus and more. Users are expected to be able to download a beta of Flash Player 10.1 before the end of the year.

NVIDIA ION-based netbooks and nettops like the HP Mini 311, Lenovo IdeaPad S12, Samsung N510, Acer AspireRevo, and Asus eeeBox EB1012 and others are shipping today and once Flash Player 10.1 is available, they can take advantage of GPU-accelerated video decoding to deliver the kind of smooth Flash technology based video previously found only on higher-end PCs. Tegra processor-based smartphones and smartbooks that start shipping later this year will accelerate vector graphics and video to enable feature-rich, full-screen Internet video and animation.

Review of the PowerColor Radeon HD 5870 @ Neoseeker and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

“Today we'll be taking a look at the PowerColor Radeon HD 5870. Just when you might have thought a HD 4890, or a HD 4870 X2 was fast, ATI was put something together that is going to change your whole perspective on what fast is all about.”

The Tilt 2 hasn’t exactly been a secret, but today we have official confirmation that the Windows Phone is on its way. 

Today’s AT&T press release, which also contained information on the just-released AT&T Pure, states that the Tilt 2 “will be available in the following weeks.”  We are told that the new smartphone will arrive in mid-October.

Tilt 2 will sell for $299 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a qualifying two-year service agreement.

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The first Windows Phone running Windows Mobile 6.5 is here;  yesterday the AT&T Pure launched with WM6.5 onboard.

The smartphone is a variant of the HTC Touch Diamond2.  The AT&T Pure features a 528MHz Qualcomm processor, 512MB of onboard flash storage, a 5MP camera, aGPS, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, Wi-Fi and a 3.2-inch touchscreen display.

The Pure hasn’t yet been posted to the AT&T Wireless online store, but it is reportedly available at AT&T Wireless retail locations.

As soon as this smartphone is available for purchase online, we’ll let you know.

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Update: The AT&T Pure is now available for purchase at the AT&T Online Store.

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