As many of you already know, I proposed the design of an “Ultimate Digital Assistant” back in 2003, which also included a detachable Bluetooth headset: “The Bluetooth headset clips into the back of the PDA when not in use. It’s internal battery is charged through the PDA when attached to AC power. This negates the need for multiple charging cables. The Bluetooth headset will automatically power on and connect to the PDA’s headset profile when …
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Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.Fediverse Profile
The Diamond’s Screen Shut Off Problem is a Feature
A number of people have been complaining about how the Touch Diamond’s screen shuts off very quickly after you make a call. It turns out that’s actually part of an almost very intelligent feature. As realized by yelitterulez at xda-developers, when making a call the screen stays on if you leave the phone lying flat on a table. If you wait 10 seconds into the call, you can pick it up to your ear and …
Continue readingBringing Manual Screen Rotation Back to the Touch Diamond
As you may have heard, the Touch Diamond has removed the Screen Orientation options from the Screen control panel. This means that you cannot switch to landscape mode except in the programs that support the accelerometer screen orientation switching (Album and Opera). This can easily be fixed with a registry hack. Using a Registry editor, go to: HKeyLocalMachine/System/GDI/Rotation Change the “HideOrientationUI” from 1 to 0 Then if you want to expand the rotation options further, …
Continue readingSMS over VoIP Application Available
Rhapsody of XDA-developers has created a great little application that can use a Voice over IP provider’s text messaging service to send SMS messages from your Windows Mobile Professional or Standard phone. I’ve been using the mobile web based version of VoipBuster’s text messaging interface to send international text messages for free, but this program adds an interface for that which does not require logging into a web page. Anyone think not paying for so …
Continue readingAOL Brings AIM Back to Windows Mobile Again
Back in April, AOL started releasing a beta of their MyMobile software for Windows Mobile which included AOL Instant Messenger functionality. Now, they’ve started a beta for a new stand-along AOL Instant Messenger client called MobileAIM. It should work with all Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices both Standard and Professional versions. Click on to sign up and download the beta. The new client shows contact ID icons, but does not offer any kind of …
Continue readingTomTom 7 for Windows Mobile Appearing on some Touch Diamond models
A number of users at XDA-developers are reporting TomTom version 7 is including on their Touch Diamond models. The new version obviously supports the newer version 7 map sets. There is also a new “Help Me” menu that will guide you to help related services. Of special interest is a Quick Menu, that shows a large button on screen in the map view which you can customize to have one specific function, or bring up …
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