Lately the whole social networking for music thing has seen a resurgence. Spotify has some cool Facebook integration and iTunes’ Ping is another attempt at socializing users music libraries. Of course we know Zune kind of invented the idea many years ago, although I think Microsoft got the idea to do a legal music-sharing social network from the illegal-days of the original Napster. Anyway, the Zune HD’s Facebook app had this really cool feature where …
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T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide Review
Today we have the latest update to T-Mobile’s myTouch line of Android smartphones. The HTC myTouch 4G Slide is naturally the upgrade to the older myTouch 3G Slide and there are a lot of new features that make it a worthy upgrade. The myTouch line has always had kind of a unique design aesthetic. It looks like it’s mainly targeted towards the lower-end market, but some of the high end features may suggest otherwise. Read …
Continue readingFirst Custom Windows Phone 7 ROM Appears for HD7
While many will agree that Windows Phone 7 doesn’t really need custom ROMs to make it better (since it’s easy to uninstall anything you don’t want), a lot of people still enjoy pushing the limits of their smartphones. Today we hear that Ansar of XDA-Developers has created the first custom ROM for the HTC HD7 using the DFT hard SPL tools. The custom ROM doesn’t add a huge amount of differentiation, but it does make …
Continue readingT-Mobile HTC MyTouch 4G Camera (Video)
The MyTouch 4G Slide takes pictures at 8 megapixel resolution and includes a dual LED flash along with an f2.2 aperture. It’s billed as the most advanced camera on a phone and while it’s not the highest resolution, it certainly has some excellent features. Take a look at the videos and sample photos below and let us know if you think this is the best camera phone ever. Here’s a look at a normal automatic …
Continue readingT-Mobile HTC MyTouch 4G Slide Software Tour (Video)
This video goes over some of the interesting added customizations and software bundles that we’ll find in the MyTouch 4G Slide. It features a customized version of HTC Sense 3.0 which includes a different look and some lost functionality. For example, there are only 5 home screens that you can swipe between, and even though there is a zoomed-out view, you can’t edit the order in which the home screens appear or are arranged. The …
Continue readingA Few Videos of the Fujitsu Toshiba IS12T
If you’re looking for more video footage of the first Windows Phone Mango device to be announced, Dovellonsky has sent us a few links for your viewing pleasure. We’ve got a Windows Phone commercial from KDDI that shows off some very cool graphics and then fades to the 3 versions of the Fujitsu Toshiba IS12T at the end. Then there’s a video from MobileGazette that goes through some of the device’s capabilities. Finally, we’ve got …
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