I thought I would pass on some links I've recently bookmarked:

Newegg has some great deals on storage cards

• Here's a 4 GB SD card (not SDHC card) by Transcend that's the lowest price I've ever seen. 
• UPDATE (11/02/2008):  I bought this SD card and got it a few days ago.  The card arrived unformatted, so I had to format it in my computer.  My computer has an SD card slot, but every time I attempted to format the card on my computer, I got an error message that the card could not be formatted.  After searching around the internet I concluded that the SD slot on my laptop was the problem.  I could not find a driver update to fix the problem, but I was able to use SKTools to format the card in my Pocket PC.  Even after formatting, I could not use the SD slot on my laptop to transfer data to the card.  However, I have no problem transferring data to the card when it is installed in the Pocket PC through ActiveSync connection or when I use a USB card reader.  My issue is with the SD slot on the laptop, (I never had a problem working with my 4 GB A-Data card in the SD slot on this computer)
• Here's a 32 GB CF card by A-Data that I'm considering

Some free software I recently discovered:

QDz by Nicque:  I've been searching for a more efficient speed dial software than the one that's already installed on the hw6925.  The current speed dial function takes three taps with the stylus and there's no way that I know of to place speed dial calls without having to use the stylus.  I installed QDz by Nicque and assigned the application to the Contacts softkey (use SKTOOLS to do this).  Now I can press the Contacts button and navigate to the specific contact I wish to call without ever having to use my stylus.

UPDATE (11/02/2008): One reader asked me how to use SKTOOLS to assign the application to the Contacts softkey:

• Open up SKTOOLS on the pocket pc
• Tap View > System Tweaks > Tune UP! > tap the right arrow until you see the Buttons tab
• Tap the Buttons tab > choose the SOFKey1 path option > in the window tap the three dots and navigate to the \Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ folder > find the QDzII.lnk file and tap it > tap OK > Done

SRS WOW HD: I've used SRS Audio Sandbox software on my laptop and UMPC for several months now and was really blown away at how much the software improved audio on those little speakers, so I was excited to find the SRS WOW HD driver for Pocket PCs.  I installed the software to the hw6925 and, WOW, what a difference it makes to the sound quality.  The write-up for the software says it is for WM6.0 devices, but it works great on my WM5.0 hw6925. 

To install the software, just copy the CAB file directly to your mobile device, navigate to it, then click on it and the software will install. Then perform a soft reset.  The installation places two files in the windows folder of the device (WOWHD_ARM_Panel.cpl & WOWHD_ARM_Driver.dll) and adds several registry items to the registry.  You can manipulate the settings by tapping Start > Settings > System tab > WOW HD Settings. (To be safe, be sure to backup your mobile device before installing the software).

One thing I've noticed is that the Bluetooth high quality profile does not connect to my Bluetooth stereo headset any more.  I haven't played around with it enough to figure out a work around yet, but I prefer to use a wired headset when listening to music.  The Bluetooth headset profile which I use for placing and receiving calls still works fine.

HP IPAQ hw6900 USB Modem Driver Update:  One of the readers here emailed me a link to a driver that allows the hw6900 to be used as a USB modem for a Vista machine == Thanks Hari!

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