Tracy and Matt

Time to give away some hardware in our '12 Days of Christmas' competition.

Here is your chance to win a 2gb Memory card from SanDisk. The winner can choose either SD Card or CF Card format for their prize.

SanDisk Ultra® II SD™ Cards When speed really matters, serious photographers choose SanDisk Ultra II SD. So fast, you’ll never miss a shot. So rugged, environmental conditions are never a problem. In fact, we’re so confident in SanDisk Ultra II SD cards that they’re backed by a lifetime limited warranty.

SanDisk Ultra® II CompactFlash® When the shooting turns fast and furious, serious photographers turn to SanDisk Ultra II CompactFlash. So fast, you’re always ready for the next shot. So rugged, environmental conditions are never a problem. So well built that it’s backed by SanDisk’s lifetime limited warranty. When every shot counts, choose SanDisk Ultra II CompactFlash

Prize Question: Which of these can you store photographs on?

1. A birthday Card
2. An Oyster Card
3. A SanDisk Memory Card

This prize had now been won. Come back later for another chance to win!

Matt

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I'm pleased to announce the winner of the 5th prize in our '12 Days of Christmas' competition.

The winner of the Commodore 64 emulator for Pocket PC from ClickGamer is Paul Swain.

Paul correctly answered the question we posed: The number of C64 units sold from 1982 to 1993 was 30 million. You can find the answer on page 33 of the C64 emulator manual. This is going by the figure published in the 2002 Guiness Book of Records.

There will be another prize to win later on today!

Matt

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Samsung have officially announced the Samsung SGH-i600 'Ultra Messaging' Windows Mobile 5.0 powered Smartphone with integrated QWERTY keyboard and HSDPA support.

In a press release Samsung Electronics and Microsoft launched the Samsung Ultra Messaging i600 powered by Microsoft ® Windows Mobile ® 5.0, the first 3G smartphone with HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) support . Measuring only 11.8mm and weighing a mere 99g, the Samsung Ultra Messaging i600 is the world's thinnest 3G smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard.

"It blends the feature-rich, desktop functionality of the Windows Mobile 5.0 platform with multimedia capabilities to help people work on the go, stay in touch with family and friends or just have fun."

Samsung SGH-i600 Specification

It also features some nice touches, such as the ability to use the device in mass storage mode, and includes a podcasts down-loader, so you have something to do with all that bandwidth.

You can see our Samsung i600 unboxing video HERE.

Matt

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For a nice start to a Monday morning we have another prize to give away in our '12 Days of Christmas' competition.

Today you can win a copy of the excellent Commodore 64 emulator for Pocket PC from ClickGamer.

The PocketPC Commodore 64 emulator is a retrogamers dream come true - try Pocket C64 now for super-fast graphic and sound emulation - includes widescreen mode. VGA and Windows Mobile 5.0 now supported.

Prize Question: How many units did the C64 sell from 1982 to 1993 ? You'll probably want to pop and have a look on the ClickGamer website for the answer!

Please use our feedback form to submit your answer. Remember to include your full email address so that we can notify the winner. We will accept entries until the next question is posted and will choose a winner at random.

Entry by using our feedback form only. Entries will not be accepted by any other method.

Matt

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I'm pleased to announce the winner of the 4th prize in our '12 Days of Christmas' competition.

The winner of VITO ActiveTrace from VITO Technology is Andy Button.

Andy correctly answered the question we posed: The limitation of the unregistered version is that "each track recording time is limited to 30 minutes".

There will be another prize to win later on today!

Matt

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We are into the third day of our '12 Days of Christmas' competition and here we have another prize from our friends at VITO Technology.

VITO ActiveTrace

VITO ActiveTrace is a Pocket PC and Smartphone must have sports software with GPS tracking for all sportsmen around the globe and everyone leading an active and mobile lifestyle!

VITO ActiveTrace is specially designed to trace your progress. Tracking your skills development has never been that easy!

Whether you ride, drive, ski, glide or do anything else extreme, VITO ActiveTrace offers you all the necessary features to trace your track

VITO ActiveTrace is available PocketPC, Smartphone and Nokia Series 60 mobile devices.

Prize Question: In what way is the unregistered version of ActiveTrace limited? You'll have to go to the VITO Technology website for the answer!

Please use our feedback form to submit your answer. Remember to include your full email address so that we can notify the winner. We will accept entries until the next question is posted and will choose a winner at random.

Entry by using our feedback form only. Entries will not be accepted by any other method.

Matt

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I'm pleased to announce that we have a winner for the 3rd of our '12 Days of Christmas' competition prizes.

The winner of VITO ButtonMapper from VITO Technology is Carla Knight.

Carla correctly answered the question we posed. The three CPU types that ButtonMapper will run on are MIPS, ARM or XScale.

There will be another prize to win later on today!

Matt

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When Matt asked me if I wanted to review some games for my phone I wasn’t sure as I really don’t use my phone that much nor did I know when I would fidn the time to play games but I thought why not!

So the first game I have chosen to review is number dropper. It is only available on Pocket PC.

Number Dropper is a very a simple idea, it's somewhere between Tetris and Bookworm. It involves falling tiles. You have to remove all the tiles before they fill the screen. Each of the tiles has a number on and you can only remove tiles by clicking on the tile numbers that add up to the number at the top of the screen. Sounds easy and it starts off easy but soon gets more tricky!

In later levels bonus tiles are added. The golden bonus tile when used as part of a number chain removes the numbers from the remaining tiles for a short period and this enables you to remove the tiles where two or more of the same colour are touching.

Even further in to the game levels there are locked tiles which only show their number once they have been allowed to fall. In later levels some of the tiles have negative numbers on them!

This game has a very simple concept but is highly addictive and easy to play. I even gave it to Matt’s mum to play and despite the fact that she has never used a PocketPC before, she picked it up straight away and got hooked so much so that she ran the battery completely flat.

I would recommend this game as it is easy to learn and you can pick it up for a quick game now and then. Later levels get quite tricky as the target number at the top gets bigger so you have to do your mental arithmatic on the fly. It's good brain exercise whist still being a lot of addictive fun!

Check Number Dropper on ClickGamer.

Tracy

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