You’ve already seen the Touch Diamond’s boot up video which teaches you how to use the TouchFLO 3D interface. In the video below I’ll show you around a little more and add some of my thoughts on the interface. As Horace Luke of HTC said in a press conference about the Touch Diamond and its new TouchFLO 3D interface; “You should be able to carry a bag and walk down the street and get to …
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Thanks to all Windows Mobile Partners!
Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business Senior Vice President, Andy Lees, has written a letter to all Windows Mobile Partners, thanking them for helping to make Windows Mobile such a successful product. Today, more and more competitors are jumping into the smartphone market or announcing upgrades, with features we delivered to customers years ago. Overall, we all benefit from the increased attention on everything that a smartphone can do and the difference it can make in people’s …
Continue readingThe Touch Diamond’s Boot Up Video
HTC’s marketing verbiage for the Touch Diamond says “the HTC Touch Diamond™ signals a giant leap forward in combining hi-tech prowess with intuitive usability and exhilarating design.” We’ll see how true that is as I continue my review of the Touch Diamond, but to give you a hint about its intuitiveness, one thing you may not know is that the Touch Diamond actually plays a full-screen video for you the first time you boot it …
Continue readingHTC Touch Diamond in The House
The new HTC Touch Diamond is now shipping this week. I received mine today, and let Jackie and Christa do the unboxing honors. Stay tuned for more of my experience with what HTC is considering to be their most important device this year. Want more Diamond? Check out our complete coverage… HTC Touch Diamond Review Opera 9.5 & YouTube on the Touch Diamond Some Sweet Secret Touch Diamond Features Accelerometer Features on the Touch Diamond …
Continue readingWindows SideShow for Windows Mobile Development Beta
Wow, this is some good news! As reported by the unwired.net: Microsoft gives SideShow some love by releasing Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile. Not yet mass-market ready, Microsoft’s Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Developer Preview v0.01 is an application for Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6 Pocket PCs and Smartphones that allows you to use your Windows Mobile device as a Bluetooth SideShow-compatible device. This enables you to use your phone as an extra …
Continue readingDoes Your Library Loan You eBooks?
Over at Windows Mobile Connection, while reminiscing about how Pocket PC 2002 first brought eBook reading capabilities to the platform, Laura Rooke mentioned that she had recently discovered that many public libraries will loan you digitally rights managed eBooks and audiobooks through the Internet if you’re a member of that library. Digital audiobooks are in the OverDrive Media Console format, and eBooks in the Adobe Reader and Mobipocket reader formats. These downloadable eBooks and audiobooks …
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