Chuong reported earlier some real-life images of the AT&T version of the HTC Touch Pro. If you look closely, you’ll notice there is no longer a dedicated row of number keys, however there are now dedicated Start menu and OK keys. This is great news for anyone who wants to use a keyboard to navigate the operating system without having to re-arrange your fingers to touch the screen every time you need to switch applications. …
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London IMAX Theater Becomes Giant Touch Diamond Ad
As posted on Modaco, we see a photo of the London IMAX theater with huge banner prints of the HTC Touch Diamond marketing graphics surrounding the building. For a larger photo, see here. I wonder how many people have tried to call Grace Fuller in New York with her picture up all over the place. Good thing it’s a fake 555 number. Originally published on Pocketnow on August 6, 2008. More Smartphone News articles from …
Continue readingMany of the Technologies Used in the Touch Diamond are Open Source
Johan Sanneblad has posted some interesting information on his blog regarding what technologies were used in the development of TouchFLO 3D on the Touch Diamond. It looks like all of them are Open Source! Does this mean that HTC has designed TouchFlo 3D to be potentially cross platform and portable to another operating system such as Android? Johan has “translated” the copyright notices on the HTC Touch Flo 3D About page into product names, and …
Continue readingHow to Show More Program Icons on Larger Screens in Windows Mobile 6.1
Normally, Windows Mobile Professional devices show 3 columns of icons in the portrait-layout programs folder whether you’ve got a high-resolution VGA screen or the average QVGA screen. However, with a simple registry edit (or CAB file download) in Windows Mobile 6.1, you can shrink those big icons down and give yourself a lot more room for an extra column and row of program listings. In HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftShell Add a New Key “IconConfig” In there Add DWORD …
Continue readingGoogle Maps 2.2; Now With Mass Transit Directions
A while back a new version of Google Maps was released for Blackberry which included mass transit support. That new feature is now available in Google Maps 2.2 for both Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile. As reported by the Official Google Mobile Blog: Simply bring up Directions from the main menu and you’ll see a second tab labeled Transit (or Public Transport), where you can request a route using only public transportation. You’ll receive a …
Continue readingUsability Speed Tests: Touch Diamond
Here’s the latest update in our Usability Speed Tests designed to show how easy and quick different Smartphone user interfaces can be. Today we’re looking at the HTC Touch Diamond. Here are the results: 1. 8sec (TouchFLO ) 8 sec (Start menu) 2. 6secs (Launch Google maps) 3. 15 sec (Opera slowness) 4. 23 sec (Play Weird Al music) 5. 76 sec (Add specific new contact) 6. 48 sec (write specific email to new contact) …
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