While I look for someone who can try out the app on his or her Windows Mobile smartphone, here are some five quick questions answered by Dymo’s PR:

1. CardScan Mobile uses OCR to decipher the text right? Yes.
2. Do your testers have a failure rate regarding text reading? In other words, out of 100 tries, how many times does the software get the text wrong? The characeter-level accuracy is around 96%, but this rate has everything to do with picture quality. So if “100 tries” refers to perfect pictures, it’s high accuracy. If “100 tries” contains some bad pictures, it’s lower accuracy.
3. Which versions of WinMo is it compatible for? CardScan Mobile works on Windows Mobile Smartphones OS 6+

CardScan Mobiel is available from the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Price is $15. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to locate the application on the site. Apparently there are problems with WMM, so hopefully by the time we get a review out, we’ll be able to provide a direct link for those who want to buy Dymo CardScan mobile. Visit WMM with your WinMo smartphone.

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The last sentence of that money quote does make sense. After all, if you’ve spent years licensing—and earning—off manufacturers who want to use your mobile platform, you don’t kill that kind of Golden Goose. This remains true even if your mobile platform has steadily lost market share and presence to Apple’s offerings, and even a yet-to-be-released smartphone from Palm.

What makes more sense are rumors of Zune functionality integrated with Windows Mobile 7, due for release in 2010. Which of course, is another way of saying “we’ll improve Windows Mobile’s media player.” If ever Microsoft was just pulling our leg, and a Microsoft-phone is actually under development, I don’t think it will be this bad:

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