Windows Mobile devices don’t offer a great range of power management options. If you should need to reset your device, sticking your stylus in the hole is often the only way to do it. What do you do if you want to turn off the screen? It is normally a case of working your way through the various menus and hopefully finding something that will do the job. It is much more of a challenge than it should be. 

An easier option is Pocket Power Manager. Upon launching, you will see a few new icons to the bottom right of your screen, otherwise known as the task tray. Each of them can be tapped to instantly perform a task. There are no extra bits and pieces thrown in.

The icons are:

• Screen off icon
• Reset Device icon
• Power off icon
• Rotate screen icon

I know that I will enjoy having the option to rotate the screen quickly. Pocket Power manager lets you hide and disable any of he icons you don’t want. If you want to use it for only one of the tasks, you will only see one icon. You can also setup Pocket Power Manager to launch at startup. It really is a nice “no nonsense” utility!

Available for free from www.pocketpowermanager.com [via FreewarePPC]