Not even a full month passed since the official release of Windows Phone 7 and yet, the Windows Phone market features 3000 apps. That’s pretty impressive if you ask me. One of the newest apps on the market is SKB Group SMS.

SKB Group SMS isn’t rich in features and hasn’t got any superpowers either. But I wanted to present it to you, since it’s currently the only Windows Phone app that does one very important, simple thing: through this application you can create contact groups and send mass SMS to certain people or groups of people. Keep my advice in mind and install this app on your Windows Phone 7! The holidays are close and what can be more pleasant, than to compose a sweet, sincere Christmas or Happy New Year message and mass mail it to all your friends?

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SKB Group SMS can be purchased for 17,99$, a pretty high price. But think at all the SMS you have to send for Christmas. Maybe this app is worth the money for you.

Download Link / More infos on SKBSoftware.com.

SPB Mobile Shell is, literally, one of the most popular Windows Mobile applications ever created. This is first of all due to SPB Team inspiration to have focused on enhancing Windows Mobile UI with big and good looking buttons and much more accessible functions. SPB Mobile Shell is a great piece of software designed to fully replace your phone’s interface with a new fancy look accompanied by great graphic effects. As the name suggests, this program is a “shell” for your device, providing it a new graphic environment, highly attractive and customizable. If you got tired of your HTC boring menus, Mobile Shell is the program you need. Stay in touch with the program’s updates: a new version of Mobile Shell is expected to be launched soon: SPB Mobile Shell 5 (see the video).

Features list:

• Widgets: Photo contacts, picture frame, media player, Weather, Internet search, Facebook and Twitter status, Wireless switches, Phone profile, Appointments and tasks
• Contacts: Widget-based photo contacts, Facebook integration, Photo call log, Smart contact search, 3D favorite contacts carousel, Ringtone management, Category filter
• Launcher: Pinned shortcuts, 3D email and SMS viewer, Recently used programs, Finger friendly task manager, 3×3 phone style menu
• Tools: Weather forecasts, Current weather, Agenda view, World time, Wireless switches, Profiles, Internet search, Facebook and Twitter status
• User Interface: 3D carousel with special effects, Make your own Home screen using widgets, Adaptive skins, Change background, Customize your menu, Change widget skins, Choose Professional or Lifestyle Home screen

Check out the video demo for Mobile Shell 5 or buy this software for you HTC here.

We’ve said few things about a very well known paid contact manager (Resco Contact Manager), but last week a friend asked me if I could recommend him a free contact manager for Windows Mobile. I didn’t know what to tell him. So I started searching the net and came across Nektra Contact Manager.

It’s pretty unusual and unexpected to find finger friendly and touch intuitive software for free or even at a low price. The Nektra Contact Manager was one of these unexpected things I found. With it’s very friendly interface and it’s richness in features, I considered it not only the best freeware contact manager, but even a competition for paid ones (like Resco for example).

Nektra Contact Manager allows you to do all sorts of things like grouping contacts by companies and friend groups, phone history list, a rapid contact search, selecting and displaying photos for each of your contacts and sending mass text messages to certain groups.

Nektra is available in 5 different languages (english, spanish, italian, german, polish) and comes in two versions: one for phones with VGA display phones and one for those with QVGA display. When you chose to download it, be careful to pick the right version.  For more infos and a download link check nektra.com.

Resco Contact Manager is a complex application created to significantly enhance windows mobile dialing-related activities, such as contact and dials managing. The default contacts application of the Windows Mobile platform lacks many features and usually comes with some undesired issues, like list-scrolling lags or keypress lags. Resco Contact Manager replaces this with a much more comfortable interface and a multi-feature application, which, in short terms, simplifies allot of daily operations in the phone’s usage.

The latest program update comes with a great Facebook integration, which you may find very useful if you are a daily active user of this popular socialization network.

Key Features:

• Touch optimized interface
• SMS Chat and Call History
• Proprietary phonepad
• Facebook integration
• Today Plugin
• Favorites list
• Map location
• Multiple phone profiles
• Assigning photo to contact
• Statistics
• Call history

More info & Download

Many htc users complain about the unresponsive and laggy default phone dialer, which by the way, is an absolute failure.  Iconsoft PhonEx 2.2 comes to solving these issues by offering your touch phone an awesome dialer interface, entirely finger-friendly and built in terms of speed and absolute functionality.

PhonEx is not just a simple dialer, but a very complex program which significantly improves all the dialing related operations. With it’s convenient interface PhonEx makes your stylus useless in various actions like typing numbers, scrolling dials and contacts or changing options; for all these operations your finger is more than enough.  PhonEx also enables an unique touch response when you type a phone number, as each press determines a short and discreet vibration to assure you typed the desired key.

If you’re still not convinced, you should also know that Phonex also changes the in-call functionalities by displaying fullscreen incoming/outgoing call windows ( including fullscreen photo contact) and by making some functions (like mute, speaker or notes) to be more accessible during a phone call. Nevertheless, the user interface of  PhonEx looks bright and fancy, thus giving your phone an elegant aura.

Some of the Phonex’s features include:

• Convenient and intuitive interface
• Interaction using finger touch
• Today plug-in
• Convenient contact search
• Address book
• Photo contacts
• Image library
• Individual tune for calls
• Expanded call history for each contact
• Favorites group
• Full-screen incoming call
• Full-screen Dialer
• Personalization
• New and easy Phonepad
• Downloadable skins

More info – Buy it now – Download Trial