Samsung, the “official Olympic sponsor for wireless communications equipment,” has provided Olympic officials with a number of mobile devices designed to connect to the “Wireless Olympic Works” (WOW) network developed in conjunction with Atos Origin. WOW offers real-time schedules, results, weather information, email, and instant messaging to Olympic officials. One of these devices (used by VIPs), is the Samsung SGH-i688 running Windows Mobile 6. As reported by WindowsForDevices, While Samsung provided relatively few details of …
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Apple’s RDF vs. The Real World
One of the things Apple is most famous for is their Reality Distortion Field or RDF. The video below is another perfect example of how they achieve this. The video shows the Apple “Unslow” commercial showing how fast everything on the iPhone 3G is, side-by-side with a real-life video of a user performing same tasks that were performed in the commercial. As you can see, the real world is nowhere near as fast as Apple’s …
Continue readingTouch Diamond Adam Lein Edition
The HTC Touch Diamond is one of the most attractive Windows Mobile phones ever. Even the angled cut plastic body matches the “Diamond” theme and it looks great. But I’m kind of tired of black, so in following my old UDA wishlist from 2003, I decided my Touch Diamond should change colors by itself. So here it is, the Touch Diamond Adam Lein Edition with color shifting technology! How does one achieve this effect you …
Continue readingAT&T’s Touch Pro Has Start Menu and OK Keys!
Chuong reported earlier some real-life images of the AT&T version of the HTC Touch Pro. If you look closely, you’ll notice there is no longer a dedicated row of number keys, however there are now dedicated Start menu and OK keys. This is great news for anyone who wants to use a keyboard to navigate the operating system without having to re-arrange your fingers to touch the screen every time you need to switch applications. …
Continue readingLondon IMAX Theater Becomes Giant Touch Diamond Ad
As posted on Modaco, we see a photo of the London IMAX theater with huge banner prints of the HTC Touch Diamond marketing graphics surrounding the building. For a larger photo, see here. I wonder how many people have tried to call Grace Fuller in New York with her picture up all over the place. Good thing it’s a fake 555 number. Originally published on Pocketnow on August 6, 2008. More Smartphone News articles from …
Continue readingMany of the Technologies Used in the Touch Diamond are Open Source
Johan Sanneblad has posted some interesting information on his blog regarding what technologies were used in the development of TouchFLO 3D on the Touch Diamond. It looks like all of them are Open Source! Does this mean that HTC has designed TouchFlo 3D to be potentially cross platform and portable to another operating system such as Android? Johan has “translated” the copyright notices on the HTC Touch Flo 3D About page into product names, and …
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