In this video, I’ll show you how Opera Mobile 9.5 and the YouTube applications work on the HTC Touch Diamond. Opera Mobile is the default browser in the Touch Diamond, but luckily Internet Explorer is still available. Opera 9.5 and the YouTube application are good examples of some of the worst user interface designs I’ve ever seen. Not only is it inordinately difficult for users to discern the destinations of navigational buttons, but there’s actually …
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Some Sweet Secret Touch Diamond Features
Now, there are a lot of things to absolutely fall in love with about the HTC Touch Diamond. Some of which are small, but make a big difference. You know how when you call someone, you have to hold the phone up to your ear and listen to it ring and ring and ring and wait until they pick up? The Touch Diamond has an awesome little feature where instead of doing that, you dial …
Continue readingThe TouchFLO 3D Interface’s Speed
This post is not about tweaks that anyone can do to the TouchFLO 3D interface to speed it up. This is some advice to the software developers at HTC and Microsoft who intend to make animated user interface designs in the future. First off, a lot of people are noticing slowness in the TouchFLO 3D user interface. While multitasking, cache levels, and processor usage may have some effect on this, the biggest and most obvious …
Continue readingFinally an Affordable Tablet PC
Last month I bought the HP tx2000z for less than $1000. There were all sorts of deals like free shipping, free webcam/microphone/fingerprint scanner, free RAM upgrades, free hard drive upgrades, free Bluetooth upgrades, etc. Of course I shopped around and Tablet PCs with similar specifications from other manufacturers were more than double the price! Just about everyone I’ve told about this has quickly picked one up for themselves. Typical configurations include dual core AMD Turion …
Continue readingApple Compares its 3G Speed to Really Old Windows Mobile and Symbian Devices
In the WWDC 2008 conference keynote today, Steve Jobs compared the iPhone 3G’s 3G internet speed to the Nokia N95 and Palm Treo 750; two devices that are about 6 months older than the original 1 year old iPhone. Apple is notorious for distorting statistics and such in order to make their products seem better than they really are and this might be another good example. I wonder if newer HSDPA devices can get the …
Continue readingFITALY 5 Now Available
Back in the old days, when I would predominantly use touch-screen-only phones, and Windows Mobile 2003 was all the rage, the FITALY software input panel was a great way to enter text using a stylus. Its one-point-friendly keyboard layout made typing text very quick and easy. Well, Fitaly is still around, and it’s now at version 5! You can find detailed descriptions of what’s new, on their website. Many of you will be most happy …
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