OnCourse Navigator v5 August 25, 2005 Review by: Adam Z Lein, Senior Editor Jump to: PAGE 1 | PAGE 2 (sponsor) INTRODUCTION OnCourse Navigator 5 is the result of a collaboration between EasyPocketNav and Navigon to offer a Navigon software based GPS solution for North America. Earlier this year we reviewed OnCourse Navigator 4, which faired quite well and had the potential to be a great product dispite a couple small issues (such as the …
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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
Nextlink Invisio Mobile
INTRODUCTION One problem with mobile phone voice communications is that people can be in very noisy environments when they’re out and about. This can make it very difficult for the person on the other end to hear the conversation. Some headset manufacturers have created software based noise canceling headsets that aim to reduce the ambient noise by focusing on the speaker’s voice. Nextlink on the other hand has significantly reduced ambient noise by putting …
Continue readingIt Plays Doom.com
Here’s a new website dedicated to all sorts of gadgets, mobile phones, MP3 players, and anything else that can run Doom. Naturally, you can expect to see some Windows Mobile devices here, but some of the others may surprise you. Originally published on Pocketnow on August 14, 2005. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingRUMOR: HTC Galaxy Specifications and Design
Finally we have a possible picture for the rumored HTC Galaxy Pocket PC Phone. The specifications are interesting as well: * Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 (codename Magneto) * Processor: Samsung S3C2440M at 300Mhz * Memory: 64MB Flash ROM, 32MB SDRAM (shame, no 128MB!) * 2.8″ Screen LCD TFT 240×320 Pixels * Integrated GPS * Bluetooth and WLAN 802.11b * Infrared IrDA/ USB * Expansion: SDIO/MMC * 109.7mm x 59.4mm x 17.6mm (c.f. 108.2 mm(L) x …
Continue readingMore Photos of the HTC Wizard
But wait, there’s more! iDNES.cz has photos of 4 different versions of the HTC Wizard; one without keyboard, one without keyboard and camera, and two different body stylings of the full Wizard. I should think the ones without the keyboard will be thinner and more pocketable. Which one is your favorite? UPDATE: Turns out those are not pictures of a keyboard-less Wizard, it’s just a different style body for the same hardware. Hopefully HTC is …
Continue readingReal Photos of the HTC Wizard Surface
WindowsMobile.no has posted some great photos of the new HTC Wizard Pocket PC Phone. This version is branded as the Qtek 9100. It will have 64Mb RAM, 128Mb ROM, Bluetooth, Wifi, Quad band GSM, Edge, and Windows Mobile 5. One potential problem with this device is that it runs a TI OMAP850 195 MHz processor. That could be bad for power users. The other problem is that it only has a miniSD slot, so that …
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