According to the::unwired, The HTC Touch is to be released in Europe by T-Mobile, Vodafone and O2. Rumor has it that with a contract, the subsidized price could be as low as 49 Euros. That’s about $65 in USA currency. Since I’ve been using the HTC Touch for a while now, I’d have to say that is going to be a great deal. Originally published on Pocketnow on June 18, 2007. More Deals articles from …
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Remove the Custom Phone Skin in Windows Mobile 6
If you’ve got one of the new Windows Mobile 6 Professional devices that has a custom phone skin (such as the T-Mobile Wing), you may or may not be missing some nice features included in the default phone application. To disable the custom phone skin, use a Registry editor and edit the following: HKLMSecurityPhoneSkinEnabled = 0 (DWORD decimal) You can restore the custom phone skin by changing it back to: HKLMSecurityPhoneSkinEnabled = 1 (DWORD decimal) …
Continue readingHTC Touch in the House
I just received an HTC Touch via FedEx. This is definitely the smallest Pocket PC Phone I’ve ever seen. Its dimensions are 99.9 x 58 x 13.9mm and comes in some very nice black packaging with custom foam inserts and a magnetic closure. This isn’t the cheapo egg-crate packaging you might be used to seeing from HTC. Stay tuned for a full review or pick up one of your own from Smart-Mobile-Gadgets. Originally published on …
Continue readingiPhone to Support 3rd Party Web Pages
In an attempt to appease the iPhone critics who would like to see Apple allow third party applications to be developed for the iPhone, Apple announced that the iPhone will support Web based applications. Developers can create Web 2.0 applications which look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone, and which can seamlessly access iPhone’s services, including making a phone call, sending an email and displaying a location in Google Maps. Third-party applications …
Continue readingHTC, Please Bring the T9 PhonePad Back!
Beginning in 2004 with the HTC Magician, HTC started licensing T9 text input capabilities and included a software input method for their devices that let you easily type out text using common T9 techniques. This was a great feature for phones that only had touch screens since you could use your thumb to type out messages in much the same way you would do so on a standard numeric keypad using T9. However, it appears …
Continue readingiContacts Adds Touch Scrolling to Windows Mobile Contacts
If you like the way the iPhone can scroll through contacts with finger gestures and inertia scrolling but you wish you could have that on a Windows Mobile device, take a look at iContacts. This is a free program that shows all your normal contacts in a larger list that you can push around with your finger. Tapping and releasing on a contact name will open the normal Windows Mobile contact display screen. You can …
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