Arne at the::unwired has posted some videos of the HTC TouchFLO software in action. Check out the touch-and-push inertia scrolling capabilities in the Contacts and Internet Explorer applications, too. I hope all new Windows Mobile touch screen phones get this capability. Originally published on Pocketnow on June 5, 2007. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.
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WM6 Bugs: A Calendar Reply Command?
Back in the days of Pocket PC 2000, it was very easy and intuitive to work with Calendar appointments in Pocket Outlook. You would tap an appointment to open it, and then tap the appointment on the screen in order to edit it. This was perfectly usable. Then with Pocket PC 2002, Microsoft removed that capability and added an “Edit” button in the lower left. Tapping the open calendar item no longer let you edit …
Continue readingI’m Bringing New Back
In my frustration with the removal of the “New” soft key button in the new Windows Mobile 6 Messaging application, I’ve been searching for something to make it easy to create new messages again. Someone suggested to use FlexMail 2007, which has many much more useful features than the default messaging app, but it was kinda overkill and it didn’t integrate with the today screen or my contact photos. Then I found a thread on …
Continue readingUnboxing Photos of the HTC Kaiser
It certainly is a busy day at the Boy Genius Report. Now we’ve got unboxing photos of the HTC Kaiser! This one is going to be the one to watch. The HTC Kaiser is the best darn Pocket PC I have ever used! It really has everything you have come to expect nowadays. For instance, it’s a full Pocket PC running Windows Mobile 6 Professional, which we prefer over the smartphone bastard child. Detailed internal …
Continue readingWM6 Bugs: Today Screen Dialing
One excellent new feature in Windows Mobile 6 Professional is the ability to begin dialing contacts from the Today Screen. If you just start typing someone’s name, the Today Screen will switch to the phone dialer and offer contact suggestions that begin with the letters you just started typing. So what’s the problem? Well, this only works if your device has a keyboard since the software based keyboards are not accessible from the Today Screen. …
Continue readingWM6 Bugs: The Delete Command
Why moving the delete command was a bad idea In the new Windows Mobile 6 Professional, the menus for the Messaging application have been changed a bit. The most obvious is that the left softkey has been changed from “New” to “Delete”. The reasoning behind this is that most people have to delete a lot of spam on their phones and they wanted to make deleting messages easier. I don’t know who was surveyed for …
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