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HP offers iPAQ customers app choices

HP has announced the availability of the one thousandth application for its iPAQ range of PDAs and smartphones. To celebrate this milestone, HP is offering users a free software title download from its iPAQ Choice store every Monday.

The one thousandth application, Spb Mobile Shell 3.0, introduces a next generation user interface, while keeping all the advantages of a Windows Mobile device. Spb Mobile Shell significantly improves the standard user interface and provides new functionality making it a must have application for users who need quick access to favourite applications, wish to regularly change their wallpaper and other screen settings, easily import photos of friends from Facebook into their contact list and much more.

As with HP’s other iPAQ software titles, Spb Mobile Shell 3.0 is available via download from iPAQ Choice, HP’s dedicated online application store.

With more than one million registered customers, iPAQ Choice offers an expanding line up of applications for iPAQ handhelds. This extensive software portfolio spans a multitude of categories that include business and finance, organisers, travel, games, multimedia and entertainment applications.

“This is a significant landmark for HP and underscores our commitment to delivering a full and varied customer experience within the smartphone market,” said Charl Snyman, vice president, personal systems group, HP Europe, Middle East and Africa. “Our iPAQ range continues to prove popular among professionals, who typically enjoy the practical functionality afforded by iPAQs, which meets their business requirements for powerful voice, email, Internet browsing and GPS applications.”