Hello again everyone.  Today we are going to take a look at the Windows Media Center SideShow Gadget Beta that Ian blogged about a few days ago, and he even mentioned on his latest Podcast #164.

To start off with, the mobile device that I used is the Motorola Q9M, which is running Windows Mobile 6.0.

The install was very easy to go through, but I did need to take a look at the documentation towards the end to see how to setup my PC to send SideShow info over to my phone.  Once that was complete it was smooth sailing.

 The UI was pretty straight forward.  The entry point to SideShow on the phone had a nice looking UI.  Once you got into the details of this particular Gadget it turned into simple text, and that really is the only gripe that I have with the app.  I hope that they work on this to give it the same look and feel as the main SideShow menu.  The flow of getting to the different media types was very intuitive, and easy to flow in and out of.  I liked that they allowed you to view your pictures on the device without having to open up the full Media Center.  All of the other media types would open up Media Center and load up whatever media you selected on your device.

Overall it is a well thought out gadget that I hope they continue to build upon.