New Kinoma Play update now available
September 12th, 2008If you’ve been participating in forums, it should be clear from the list below that we’re listening. We appreciate the feedback…keep letting us know what you think!
You’ll be notified about the update automatically. To update immediately, go to Kinoma Play’s main screen, show the menu pod and select Player > Check for Updates.
- Open URL now features “clipboard auto-paste” — if you’ve previously copied a URL, it’ll be entered by default.
- You can now exit Kinoma Play with the new Exit command. Previously, Microsoft strongly preferred that the OS handle this. Recently, Microsoft updated their guidelines to allow for PC-style exit commands. You can still let the OS handle this for you if you prefer.
- All known power management issues have been fixed. Now you can turn off the screen manually on Windows Mobile Professional/Pocket PC and Kinoma Play will keep playing as you’d expect, just as it previously has on Windows Mobile Smartphone. (Note: A handful of phones shut off Wi-Fi when you shut off the screen. That’s a bug in ROM that can only be fixed by the phone maker.)
- We found some phones that misreported the type of CPU they have, which could cause slower-than-expected video performance and occasionally even crashes. We’ve come up with a workaround that should fix this for any affected phones.
- The media scanner now automatically excludes more folders used by apps (TomTom, GoodSync) that put application image/audio resources in unexpected places.
- We fixed a rare scenario where Kinoma Play would wake up grumpy after going to sleep while doing network access, and consequently use way too much CPU time.
Kinoma Play is designed to work on all Windows Mobile phones, but this update has been specifically tested and tuned with these additional phones:
- HP iPAQ 910 Business Messenger (Special thanks to HP for sending us a pile of devices to test with! Buy their stuff!)
Remember, you can always find the full list of phones known to be compatible with Kinoma Play at http://kinoma.com/support/devices/play/.
