HTC TYTN II in the House

The much anticipated HTC TYTN II has begun shipping last week. I got mine today, and let me tell you, it doesn’t get much better than this. It’s got plenty of processing power, program memory, and storage for all of us power users who like to install all the most advanced programs, listen to music, watch videos, make video calls, navigate the streets with GPS, do optical character recognition on business cards, etc. This is …

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Verizon Wireless Motorola Q9m: Day 2

Not only does Verizon’s Q9m offer some great hardware changes over the Motorola Q9h, but Verizon has also added some very welcome software enhancements. The most noticable is the media player home screen. The default home screen is a very nicely designed media player. You can access you’re whole MP3 library to play music, watch videos, and look at pictures. Of course there’s also track controls, and volume controls. Of special interest is the ability …

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Verizon Wireless Motorola Q9m: Day 1

The Motorola Q9m is now available from Verizon Wireless and we’ve got one to try out for a while. You would think that it would be pretty much the same as the Motorola Q9h we reviewed earlier except maybe with a Verizon CDMA radio instead of GSM. Au contraire mon frere… The Motorola Q9m has a slightly different shape than the Q9h. The edges are a bit more rounded, but the keyboard is the same. …

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“Touch” Trademark Belongs to HTC, Not Apple

Yesterday, Apple announced the iPod Touch which is basically an iPhone media player without the phone features. However, HTC already has the Touch trademark registered worldwide as it’s own portable device; the HTC Touch which has already been available for months before Apple’s Touch and even weeks before the Apple iPhone. As seen in this DigiTimes article it seems HTC will try to reach a mutual agreement with Apple rather than take legal action against …

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UBiQUiO 503G with WM6 Professional

INTRODUCTION     The UBiQUiO 503G has an impressive list of features that will surely get it noticed by Windows Mobile power users. It's a Qwerty-bar style phone running Windows Mobile 6 Professional, with high speed HSDPA and a QVGA landscape screen. This is quite a unique form factor, as most Windows Mobile 6 Pro devices have a slide-out or flip keyboard or no keyboard, while most Qwerty-bar type phones use Windows Mobile Standard (Smartphone) edition. …

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