Mobile Tech News -- Bejeweled for the iPhone, FolderMirror, Learn Chinese, and More

Bejeweled Now Available Free for the iPhone

Surely any mobile device is not mobile enough until there is a suitable game made for it. Bejeweled, the popular shape-matching game from Pop-Cap Games, has been released in a version made specifically for users of the Apple iPhone mobile device.

Bejeweled for the iPhone uses the abilities of the Safari web browser and AJAX web coding techniques to offer a mobile gaming experience that takes advantage of the iPhone's unique software and resolution. According to a report at Business Week, PopCap worked with Polish developer Arkadiusz Mlynarczyk, who one of the first iPhone developers to expose the iPhone's ability to play games by coding the Bejeweled clone known as Diamenty.

Bejeweled for the iPhone is available now for free by going to www.popcap.com via the iPhone's Safari web browser

Stay Connected to Outlook Calendar or Contacts Folders with Chapura FolderMirror

An essential part of any successful mobile device deployment large or small is the ability to stay connected to the flow of critical information To aid in this, Chapura has released FolderMirror 1.0, which lets owners of a wide variety of mobile devices carry and stay connected to any Outlook Calendar and Contacts folders.

This includes Exchange public folders, sub-folders, and SharePoint folders. It replicates and continues to update the desired information in the main Outlook Calendar or Contacts folders allowing wireless or cabled synchronization solutions to transfer the information.

FolderMirror supports the iPhone, Palm OS, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and Symbian devices.

This application is available for $49.95 from the Chapura web site.

Learn Mandarin Chinese on a WM Smartphone

One year  before the start of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Fluenz is releasing a version of its Mandarin Chinese lesson specifically designed for Windows Mobile smartphones.  Users can download the lessons to their phones and take them with them as they commute to work, wait for meetings to start, or travel for the Games. 

Fluenz Mandarin 1+2 mobile contains every video introduction, tutorial, and conclusion from the core program, as well as every conversation and, most of the workouts.

More information on Fluenz Mandarin is available on the Fluenz web site.

Palm Introduces Treo 750 on Orange and Claro Networks in Dominican Republic

The Palm Treo 750 is now available in the Dominican Republic on the Orange and Claro networks.

This smartphone combines a mobile phone with email, messaging, web browsing and organization software. It has UMTS/HSDPA (High-speed Download Packet Access) capability and comes with Microsoft's Direct Push Technology for Windows Mobile 5.0.

More information about the Palm Treo 750 smartphone is available at www.palm.com.