Adam Z. Lein

Design Your Own TouchFLO 3D

On August 18, 2008 By Adam Z. Lein In How To, Pocketnow

So that new TouchFLO 3D home screen on the Touch Diamond looks really great. The graphics are so cool and there’s nothing else like it around. But you know, after a while the black & white icons and some of the other graphics might get a little stale. Maybe it’s time to make your own version of TouchFLO 3D! D-MAN666 and SushiLange of XDA-Developers have put together a .NET framework based file editor designed to …

More Treo Pro (850w) Photos

On August 18, 2008 By Adam Z. Lein In Hardware, Pocketnow

We posted earlier about the Treo 850w being rebranded as the Treo Pro, now WM Experts have collected plenty more photos of the Treo Pro. While it is similar to the CDMA Treo 800w, there are some significant design changes; the body is a slippery finger-print-prone gloss black, the screen is flush (not recessed), softkey buttons seem to be missing, and some important hardware buttons are also flush and potentially difficult to feel with your …

Try Excahnge 2007 SP1 For Free!

On August 14, 2008 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Software

Have you heard about how everyone wants their smartphones to synchronize with Microsoft Exchange? Do you know what that is? Is it better than Gmail or Yahoo mail? Well, why don’t you just take it for a 5 day test drive for free? Microsoft is offering a free 5 day hosted trial of Exchange 2007 SP1 for you to try. You can use it with Outlook on your desktop, webmail, Windows Mobile, iPhone 2.0, Symbian …

Running the 2008 Olympics with Windows Mobile

On August 13, 2008 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Smartphone News

Samsung, the “official Olympic sponsor for wireless communications equipment,” has provided Olympic officials with a number of mobile devices designed to connect to the “Wireless Olympic Works” (WOW) network developed in conjunction with Atos Origin. WOW offers real-time schedules, results, weather information, email, and instant messaging to Olympic officials. One of these devices (used by VIPs), is the Samsung SGH-i688 running Windows Mobile 6. As reported by WindowsForDevices, While Samsung provided relatively few details of …

Apple’s RDF vs. The Real World

On August 12, 2008 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Thought

One of the things Apple is most famous for is their Reality Distortion Field or RDF. The video below is another perfect example of how they achieve this. The video shows the Apple “Unslow” commercial showing how fast everything on the iPhone 3G is, side-by-side with a real-life video of a user performing same tasks that were performed in the commercial. As you can see, the real world is nowhere near as fast as Apple’s …

Touch Diamond Adam Lein Edition

On August 12, 2008 By Adam Z. Lein In Hardware, Pocketnow

The HTC Touch Diamond is one of the most attractive Windows Mobile phones ever. Even the angled cut plastic body matches the “Diamond” theme and it looks great. But I’m kind of tired of black, so in following my old UDA wishlist from 2003, I decided my Touch Diamond should change colors by itself. So here it is, the Touch Diamond Adam Lein Edition with color shifting technology! How does one achieve this effect you …