Here’s an interesting patent from HTC for the design of a phone where the screen slides diagonally from the top to the middle in order to reveal a Qwerty keyboard. When “closed” only the numeric portion of the keyboard is visible. For more mock-ups, see The Unwired View Originally published on Pocketnow on March 18, 2008. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.
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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
Flashing Windows Mobile with Flash
As covered by Macworld: Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite, the Flash Player runtime for mobile devices, so that Windows Mobile phone users can view Flash content in the browser. Microsoft has also licensed the Adobe Reader LE software, so that Windows Mobile users will be able to view PDFs. The two companies hope to introduce Flash and PDF support on Windows Mobile devices by year’s end. While many device manufacturers already include PDF viewing …
Continue readingWhat is a Smartphone?
Here’s a video that answers important questions such as: What is a Smartphone? What is a Pocket PC? What is a Blackberry? What is a Treo? and What is an HTC device? Be sure to forward this to all of your friends who may have been living in caves for the past 10 years. Originally published on Pocketnow on March 16, 2008. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingCNET’s Survey Shows Windows Mobile as the Most Preferred Smartphone
An unscientific survey of CNET’s News.com readers shows that Windows Mobile is the smartphone operating system of choice. Granted the survey took place in a pretty narrow demographic. It’s interesting to note that half of the respondents with Windows Mobile devices complained about the operating system, but since over 40% of respondents were using Windows Mobile, that still shows that over 20% of the entire surveyed market were happy with the mobile operating system. That …
Continue readingAsus Windows Mobile 6 PDA, Just $260
As quoted from Inside Microsoft: Buy.com has the Asus MyPal A626 Windows Mobile 6 PDA for just $254 with free shipping. Amazon.com has it for $260, also with free shipping, useful if you’ve got some Amazon gift certificates to get a nice PDA at a good price. As for specs, it includes a 312 MHz Marvell XScale processor, but the PDA has b/g wifi, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, a large 3.5-inch QVGA touchscreen, a 1200 mAh …
Continue readingYour Mobile Digital Lifestyle
Here’s a great video from Microsoft found via PocketPCThoughts. It showcases some events in the average digital lifestyle and how making use of Microsoft mobile technologies can make you cool enough to go to great parties even when your station wagon breaks down. This happens to me all the time. From Mel Sampat’s MSDN blog: This video has been shown at internal Microsoft events a few times. It always draws a great response from the …
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