In an attempt to appease the iPhone critics who would like to see Apple allow third party applications to be developed for the iPhone, Apple announced that the iPhone will support Web based applications. Developers can create Web 2.0 applications which look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone, and which can seamlessly access iPhone’s services, including making a phone call, sending an email and displaying a location in Google Maps. Third-party applications …
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HTC, Please Bring the T9 PhonePad Back!
Beginning in 2004 with the HTC Magician, HTC started licensing T9 text input capabilities and included a software input method for their devices that let you easily type out text using common T9 techniques. This was a great feature for phones that only had touch screens since you could use your thumb to type out messages in much the same way you would do so on a standard numeric keypad using T9. However, it appears …
Continue readingiContacts Adds Touch Scrolling to Windows Mobile Contacts
If you like the way the iPhone can scroll through contacts with finger gestures and inertia scrolling but you wish you could have that on a Windows Mobile device, take a look at iContacts. This is a free program that shows all your normal contacts in a larger list that you can push around with your finger. Tapping and releasing on a contact name will open the normal Windows Mobile contact display screen. You can …
Continue readingVideo of the HTC Touch
Arne at the::unwired has posted some videos of the HTC TouchFLO software in action. Check out the touch-and-push inertia scrolling capabilities in the Contacts and Internet Explorer applications, too. I hope all new Windows Mobile touch screen phones get this capability. Originally published on Pocketnow on June 5, 2007. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingWM6 Bugs: A Calendar Reply Command?
Back in the days of Pocket PC 2000, it was very easy and intuitive to work with Calendar appointments in Pocket Outlook. You would tap an appointment to open it, and then tap the appointment on the screen in order to edit it. This was perfectly usable. Then with Pocket PC 2002, Microsoft removed that capability and added an “Edit” button in the lower left. Tapping the open calendar item no longer let you edit …
Continue readingI’m Bringing New Back
In my frustration with the removal of the “New” soft key button in the new Windows Mobile 6 Messaging application, I’ve been searching for something to make it easy to create new messages again. Someone suggested to use FlexMail 2007, which has many much more useful features than the default messaging app, but it was kinda overkill and it didn’t integrate with the today screen or my contact photos. Then I found a thread on …
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