Since Opera 9.5 Beta has been released to the public, some users have changed their tune regarding how excellent the browser is. For example, MSmobiles is now reporting that Opera 9.5 is “an unusable piece of junk” after previously reporting here (Regarding the version included on the Touch Diamond) that: “Opera Mobile 9.5 is one of the best mobile browsers in the world and clearly thanks to the embedding in the device in pre-installed version …
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Windows Live Mesh Now Has A Mobile Page
GottaBeMobile has posted some images of the new Windows Live Mesh mobile site. You can access the Live Mesh mobile site on your phone using http://m.mesh.com/. The mobile site only gives you access to the news and folders components of Live Mesh. Perhaps the Windows Mobile component will also offer the Remote Desktop features. Regardless, the mobile website version should be compatible with most mobile phones. Originally published on Pocketnow on July 17, 2008. More …
Continue readingGravity Sensing GSEN Now Available for Accelerometer Enabled Devices
A couple days ago an API for the accelerometer on the HTC Touch Diamond was reverse engineered by the Windows Mobile community. Today, an application is now available that will enable tilt-sensitive orientation switching in all Windows Mobile applications! MSmobiles has a video demonstration of this new program: The program also allows you to specify which programs the automatic orientation rotation will function in, and of course you can disable it at any time. Another …
Continue readingAn iPhone app from Microsoft
Back in March, Microsoft mentioned to Fortune that they were evaluating the Apple iPhone SDK. Many people interpreted this as though Microsoft would be developing a version of Office for the iPhone. Now that the iPhone’s App store is opened, it’s pretty clear that most of the applications you might have been hoping for are not there. However, one nice movie searching application called Box Office is there and that happens to have been developed …
Continue readingAn API for the Touch Diamond’s Accellerometer!
While HTC has not publicly released an application programing interface or software development kit for use with the accelerometer built into the new Touch Diamond, some members of the Windows Mobile community have figured it out and developed one for themselves. This means that any application or game developer can now make use of the tilt sensitivity features in the Touch Diamond. This is pretty exciting news as I’m sure you can imagine the possibilities. …
Continue readingTouchPal 3.5 Released with Diamond Skin
The previous TouchPal 3 had a few minor bugs when installed on the HTC Touch Diamond. Version 3.5 fixes those issues, and adds a new skin that matches the Touch Diamond’s “Manilla” theme. A couple other new features in 3.5 are: – Mixed language input! You can load and input multiple languages without language switching! – Word combination! TouchPal can predict a new word by combining two existing words. (e.g. MySpace) Download the new version …
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