New HTC Touch Does Better Windows Mobile UI
After trying some QWERTY-less products, HTC is back to their business, slide-out QWERTY Windows Mobile phones. This HTC Touch Pro, rumored as HTC Raphael. It has HTC Diamond’s back, but less diamondy. New TouchFLO 3D, improved user interface as on the Diamond. Also will have YouTube application and Google Maps app (GPS avaliable). Will come late summer to Europe, Asia and Middle-East. And in 2008 to Latin and North America. It’s very good that HTC is now back to phones with full keyboards, because this is the best thing that suits Windows Mobile. More specs:
- 7.2 Mbps HSDPA
- 512 Mb Storage (internal, microSD slot)
- 2.8″ VGA screen
- 3.2 Mpixel Camera
- GPS, 3G, 8 hours of talk time battery (1350 mAh)
- More info on HTC
Vista is now with Carrier!
Rogers officially launched HTC Shift, and unique mobile phone / computer that supports Windows Vista. It has a 7 inch touchscreen, 40 Gb HDD, and other stuff that almost all mobiles have, maybe I only have to say about GPS. It’s $1599.99 with 3-year contract. If you consider getting this phone, I would suggest you get an unclocked version over eBay, it will cost you less, but you won’t get GPS and Data support from Carrier.
IntelliScreen, a very nice iPhone app released, Beta.
Well, when I saw this app, my thoughts were, wow. Well it’s very cool, you can guess it’s feature from the image to the left. It places usefull information on Locked Screen of your iPhone. It’s very usefull, now you don’t need to unlock it, you can read recent news, email, check weather and see calendar events right there. Well, it’s very usefull. I won’t place here the information how to install it, or more features, because you can find it all here. Attention! It’s in Beta yet, so I don’t suggest you to install it. I will place a little review of mine here.
Well I have installed it right when I first heard of it. Firs thing that bumped in my eyes, was a Pop-up of this program, “Read Before Purchasing”, and I wasn’t promted to purchase anything. This means the program is commercial, and it will cost some money and be avaliable in the App Store. Secondly, it fetches weather from some shitty weater network that doesn’t have my town (well most likely this means that my town is shitty :)) The program is usefull, but lets face it - it will consume more battery. If it will check for news feeds, sports feed, e-mail and weather, on the background, it will consume your power. If not then you will have to wait for it to load the data, in the mean time you could just unlock you phone and do it yourself.
Skype Goes Mass-Market!
Now you will be able to call cheaper with your non Windows Mobile phone, Skype is now testing their official mobile client that supports Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony-Ericsson. The software will support free Skype-to-Skype calls and landline calls thru SkypeOut, which is usually cheaper than your carriers pricing. I may assume you would need 3G or Wifi to use the software. Official news on Skype.com
Windows Mobile? No, Windows Vista on Mobile!
By the end of June, you will be able to enjoy Windows Vista right on your mobile phone, with 1,33GHz Centrino Atom processor and 1GB of RAM. For only $1,526.33
With no special graphic memory, You can ask yourself a question, would Windows Vista make sense on a Mobile Phone with 1GB of RAM? While Phone has a wonderful 5 inch touchscreen, it looks very huge, but you can show off your Vista infront of the guy with HTC and his Windows Mobile 6.1 :)
New iPhone SDK Beta - Yes to Backgrond Processes?
The most dissappointing thing in SDK was that Apple limited software to run as a background process, which means, you won’t be able to have programs such as Instant Messagers, or maybe apps for themes and many more possabilities. Here is the quote of an developer who has reviewed latest SDK Beta 4:
There are definitely some very interesting methods added to UIApplication’s delegate, including methods for badging the Springboard icon, and methods related to gaining and resigning “active” status - seems like background apps may be permitted somehow.
No Firefox for iPhone, disappointed in Steve.
So you own an iPhone, and you heard of 2.0 firmware that will bring you applications you want to your phone. And if you chose your phone to be Apple, it must be because of the “Internet in your pocket” statement, made by Steve Jobs. But now, whole Mozilla crew is pissed off on Steven for his iTunes automatic updates have Safari 3.1 in it, you are now having “Safari 3.1 in your pocket”, which consumes twice more Memory than Firefox. Full Story on webware.