Panoman is an application for Nokia Series60 smartphone which allows you to build panoramic shots directly on your phone. It includes a number of key features, such as previewing the picture so far, perspective correction and colour correction. With the ability to link 12 photos together, it can create some very high resolution (and large filesize) panoramic pictures (up to 32MB on a 5 megapixel camera). Best of all, it costs less than 10 Euros to purchase.

Everex, producers of the Cloudbook have been busy. Here’s a mini PC due in the US next month (no word on UK availability yet). It’s features include a 1.83GHz T2130 processor, 120GB hard drive, 512MB DDR2 RAM, a DVD writer and Intel’s GMA950 graphics set. In terms of ports, there are Ethernet, DVI / S-Video outs, Firewire, four USB 2.0 ports, a 4-in-1 multicard reader and audio / in out. It’s also running the same gOS as the Cloudbook.

[Story and picture via Engadget]

Nokia have announced another Beta product, the Nokia Text Messenger Vista Widget. This offers either a sidebar widget (showing the 3 latest SMS messages), or a floating widget, with the capability of showing even more messages. Nokia reckon 15% of all of their Beta testers use Vista already, and this widget will work with PC Suite 6.85 (ie it does not require the new PC Suite 2 Beta).

If you fancy the Cloudbook, but are less sure about Linux, then people are already getting Vista to run on the device, albeit a little slowly. Head over to the Cloudbook forums for more information.

For those that use LinuxMCE to manage your media library, then Java Mobile Orbiter is for you. It’s a Java app that can run on your mobile phone to control your LinuxMCE server via Bluetooth. It should run on a large variety of phones, as long as they support Java and Bluetooth.

[Via Smart Home Blog]

According to Symbian Freak, we may see the launch of a native Skype application for the Nokia Series60 smartphones in the next week or two. Although we’ve seen many solutions that have enabled access to Skype on a mobile (eg Fring), a native Skype app may be even more useful for people at home on WiFi connections. Apparently, there’s a chance the app won’t be released directly by Skype, although no one is yet telling the name of the company who will release it.

If you own a Nokia Tablet and a recent Windows Mobile smartphone, you’ll be aware that many Windows smartphones now only support PAN (Personal Area Network) to allow external devices (such as Tablets) to use the phone for Internet access. Unfortunately, the Nokia tablets ship with only Bluetooth DUN (Dial Up Networking) support built in, meaning that although they will work fine with Nokia phones and many other phones (including the 3 SkypePhone), they don’t work with the WM phones… until now.

You need to be running the latest OS2008 to be able to use it, but the application integrates nicely into the OS to make it appear like the functionality was always there.

Head here for more information. [Via jkOnTheRun]

If you are in the market for an external battery pack for whatever device you own, be it an iPhone, a Nokia smartphone, an iPod, or you just want to be able to spend more time away from your device plugged into the mains for charging, then you may be looking for an external battery pack. Berble.com have reviewed one, and the review is here.

If you haven’t got an Asus Eee PC, an Everex Cloudbook, and weren’t impressed by the upcoming Elonex One, then maybe this HP UMPC is for you, it’s due for launch in April, and has a 8.9″ 1366 x 766 (WXGA) display, ExpressCard/54 slot, Wireless LAN, nearly full-sized QWERTY (95% of full), integrated webcam, and optional SSD drive, and should run Vista or Linux. However, it’s likely to be a fair bit more expensive than the other 3 PCs.

[Via Engadget]

If you have a TomTom SatNav device, and you use the PGPSW (Pocket GPS World) Speed Camera Database, then head over to their website, where you will find a new set of custom speed camera icons. These aren’t compatible with every TomTom device, so you’ll need to check whether they will work with your unit first, but if they will, they provide a much richer icon set than the default.

If, of course, you don’t use their Speed Camera Database, these icons won’t be much use, so whilst you are there, sign up – it’s only £19 per year, and for that you get access to the forums, discounts on new GPS hardware, and access to the speed camera database. Plus, if you report just one previously unreported static speed camera position or a change to speed/location of an existing static camera already in the database or (finally) a new mobile site then you may (subject to verification by PGPSW) get a lifetime subscription (remember only the first reporter will get the lifetime sub).

Picture courtesy of Pocket GPS World.